News
Warehouse & industrial
Panattoni to build 67,000 sqm in Czeladź
POLAND Panattoni Europe has started the construction of a 67000 sqm distribution centre in Czeladź north of Katowice.
H&M cancels dividend
EUROPE The board of directors of H&M has proposed to the 2020 annual general meeting that the company will not pay a dividend.
Orpea keeps growing
EUROPE French nursing home and hospital operator Orpea Group recorded a 246 mln consolidated net profit in 2019, up 11.6 pct y-o-y. Its revenue increased 9.4 pct to EUR 3.74 bln. The number of beds across all its homes and care centres rose by 7,657 to 104,234 beds across 22 countries. Another 21,00 are under construction.
Property and Facility Management
Knight Frank to manage Fabryka Kart
POLAND Knight Frank has been appointed as the property manager of the Fabryka Kart office building on ul. Cieszyńska in Kraków.
Retail & leisure
Coronavirus strikes down Vapiano
EUROPE The Vapiano restaurant chain has announced its insolvency.
Investment & finance
EPP to clean house
POLAND EPP has announced that it intends to sell its three remaining office buildings.
Coronavirus hits retail sector
POLAND According to figures from the Retail Institute from March 2nd to March 8th, 2020, shopping centre footfall fell by 5.6 pct compared to 2019.
Warehouse & industrial
Last mile in Targówek
POLAND Hillwood is to build two city warehouses in Warsaw's Targówek district.
Warehouse & industrial
Spedimex grows in Stryków
POLAND Spedimex has leased 2,200 sqm in building 3 of the Logicor Stryków logistics park with the space intended to service one of the largest pharmacy chains in Europe.
Budimex bids PLN 2 bln for Warszawa Zachodnia
POLAND Budimex has scored the most points for its bid to reconstruct Warszawa Zachodnia station.
Automated warehousing by MW
POLAND MW, a company that is 60 pct owned by M.B.B Logistics and 40 pct owned by Wing Sing Supply Chain, has created a robot management system, which uses machine learning to improve its order processing operations over time.
NEPI Rockcastle donates to the Red Cross
CEE REGION NEPI Rockcastle has donated EUR 150,000 to the Red Cross to support efforts to prevent the spread of the covid-19 epidemic. The money is to be used to purchase disinfectants and equipment.
Coronavirus
CPI to turn hotels into hospitals
CZECH REPUBLIC In response to the covid-19 outbreak, CPIPG has offered the government of the Czech Republic the use of the its hotels in Prague, Ostrava, Olomouc, Liberec, Ústí nad Labem, České Budějovice, Františkovy Lázně, Hradec Králové and Brno to increase the country’s hospital capacity by more than 5,000 beds.
Immofinanz to cut costs
CEE REGION Immofinanz has said that temporary declines in rental income from the retail business due to the spread of covid-19 should be largely offset by the cost cutting programme it is currently implementing.
Warehouse & industrial
Langowski leases in Łódź
POLAND Langowski Logistics has leased 3,300 sqm from Panattoni at the Central European Logistics HUB, which is located around 1 km from the rail container terminal in Łódź.
EurobuildCEE
Last week’s top five: The best five in isolation
Not surprisingly almost everyone was talking about the coronavirus crisis last week.
Architecture and urban planning
Polish architect wins Kiribati Floating Houses competition
WORLD Marcin Kitala of the Warsaw-based Kuryłowicz & Associates architectural studio has won the Kiribati Floating Houses competition organised by Young Architects Competitions.
Investment & finance
Spanish owned sites sold off by bank
POLAND Banco Popular Español from the Santander group has sold two investment plots in Wrocław’s Psie Pole district and in Warsaw’s Miasteczko Wilanów to local businesses.
Construction
Moscow to build hospital in couple of weeks
RUSSIA Construction work on a hospital for infectious diseases has started in New Moscow.
Investment & finance
Robyg to take over Wrocław player
POLAND Robyg has applied to the Polish competitions authorities to take over Wrocławskie Przedsiębiorstwo Budowlane.
Categories
Architecture and urban planning
MoMA wins architectural grand prix
The 11th Architectural Awards of the Mayor of Warsaw [11. edycji Nagrody Architektonicznej Prezydenta m.st. Warszawy] were held on June 3rd, at Teatr ...
Poznań with a green Aura
Dutch-Czech team wins Dejvice contest
Construction
2025 looks optimistic for the construction companies
According to a report by research company Spectis “Construction companies in Poland 2025-2030”, the total revenues of the 300 leading construction gro ...
Strabag to build The Arc
Digitalisation to the rescue
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
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
B10 takes WiredScore Platinum
The B10 office building in Wrocław, owned by Vastint Poland, has been certified with a WiredScore Platinum rating. The certification is an assessment ...
