News
Residential
Mostostal to build for Henniger Investment
POLAND Mostostal Warszawa is to build stage 2.1 of the Mieszkaj w Mieście estate in Kraków.
Hotels
New trio of Hiltons
POLAND Hilton Worldwide has signed contracts for the construction of three new Hampton by Hilton hotels to open in 2018. The new hotels are the Hampton by Hilton Poznan Old Town, the Hampton by Hilton Kalisz and Hampton by Hilton Warsaw Mokotow.
Hala Koszyki now open
POLAND one hundred and ten years after the launch of its construction in 1906, Hala Koszyki has now returned to Warsaw.
Public buildings
Opalenica saves power with PPP
POLAND A 14-year PPP agreement has been signed by the Opalenica district authorities and Engie Services.
Ster in Szczecin to grow
POLAND Valad Europe and Mayland Real Estate have signed a letter of intent regarding their planned joint extension of the Ster shopping centre in Szczecin.
Investment & finance
Rockcastle about to merge with NEPI?
CEE REGION Both NEPI and Rockcastle have advised their separate shareholders to exercise caution in respect to share dealings with the other company.
Retail & leisure
Plaza finds another buyer
POLAND Plaza Centers has signed a letter of intent with an unnamed investment fund to sell its Suwałki Plaza shopping centre in Poland.
Secure Property Development & Investment sells Terminal Brovary
UKRAINE Secure Property Development and Investment has sold its Terminal Brovary warehouse in Kiev to Temania Enterprises for over USD 16 mln.
Residential
Merks to build Riga apartment block
LATVIA Merks, part of the Merko Ehitus group is to build a residential building at Cēsu 9 in Riga.
Office & mixed-use development
Work on Promenade Gardens begins
HUNGARY The cornerstone has been laid for the Promenade Gardens office building in Budapest by Horizon Development.
OTZ in Bucharest West
ROMANIA Logistics provider OTZ has leased 20,000 sqm in CTPark Bucharest West.
Retail & leisure
Argo to extend Era Park Iași
ROMANIA Argo Capital Property plans to extend and reposition the Era Park Iași retail park for one of its funds in an investment of EUR 33 mln.
GE to invest in aircraft engine HQ
CZECH REPUBLIC General Electric and Czech Republic government officials have signed an investment agreement to build GE’s new turboprop headquarters in the Czech Republic.
Office & mixed-use development
Wolf Theiss stays in Mokotowska Square
POLAND Law firm Wolf Theiss has renewed its lease agreement for more than 1,000 sqm of office space in the Mokotowska Square building in central Warsaw.
Office & mixed-use development
Media Markt in BC140 in Budapest
HUNGARY Media Markt has signed a long-term lease agreement for almost 2,900 sqm of office space in the BC140 building in Budapest.
Record residential supply in Prague
CZECH REPUBLIC A total of 3,350 apartments in 47 projects were completed in Prague in the first half of this year with a further 3,200 units expected to be delivered in the city in H2, according to the latest data from JLL.
Retail & leisure
No building permit for Galeria Wilanów
POLAND Hanna Gronkiewicz Waltz, the mayor of Warsaw, has failed to grant a building permit for Globe Trade Centre’s Galeria Wilanów project.
Retail & leisure
Karuzela spins around faster
POLAND The Karuzela retail park in Turek, which currently has an area of 5,350 sqm, is to be extended by an additional 2,500 sqm next year.
Warehouse & industrial
Jas-Fbg enters Centrum Logistyczne Kraków Kokotów-Brzegi
POLAND Logistics operator Jas-Fbg logistic has signed a 2,700 sqm lease, which includes a 2,500 sqm cross docking area, with 7R Logistic. The tenant is to move into the second building that is being developed in the Kraków Kokotów-Brzegi logistics centre in February 2017.
New Smyk in 2017
POLAND Children’s goods store Smyk is the latest tenant to lease space in Dekada Ciechanów, Dekada’s eleventh shopping centre, which is currently under construction.
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
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 ...
