News
Retail & leisure
ETC Swarzędz upgrade begins
POLAND A joint venture set up by Capital Park (the investor) and Akron Group (the property owner) have started the refurbishment and ugrade of the oldest shopping centre in Wielkopolska region – ETC Swarzędz.
Hotels
Record occupancy in Russian hotels
RUSSIA The market-wide weighted average occupancy in Russian hotels in H1 reached a five-year record – 68 pct, exceeding the last year’s number by 4.6 pp, according to JLL.
Investment & finance
Echo sets sights on Jo’burg and Lux listing
POLAND Echo Polska Properties (EPP), which is jointly owned by Echo Investment and South Africa’s Redefine Properties, is aiming to list on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange (LuxSE) in August 2016 followed by a listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) in September 2016.
Office & mixed-use development
Fifth B4B building full, with sixth about to open
POLAND Building ‘E’, the fifth building of the Bonarka for Business (B4B) office complex in Kraków’s Podgorze district, has reached 100 pct with the signing of two new tenants.
New development plan for Klaipėda in 2018
LITHUANIA A new comprehensive spatial development plan for Klaipėda is to be prepared for an area of 9.8 ha of the city.
Interior design
Designer lighting that can be controlled too
EUROPE Trilux Polska is launching its latest product, Lunexo Led – the winner of the Design+ award at the Light+Building 2016 trade fair.
Forced S6 buy-out by GDDKiA
POLAND Over the next few weeks the General Directorate of National Roads and Motorways (GDDKiA) is to purchase properties needed for the construction of the S6 expressway.
iQor grows in Bydgoszcz
POLAND iQor, one of the largest service companies in Europe, is to enlarge its Bydgoszcz branch. The company, which is involved in the guarantee and post-guarantee repairs of electronic equipment, will extend the branch by 14,000 sqm.
Murapol increases sales
POLAND In H1 this year Murapol signed off on 1,294 contracts for the sales of apartments –20 pct more than in H1 2015 (1,081).
Retail & leisure
CityFit in Katowice
POLAND CityFit has opened its first gym in Katowice. The club is located at ul. Rynek 12 in the Zenit department store, where it occupies 1,900 sqm.
Hotels
PGU renovating, buying and selling hotels
POLAND Polska Grupa Uzdrowisk is completing a facility in Połczyn-Zdrój, while planning future openings and renovations to expand its base of health resort facilities.
CEE investment volume set to top EUR 10 bln – JLL
CEE REGION/POLAND According to JLL, the volume of real estate investment transactions concluded across Central and Eastern Europe (excluding Russia) in H1 2016 amounted to app. EUR 5.1 bln, with Poland accounting for EUR 2.07 bln of the total, followed by the Czech Republic (EUR 950 mln), Hungary (EUR 910 mln), Romania (EUR 340 mln) and Slovakia (EUR 310 mln). The remaining SEE markets registered EUR 540 mln in finalised deals.
Retail & leisure
Final Gigasport store sold
CZECH REPUBLIC Čestlické trhy has purchased the last remaining building from the portfolio of the Gigasport chain in the Czech Republic.
Office & mixed-use development
Impaq leases in Wołoska 24
POLAND Impaq, a consulting and IT services provider for finance and telecom companies, has leased around 1,160 sqm in the Wołoska 24 office building in Warsaw.
Office & mixed-use development
Ricoh stays in Ochota
POLAND Digital office device producer Ricoh has renewed its 2,800 sqm lease in the Business Garden office park on ul. Żwirki i Wigury in Warsaw’s Ochota district.
Office & mixed-use development
Mistral retains Mellon
POLAND Mellon, a specialist technological solutions and outsourcing services provider, has renewed its 660 sqm lease in the Mistral building, part of the VIG Business Park in Warsaw’s Włochy district.
Sofia retail shows stability
BULGARIA In the first half of the year, modern shopping centres in Sofia enjoyed stable development, with absorption levels of almost 15,000 sqm of leasable space, compared to 16,370 sqm in the second half of 2015, according to Colliers International.
Polnord stable and satisfied
POLAND In the first half of the year Polnord sold 536 apartments compared to 523 in H1 last year.
Steve Madden opens in two malls
POLAND Two stores of American fashion brand Steve Madden are to open by the end of 2016 in Warsaw shopping centres
Retail & leisure
Martes Sport chooses Quick Park Olkusz
POLAND A 532 sqm Martes Sport store is to open in Quick Park in Olkusz.
