News

Metropol Group has acquired a portfolio of five Polish convenience shopping centres from Atrium European Real Estate for an undisclosed sum.

POLAND MLP Gliwice completed

MLP Group has just completed the construction of the MLP Gliwice logistics park in Upper Silesia.

Retail & leisure

EUROPE Safer shopping in all Via Outlets centres

Via Outlets has bestowed its newly-devised ‘Safer Shopping’ certified on all eleven outlet centres in its network.

Retail & leisure

POLAND Auchan signs 12-year extension for 83,000 sqm gla with Chariot

Auchan Poland has signed a twelve-year extension to its lease of six retail properties in the country totalling 83,000 sqm gla.

POLAND Media Expert takes up another 12,000 sqm in Łodź from Panattoni

Terg, the owner of the Media Expert consumer electronics chain, has leased 12,000 sqm at Panattoni Business Center Łódź III.

Green projects

CEE REGION CTP moves closer to BREEAM for entire portfolio

CTP has achieved BREEAM In-Use certification for more than 80 pct of its industrial portfolio.

POLAND Better H1 for regional office markets - JLL

The office markets in Poland’s major regional cities enjoyed a better H1 than a year earlier, despite the pandemic and the expected slowdown, according to JLL.

CEE REGION Globalworth shows resilience to pandemic

Globalworth leased 115,500 sqm of commercial space in H1 (taken-up or extended) at a weight average leasing term of 3.2 years. Renewals accounted for 74 pct the leasing activity.

Hotels

ROMANIA Globalworth pioneers hotel accommodation for office tenants

31 July 2020

Globalworth has been preparing a hi-tech hotel complex for its office tenants in the Upground Tower residential building in Bucharest.

ROMANIA American firm conducted to The Light

31 July 2020

Phoenix-based integrated circuit manufacturer ON Semiconductor has leased 3,200 sqm of office space in The Light One in the Politehnica district of central Bucharest.

ROMANIA/CZECH REPUBLIC CTP readies Bucharest and Plzeň parks for first tenants

31 July 2020

Czech warehouse developer CTP is developing a new logistics park in Romania – CTPark Bucharest North.

POLAND Warsaw office market back – to embracing the new normal

According to JLL’s latest summary, the Warsaw office market is now returning to the “new normal” as employees gradually return to their workplaces. Covid-19 has had a transformative effect, but rather in terms of accelerating existing trends, such as desk-sharing and greater use of technology.

Investment & finance

CEE REGION EUR 6.4 bln transacted in CEE in H1 - JLL

More than EUR 6.4 bln was transacted on the CEE real estate investment market in the first six months of the year, according to JLL’s CEE Investment Market H1 2020 report.

POLAND Developers still confident about Kraków offices - Cresa

The leasing transaction volume reached almost 52,600 sqm on the Kraków office market in Q2 2020, according to Cresa Poland.

HUNGARY Weerts plans 120,000 sqm warehouse park in Budapest

Erste Real Estate has signed an agreement to sell Belgian developer Weerts Group 30.6 ha of the 116 ha of land it owns near Ecser on the eastern outskirts of Budapest.

POLAND Skanska starts work at Wilanowska

Skanska is starting the construction work on its P180 office development in Warsaw’s Mokotów district.

CZECH REPUBLIC Largest new Czech industrial supply since 2017

The largest volume of Czech industrial properties was completed since the end of 2017 in Q2 2020, according to the Industrial Research Forum.

Retail & leisure

ROMANIA Sinsay sashays into the Colosseum

29 July 2020

Polish brand Sinsay, which is owned by the LPP group, is to open a 2,000 sqm store in Colosseum Mall in Bucharest’s 1st district.

POLAND CitySpace expanding in four cities

29 July 2020

Flexible office operator CitySpace has been expanding its network of office centres in four Polish cities.

Interior design

POLAND LaSalle buys two Warsaw parks for EUR 30 mln

29 July 2020