News
Construction
Budimex still on top
POLAND “2017 was another very good year for the Budimex Group: we have signed new contracts worth PLN 7.3 bln and we are entering year 2018 with a portfolio of orders exceeding PLN 10 bln,” commented Dariusz Blocher, the CEO of Budimex, on the construction group’s 2017 results.
Office & mixed-use development
5,500 sqm leased in B4B
POLAND TriGranit has signed leases for 5,500 sqm in the Bonarka for Business (B4B) office complex in Kraków’s Podgórze district. As a result all the completed buildings are now fully leased with the exception of the building F, which is leased in 97 pct.
Office & mixed-use development
EUR 900 mln plus project planned for Bucharest
ROMANIA Private investor GG Sky Imobiliare Invest is looking for partners for the development of Green Satellite, a mixed-use project of over EUR 900 mln to be developed in Voluntari in the northern suburbs of Bucharest.
Robyg buys Warsaw land
POLAND Robyg Group has purchased 6.3 ha in Warsaw's Ursus district from CPD (formerly known as Celtic Property Development) for PLN 82 mln.
Residential
A palace for the elderly
POLAND The Pałac dla Seniora nursing home has opened in Sulejówek near Warsaw. Eventually the centre at ul. Krasińskiego 7 will look after around 50 residents.
Kyiv short of offices
UKRAINE Over 2017 the office vacancy rate in Kyiv fell by 6.1 percentage points from 19.3 to 13.2 pct, according to JLL.
Residential
Bulwary second stage begins
POLAND BPI Real Estate Poland is starting construction work on the second stage of its Bulwary Książęce residential project in Wrocław.
Residential
Profbud enters Łódź
POLAND Profbud is to start construction work this quarter on its Osiedle Primo residential project, the company’s first development in Łódź.
Office & mixed-use development
MPC starts USCE Tower II
SERBIA MPC Properties has laid the foundation stone under the USCE Tower II office building in Belgrade.
Arco Vara sells REIT
BULGARIA Estonian developer Arco Vara has sold its real estate investment fund Arco Real Estate Fund REIT (Arco REIT).
Hotels
Park Inn by Radisson Katowice welcomes first guests
POLAND The Park Inn by Radisson brand has opened a hotel in Katowice, the fifteenth hotel in the Carlson-Rezidor group’s portfolio in Poland.
Residential
Rajska 8 in demand
POLAND More than 80 pct of the apartments in the Rajska 8 project in Gdańsk have been sold. The project, which is being developed in the city centre by Apollo-Rida, has reached the pre-lock-up stage.
Construction
Varso - the movie
POLAND HB Reavis, the developer of the 230m Varso skyscraper in Warsaw, has released a film documenting the progress at the building site.
E-commerce
Westwing Home & Living opens sales channel
POLAND The Westwing Home & Living shopping club has launched the WestwingNow.pl online store in Poland with a permanent product range.
Hotels
We are R.evo
EUROPE Vienna House is launching a new hotel brand – Vienna House R.evo. The first hotel is to open in Munich, soon to be followed by another in Budapest.
Retail & leisure
Regional cities focus more on entertainment
POLAND Following the model of the largest agglomerations, entertainment and leisure concepts are beginning to appear in shopping centres in regional cities, Colliers International reports.
Office & mixed-use development
BSC sector huge in Poland
POLAND According to the Association of Business Service Leaders (ABSL), 51 new business services centres opened in Poland in 2017 with 500,000 sqm leased by the BPO/SSC sector accounting for a third of the take-up in Poland’s largest cities.
EUR 320 mln transacted in Croatia
CROATIA Croatian real estate market saw 22 properties worth EUR 320 mln transacted in 2017, according to Colliers International. The figure doesn’t include pending or confidential transactions.
Hotels
Facelift for Vienna
POLAND Renovation work on the Vienna House Easy Cracow hotel is to start in mid-March.
Happy Sundays after all?
POLAND Sundays for many of Poland’s shoppers are a time for the whole family to browse the various fashion and furniture stores in shopping centres – but without actually spending money in them, treating them as showrooms. The main turnover in Poland’s shops is achieved from Monday to Saturday and therefore the impact on tenants’ turnover might not be as serious as was thought, according to Balmain Asset Management and BSC in a statement on the retail market in Poland.