Moderna Office goes Platinum
GTC teams up with Paul
Eurobuild Awards
The winners of the Eurobuild Awards 2024!
Who won this year's 14th edition of the Eurobuild Awards? The jury and guests gathered at the Double Tree by Hilton hotel in Warsaw chose this year's ...
Call for nominations and jury members!
Let's live this again!
Eurobuild FM
A breath of fresh air from France, or comments from Cannes part 3
Enjoy the last set of recordings with comments straight from this year's MIPIM. This time, we asked experts from our home country for their input.
A breath of fresh air from France, or comments from Cannes part 2
Poland versus the West
EurobuildCEE
Eurobuild celebrates its 300th issue!
We are proud to present the exceptional 300th anniversary issue of ‘EurobuildCEE’ magazine! This is not just a round number, it’s also an important mi ...
The June issue of Eurobuild is now out!
The May issue of EurobuildCEE is out now!
Events
Race'N'Raise supports rural children's education
Logicor has raised over PLN 40,000 in the 4th Race'n'Raise charity cycle race to support the EFC Foundation's Horizons Scholarship Program.
CPK arises
Back to the Future Conference
Exclusive
Demand for PBSA continues to accelerate
We’ve asked Susanna Graziano, the business development manager of ASK4, who is actively engaged in the evolving Polish PBSA and flex-living markets, t ...
More than 15 minutes of fame
Capitalising on the landlord's market
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
Romanian hotel market continues to recover
The hotel market in Bucharest continued its recovery in 2024, in terms of RevPAR and occupancy rate, while the ADR has finally surpassed the milestone ...
Condo to be built on the Baltic
Marriott plans to expand Four Points by Flex portfolio
Human resources
Panattoni bets big on data centres
Panattoni is launching a new strategic initiative to develop data centres in Europe, the UK, India and the Middle East. Four experienced specialists h ...
Five new board members at JLL
A change of guard at Eurobuild
Infrastructure
Most of the land now acquired for CPK
CPK has already acquired over 2,000 ha under the Voluntary Acquisition Programme. This means that more than half of the land required for the CPK Airp ...
Tunnel to be built under Baltic
Grand station in little Brzeziny
Interior design
JLL redesigns its Warsaw branch
JLL has completed the modernisation of its offices in the Warsaw Spire building. The theme behind the design was ‘ReThink. ReUse. ReSpire’, emphasisin ...
Grainy effect for Viterra
Mercedes-Benz stylish Prague office
Investment & finance
Pbb lends EUR 40 mln to to Resolution Capital Management
Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG (pbb) has granted an investment loan facility of EUR 40 mln to an office fund to finance the acquisition of two neighbourin ...
Stable investment over H1
CEE growing vigorously
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
Atlas Estates secures major loan from Bank Pekao
Atlas Estates is pleased to announce the successful securing of a significant loan facility from Bank Pekao SA, one of Poland’s leading financial inst ...
Brownfield rather than greenfield – a model for sustainable development at City Point Targówek
Nordbygg 2024: Many innovations and strong interest
Office & mixed-use development
Vacancies squeezed by supply across the regions
High demand is reducing the available space in regional office markets, says CBRE. A growing divide is now visible between prime properties and the re ...
Katowice swaps mine for technology hub
Office market in Warsaw remains stable
Property and Facility Management
Balmain takes on Adventum
The Balmain Group has taken over the management of a portfolio of four warehouses owned by Adventum International. The properties, totalling around 18 ...
Savills to manage for Yareal
Studio B under new management
Public buildings
Warsaw Uni building underway
The University of Warsaw has signed a contract with the general contractor for a project at ul. Bednarska 2/4. The new building will house the faculti ...
MHP awarded with ULI prize
Museum of Modern Art opens
Residential
PBSA market set to grow rapidly
Over the next two years, the number of beds in private student residence halls will increase by 70 pct, according to the latest analysis by Knight Fra ...
Zeitraum – Racławicka to open for next semester
Noli Studios Gdansk Old Town unveiled
Retail & leisure
Romania attractive to foreign retailers
Romania’s retail market continues to attract a growing number of international brands, according to data from the Cushman & Wakefield Echinox real est ...
Supernova expansion for Eleport
Scallier to take on five more retail parks
Technology
Velis has a new name
Velis Real Estate Tech is officially changing its name to Singu, adopting the title of its property management product. The rebranding aims to both re ...
Symbiotic fit for HB Reavis and HqO
Saski Crescent has WiredScore Platinum
Warehouse & industrial
NRF Thermal Engineering comes to Panattoni Park Gdańsk West II
A 39,000 sqm industrial hall is being built in Panattoni Park Gdańsk West II, and the first tenant to sign a lease for space in the building is NRF Th ...
