News
EurobuildCEE
CBRE has a Renaissance
POLAND Investment fund Kanam Grund Leading Cities Invest has appointed CBRE to manage the Renaissance building on Plac Zbawiciela square in Warsaw.
Technology
What is Proptech
POLAND In a survey conducted by Segro, As many as 58 pct of those questioned thought proptech was a general term for technology and only 38 pct associated it specifically with real estate.
Technology
Carbon Tower controlled by Integral
POLAND Carbon Tower office building in Wrocław will use the Integral app developed by Tenderhut’s Zonifero division to control many of the building’s systems.
Retail & leisure
Two tenants join Nova Park
POLAND City Game and Madame Elegance have both signed leases for space in the Nova Park shopping centre in Gorzów in the West of Poland. City Game is a children’s entertainment centre, which has leased 700 sqm while Madame Elegance has taken up 70 sqm.
Hotels
Budapest Sofitel changes hands
HUNGARY Indotek Group is to buy the Sofitel hotel at the Chain Bridge in Budapest.
Office & mixed-use development
Alcon grows in New City
POLAND Eye care product producer Alcon has decided to enlarge its lease in the New City office building in Warsaw and from 2021 will more than double its space from 2,000 sqm to over 4,800 sqm in the building owned by Hines.
Hotels
Barcelo enters Poland
POLAND Structure Capital and Barcelo Group are planning to open a four-star hotel in Poznań having signed a nletter of intent in October.
Interior design
Santander moves into a glassy joint
POLAND Glass and colour have been used by the Design Group Studio to decorate the offices of Santander Bank Polska (SBP) The office takes up 4,700 sqm on three floors of office building A in CZ Office Park.
EurobuildCEE
Top five of the real estate pops
EUROBUILDCEE This week the news has been dominated by giant jaw-dropping transactions nearly all of which seem remarkable in their own right. But the top spot went to:
Warehouse & industrial
Bucharest goes bananas
ROMANIA Dunwell Industrial Brokerage has assisted MLP Group in opening a new, 2,500 sqm location in Bucharest for one of the largest banana importers and distributors in Europe, Citronex.
Investment & finance
Grzybowska project sold
POLAND Golub GetHouse has sold a 170m tall residential tower with apartments for rent that it plans to build on ul. Grzybowska 59 in Warsaw.
Property and Facility Management
Cushman & Wakefield takes on 1.7 mln sqm
CEE REGION Cushman & Wakefield has been appointed by Logicor to manage a portfolio totalling more than 1.7 mln square metres of logistics real estate in 47 logistics parks across Poland, Hungary, Romania, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
The identities of the jury members for the 10th Eurobuild Awards can now be revealed!
POLAND The voting has now been completed in all 23 categories of the Eurobuild Awards, after 252 leading representatives of the commercial real estate sector cast their votes.
Technology
A smile will open many doors
POLAND The Intive headquarters in Wrocław is the first office building in Poland to use a face scanning system to grant access. The Intive_Eva system, which was programmed in Poland, can recognise individuals based on five photos.
Construction
Moscow is record breakingly boring
RUSSIA Moscow could be entered in the Guinness Book of Records as the city with the largest number of tunnel boring machines working at the same time, reports Mosinzhproyekt, which is constructing a number of projects to extend the Moscow metro system for the city authorities.
Interior design
Lobby in five flavours
POLAND Interbiuro Design & Fit has created the lobbies for five buildings in the Business Garden Warsaw office complex for Vastint Polska.
Retail & leisure
Liu Jo takes on Bufin
EUROPE Eccellenze Italiane the holding company behind Italian fashion label Liu Jo has taken over the Blufin group.
Interior design
Spaceplan gets cooking
POLAND Spaceplan has fitted out the interiors for the Culinary On Warsaw cooking school in the Ethos building on Plac Trzech Krzyży in Warsaw.
Technology
DB Schenker tests out robots
WORLD DB Schenker has introduced autonomous robots from Gideon Brothers.
Property and Facility Management
Apsys now does offices
POLAND Shopping centre manager Apsys Polska has set up an office property management department.
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
Mercure comes to Transylvania
The Mercure Hotels & Resorts chain has opened its first hotel in Transylvania. The Mercure Alba Iulia has 118 rooms as well as modular meeting spaces. ...
Redefining luxury
Romanian hotel market continues to recover
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
Dionisie Lupu sold
Smartown Group has completed the sale of the historic Dionisie Lupu office building in Bucharest at a yield of 8.2 pct. The purchaser remains undisclo ...
Metron goes to school
Silverton signs up Corall Ingenieure
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
Small towns lead retail expansion
Small towns in Poland have seen the majority of the new retail space come to the market. According to data from CBRE 599,500 sqm is currently under co ...
Luxury in decline
Global Vision does retail in Oradea
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
Procan grows in Prologis Park Błonie
Procan has extended the space it occupies in Prologis Park Błonie to almost 10,000 sqm. Under the new agreement, the company will take up a further 2, ...