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 wins foundational contract for CPK
Budimex has been awarded a PLN 146 mln contract to construct the foundations of the passenger terminal of the new airport that forms part of the massi ...
Work progresses on Henryk Arctowski Antarctic Station
Poland heading for a two-tier market
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 be the new data hub
During the presentation of the 'Driving the Economy: The Economic Impact of the Data Centre Sector in Poland' report, we took the opportunity to speak ...
Data centres to transform Polish economy
Data 4 starts in France with EUR 5 bln investment
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
Punkt goes Platinum
The Punkt office building in Gdańsk has been awarded LEED v4 Platinum certification. This is the first Torus Group development certified under this ve ...
Outstanding for Prologis
Silesia City Center now Excellent
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
Three days of lakeside cycling: EQT on the Move
More than 70 representatives of the Polish logistics real estate market participated in the third edition of EQT on the Move: Ride the Lakes. The even ...
Let's play volleyball again
August 7th – mark the date
Exclusive
Bringing people together
We take the opportunity to talk with Jacek Kostrzewski, the managing director of engineering consultancy Gleeds, to find out how his passion for sport ...
Laying the groundwork for success
The French connection
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
Griffin and Primestar join forces
Warsaw-based private equity investment manager Griffin Capital Partners and Berlin-based hospitality operator Primestar Group have launched Prime Grif ...
aHouse to build hotel in Grodzisk Mazowiecki
Swissôtel comes to Gdynia
Human resources
Leadership change at Nepi Rockcastle
Marek Noetzel has been appointed CEO of NEPI Rockcastle and announced a new management team, based entirely on internal promotions.
Change at the top for ULI Europe
ULI announces new chairs
Infrastructure
Budimex builds in Slovakia
Budimex has handed over the motorway junction of the D1 and D4 roads in Slovakia, 90 days ahead of the deadline specified by the consgtruction contrac ...
Green light for Port of Poland
Strabag wins EUR 255 mln contract
Interior design
New food hall in Poznań
The Wiedeńska Town House in the centre of Poznań, which dates back to the early 20th century, has been renovated and converted into a food hall with i ...
New look for Eurocentrum lobby
New look for Otis offices
Investment & finance
Welcome loan for Wita
Echo Investment has signed a loan agreement with Bank Pekao to finance its Wita mixed-use complex, which is being developed on a 3 ha site in central ...
Mood improves over office sector
Patron and Trei sell six retail parks
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
UniCredit in Prime position
A branch of UniCredit bank has opened in the DL Prime complex, which was developed by DL Invest Group on ul. Piwna in Gliwice.
Jetset moves into V Tower
Brenntag in Brama Miasta B
Property and Facility Management
JLL takes on Equal Business Park
JLL has been appointed the exclusive leasing agent responsible for the Equal Business Park office complex in Kraków, owned by Apollo Rida. JLL's other ...
Savills takes on two Warsaw buildings
Tensions in the gulf promote energy efficiency
Public buildings
Warszawa Wschodnia station to be modernised
Polish Railway Lines (PKP) has signed a contract with general contractor Torpol for the modernisation of Warszawa Wschodnia station (Warsaw East), wor ...
Gronów Elbląski station to be renovated
A new look for central Warsaw
Residential
Neighbourhood becoming more important in home purchases
According to 'The Living 2040' report, today's residents are more aware, pragmatic, and demanding of the place they live.
Warsaw fourth most unaffordable European city
StudentSpace to build second centre in Warsaw
Retail & leisure
More tenants for Soho by Yareal
Yareal Polska continues to expand the retail tenant mix for its flagship, mixed-use complex in Warsaw's Praga Południe district. SOHO by Yareal now in ...
New Yorker arrives in Jędrzejów
Looking good and feeling good in Norblin Factory
Technology
Łukasiewicz Research Network opens technology laboratory
The Łukasiewicz Research Network - Automotive Industry Institute has completed a PLN 36 mln project, of which PLN 24.7 mln comes from the Regional Dev ...
Skanska installs NHIB in Studio A
Rentujemy to revolutionise the market
Warehouse & industrial
Government leases 50,000 sqm
Europe's largest indoor NATO drone test facility has officially opened at Panattoni Park Swindon. The official opening results from the lease of almos ...
