News
Good six months for Budimex
POLAND The Budimex Group has announced its H1 results. The parent company’s net profit came to PLN 194.6 mln in H1, compared to PLN 146 last year.
Colliers to manage Concept Tower
POLAND Colliers International has taken over the management of the 9,000 sqm Concept Tower office building in Warsaw’s Wola district. it was the first building in Poland to be awarded two green certificates: LEED Gold and BREEAM.
Eften enters Lithuania
LITHUANIA Eften Real Estate Fund II AS acquired a complex of almost 30,000 sqm gla comprising two class A buildings with warehouse and office premises, in the Kaunas Free Economic Zone from Genesta Nordic Baltic Real Estate Fund I.
Bricomarché in Bartoszyce
POLAND Bricomarché opened its 144th Polish home and garden centre on ul. Tartaczna in Bartoszyce on July 26th.
First Kwartał ready, second underway
POLAND Inpro has sold all 175 apartments in its Kwartał Uniwersytecki residential project and has started working on a new project called Kwartał Uniwersytecki 2 in Gdańsk’s Przymorze district.
Retail & leisure
Wojas in Libero
POLAND Polish footwear producer Wojas is to open a store in Galeria Libero, which is being developed by Echo Investment in the southern part of Katowice. The shop will have an area of almost 160 sqm.
Murapol building back at home
POLAND The Murapol group has signed a preliminary contract for the purchase of a 0.97 ha plot on ul. Żywiecka in Bielsko-Biała for PLN 4 mln net.
More space for IT Kontrakt
POLAND IT company IT Kontrakt will add 125 sqm to its offices on the fourth and fifth storeys in Sky Tower in Wrocław.
Office & mixed-use development
Turner and Townsend to manage V
POLAND Turner & Townsend Poland has been appointed as the project manager for the V. Offices project, an office building being built by AFI Europe in the centre of Kraków.
Retail & leisure
KiK comes to Kraków
POLAND KiK has signed a lease for a 600 sqm store in the Atut shopping centre on ul. Grażyny in Kraków. It will be the first store of the brand in the city.
Strabag to be paid a billion
POLAND Section I, a 15 km stretch of the A1 motorway between Woźniki and Pyrzowice, has almost been completed. A consortium of Strabag companies (Strabag Infrastruktura Południe and Strabag) has completed 50 pct of the trenches and embankments, as well as the underpinning of the foundation soil.
Offices on the increase
Across the globe, an unprecedented office building boom is underway with over 65 mln sqm of space under construction that will deliver between now and the end of 2019, Cushman & Wakefield’s Global Office Forecast reports. That’s the equivalent of recreating five cities worth of office inventory – Washington, DC, Dallas, London, Singapore and Shanghai – over the next three years.
Investment & finance
EUR 133 mln financing Deal for Business Park Sofia
BULGARIA OTP Bank, its Bulgarian subsidiary DSK Bank and Postbank have granted a EUR 133 mln senior financing package to Business Park Sofia with Pricing set at 2.65 pct, plus the three-month Euribor, and a stated maturity of 2027.
Investment & finance
City Zen and Kalvin Square sold
HUNGARY Europa Capital has concluded the sale of the Kalvin Portfolio, Budapest. The Kalvin Portfolio comprises two city centre office buildings in Budapest with a total floor area of 26,000 sqm.
Asbud plans two 30-storey towers
POLAND Asbud Group has acquired land for the development of two residential towers at Rondo Daszyńskiego in Warsaw.
Dedeman closes and opens
ROMANIA Romanian DIY chain Dedeman has opened a new 15,000 sqm store in Iași at 2 Bulevardul Primăverii in a EUR 16.5 mln investment.
Mas ups the ante
CEE REGION Mas Real Estate Investment has announced that it is to increase its capital commitment to its joint venture with Prime Kapital from EUR 200 mln to EUR 350 mln of preference share capital.
Cobblers come to Knjaževac
SERBIA Italian shoe maker Progetti has bought a greenfield investment site in Knjaževac, representing the first new industrial development in the area for 30 years.
Investment & finance
Kingfisher gobbles up Praktiker
ROMANIA British DIY retailer Kingisher, which owns the Brico Dépôt chain, is to buy its rival Praktiker in Romania for an undisclosed sum.
AutoCAD improved
POLAND Rplus of Warsaw has developed the Aplus plugin for AutoCAD programme, which facilitates design to BIM specifications with over 2,500 functions.
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
Brenntag in Brama Miasta B
German chemical raw materials distributor Brenntag has opened its EMEA shared services centre in Brama Miasta B in Łódź, which is owned by Skanska Co ...
WITA welcomes OPmobility
Rents rising with limited supply
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
Panattoni to begin work on Panattoni Park Kraków West IV
Panattoni, together with Eika Asset Management, an investment management company, have begun the development of Panattoni Park Kraków West IV. The cen ...
