Investment & finance
SLOVAKIA Amazon is to open a 60,000 sqm regional centre for returns in Sered in H2 2017 in the 125,000 sqm first stage of the Mountpark Sered logistics centre being developed by Mountpark Logistics EU on a 28,5 ha site.
LATVIA Eften’s Kinnisvarafond fund has sold a commercial building at Stabu 10/4 in Riga to Colonna Varahaldus for an undisclosed sum.
Retail & leisure
BOSNIA&HERZEGOVINA Delta Real Estate has started the construction of the Delta Planet shopping centre in Banja Luka.
Retail & leisure
POLAND American fashion chain Guess will take up 300 sqm of space in the Galeria Libero shopping centre.
Retail & leisure
POLAND In Q2 2017, the vacancy rate in existing shopping centres in Moscow declined from 7.2 pct to 6.4 pct, according to JLL.
POLAND Napollo is to take over the management of its own shopping centres from CREAM, including Galeria Renova in Warsaw’s Targówek district, Galeria Grodova in Grodzisk Mazowiecki and the newly-built Galeria Piastowska in Gniezno.
POLAND Dom Development has started apartment sales for the second stage of its Osiedle Cybernetyki 17 estate in Warsaw’s Mokotów district.
POLAND The European Commission has ruled that the Polish tax levied on retail sales infringes EU rules on state aid.
POLAND Murapol has issued 28,169 bonds (series BA) each with a nominal value of PLN 1,000 in a private offer and has announced plans to set up a number of closed investment funds this year.
POLAND Capital park subsidiary Hazel Investments has acquired EUR 62.5 mln in refinancing for the Royal Wilanów office building in Warsaw from BGŻ BNP Paribas and ING Bank Śląski with the loan to be paid back in five years.
Interior design
HUNGARY DVM group has completed the refurbishment of the Váci út car salon for Volvo Auto Hungária.
EUROPE According to the May 2017 Pipeline Report published by STR, 167,543 rooms in 1,074 hotel projects are under development in Europe, representing a 15.3 pct increase compared to May 2016.
According to IKEA Centres Russia, US brands are currently winning over the Russian market. The most recent deals in the country have seen established stateside brands such as Armani Exchange expand their number of stores into double figures having entered the market only last year. Starbucks is expanding to new regions. Nike has developed a new concept store, and Yum! Brands, the operators of KFC and Pizza Hut have registered a 27 pct y-o-y increase in revenue for Q1 2017.
Office & mixed-use development
ROMANIA Skanska has begun the construction of the first phase of the Equilibrium office project in the BarbuVacarescu- Floreasca region of Bucharest which is to be developed at a cost of EUR 37 mln.
Hotels
CROATIA Tui Group has opened its seventh hotel, Tui Blue Jadran, which is also the oldest hotel on the Croatian Adriatic coast.
Office & mixed-use development
POLAND Cromwell Property Group has completed the refurbishment of the common areas in buildings D, E and F of Wiśniowy Business Park office complex at ul. 1. Sierpnia in Warsaw.
POLAND International real estate advisory JLL is launching a new office in Łódź. It will be headed by Marta Pyziak, who was prieviously a member of the facility advisor team responsible for managing Dell’s real estate portfolio in Poland, Russia, Kazakhstan, Baltic states and Ukraine.
Residential
POLAND In H1 2017 Echo Investment sold 554 apartments, representing an 80 pct rise y-o-y. In H1 2016, the developer signed 309 sales contracts.
LATVIA Lords LB Special Fund V of the Lithuanian investment management company Lords LB Asset Management is going to invest more than EUR 200 mln into the property of former Press Chamber in Riga that was acquired for EUR 16.8 mln from Latvian Shipping Company, owned by Vitol.
Office & mixed-use development
LITHUANIA Vilnius Tech Park, based in the buildings of the historic Sapieha palace, has introduced virtual membership. The programme will allow more organizations not only to use the park‘s infrastructure, contacts, and partners, but also to contribute to the development of the country‘s startup ecosystem without having a physical presence.
In Winogrady district of Poznań, the construction of the Aura residential building, designed by Robert Konieczny's office KWK Promes, has begun. The f ...
Strabag Romania has been selected by the developer and investor PPF Real Estate as the general contractor for the construction of its new office prope ...
The Globalworth Foundation has provided the authorities in Bucharest with office space for a Covid vaccination centre.
Panattoni BTS and Commercecon together support the establishment of the second Centaurus Foundation centre in Poland to help horses and other animals.
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 ...
Two buildings completed as part of the first phase of Good Point V, an investment by Real Management, have received the final BREEAM International New ...
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 ...
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The 13th JLL Real Estate Beach Volleyball Charity Tournament, which took place earlier this month, has raised over PLN 800,000 to build the third Rona ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Mövenpick has made its debut in Poland with the opening of two hotels – Mövenpick Grand Hotel Wrocław and Mövenpick Resort & Spa Karpacz. The brand ha ...
Jarosław Szanajca plans to resign from the position of president of the management board of Dom Development at the end of the year and join the superv ...
The Warsaw - Łódź stretch will be the first section of the High Speed Railway in Poland. It is on this route that a new station will be built in Brzez ...
Viterra has moved into its new 1,500 sqm offices in Olivia Prime, part of the Olivia Centre business complex in Gdańsk. The Design Anatomy studio is ...
The state-of-the-art logistics centre near Heilbronn, Germany, which is spread across two buildings and fully let, was bought by a logistics fund of A ...
CTP has strengthened its presence in Serbia with the acquisition of a significant parcel of land which will provide 50,000 sqm of lettable space in Kr ...
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IT company Sopra Steria Polska will change its Katowice address in 2026. The company has signed a lease for 4,000 sqm of office space in the Grundmann ...
Colliers has taken over the management of the Studio B office building located in the Warsaw Wola district. The property is owned by Stena Real Estate ...
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 ...
Nearly 1,500 flats in six stages will be built in Wrocław as part of the Apartamenty Krakowska project being developed by Robyg on land adjacent to th ...
According to a survey by Cushman & Wakefield, which has been tracking new entries for 11 years, 47 brands entered the Czech market in 2024. This is th ...
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 ...
The joint venture between Partners Group, acting on behalf of its clients, and Peakside Capital Advisors announces the start of construction for City ...
