News
Office & mixed-use development
PHN has its hands full
POLAND Polski Holding Nieruchomości (PHN) has been granted a building permit for a skyscraper to be built at ul. Świętokrzyska 36 in Warsaw.
Grape Up expands in Białystok
POLAND IT company Grape Up has moved its Białystok R&D centre to a larger office in order to accommodate an enlarged staff, which it plans to have hired by 2020.
Warehouse & industrial
Linkcity opens in Hradec Králové
CZECH REPUBLIC Bouygues Construction subsidiary Linkcity in partnership with Cromwell have constructed the LiNK Hradec Králové logistics park with work having begun on the site in February 2018.
Interior design
Suzuki turns white
POLAND Suzuki Motor Poland has introduced a new format for its motor showrooms.
Residential
Tamago builds in wood
BELARUS The construction of a prototype of an unusual detached house is nearing completion near Maladzyechna. Its rounded roof serves as walls.
Robyg on the rise
POLAND For H1 of 2018, Robyg has reported revenues of PLN 420.14 mln representing an increase of 95.8 pct y-o-y.
Warehouse & industrial
A Titan comes to Opole
POLAND TitanX Engine Cooling, which is owned by Indian conglomerate Tata motors, has signed a deal with CTP to open a 4,000 sqm centre in Opole.
Murapol stays on target
POLAND Over the first three quarters of 2018 the Murapol sold 2,691 residential units representing a 9 pct increase on the same period of the previous year.
Retail & leisure
Water flows from Galeria Jurajska
POLAND A 15m high water wall with a height of 100 sqm has been created in the Galeria Jurajska mall in Częstochowa.
Erbud builds in Ostaszewo
POLAND Erbud has been contracted by Nova Metale to construct a production and warehouse hall in Ostaszewo near Toruń.
Śląskie Kamienice on shopping spree
POLAND Śląskie Kamienice subsidiary Hornigold REIT, which invests in short-term rental apartments, has published its strategy for 2018-2019.
Employment now automated
POLAND Chatbots are helping in recruitment at such companies as Aviva, Budimex and Santander.
Residential
Work starts on Diasfera
POLAND The ground has been broken for the construction of the Diasfera Łódzka residential complex under development by Duda Development between ul. Kilińskiego and ul. Targowa in the centre Łódź.
Hotels
Marvipol builds double-aparthotel in Gdańsk
POLAND InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has appointed Marvipol to construct and manage a double-branded aparthotel with 346 rooms at ul. Grunwaldzka 239 in Gdańsk.
Investment & finance
World real estate investment rises 18 pct
WORLD Despite geopolitical uncertainty and a slowing in the economic cycle, investment in the global property market has seen a significant rise of 18 pct year-on-year to a new record high of USD 1.8 tln (compared to USD 1.5 tln in 2017), claims Cushman & Wakefield in its ‘Winning in Growth Cities’ report.
Interior design
David walks into Raffles
POLAND The Walk with David design studio has designed the branding for four stores and service outlets in the Raffles Europejski Hotel Warsaw, including the Lourse Patisserie Warsaw, The Longbar, The Humidor and The Europejski Grill. “When creating each individual identity, we took into consideration the fact that Raffles Warsaw is a place that has remained in the hearts and memories of the Warsaw people, even while the shape and fortunes of the city around it changed,“ said Paweł Miklaszewski a partner of Walk with David.
Colliers examines the psychology of retail
WORLD The increasing expectations of customers are forcing retail chains to create holistic, personalised shopping experiences, using the findings of behavioural psychologists and on the latest technology claims Colliers International in its “Shopping full of Emotions” report, which it prepared in collaboration with Kate Nightingale, the founder of Style Psychology.
Echo still raising money
POLAND Echo Investment is to issue bonds worth PLN 50 mln to individual investors.
A golden age for Polish logistics
POLAND Industrial and warehouse properties in Poland are becoming increasingly appealing to international buyers, with total volume of investment transactions in this sector growing on average by 20 pct for the last three years, according to the latest ‘Think outside the Big Box’ report by Savills.
Office & mixed-use development
Nordic Light 80 pct leased
HUNGARY Skanska has leased out 10,600 sqm of office space in the third phase of Nordic Light Trio complex in Budapest to an undisclosed multinational healthcare company, which will take up almost 80 pct of the available space.
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
Egelhof starts production in Radom
The Egelhof Group is to open its first factory in Poland. The modern 14,000 sqm plant is to be built in the B1 Park in Radom, with production to start ...
