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Office & mixed-use development
Poland Challenging electricity prices
The current geopolitical situation has destabilised energy markets, with the real estate also affected by rising electricity prices. Existing buildings account for close to 55 pct of energy consumed by the construction industry globally and for over 35 pct of greenhouse gas emissions, while almost 75 pct of buildings in the European union fail to meet energy performance requirements.
Office & mixed-use development
CEE Investors begin to adopt a wait-and-see approach
Office investment dominated the first half of 2022, as the most traded asset type in the CEE countries. It accounted for 2.5 billion euro which was 42 pct of the total investment volume in the region - reveals a new report by Colliers.
Office & mixed-use development
Poland Office supply weakens across regional cities
According to a report published by real estate advisory firm Newmark Polska, vacancy rate held firm in Poland’s regional city office markets throughout Q3 of this year along with the moderate occupier and developer activity.
Warehouse & industrial
Poland Zero-emission factory
Panattoni has completed the first zero-emission factory in the global portfolio of Danfoss - Danfoss is a producer of energy- efficient components and technological solutions for sectors that include cooling and air-conditioning, heating and electric motors. The investment has been built as part of an industrial campus in Grodzisk Mazowiecki.
Office & mixed-use development
Poland The supply gap and what's next?
Axi Immo has presented data summarizing Q3 2022 in the Polish office market. The end of 2022 completes the dynamic new supply period observed in recent years and marks a continuation of the good run in the office market take-up.
Interior design
Poland A taste of Japan
The Tétris team has once again completed a fit-out project in the interiors of Nobu Hotel Warsaw. Sakebar by Nobu on ul. Wilcza not only offers sake-based drinks and Japanese dishes, but also a design inspired by the country.
Investment & finance
Poland Czech-Lux duo buy second Gdynia office complex
Łużycka Office Park (A, B, C and D) and Łużycka Plus buildings in Gdynia have been acquired from SGPM by a joint venture between Czech real estate open fund Investika and Luxembourg private equity investor Bud Holdings.
Office & mixed-use development
Poland Skyliner full of bubbles
Coca-Cola Poland Services has signed a lease agreement for almost 2,400 sqm in Warsaw's Skyliner office building. At the beginning of 2023, the company will move its Polish headquarters to the Karimpol Group's flagship investment on Rondo Daszyńskiego.
Green projects
Germany Strabag launches C3 pilot project in Bremen
C3, the Circular Construction & Technology Center project in Bremen is the Strabag’s first competence centre for sustainable circularity. It will be focused on resource reprocessing, it will be energy self-sufficient and climate neutral.
Land acquisitions
Germany Garbe Industrial expands in Thuringia
Garbe Industrial Real Estate has acquired a 47,000 sqm plot of land ready for construction in Thuringia, Germany, which can be used for both commercial and logistical purposes. Construction is expected to begin in Q2 of 2023.
Office & mixed-use development
CZECH REPUBLIC Fio banka signs biggest Masaryčka lease
Czech financial institution Fio banka has leased 5,400 sqm for its new headquarters in the Masaryčka office complex, which is under development in central Prague.
Office & mixed-use development
ROMANIA E.On moves BSS HQ to Record Park
E.On Business Services Cluj has leased 3,500 sqm of office space in the Record Park mixed-use complex in Cluj-Napoca in northwestern Romania.
Warehouse & industrial
CENTRAL EUROPE MLP Berlin full of diverse tenants
Polish developer MLP has revealed that the last of the four buildings under construction at MLP Business Park Berlin has been fully leased.
Warehouse & industrial
SLOVAKIA Arete bets on Dunajská Streda shed
Arete has completed the EUR 20 mln acquisition of a logistics park near Dunajská Streda, about 45 km southeast of Bratislava, from Gena Logistik.
Hotels
POLAND Hyatt makes Polish return in Kraków
The Hyatt Place Kraków has been officially opened, marking the return of the brand to Poland and its first opening in the city.
Retail & leisure
Romania Scallier moves on to Moșnița
Polish developer Scallier has started the construction of a retail park in Moșnița, on the southeastern outskirts of Timişoara.
Investment & finance
POLAND Catella sells Warsaw and Kraków student & PRS projects
Catella has sold two fully-leased residential and student housing properties in Warsaw and Kraków to institutional investors in Austria and the Netherlands for more than EUR 60 mln.
