News
Architecture and urban planning
Chapman Taylor designs media centre
RUSSIA Chapman Taylor has produced two concept designs for a state-of-the-art media centre in St Petersburg.
EA7 makes Russian debut
RUSSIA Emporio Armani owned brand EA7 has entered the Russian market with opening a 200 sqm store in the the Mega Teply Stan shopping centre in Moscow and has become part of the centre’s fashion cluster, which is a 3,000 sqm multibrand department store including international brands such as Karl Lagerfeld, Marc Cain, Liu Jo, Tommy Hilfiger, Hugo Boss and MaxMara Weekend.
Atrium undervalued says Letko
CEE REGION Investment manager Letko Brosseau & Associates has declared its intention to vote against Gazit Globe’s buyout of Atrium European Real Estate, in which it controls a 2.4 pct stake making it the second largest shareholder in the company.
Etalon completes Leader-Invest purchase
RUSSIA Etalon Group has completed the purhcase of the remaining 49 pct stake in residential developer Leader-Invest from Sistema for RUB 14.6 bln.
Office & mixed-use development
Raiffeisenbank orders 34,000 sqm BTS from Etalon
RUSSIA Raiffeisenbank has appointed Etalon Group to build a 34,000 sqm office project in the Nagatino I-Land business park outside the third ring road in Southern Moscow.
Baltic Horizon increases in value
EUROPE Tallinn based Baltic Horizon Fund has increased its net asset value per unit to EUR 1.3451. As of the end of July the value increased by 0.52 pct m-o-m.
Investment & finance
Rents go up across CEE
EUROPE Office, retail and logistics rents increased in the second quarter of 2019 across the CEE region, according to the DNA of Real Estate report by Cushman & Wakefield.
Construction
Svilengrad enters the world of gambling
BULGARIA US investor BC Industries has started contruction work on a casino complex in Svilengrad near the borders with Turkey and Greece in an investment of around EUR 150 mln.
Investment & finance
Echo takes over Immofinanz office buildings
POLAND Immofinanz has sold a section of its Empark office development in Warsaw's Służewiec business district to Echo Investment. Prior to the deal, the Austrian investor had drawn up a concept design for a number of the buildings on the 1.17 ha plot to be pulled down to make way for a new residential development.
Investment & finance
Skanska sells second Nowy Rynek building
POLAND Skanska has sold the second building that it is developing in its Nowy Rynek office complex in Poznań to Corum Asset Management for EUR 36 mln.
Investment & finance
Centrum Krakov sold
CZECH REPUBLIC Wood & Company has acquired the Centrum Krakov mall in Prague. The sellers were the Syner Group as well as private investors Petr Syrovátko and Karel Zetka.
Residential
Sales begin for BW Aria
SERBIA Belgrade Waterfront has begun apartment sales for the BW Aria building, the tenth to be built in the project.
Bilfinger maintains course
EUROPE Bilfinger has announced a EUR 6 mln net loss in the second quarter of the year, compared to an EUR 11 mln profit in Q2 2018 despite revenue growing by 8 pct to EUR 1.15 bln compared to EUR 1.06 bln the year before. Adjusted EBITA improved by 47 pct to EUR 17 mln.
Office & mixed-use development
Instapage chooses Prosta
POLAND Internet marketing firm Instapage has leased 700 sqm of office space at the Prosta Office Centre in Warsaw’s Wola district.
Warehouse & industrial
Panattoni to start second Bydgoszcz park
POLAND Panattoni Europe is to develop the Panattoni Park Bydgoszcz II industrial complex, around 6 km east from the city’s centre. Construction is to start on the 40,000 sqm park in September. The first units are to be ready in Q1 2020.
Investment & finance
Klépierre to sell four malls to Indotek
HUNGARY The competition authorities (GVH) have approved the acquisition by Indotek of a number of shopping centres owned by the Klépierre group.
Hotels
Hilton Garden Inn opens at Bucharest airport
ROMANIA The 218-room Hilton Garden Inn Bucharest Airport has opened within the Henri Coandă International Airport complex in the town of Otopeni.
Office & mixed-use development
Banca Comercială Română to move to Business Garden
ROMANIA Erste Group subsidiary Comercială Română (BCR) is to move its headquarters to Business Garden Bucharest in 2020 with a lease of 14,000 sqm.
Hotels
Uzdrowisko Szczawnica focused on renovation
POLAND Thermaleo & Uzdrowisko Szczawnica Group is to open the Pieniny Grand holiday complex in Szczawnica in southern Poland at the end of the year.
AI to reduce shopping queues
POLAND An end to queuing, with less customer irritation and employee stress, along with greater loyalty and higher sales turnover. This is what the store of the near future could be like, according to Itmagination, which has developed a system that analyses real-time traffic and in-store queues.
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 to rebuild the I/43 Road
Budimex has begun reconstructing a more than 2-kilometre section of the I/43 road near Černá Hora in the Czech Republic. The CZK 250.2 mln contract (E ...
