News
Hotels
Bulgaria Ibis lands in Golden Sands
An Ibis Styles hotel is to open in Golden Sands [Златни пясъци] in May. Accor has signed a franchise agreement with Valdemosa EOOD to rebrand the recently renovated Roomer Hotel Golden Sands.
Investment & finance
CENTRAL EUROPE S Immo delays AGM to consider Immofinanz takeover
The management board and the supervisory board of S Immo have decided to postpone the 32nd annual general meeting of the company due to the imminent takeover bid by rival Austrian real estate company Immofinanz.
Office & mixed-use development
CZECH REPUBLIC Masaryčka takes shape
Penta Real Estate has started the first stage of the construction work on its Masaryčka project to redevelop the Masarykovo nádraží train station in central Prague.
Investment & finance
CENTRAL EUROPE Pecik stays on as Immofinanz CEO
The resignation of Ronny Pecik as the CEO and member of the executive board of Immofinanz and the sale of his stake in the company has not taken place by the March 31st deadline set for the deal to go through.
Investment & finance
WORLD EQT seals USD 1.87 bln takeover of Exeter
Swedish fund manager EQT has completed its acquisition of US real estate investment manager Exeter Property Group, following the acceptance of all necessary closing conditions, including regulatory, anti-trust and fund investor clearances.
Investment & finance
Lithuania Eften acquires three properties in sale and leaseback
EfTEN Real Estate Fund 4 has acquired a complex of 3 commercial properties in Vilniusfrom Arginta Group, in a sale and leaseback transaction.
EurobuildCEE
Happy Easter!!
On behalf of everyone at Eurobuild, we would like to wish a very Happy Easter to all our friends, readers and colleagues on the Central and Eastern European property market. Let's make this time of year represent both a symbolic and literal rebirth for us all!
EurobuildCEE
The Top Five – our most popular news stories in March
Each month we publish our Top 5 – the list of the five most popular news articles in Polish and English published on Eurobuild's webportal. The English version of the March Top 5 is dominated by acquisitions, but coming out on top was our news from... the top of Europe.
Property and Facility Management
CZECH REPUBLIC CBRE to take charge of Cromwell warehouses
CBRE has been mandated to manage Cromwell’s industrial portfolio in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Investment & finance
POLAND Henley buys Poznań shopping centre
London-based Henley Investments has entered the Polish market with the acquisition of Galeria Pestka in Poznań from Union Investment for an undisclosed sum.
Investment & finance
Poland Strong sales for Echo
In 2020, Echo Investment recorded a profit of PLN 122 mln, resulting from the handover of 1,505 apartments, the rising value of its commercial developments and its Resi4Rent PRS projects.
Green projects
Estonia East Capital with three BREEAMs
East Capital Real Estate has announced that it has certified three properties under BREEAM and that it is the first company in Estonia to have certified an industrial property.
Hotels
World B&B ready to splurge
B&B has raised EUR 180 mln for its worldwide development plans.
Retail & leisure
CZECH REPUBLIC Peakside sells last of Czech portfolio
German real estate investor Peakside Capital has completed the disposal of the last properties in its portfolio of 72 small retail assets in the Czech Republic.
Office & mixed-use development
POLAND Nowy Rynek E on its way
Skanska has started the construction of the latest stage of Nowy Rynek mixed-use development in Poznań – a 28,500 sqm office building.
Technology
POLAND Esoleo embraces AI for solar farm
US company AI Clearing is to provide its fully automated construction progress tracking solution for Esoleo, which is building Poland’s largest solar farm on the site of a former brown coal mine in Brudzew in central Poland.
Warehouse & industrial
Poland More warehousing coming to Central Poland
The Łódź area is one of the fastest-growing warehouse markets in Poland according to Cushman & Wakefield.
Residential
Poland Echo builds green in Widzew
Echo Investment is to construct a residential estate in Łódź’s Widzew district and in association with Veolia is to install solar panels to power the buildings’ ventilation air conditioning.
Eurobuild FM
The World Efrat Fenigson on the global flexible office market [Eurobuild FM]
In our latest Eurobuild FM podcast, we find out from Efrat Fenigson of flexible space operator Mindspace how the flex office market has been coping during the pandemic and how it’s set to take off again in the brave new post-Covid (fingers crossed!) world...
