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
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
W. P. Carey completes EUR 52 mln sale-leaseback with Purmo
W. P. Carey has completed a EUR 52 mln sale-leaseback of two industrial properties in Wałcz and Rybnik, Poland, used by Purmo Group. Totalling approxi ...
CEE commercial real estate market sees strong rebound
Global Vision Acquires Two Office Towers in Charles de Gaulle–Dorobanți Area
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
Cavatina transforms public space around Quorum Tower in Wrocław
Cavatina Holding, the developer of Quorum Tower on ul. gen. Sikorskiego, is redeveloping approximately 3.8 ha of public space around the project at it ...
Kraków offices split between centre and outskirts
BaFin Signs 15-Year Lease for 23,000 sqm at Frankfurt’s RAW
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
Varitex launches sales at Osiedle Zastawna OdNova
Varitex has launched apartment sales for the third stage of Osiedle Zastawna OdNova in southern Łódź. The stage will comprise 16 terraced buildings wi ...
Yareal completes apartment sales at SOHO by Yareal in Warsaw
Corallis Apartments enters final construction stage in northern Bucharest
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
ATC Cargo launches 70,000 sqm logistics centre near Gdańsk
ATC Cargo has started operations at a new 70,000 sqm logistics centre in Barniewice near Gdańsk. The facility will handle fulfilment and e-commerce op ...
