News
Interior design
Cold foam by Cayouette
EUROPE One of Ikea’s latest products, the Vedbo armchair is designed by Francis Cayouette.
Oxford Street tops high street rankings
EUROPE London's Oxford Street is the most frequently visited European high street with over 13,500 people visiting its stores every hour, according to BNP Paribas Real Estate.
Interior design
Get posh with black crystal
POLAND Bronces Mestre has marketed a range of door turn knobs set on roses with Swarovski black crystal.
Hotels
Holiday Inn Warsaw City Centre opens
POLAND IHG has opened the Holiday Inn Warsaw City Centre hotel at the junction of ul. Żelazna,ul. Złota and ul. Twarda.
RD Bud to build Rezydencja Chrobrego
POLAND Yareal Polska has chosen RD Bud as a general contractor for the construction of the Rezydencja Chrobrego residential project in Warsaw’s Stare Włochy district.
Packaging for Hochtief
POLAND The Kraków branch of Hochtief Polska has been appointed to build a packaging materials factory within a complex owned by Alupol Films in Oświęcim.
Technology
Somewhere to charge up and sit down
WORLD Recharged is a novel kind of seating for up to three people who can also recharge their smartphones – without cables or plugs.
Property and Facility Management
C&W to manage Váci Greens D
HUNGARY Cushman & Wakefield has been appointed property manager of the Váci Greens D office building, which is being developed by Atenor on Váci út in Budapest.
Hotels
Bridge takeover accepted
HUNGARY The European Commission has given its approval for the sale of Sofitel Budapest Chain Bridge Hotel to Starwood, ruling that the joint control over the hotel by Starwood and Accor-Pannonia falls within the scope of the Merger Regulation paragraph 5(a).
Investment & finance
Foreign investors give Poland good grades
POLAND A total of 92 pct of foreign investors in Poland are satisfied with their investment and would invest again, according to the latest Investment climate in Poland survey jointly conducted by the Polish Investment and Trade Agency (PAIH), Grant Thornton and HSBC.
Investment & finance
MCAP Global Finance makes first CEE purchase
HUNGARY MCAP Global Finance has acquired the Népliget Center office building on Könyves Kálmán street in Budapest on behalf of its funds and managed accounts.
Retail & leisure
Jatomi to close down
POLAND Pure Heath & Fitness, the owner of the Jatomi Fitness chain of fitness clubs, is leaving Poland. According to the company’s website there are now 35 clubs in the chain located in shopping centres across Poland.
Dom Development sells almost 4,000 apartments
POLAND Dom Development sold 3,975 apartments net in 2017 according to preliminary data, including 1,049 apartments in Q4.
Retail & leisure
Carrefour extends Polish network
POLAND In 2017, Carrefour opened ten stores in Poland including three hypermarkets and seven supermarkets.
Technology
Grip light
WORLD SolarGaps, the world's first smart solar blinds, track the sun, keeping the home cool while generating green electricity. They help reduce energy bills by up to 70 pct.
Residential
YIT starts Moscow Aalto
RUSSIA Finish developer YIT has started the construction of the Aalto residential project on Staryy Petrovsko-Razumovskiy Proyezd in Moscow’s Aeroport district.
Hotels
Michaelson more international
LITHUANIA Michaelson Boutique Hotel on the bank of the Dangė river in Klaipėda has joined Hotels de Charme & Caractère international group. This is the first hotel from the Baltic states to join the group.
Investment & finance
Russian investment climbs up
RUSSIA Russia’s real estate total investment reached USD 4.6 bln in 2017, up 9 pct from USD 4.3 bln in 2016, according to JLL.
Bel-Pol in Port Łódź
POLAND Finishing materials retailer and distributor Bel-Pol has leased 700 sqm of space in the Port Łódź shopping centre in southern Łódź.
Investment & finance
Bucharest Radisson complex sold
ROMANIA British investment manager Revetas Capital Advisors and American Cerberus Capital Management have acquired the Radisson hotel complex on Calea Victoriei street in the centre of Bucharest from Israeli company Elbit Imaging for EUR 169.2 mln.
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
BIG with a big loan
BNP Paribas has granted Big Poland a PLN 58 mln loan. This includes the refinancing of existing facilities and financing for the purchase of three ret ...
Newgate on shopping spree
EBRD invests in tech
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
Office revival in Bucharest
At the end of the first half of 2025, the number of office workers in Bucharest came to more than 340,000, representing around 30 pct of the city's to ...
Dionisie Lupu sold
Metron goes to school
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
Retail park to come to Konstantynów Łódzki
PKB Inwest Budowa has received a construction permit to build a retail park in Konstantynów Łódzki, which is to open in the second quarter of 2026.
Small towns lead retail expansion
Luxury in decline
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
Garbe builds from wood
The largest logistics centre to be constructed from timber in Europe is being built at the port of Straubing-Sand in Bavaria. The topping out ceremony ...