Budimex to complete Bydgoszcz hospital expansion
Berger Bau to modernise Wrocław police headquarters
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
Hillwood moves planned data centre further from homes
Hillwood Polska has revised plans for its planned data centre campus in Reguły, in the Michałowice municipality. Following feedback from local residen ...
Poland to benefit from data centre realignment
Data centres spread out across the region
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
Signum Work Station earns WELL Health-Safety Rating
Signum Work Station, an office building on Domaniewska Street in Warsaw, has received the WELL Health-Safety Rating from the International WELL Buildi ...
EPP meets 2030 emissions reduction targets ahead of schedule
PAD RES launches 24 MW solar farms in Koszalin district
Eurobuild Awards
New venue and date for the Eurobuild Awards Gala!
The 16th Eurobuild Awards Gala is now on the horizon! And there has been a CHANGE OF DATE AND LOCATION. The Gala will now take place on December 8th, ...
All the winners of the EurobuildCEE Awards 2025!!
The winners of the Eurobuild Awards 2024!
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
JLL Charity Beach Volleyball Tournament on August 6th
On 6 August, the 15th JLL Charity Beach Volleyball Tournament for the Real Estate Industry will take place at Warsaw's Monta Beach Volley Club. Eurobu ...
Three days of lakeside cycling: EQT on the Move
Let's play volleyball again
Exclusive
The man from NASA
Czechia stands out as the CEE country with the largest volume of domestic capital invested across the region itself. Now, NASA Capital has entered Pol ...
Strengthening our presence – Wolfgang Molnar of Erste Group Bank
Experienced and out-of-the-box – Josef Malíř of SCF
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
Accor to Open TRIBE Hotel at Kraków Airport
Accor has signed a franchise agreement for the TRIBE Kraków Airport hotel. Located next to the airport terminal, the 170-room property is scheduled to ...
Bucharest Hotel Market Set for Growth
Bob W to open fifth Tallinn property at Krulli Quarter
Human resources
Ghelamco reshuffles management team in Poland
Agnieszka Ciupak has been appointed managing director of Ghelamco in Poland. She joins Przemysław Dąbrowski, Jakub Kutzmann and Krzysztof Gozdecki as ...
Leadership change at Nepi Rockcastle
Change at the top for ULI Europe
Infrastructure
Port Polska and Kielce plan cargo terminal
Port Polska and the City of Kielce have signed a letter of intent covering plans for a cargo terminal in Obice, near Kielce. The centre would handle b ...
New railway station planned for Łapy
EUR 54 bln worth of contracts to be awarded for Port Polska in 2026
Interior design
ING Hubs Poland opens new HQ in The Form
ING Hubs Poland is officially moving into its new headquarters in The Form office building in Warsaw’s Wola business district. The more than 6,000 sqm ...
New food hall in Poznań
New look for Eurocentrum lobby
Investment & finance
Vilea joins Christie’s luxury property network
Vilea Property Boutique has become the exclusive Christie’s International Real Estate partner in Poland. The partnership brings the Polish firm into t ...
PGIM sells data centre development
Mint rezidenční fond buys 306 apartments in Prague
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
Łódź City Council to move to University Business Park
Łódź City Council has leased 23,000 sqm at University Business Park on ul. Wólczańska. The move, planned for late 2027 or early 2028, will bring toget ...
Unimot renews lease in DL Jagiellońska 1
Diuna now 93 pct leased
Property and Facility Management
ISS takes over technical management of Axis in Kraków
ISS has taken over the technical facility management of Axis, an office building in Kraków owned by French fund Corum XL. The company is providing tec ...
Savills takes on TFI PZU retail portfolio
JLL takes on Equal Business Park
Public buildings
Prague 14 begins construction of primary school in Jahodnice
Prague 14 has begun construction of a new primary school in Jahodnice. The school, at U Hostavického potoka Street, will accommodate 540 pupils, with ...
Construction begins on emergency care unit at Prague’s Thomayer University Hospital
Dekpol to redevelop the Poznań Palm House
Residential
OKAM brings SiDLY telecare to PRESTIA senior residences
PRESTIA, a senior living project under development in Łódź, will offer residents SiDLY telecare services. Developer OKAM has partnered with the Polish ...
Dantex plans Nurt residential project in Wilanów
Trust Investment launches sales for final Sky Trust phase
Retail & leisure
4,750 sqm Modernised at Galeria Jurajska
Tenants at Galeria Jurajska in Częstochowa have modernised a total of 4,750 sqm of space since the start of 2026. Zara, Apart, Pitbull, Itaka and Wyją ...
Karuzela Ełk expands with HalfPrice
M1 Poznań sees over 3,200 sqm of leasing activity
Technology
Singu takes over QRmaint
Singu, a European platform for managing commercial property, has today announced the acquisition of QRmaint, one of Europe's fastest-growing providers ...
Łukasiewicz Research Network opens technology laboratory
Skanska installs NHIB in Studio A
Warehouse & industrial
Sonepar extends 13,000 sqm lease
Sonepar Polska has extended its lease for more than 13,000 sqm of warehouse space at Prologis Park Chorzów. The facility serves as the company’s distr ...