Investment & finance
Poland Poland continues to attract investment
According to a survey conducted by Savills involving real estate investors with total EME assets under management exceeding EUR 500 bln, European multifamily, big box logistics, urban logistics, CBD offices and student housing are the top five sectors that investors are looking to invest in over the next twelve months.
Office & mixed-use development
Romania Regional markets thrive in Romania
In the last three months, a total area of over 109,000 sqm of modern office space has been leased in Romania’s largest cities, which means an increase of 9 pct compared to the previous year. The agreements included both new contracts and extensions of the old ones. Top cities that attracted the most office tenants in III Q of 2022 are, apart from Bucharest, Iasi, Cluj-Napoca and Timisoara.
Office & mixed-use development
Poland Spire full of benefits
Since the beginning of the year, five companies have leased a total of 10,000 sqm of office space in Warsaw Spire C, which represents almost half of the building. Four of the contracts are renewals, two contracts contained 'green provisions'. The office building's occupancy rate currently exceeds 96 pct.
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Architecture and urban planning
Praga to tower up over Warsaw
High-rise developments may be developed near the National Stadium metro station. The city's spatial policy clearly aims to break down the division bet ...
ULI releases New Urban Poland report
Plans created for Airport City around CPK
Construction
Polish construction sector faces growing labour shortage
Poland’s construction sector is facing increasing labour shortages, with the industry short of around 150,000 workers. Turnover among engineers has re ...
Carbon Counts in Construction
Polish construction sector under pressure
Coronavirus
Vaccination centre provided by Globalworth
The Globalworth Foundation has provided the authorities in Bucharest with office space for a Covid vaccination centre.
Employers in no rush to return to workplaces
Catella sees hope and chances for real estate after Covid-19
Corporate social responsibility
Not only for horses
Panattoni BTS and Commercecon together support the establishment of the second Centaurus Foundation centre in Poland to help horses and other animals.
Panattoni sticks to the fairway
Colliers ends operations in Russia, Belarus
Data centres
Hillwood moves planned data centre further from homes
Hillwood Polska has revised plans for its planned data centre campus in Reguły, in the Michałowice municipality. Following feedback from local residen ...
Poland to benefit from data centre realignment
Data centres spread out across the region
E-commerce
This is the end
Shopee is ending its operations in Poland. The Asian e-commerce platform, which debuted in Poland in 2021, intends to focus on operations in other reg ...
Wildberries now growing in Ukraine
Wildberries growing in April
ESG
EPP meets 2030 emissions reduction targets ahead of schedule
EPP has already met the emissions reduction targets it set for 2030 under the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), which helps companies set emiss ...
PAD RES launches 24 MW solar farms in Koszalin district
The Grand Pardubice now Excellent
Eurobuild Awards
All the winners of the EurobuildCEE Awards 2025!!
The 15th EurobuildCEE Awards Gala is now behind us and all the winners can be revealed! Special congratulations go to Kazimierz Kirejczyk, who was pre ...
The winners of the Eurobuild Awards 2024!
Call for nominations and jury members!
Eurobuild FM
The power of community
We spoke with Zdena Noack, managing director of Zeitraum Student Housing, during the opening of Zeitraum Racławicka in Kraków.
A breath of fresh air from France, or comments from Cannes part 3
A breath of fresh air from France, or comments from Cannes part 2
EurobuildCEE
The June issue of Eurobuild is now out!
The June issue of EurobuildCEE magazine has now hit the shelves! And one of its recurring themes is how best to operate in an increasingly mature and ...
This sporting real estate life
The May issue of Eurobuild is now out!
Events
JLL Charity Beach Volleyball Tournament on August 6th
On 6 August, the 15th JLL Charity Beach Volleyball Tournament for the Real Estate Industry will take place at Warsaw's Monta Beach Volley Club. Eurobu ...
Three days of lakeside cycling: EQT on the Move
Let's play volleyball again
Exclusive
The man from NASA
Czechia stands out as the CEE country with the largest volume of domestic capital invested across the region itself. Now, NASA Capital has entered Pol ...
Strengthening our presence – Wolfgang Molnar of Erste Group Bank
Experienced and out-of-the-box – Josef Malíř of SCF
Eye to eye
Eye to eye… with Władysław Grochowski
After a long break, we invite you to hot episode of the "Eye to eye" podcast! Today we talk with Władysław Grochowski, the head and founder of Arche.
Eye to eye… with Paweł Sapek
Eye to eye with… Daniel Bienias
For Ukraine
Nansen Refugee Award goes to Poland!