Conferences
Schedule 2026
12th Commercial Real Estate Investment Conference
25th Eurobuild Golf Tournament
2st EurobuildCEE Summer Tennis Tournament
3rd EurobuildCEE Running Tournament
The 22nd CEE Warehouse & Logistics Conference
Data Center – Real Estate, Technology, Investments
32nd Polish Commercial Real Estate Market Conference
The 16th Central & Eastern Europe EurobuildCEE Awards 2026
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Architecture and urban planning
Plans created for Airport City around CPK
CBRE and 4CF have been selected as strategic advisors for the Airport City project, part of the Port Polska development programme. The two companies w ...
Świecie remodelled around castle
Dance centre opens in Warsaw
Construction
Dekpol debuts in Romania with 20,000 sqm logistics park
Dekpol Budownictwo is eentering Romania. In December 2025, the company signed an agreement with a developer to carry out design work for the first sta ...
Construction industry waiting to boom
Warsaw returns another building to its prime
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
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
Designer Outlet Sosnowiec goes green
the Designer Outlet Sosnowiec shopping centre has installed a 50 kWp solar panel installation, with all of the energy to be used by the centre.
Idea Aurora takes BREEAM
Retro Office now accessible
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
Kazimierz Krupa takes the helm of Eurobuild magazine!
We are pleased to announce that Kazimierz Krupa, an economic journalist and capital market analyst, has been appointed editor-in-chief of Eurobuild CE ...
The March (MIPIM) issue of Eurobuild is now out!
The latest issue of Eurobuild has hit the shelves!
Events
Don't miss the 12th Commercial Real Estate Conference
On March 26th, at the NYX Hotel Warsaw in Warsaw, a conference is to be held to examine real estate investment in Poland and the CEE region. The event ...
Investment Conference fast approaches
Greetings from day three of MIPIM!
Exclusive
Our plans are ambitious
Recently, Martin Ohly was appointed to the newly created position of head of Germany at 7R, so what better opportunity could there be to find out abou ...
Our plans are ambitious
From Tallinn to Dubrovnik
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
Hotel transactions boom
The Czech hotel market is building on an exceptionally strong year in 2025, marked by a significant increase in transaction volumes and investor inter ...
Mercure expands in Romania
Lithuanians construct hotel in Gdańsk
Human resources
Change at the top for ULI Europe
The Urban Land Institute (ULI) has appointed Simon Durkin as Chief Executive Officer Europe, ULI, succeeding Lisette van Doorn, commencing early March ...
ULI announces new chairs
Panattoni bets big on data centres
Infrastructure
Tourism fuelled by growth in aviation
Expanding airport capacity in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa will play a key role in sustaining long-term tourism growth and supporting demand fo ...
Road agreement signed for CPK
One step closer to atomic power
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
Árkád Szeged sold
ECE Real Estate Partners and Bonitás Investment Fund Management announced the sale of the Árkád Szeged shopping centre in Szeged. to Hungarian real es ...
AI now transforming real estate
Investment returns
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
Pekao enters Sky Tower
A Pekao S.A. Bank customer service point has opened in Wrocław's Sky Tower building. The branch occupies over 300 sqm with an entrance on ul. Powstańc ...
Cushman & Wakefield take on Alchemia
Five new tenants announced for Fuzja
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
A new look for central Warsaw
The city of Warsaw has allocated PLN 5 million for the construction of al. Centralna, a green passageway between the Warsaw Śródmieście railway statio ...
Oleśnica railway station restored
Warsaw Uni building underway
Residential
Residential market ready for consolidation
Rising land costs, the need to rapidly scale operations, and company succession challenges will lead to a wave of mergers and acquisitions over the co ...
PRS gains strength in Kraków
Antczak given the go-ahead for Twarda 7
Retail & leisure
More travelling in Pogoria
Travel agent Join UP! Polska has opened in the Pogoria Shopping Centre in Dąbrowa Górnicza.
Bytom comes to Bonarka
Three more tenants for Oto Park Siemianowice Śląskie
Technology
Skanska installs NHIB in Studio A
Skanska CDE has become the first company in Poland to introduce a Neutral Host In-Building (NHIB) infrastructure model, based on the BTS hotel, in its ...
Rentujemy to revolutionise the market
Velis has a new name
Warehouse & industrial
Work starts on refrigerated warehouse park
Construction of a modern Greenyard refrigerated logistics centre at the Marq Logistics Centre in Gliwice has begun. The warehouse will be operational ...
