News
Investment & finance
Archicom seeking strategic investor
POLAND Residential developer is looking to find a strategic partner after its majority shareholders decided to review company’s strategic options.
Retail & leisure
Metropolis for gaming enthusiasts
POLAND Arena Kinguin Esports Lounge is to open on around 530 sqm of Galeria Metropolia in Gdańsk.
Retail & leisure
Elektrownia Powiśle gets ready to open
POLAND Elektrownia Powiśle in Warsaw is to open on Saturday, April 4th.
Investment & finance
Immofinanz – S Immo merger back on?
CENTRAL EUROPE Carpinus Holding, a company owned by Peter Korbačka and Ronny Pecik, have bought a 10.7 pct stake in Austrian real estate investor Immofinanz.
Poznań office stock reaches 565,000 sqm
POLAND Poznań’s office stock amounted to just under 565,000 sqm at the end of 2019, having increased by almost 18 pct over the year, according to Cresa Poland’s ‘Occupier Economics: The Office Market in Poznań 2019’ report.
Investment & finance
Investment rises as Europe braces for the storm
CEE REGION The CEE investment volume rose by EUR 13.7 bln in 2019, according to ‘The CEE Investment Scene Q4 2019’ report published by Colliers International.
Construction
Budimex sees results improve
POLAND Budimex has recorded sales of PLN 7.57 bln for 2019.
Retail & leisure
Sit down to eat in Ogrody
POLAND Ogrody shopping centre in Elbląg owned by CPI Property Group has an food court recently extended by an extra 200 sqm.
Retail & leisure
Auchan enters Matarnia
POLAND A 1,000 sqm Auchan supermarket has opened in the Matarnia retail park. It replaces the former grocery anchor Piotr i Paweł.
Retail & leisure
Carrefour storms Olimpia
POLAND Carrefour is to open a supermarket in the Galeria Olimpia shopping centre in Bełchatów (between Łódź and Częstochowa), where it will replace Tesco as the grocery anchor.
EurobuildCEE
Infectious investment talk
POLAND The supply gap on the Polish office market means that office buildings across the country will continue to enjoy great interest from both tenants and investors, agreed the panellists of Eurobuild CEE’s 6th Invested Interest – Investment Market Conference at the Intercontinental Warsaw hotel on February 27th.
Property and Facility Management
Apleona to manage High5ive
POLAND Skanska Property Poland has appointed Apleona to manage buildings 4 and 5 of the High5ive office property in Kraków.
Office & mixed-use development
New Work announces further expansion
CEE REGION New Work has announced that by the end of 2020 it should be managing around 60,000 sqm of flexible office space in 34 locations across five countries. This is double the area the company had under management at the end of 2019.
Office & mixed-use development
White Star and Cain busy in Warsaw and Kraków
POLAND Cain International and White Star Real Estate are starting the construction of a new, mixed-use project in Warsaw as well as a large office park in Kraków.
Warehouse & industrial
Polish warehouses still in vogue
POLAND The current increase in speculative warehouse development in Poland, as logistics, e-commerce and light production continues to boom in the country, is a reason for developers to build more – concluded the experts on the Warehouse Games panel, which took place during Eurobuild CEE’s 6th Invested Interest – Investment Market Conference at the Intercontinental Warsaw hotel on February 27th.
Hotels
Once upon a time in Warsaw
POLAND The five-star Nobu Hotel Warsaw is to open on June 2nd – its first hotel in Central and Eastern Europe.
Investment & finance
Echo goes shopping at Tesco
POLAND Echo Investment has signed preliminary agreements to buy three standing and working first generation shopping centres on ul. Opieńskiego in Poznań, ul. Widzewska in Łódź and ul. Kapelanka in Kraków, where it plans to build around 240,000 sqm of mixed-use space, including offices, retail and 4,000 apartments.
Office & mixed-use development
Colliers happy with office results
POLAND In 2019, Colliers advised on leases totalling around 118,000 sqm – almost 40 pct more than the 88,106 sqm recorded in 2018 and 260 pct up from 32,824 sqm in 2017.
Investment & finance
Ghelamco gets go-ahead for PLN 350 mln bond issue
POLAND The Polish Financial Supervision Authority (KNF) has approved the prospectus for Ghelamco’s latest bond issue.
Warehouse & industrial
Geodis staying with Segro in Stryków
POLAND Transportation and logistics provider Geodis has opted to extend its lease of warehouse and office space at Segro Logistics Park Stryków in the Łódź voivodeship.
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
CEE growing vigorously
The CEE-6 (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Hungary) maintains its leading position in economic growth in Europe, with all ...
Quest and Indigo acquire Hamburg office building
Financing granted to StudentSpace
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
Katowice swaps mine for technology hub
The Shaft Katowice – Silesian Hub for Advanced Future Technologies complex is to be built on the site of the Wieczorek coal mine in Katowice. Strabag ...
Office market in Warsaw remains stable
Shiji stays on in Silesia Business Park
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
City Park expands to 45,000 sqm
Construction work has begun on a new 10,000 sqm building in City Park Warsaw, which will comprise SBUs with office and warehousing space. Upon complet ...