The UN Nansen Refugee Award award will go to Poland for the first time. According to the office of the UNHCR High Commissioner this year's regional wi ...
Build Europe supports refugees and appeals to European Commission
Former Russian building to house Ukrainian refugees
Green projects
EIB grants CTP solar-powered €200m loan
Czech developer CTP has been granted a EUR 200 mln loan from the European Investment Bank for the roll-out of its large-scale solar panel installation ...
Cromwell granted €66m green loan for Janki
Pad Res to build 2 PV farms in Pomerania
Hotels
Bob W to open fifth Tallinn property at Krulli Quarter
Bob W has signed a long-term deal to operate a new aparthotel at Krulli Kvartal, part of the 10.2 ha regeneration of the historic Krulli industrial qu ...
Prague moves into top 10 for hotel investment
Mövenpick opens first Croatian hotel on Adriatic coast
Human resources
Ghelamco reshuffles management team in Poland
Agnieszka Ciupak has been appointed managing director of Ghelamco in Poland. She joins Przemysław Dąbrowski, Jakub Kutzmann and Krzysztof Gozdecki as ...
Leadership change at Nepi Rockcastle
Change at the top for ULI Europe
Infrastructure
Port Polska and Kielce plan cargo terminal
Port Polska and the City of Kielce have signed a letter of intent covering plans for a cargo terminal in Obice, near Kielce. The centre would handle b ...
New railway station planned for Łapy
EUR 54 bln worth of contracts to be awarded for Port Polska in 2026
Interior design
ING Hubs Poland opens new HQ in The Form
ING Hubs Poland is officially moving into its new headquarters in The Form office building in Warsaw’s Wola business district. The more than 6,000 sqm ...
New food hall in Poznań
New look for Eurocentrum lobby
Investment & finance
Uniqa opens EUR 3 bln real estate platform to outside investors
Uniqa is opening its EUR 3 bln real estate platform to third-party investors, marking a new push into external capital after five decades of managing ...
Planning reform redraws the land market
Nusco secures EUR 21.4 mln financing from Exim Banca Românească
Land acquisitions
Panattoni enlarges its Swedish portfolio
Panattoni has acquired two properties near Gothenburg, Sweden. The brownfield sites will be replaced by a modern 43,000 sqm facility.
CTP purchases land in Kragujevac
CTP secures major brownfield site
Material partner
Brownfield rather than greenfield – a model for sustainable development at City Point Targówek
Contemporary cities are grappling with the challenge of fostering dynamic growth while alleviating environmental pressures. Traditional infrastructure ...
Nordbygg 2024: Many innovations and strong interest
Excellent Fern at Off Piotrkowska
Office & mixed-use development
Skanska builds Nowy Format
Skanska has started construction of the first phase of the Nowy Format office complex in central Krakow. An eight-storey building offering 21,400 sqm ...
Flint Group extends Łódź 1 lease
Colliers to lease UREM Poland portfolio
Property and Facility Management
ISS takes over technical management of Axis in Kraków
ISS has taken over the technical facility management of Axis, an office building in Kraków owned by French fund Corum XL. The company is providing tec ...
Savills takes on TFI PZU retail portfolio
JLL takes on Equal Business Park
Public buildings
Prague 14 begins construction of primary school in Jahodnice
Prague 14 has begun construction of a new primary school in Jahodnice. The school, at U Hostavického potoka Street, will accommodate 540 pupils, with ...
Construction begins on emergency care unit at Prague’s Thomayer University Hospital
Dekpol to redevelop the Poznań Palm House
Residential
Apartments remain a top investment
Poles continue to see apartments as one of the most attractive ways of investing their money, according to Otodom’s ‘Property Market Sentiment Monitor ...
MTX plans Katowice tower
RealCo sells out Wrocław project
Retail & leisure
Retailers rethink the role of technology
Consumers are increasingly tired of technology overload and excessive personalisation, while physical stores can benefit from offering something the d ...
Retail parks become local hubs
M Core acquires Galeria Chełm
Technology
Singu takes over QRmaint
Singu, a European platform for managing commercial property, has today announced the acquisition of QRmaint, one of Europe's fastest-growing providers ...
Łukasiewicz Research Network opens technology laboratory
Skanska installs NHIB in Studio A
Warehouse & industrial
Warehouse vacancy falls to three-year low
The vacancy rate in Poland’s warehouse market fell to 6.6 pct at the end of June, its lowest level in three years. At the same time, gross take-up ros ...
