News
Events
Regions catching up with the capital
POLAND While the Warsaw office market itself continues to grow, it is the regional cities that are exhibiting the most dynamic levels of new supply while maintaining a moderate level of vacant space and strong interest from investors.
Retail & leisure
Metro Park comes to Zgorzelec
POLAND Metropolitan Investment has unveiled visualisations of the Metro Park Zgorzelec shopping centre, which is to be built as part of the redevelopment of the former railway station in the Lower Silesian town.
Retail & leisure
Cracovia Outlet in two years
POLAND The Cracovia Outlet centre in Kraków is to open in Q2 2020. The 60,000 sqm complex will also comprise a retail park with a large-format DIY store, a grocery market, a home furnishing section together with a 21,000 sqm outlet centre comprising 120 stores.
Residential
Duda chooses Erbud
POLAND Duda Development has chosen Erbud as the general contractor for its Fyrtel Wilda residential project in Poznań.
Bots go shopping
POLAND DMSales has created the Oferro bot a chatbot on Facebook Messenger with a discount search engine.
Warehouse & industrial
Turck to come to Poland
POLAND Industrial automation equipment suppliers Turck is to open a plant in Lublin in the MLP Lublin logistics centre.
Sunday ban no problem
POLAND The largest retail chains have not seen a weakening in their financial results as a result of the ban on Sunday trading as many had feared claims DNB Bank Polska. Shoppers have been changing their habits.
Russian investment takes heavy hit from US sanctions
RUSSIA Total real estate investment volume in Russia in 2018 could be around USD 3.5 bln, according to JLL, with part of the decline being due to Russia's deteriorating relations with the US.
Events
The third Architecture Festival is now behind us
POLAND The third Architecture and Construction Festival organised by Eurobuild Conferences ended on the evening of September 19th.
Office & mixed-use development
Unirii View in Bucharest now open
ROMANIA Tenants have started moving into Unirii View office building, which has just been completed on Corneliu Coposu Boulevard in Bucharest in an investment of EUR 33 mln.
Immofinanz says goodbye to CA Immo
EUROPE Immofinanz has sold its 26 pct stake in CA Immobilien Anlagen (CA Immo) to a subsidiary of the Starwood Capital Group.
Green projects
Timber makes a comeback
NORWAY With 18 floors and a height of 85.4m, the world’s tallest wooden building has been topped off.
Vacancy drops in regional markets
POLAND In the first half of the year, the net absorption rate in all the regional markets across the country came to 258,500 sqm, an increase of 20 pct y-o-y and higher than the three-year average by nearly 40 pct, according to “MarketBeat: Office Space Regions,” by Cushman & Wakefield.
Investment & finance
Student housing enters the Zeitgeist
POLAND Zeitgeist Asset Management has purchased an office building at ul. Solec 22 in Warsaw, which it intends to convert into student halls.
Warehouse & industrial
Fiege brings Schoenberger to Świecko
POLAND Logistics company Fiege will occupy 16,000 sqm in the Hillwood Świecko warehouse park on behalf of Schoenberger, an online retailer of shutters, blinds, mosquito nets, and other home & garden accessories.
Investment & finance
Harmony Office Center II sold
POLAND Harmony Office Center II, which is a complex of three office buildings on ul. Żaryna in Warsaw's Mokotów district, has been acquired by the Catalyst Core Plus European Property Fund (CCPEPF) managed by Catalyst Capital for an undisclosed sum.
Warehouse & industrial
The Hut Group sets up near Wrocław
POLAND The Hut Group, an online retailer of health and beauty products, is to open a production and logistics centre in Magnice near Wroclaw, its first such centre in Poland.
Residential
Eighteen months to wait for Taneczna apartments
POLAND Dom Development has put 81 apartments on sale in the Wille Taneczna residential estate on ul. Tanaeczna in Warsaw's Ursynów district.
Hotels
First guests for Varsovia Apartamenty Kasprzaka
POLAND J.W. Construction has opened the Varsovia Apartamenty Kasprzaka aparthotel in Warsaw’s Wola district.
Retail & leisure
Karuzela starts moving
POLAND The foundation stone has been laid for the Karuzela shopping centre in Biała Podlaska.
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
Polish construction sector faces growing labour shortage
Poland’s construction sector is facing increasing labour shortages, with the industry short of around 150,000 workers. Turnover among engineers has re ...
Carbon Counts in Construction
Polish construction sector under pressure
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
Poland to benefit from data centre realignment
While just a few years ago, investment locations were primarily determined by demand, today access to electricity is becoming a key factor. According ...
Data centres spread out across the region
Poland to be the new data hub
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
PAD RES launches 24 MW solar farms in Koszalin district
PAD RES Group has launched two identical solar farms in Biesiekierz municipality, Koszalin district. The installations have a combined capacity of 24 ...
The Grand Pardubice now Excellent
Outstanding in VGP Park Split
Eurobuild Awards
All the winners of the EurobuildCEE Awards 2025!!
The 15th EurobuildCEE Awards Gala is now behind us and all the winners can be revealed! Special congratulations go to Kazimierz Kirejczyk, who was pre ...
The winners of the Eurobuild Awards 2024!
Call for nominations and jury members!
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
Mövenpick opens first Croatian hotel on Adriatic coast
Mövenpick has opened its first hotel on Croatia’s Adriatic coast in Novi Vinodolski. The resort includes 198 hotel rooms and suites, as well as 304 pr ...
Poland’s hotel investment market slows as Warsaw leads CEE-6 supply growth
Green Development launches Wave Ustka Thermal & Spa
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
New railway station planned for Łapy
Polish State Railways (PKP) has launched a tender to appoint a contractor to build a new railway station in Łapy, with bids due by 28 August. Construc ...
EUR 54 bln worth of contracts to be awarded for Port Polska in 2026
Hydrobudowa Gdańsk to modernise Władysławowo quay for BC-Wind
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
De Silva City acquires four hotels from Essendi Poland
Polish hotel company De Silva City has acquired four hotels from Essendi Poland in Warsaw and Szczecin. The value of the transaction was not disclosed ...
W. P. Carey completes EUR 52 mln sale-leaseback with Purmo
CEE commercial real estate market sees strong rebound
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
Holding KW moves to DL Tower in Katowice
Holding KW is relocating its headquarters to DL Tower in Katowice, where it has leased new office space from DL Invest Group. Its current offices are ...
Cavatina transforms public space around Quorum Tower in Wrocław
Kraków offices split between centre and outskirts
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
Alides Polska to redevelop Perun technical gas plant in Warsaw
Alides Polska will start work in September on the redevelopment of the Perun technical gas plant in Warsaw’s Praga-Południe district. The project will ...
Varitex launches sales at Osiedle Zastawna OdNova
Yareal completes apartment sales at SOHO by Yareal in Warsaw
Retail & leisure
Vistula, Wólczanka and Bytom open joint store in Focus Mall
A new 157 sqm men’s fashion store featuring Vistula, Wólczanka and Bytom has opened at Focus Mall Piotrków Trybunalski.
Ruda Śląska retail park fully leased before opening
Sinsay opens in BIG Włocławek
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
Harden Construction builds Panattoni Park Toruń II for InPost
Harden Construction is building Panattoni Park Toruń II, a 16,500 sqm cross-dock facility in Lubicz Dolny near Toruń. InPost will be the main tenant.
