News
Port Praski grows bigger
POLAND Hochtief Polska has started the construction of two luxury apartment buildings in the Port Praski housing complex on ul. Krowia in Warsaw.
Lokum with a record
POLAND Wrocław-based Lokum Deweloper closed 2016 with record sales of 645 apartments, an increase of 33 pct on the previous year. A total of 576 apartment sales were included in the company’s final result compared to 377 last year.
Investment & finance
CPI prepares huge portfolio acquisition
CZECH REPUBLIC/POLAND/HUNGARY/ROMANIA CPI Property has signed a framework agreement under which it is to buy a 265,000 sqm portfolio comprising mainly of shopping centres across the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Romania.
EBRD funds student halls
POLAND The European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is to grant a loan of PLN 118.83 mln (EUR 27.07 mln) to finance the development of a private student accommodation network – Student Depot.
Carrefour stays in Gliwice
POLAND A Carrefour hypermarket has extended its lease in the Forum shopping centre in Gliwice until June 2022.
No PLN 120 mln Mlocum takeover
POLAND Marvipol and Mbank have broken off talks over the acquisition of Mlocum.
Residential
Fund makes Wrocław bow
POLAND Fundusz Mieszkań na Wynajem [The Apartments for Rent Fund] has made 100 flats at ul. Dąbrowskiego 40 available for rent, just a few hundred metres from Wrocław’s main railway station.
Robyg sales almost hit 3k
POLAND Robyg has registered record sales of 2,957 apartments in Warsaw and Gdańsk for 2016, up by 27 pct compared on 2015.
Architecture and urban planning
Warsaw looking for Hala Mirowska partner
POLAND Warsaw city council is looking for a partner to run the eastern section of Hala Mirowska, known as Hala Gwardia.
Retail & leisure
Three stores open in Echo mall
POLAND The Echo shopping centre in Radom is being recommercialised with a KiK store having opened in December and other new tenants soon to follow.
Warehouse & industrial
Panattoni suits H&M
POLAND H&M has chosen Panattoni Europe for the development of a build-to-suit distribution centre at ul. Chemiczna in Grodzisk Mazowiecki, close to A2 motorway.
Office & mixed-use development
Construction work starts on Campus 6
ROMANIA Skanska has started the construction of the first phase of the Campus 6 office complex in Bucharest. The completion is scheduled for the third quarter of 2018.
Spherical view of Goleniów
POLAND The administrative district of Goleniów has employed new technologies in order to promote its real estate properties to investors.
Green projects
Port Łódź with BREEAM
POLAND Port Łódź, which belongs to Ikea Centres Polska, has been awarded BREEAM in Use with an ‘Excellent’ rating.
Architecture and urban planning
Nizio designs Wołomin WWI installation
POLAND A World War I Renault FT-17 tank has been used as the central feature by Nizio Design International in their development concept for pl. Zwycięstwa 1920 in Wołomin.
Retail & leisure
RREEF buys three outlet centres
POLAND The RREEF Spezial Invest owned by Deutsche Bank is taking over three outlet centres in Poland from Polonia Property Fund II.
Largest Special Economic Zone to grow bigger
POLAND Over the coming years around one hundred projects with a combined value of app. PLN 5.3 bln are to be launched in the Katowice Special Economic Zone creating around 13,400 new jobs.
Poland’s office supply breaks records
POLAND About 800,000 sqm of office space was completed in 2016 in Poland, which according to JLL is the largest amount of space ever delivered to the Polish office market.
Etalon sees 22 pct sales increase
RUSSIA Etalon Group sold 9,590 apartments in 2016, which represents a 22 pct increase y-o-y.
Three records for Dom Development
POLAND In 2016 Dom Development sold a 2,735 apartments representing a 15 pct rise on the 2,382 apartments sold in the previous year. In Q4 this year the developer sold 717 apartments, which is a quarterly record.
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
EPP meets 2030 emissions reduction targets ahead of schedule
EPP has already met the emissions reduction targets it set for 2030 under the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), which helps companies set emiss ...
PAD RES launches 24 MW solar farms in Koszalin district
The Grand Pardubice 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
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
Bob W to open fifth Tallinn property at Krulli Quarter
Bob W has signed a long-term deal to operate a new aparthotel at Krulli Kvartal, part of the 10.2 ha regeneration of the historic Krulli industrial qu ...
Prague moves into top 10 for hotel investment
Mövenpick opens first Croatian hotel on Adriatic coast
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
Real estate remains a key source of bank credit risk
Commercial real estate remains a significant source of credit risk for German banks, with the sector expected to maintain an elevated non-performing l ...
Uniqa opens EUR 3 bln real estate platform to outside investors
Planning reform redraws the land market
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
CEE office markets tighten as vacancy falls
JLL and iO Partners say Central and Eastern Europe’s office market is tightening, with net take-up across six regional capitals reaching 565,000 sqm i ...
Pazim modernises courtyard at its Szczecin complex
Skanska builds Nowy Format
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
ATAL launches sales of 72 apartments in second phase of Gdansk project
ATAL has launched sales of 72 apartments in the second phase of its ATAL Jasieny project in Gdansk. Located on Stężycka Street, the development compri ...
Apartments remain a top investment
MTX plans Katowice tower
Retail & leisure
Retailers rethink the role of technology
Consumers are increasingly tired of technology overload and excessive personalisation, while physical stores can benefit from offering something the d ...
Retail parks become local hubs
M Core acquires Galeria Chełm
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 ...
