News
Millionaires on decline worldwide
WORLD The number of wealthy people, meaning those with USD 30 mln or more in net assets, declined by 3 pct last year. There are now around 187,500 the so-called ultra-high-net-worth individuals (UHNWIs) around the world, down from 193,100 in 2014, according to the latest Knight Frank report.
Budimex wins contracts worth PLN 7.1 bln in 2015
POLAND Dariusz Blocher, the president of the board of construction company Budimex, has stated that 2015 was a very successful year for the company.
Office & mixed-use development
Wincor Nixdorf expands to Szczecin
POLAND German-based IT solutions provider Wincor Nixdorf is opening its fifth Polish office in Szczecin. The unit will be located in Echo Investment’s Oxygen building.
Marriott-Starwood merger underway
WORLD Marriott and Starwood have cleared the premerger antitrust review in the United States, satisfying one of the closing conditions of the pending combination transactions. The companies are continuing to cooperate with competition authorities in other jurisdictions worldwide to obtain regulatory approvals.
Warehouse & industrial
Medical plant up for sale
SLOVAKIA ICU Medical is to sell its manufacturing complex in Vráble in Nitra district, southwestern Slovakia.
Green projects
Sludge treatment plant for Tauragė
LITHUANIA Panevėžio Statybos Trestas has finished a green project in Tauragė.
749,000 sqm of retail under construction in Kyiv
UKRAINE Eleven shopping centres are under construction in Kyiv with around 749,000 sqm gla, according to Colliers international.
Residential
Antakalnio Parkas ready in June
LITHUANIA The Antakalnio Parkas residential project in Vilnius being developed by M.M.M. Projektai is scheduled for completion in June.
Office & mixed-use development
Maraton attracts more outsourcing
POLAND Telecom sector outsourcing company Administration Personnel Services (APS), which is owned by Bertelsmann Media, has leased over 3,000 sqm of office space in the Maraton office building currently being developed in Poznań by Skanska Property Poland.
Investment & finance
Audėjas Group sells and buy real estate
LITHUANIA Lithuanian upholstery and decorative fabrics producer and furniture retailer Audėjas Group has completed a number of complex inter-related real estate transactions with a total value of more than EUR 11 mln.
Hotels
Hilton Tallinn Park to open in September
ESTONIA Hilton hotel is currently being finished off in Tallinn. It will open in the summer of 2016, Eurbuild CEE found out.
YOC lands in Poland
POLAND German-headquartered mobile advertising technology platform YOC is opening a Warsaw office as it expands European operations.
Office & mixed-use development
Immofinanz secures new and old Warsaw tenants
POLAND Immofinanz has finalised lease deals totalling app. 10,500 sqm for its Warsaw office portfolio.
Warehouse & industrial
Faurecia leases 27,000 sqm in P3 Bratislava
SLOVAKIA French-based car components manufacturer Faurecia is to open a 27,000 sqm plant in P3 Bratislava.
Orco sells Marki warehouse property
POLAND Orco Property Group has disposed of an industrial and logistics project in Marki near Warsaw.
Investment & finance
Allianz and VGP form EUR 500 mln JV
CENTRAL EUROPE Munich-based investor Allianz Real Estate and Brussels-based industrial developer VGP have entered into a 50:50 joint venture with an overall transaction value of EUR 500 mln to purchase Central European projects exclusively owned by VGP.
2015 sees record warehouse supply in Czech Republic
CZECH REPUBLIC In 2015 the total volume of newly built industrial space in the Czech Republic reached 565,700 sqm, which is the highest figure recorded since the global financial crisis, according to JLL.
Investment & finance
Redefine buys 75 pct stake in Echo portfolio
WORLD South African real estate investment trust (REIT) Redefine Properties is acquiring a 75 pct stake in Echo Prime Properties, an Echo Investment subsidiary that controls all 18 of Echo Investment's commercial properties estimated at EUR 1.18 bln, for EUR 362 mln.
Architecture and urban planning
Dutch conquer swimming pool market
LITHUANIA Dutch architects Slangen+Koenis Architecten together with Lithuanian architectual studio Clouds Architektai have designed a swimming stadium in Klaipėda.
Construction
One can move into Švitrigailos Namai earlier
LITHUANIA The second phase of the Švitrigailos Namai residential project in Vilius will now be finished ahead of the original schedule, in Q3 2016.
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 housing market slows as projects put on hold
Poland’s residential construction market is slowing, with 936 projects put on hold over the past year. Yet investors continue to prepare new projects, ...
Planning Code Set to Change Real Estate Market
Tunnel boring soon to begin
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 benefit from data centre realignment
While just a few years ago, investment locations were primarily determined by demand, today access to electricity is becoming a key factor. According ...
Data centres spread out across the region
Poland to be the new data hub
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
The Grand Pardubice now Excellent
The Grand department store in Pardubice has achieved an Excellent rating under the internationally recognised BREEAM In-Use sustainability certificati ...
Outstanding in VGP Park Split
Galeria Jurajska recertified
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
Green Development launches Wave Ustka Thermal & Spa
Green House Development is launching pre-sales of suites at Wave Ustka Thermal & Spa, the third development under the Wave brand on the Polish coast, ...
Mercure opens in Oradea
Saltic Zieleniec hotel under construction by Mirbud
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
New railway station planned for Łapy
Polish State Railways (PKP) has launched a tender to appoint a contractor to build a new railway station in Łapy, with bids due by 28 August. Construc ...
EUR 54 bln worth of contracts to be awarded for Port Polska in 2026
Hydrobudowa Gdańsk to modernise Władysławowo quay for BC-Wind
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
Retail takes a third of Q2 investment
Retail accounted for 36 pct of total commercial real estate investment in both Poland and Italy in Q2 2026, the highest share among the eight European ...
Lett takes Gdańsk PRS portfolio to 646 units
EPP takes EUR 106 mln in financing
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
Drutex to invest PLN 30 mln in headquarters expansion
Drutex has begun the second phase of an expansion of its headquarters in Bytów, northern Poland. The PLN 30 mln project will refurbish its existing of ...
WSP takes 1,100 sqm at Skyliner II
Warsaw and Regional Office Markets Diverge
Property and Facility Management
Savills takes on TFI PZU retail portfolio
Savills, which already manages an office portfolio in Poland for TFI PZU, has now also been appointed to manage three of the fund's retail assets.
JLL takes on Equal Business Park
Savills takes on two Warsaw buildings
Public buildings
Construction begins on emergency care unit at Prague’s Thomayer University Hospital
Construction has begun on a new emergency care unit at Thomayer University Hospital in Prague, officially launched by Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and ...
Dekpol to redevelop the Poznań Palm House
Porr focusing on healthcare
Residential
SGI completes penultimate stage of Łopuszańska 47
SGI has completed the penultimate building at its Łopuszańska 47 residential development in Warsaw’s Włochy district. Handover of the 87 apartments ha ...
Resi4Rent completes 620-unit PRS development in Wrocław
Atal adds 31 apartments to the Kraków residential market
Retail & leisure
Retail investment picks up
Poland’s retail property market saw a clear revival in the first half of 2026. Transaction volumes topped EUR 1 bln, surpassing the total recorded for ...
Power Park Kielce rebrands as BIG Kielce
EV Charging Hub Opens at Manufaktura
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
Poland’s warehouse market looks beyond space
Poland’s modern warehouse and industrial stock has reached 37.44 mln sqm. Demand rose by 47 pct year on year in the first quarter of 2026. At the same ...
