News
Retail & leisure
Supermarket to become retail park
POLAND The Saller group has started construction work on a retail centre on ul. Wieniawskiego in Wałbrzych, which is being created through the redevelopment of a former E.Leclerc supermarket.
Murapol closer to acquiring Awbud
POLAND the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection [UOKiK] has approved the purchase by Abadon Real Estate of all the shares of Petrofox, the company that holds a majority stake in Awbud.
Investment & finance
MBank finances Lublin project
POLAND MBank Hipoteczny has granted a PLN 11.3 mln loan for the next stage of the Sky House estate, which Wikana is building near ul. Jana Pawła II in Lublin.
Construction
Care home nears completion
POLAND Construction work on Pałac dla Seniora is nearing completion in Sulejówek.
Investment & finance
Bulgaria takes on MAS
BULGARIA A joint venture majority owned by MAS Real Estate with Prime Kapital has acquired two shopping centres in Burgas and Stara Zagora for EUR 62 mln from Globe Trade Centre and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
Hotels
Accor in Sarajevo
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA Swissôtel, which is part of the AccorHotels group, has entered into a franchise agreement with Al Shiddi International from Riyadh to develop a 218-room urban resort in Sarajevo with the opening scheduled for early 2018.
Gethouse to house students in factory
POLAND Golub Gethouse has completed the purchase of the former Telpod electronics factory building for Golub GetHouse Property Fund II FIZ on ul. Romanowicza in Kraków. The building is to be converted into university accommodation.
Changing face of retail innovation
EUROPE Technological innovation, increasing competition from e-commerce and ever more demanding customers are forcing shopping centres to make changes in order to not only meet customer expectations, but also to stand out from the competition. A shopping centre’s success is now dependent upon an ever increasing number of factors and this creates challenges for both planned and existing centres, claim CBRE in the ‘Shopping Centre 4.0: Innovations in Shopping Centres’ report.
Investment & finance
Kokotów to be extended with bond financing
POLAND A 7R Logistic subsidiary has raised PLN 12 mln through a bond issue, with the money being earmarked to extend the Kraków-Kokotów logistics park.
Murapol Architects Drive on ul. Klasztorna
POLAND Murapol has purchased a 1.24 ha plot for PLN 6.4 mln on ul. Klasztorna in Wrocław where it is to build an estate of three five-storey buildings with 280 apartments and a combined useable area of 11,300 sqm.
Retail & leisure
Fun and games in Wroclavia
POLAND A Fikołki play centre is to be opened in the Wroclavia shopping centre, which is being developed in the centre of Wrocław by Unibail-Rodamco.
Archicom shares profits
POLAND The Archicom group of Wrocław has registered record sales for 2016 and is to pay a larger dividend to its shareholders than in the previous year. Additionally, the company is also preparing to launch an office project.
Retail & leisure
Tychy mall to be extended
POLAND The land on which the City Point shopping centre stands has been re-zoned allowing for the extension and modernisation of the mall.
More food in TriCity
POLAND OT Port Gdynia, which is owned by OT Logistics, has opened a warehouse for agricultural cargo next to Gdynia harbour.
Office & mixed-use development
Walter Herz in Prosta
POLAND Real estate consultancy Walter Herz has moved to the Prosta Tower office building.
Retail & leisure
KiK opened in Świętokrzyskie
POLAND KiK has opened a new outlet in Kielce in the Pasaż Świętokrzyski shopping centre at ul. Massalskiego 3.
Residential
Premium construction begins in Wrocław
POLAND Dom Development has begun construction work on stages four and five of the Premium estate in Warsaw’s Bemowo district. In the fourth stage, a nine-storey building is to be built with 248 apartments as well as 231 underground parking spaces.
Office & mixed-use development
Capgemini signs big Wrocław lease
POLAND French multinational IT consulting corporation Capgemini has leased more than 13,000 sqm in Wrocław’s Business Garden, developed by Vastint Poland.
Office & mixed-use development
Buma makes another DOT
POLAND Buma has started the construction work on another office building in the DOT Office complex on ul. Czerwone Maki/Podole in Kraków.
DTZ Echinox becomes Cushman & Wakefield Echinox
ROMANIA Cushman & Wakefield has signed an exclusive arrangement with DTZ Echinox for the latter to be its affiliate in Romania. The formal affiliate appointment follows the 2015 global merger of Cushman & Wakefield and DTZ. DTZ Echinox had been DTZ’s partner in the country since 2002.
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
Hillwood moves planned data centre further from homes
Hillwood Polska has revised plans for its planned data centre campus in Reguły, in the Michałowice municipality. Following feedback from local residen ...
Poland to benefit from data centre realignment
Data centres spread out across the region
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
Signum Work Station earns WELL Health-Safety Rating
Signum Work Station, an office building on Domaniewska Street in Warsaw, has received the WELL Health-Safety Rating from the International WELL Buildi ...
EPP meets 2030 emissions reduction targets ahead of schedule
PAD RES launches 24 MW solar farms in Koszalin district
Eurobuild Awards
New venue and date for the Eurobuild Awards Gala!
The 16th Eurobuild Awards Gala is now on the horizon! And there has been a CHANGE OF DATE AND LOCATION. The Gala will now take place on December 8th, ...
All the winners of the EurobuildCEE Awards 2025!!
The winners of the Eurobuild Awards 2024!
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
Bucharest Hotel Market Set for Growth
Hotel revenues in Bucharest increased by 5 pct in the first half of 2026 compared with the same period last year, reaching a level 25.2 pct above pre- ...
Bob W to open fifth Tallinn property at Krulli Quarter
Prague moves into top 10 for hotel investment
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
Port Polska and Kielce plan cargo terminal
Port Polska and the City of Kielce have signed a letter of intent covering plans for a cargo terminal in Obice, near Kielce. The centre would handle b ...
New railway station planned for Łapy
EUR 54 bln worth of contracts to be awarded for Port Polska in 2026
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
Mint rezidenční fond buys 306 apartments in Prague
Mint rezidenční fond, which operates in the private rented sector (PRS), has bought 306 new apartments from developer Metrostav Development at the Vys ...
Real estate remains a key source of bank credit risk
Uniqa opens EUR 3 bln real estate platform to outside investors
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
French Institute opens Warsaw offices in restored Bellona building
The French Institute in Poland has opened its Warsaw offices in the restored historic Bellona building. The space includes classrooms, offices and are ...
Colliers appointed exclusive leasing agent for Katowice Business Point
CEE office markets tighten as vacancy falls
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
Trust Investment launches sales for final Sky Trust phase
Trust Investment has launched sales for the third and final phase of the Sky Trust complex in Kielce. The development will include apartments, office ...
ATAL launches sales of 72 apartments in second phase of Gdansk project
Apartments remain a top investment
Retail & leisure
White Star Real Estate expands role at Forum Gliwice
White Star Real Estate is expanding its work with Deka Immobilien and taking over full management of Forum Gliwice. The company has so far been respon ...
Peserico opens store in Dom Mody Klif in Warsaw
Bricomarché opens new store in Ozorków
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
Warehouse vacancy falls to three-year low
The vacancy rate in Poland’s warehouse market fell to 6.6 pct at the end of June, its lowest level in three years. At the same time, gross take-up ros ...
