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Atenor has received an EUR 80 mln financing loan from Pbb and Erste Bank for its Hermes Business Campus in northern Bucharest.

BULGARIA Bulgaria ideal for near-shoring - Colliers

05 August 2020

Sofia’s modern industrial and logistics stock grew by 3 pct in the first six months of 2020, reaching almost 1.097 sqm at the end of June, according to Colliers International.

ROMANIA Four new faces for Eli Park 1

05 August 2020

Four new tenants have been secured for the recently completed second phase of Eli Park 1 on Bucharest’s north-western outskirts.

Hotels

POLAND Sofitel Wrocław Old Town falls victim to the pandemic

Opr./edited by AKL

Polish hotel operator Orbis has decided not to re-open the Sofitel Wrocław Old Town after its closure due to the pandemic.

POLAND Sollers strolls into Officyna

Sollers Consulting has opened its fourth Polish office – in the Officyna complex in Gdańsk.

HUNGARY NIPÜF to build hall for Raben in Inpark Pécs

NIPÜF has announced the development of an 11,000 sqm warehouse in its Inpark Pécs industrial park in southwest Hungary.

Hotels

ESTONIA First Estonian Citybox opens its doors

The first Citybox hotel in Estonia and outside Norway was opened on August 1st in the Porto Franco quarter of Tallinn’s passenger port area.

Investment & finance

HUNGARY CPI to issue Hungarian green bonds

Czech real estate company CPI Property Group has announced its intention to issue green bonds in Hungary.

Residential

POLAND Second sales for KRK underway

Sales have begun for the apartments in the second stage of the KRK estate, which is being developed by Echo Investment in Krakow’s Bronowice district, has started.

Investment & finance

POLAND Metropol buys portfolio of five Atrium centres

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