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ROMANIA/INDIA Canpack, a producer of beverage cans, has opened a factory in Bucharest as well as a plant in Nuh in India.

Office market looking tight says Savills

POLAND Limited supply and high occupier activity are pushing rents up claims Savills, which has released its latest figures for the state of the office market in Q3 2018.

Investment & finance

Złote Tarasy office section sold

POLAND Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield has entered into an agreement to sell the Skylight and Lumen office buildings in Warsaw to Globalworth Poland for EUR 190 mln.

UMA to open in Maakri Kvartal

ESTONIA Technopolis Ülemiste is to open 1,800 sqm of shared office space in the Maakri Kvartal, which is under development in central Tallinn.

Less smog in Wola

POLAND The photocatalytic concrete used in the paving of the Generation Park office complex in Warsaw’s Wola-Centrum district can reduce smog levels by around 30 pct.

Warehouse & industrial

Cross-dock for JAS-FBG

POLAND Segro is to build a BTS cross-dock warehouse for JAS-FBG in Segro Business Park Łódź.

Crido in Generation Park

POLAND consulting company Crido has leased 4,300 sqm in the Generation Park complex which is being built by Skanska near the Rondo Daszyńskiego roundbound in Warsaw.

Retail & leisure

RUSSIA Ingka Centres, formerly IKEA Centres, has launched Hands-free Shopping at three of its MEGA branded Russian shopping malls. Using the Mega app customers can now leave their purchases at the check out and collect them from a pick up point on leaving the mall.

Raiffeisen to take 20,000 sqm

HUNGARY HB Reavis has announced that Raiffeisen Bank will move into its Agora development in Budapest with a lease of 20,000 sqm.

Residential

New façade on Foksal

POLAND Ghelamco is continuing with the reconstruction of two Foksal 13/15 historic apartment buildings in the centre of Warsaw.

Cloudy summer period for Polnord

POLAND Polnord sold 256 apartments over Q3 2018, representing a 33 pct drop on the same period of the previous year. A total of 753 apartments were delivered over the first three quarters down by 27 pct y-o-y on 1034 apartments delivered in 2017.

European rents still growing

EUROPE European offices have recorded eight quarters of continuous rental growth with a 0.7 pct increase in Q3 2018, according to Cushman & Wakefield’s latest DNA of Real Estate report.

BSWW advises Ideal Idea on land acquisitions

POLAND BSWW has advised Ideal Idea on the acquisition of a property at ul. Mieczysława Słowikowskiego on the borders of Warsaw including due diligence, the preparation of the documentation, as well as support in the negotiations and in closing the deal.

Investment & finance

Pbb refinances two Warsaw Office buildings

POLAND Pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank has lent EUR 27 mln refinance Griffin House and Liberty Corner, two prime office buildings in Warsaw asset managed by GLL Real Estate Partners on behalf of an undisclosed German Institutional Investor.

Interior design

No sitting still with Swopper

POLAND Health Sport Recreo of Warsaw has introduced the Swopper chair produced by German company Aeris to the Polish market.

XCity starts again in Poznań

POLAND PKP [Polish State Railways] subsidiary Xcity Investment is to find a new partner with whom it will jointly develop a hotel and office project at ul. Dworcowa 1 in Poznań.

Element attracts Yves Rocher

Rafał Ostrowski
journalist

CZECH REPUBLIC Czech branch of global cosmetic brand Yves Rocher has leased 700 sqm of office space in the Element office project, which is being built in Prague’s Pankrác district.

Turf accountants in The Tides

POLAND The Fortuna Zakłady Bukmacherskie bookmaker has leased 500 sqm of office space the The Tides building in Warsaw.

Residential

Permit granted for Życzliwa Praga

Tomasz Cudowski
editor-in-chief

POLAND Robyg was been granted a building permit for the first stage of its Życzliwa Praga residential estate in Warsaw, which is to be built on ul. Życzliwa.

Deloitte in the Mark