Property and Facility Management
POLAND MVGM and JLL for Patrizia portfolio
German investment fund Patrizia has appointed MVGM to be the property manager and JLL the leasing manager of its Polish portfolio of eight office buildings, which are located in Warsaw and Wrocław and have a combined area of 65,000 sqm.
Categories
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
Budimex wins foundational contract for CPK
Budimex has been awarded a PLN 146 mln contract to construct the foundations of the passenger terminal of the new airport that forms part of the massi ...
Work progresses on Henryk Arctowski Antarctic Station
Poland heading for a two-tier market
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
Poland to be the new data hub
During the presentation of the 'Driving the Economy: The Economic Impact of the Data Centre Sector in Poland' report, we took the opportunity to speak ...
Data centres to transform Polish economy
Data 4 starts in France with EUR 5 bln investment
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
Punkt goes Platinum
The Punkt office building in Gdańsk has been awarded LEED v4 Platinum certification. This is the first Torus Group development certified under this ve ...
Outstanding for Prologis
Silesia City Center 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
Three days of lakeside cycling: EQT on the Move
More than 70 representatives of the Polish logistics real estate market participated in the third edition of EQT on the Move: Ride the Lakes. The even ...
Let's play volleyball again
August 7th – mark the date
Exclusive
Bringing people together
We take the opportunity to talk with Jacek Kostrzewski, the managing director of engineering consultancy Gleeds, to find out how his passion for sport ...
Laying the groundwork for success
The French connection
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
Griffin and Primestar join forces
Warsaw-based private equity investment manager Griffin Capital Partners and Berlin-based hospitality operator Primestar Group have launched Prime Grif ...
aHouse to build hotel in Grodzisk Mazowiecki
Swissôtel comes to Gdynia
Human resources
Leadership change at Nepi Rockcastle
Marek Noetzel has been appointed CEO of NEPI Rockcastle and announced a new management team, based entirely on internal promotions.
Change at the top for ULI Europe
ULI announces new chairs
Infrastructure
Port of Poland moves closer with location decisions
The Masovian Region has issued a decision establishing the location for a railway junction on the eastern side of the new airport. The document, which ...
Budimex builds in Slovakia
Green light for Port of Poland
Interior design
New food hall in Poznań
The Wiedeńska Town House in the centre of Poznań, which dates back to the early 20th century, has been renovated and converted into a food hall with i ...
New look for Eurocentrum lobby
New look for Otis offices
Investment & finance
Wing swoops on Capital Square
The Capital Square office building on Budapest's Váci út office corridor has been sold by CA Immo to Hungarian real estate group Wing for an undisclos ...
Robyg IPO underway
Welcome loan for Wita
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
AI is not displacing office workers
The influence of artificial intelligence on office employment in Europe is currently less than public debate suggests. The main factors driving office ...
Metro stations boost rents
10,000 sqm for Rohde & Schwarz Topex
Property and Facility Management
JLL takes on Equal Business Park
JLL has been appointed the exclusive leasing agent responsible for the Equal Business Park office complex in Kraków, owned by Apollo Rida. JLL's other ...
Savills takes on two Warsaw buildings
Tensions in the gulf promote energy efficiency
Public buildings
Warszawa Wschodnia station to be modernised
Polish Railway Lines (PKP) has signed a contract with general contractor Torpol for the modernisation of Warszawa Wschodnia station (Warsaw East), wor ...
Gronów Elbląski station to be renovated
A new look for central Warsaw
Residential
An end to housing subsidies
Key trends in the new apartment market were the subject of intense discussions during this year's Real Estate Forum in Sopot (June 10-12), which gathe ...
More students, still too few beds
Torus opens all.inn
Retail & leisure
Poles still want to shop on Sundays
Half of shopping centre visitors want the opportunity to shop on Sundays, according to a CBRE survey. The biggest supporters of Sunday shopping are pe ...
Douglas to open in modernised Stara Papiernia
Kik stays on with Greenman
Technology
Łukasiewicz Research Network opens technology laboratory
The Łukasiewicz Research Network - Automotive Industry Institute has completed a PLN 36 mln project, of which PLN 24.7 mln comes from the Regional Dev ...
Skanska installs NHIB in Studio A
Rentujemy to revolutionise the market
Warehouse & industrial
Strong Q1 performance for warehouse market
The first quarter of 2026 brought an unexpected rebound to the industrial and logistics space market with increased tenant activity, a many new lease ...
