CEE REGION Two merging cement and aggregates suppliers Holcim and Lafarg aim to sell EUR 6.5 bln assets, including plants and other facilities, to the Irish building materials company CRH. These will include Holcim's assets in Hungary, Serbia and Slovakia, as well as Lafarge's properties in Romania.
CEE REGION Last year was a very good one for the two largest warehouse developers in the region. In 2014 Panattoni and Prologis built 650,000 sqm of warehouse space in total.
Hotels
CEE REGION In 2014, the US hotel giant Starwood, which operates such chains as Westin, Sheraton, Le Meridien, St. Regis, Aloft and W, has opened 74 new hotels worldwide which translated into app. 15,000 rooms in 26 countries. The company now aims to keep up with the pace of openings by adding, among others, new CEE locations to its portfolio.
RUSSIA In H1 2015 vacancy levels on the Moscow office market could reach 19–20 pct, that is, the peak levels of the 2008/2009 crisis, according to the latest CBRE report.
Investment & finance
HUNGARY/ BULGARIA CA Immo has sold two small office assets: the 8,000 sqm gla Europark office building in Sofia and the 6,400 sqm Buda Business Center office building in Budapest, for EUR 17 mln.
Green projects
POLAND Two BREEAM certificates have been awarded to Echo Investment’s A4 Business Park in Katowice.
Office & mixed-use development
CZECH REPUBLIC The owners of the Hagibor Office Building in Prague-Strašnice have filed for insolvency.
Warehouse & industrial
POLAND Construction work has started on the first, 16,000 sqm warehousing building of Goodman’s Poznań Airport Logistics Centre.
Investment & finance
POLAND/BALTIC STATES BPT Optima, a fund managed by Northern Horizon Capital, has agreed to sell seven office and retail properties in Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipėda, totalling app. 112,000 sqm of leasable space, as well as the large-scale Young City urban regeneration site on the Gdańsk waterfront, including the historic former shipyard.
Retail & leisure
POLAND Gemini Holding is gearing up for the launch of the construction work on the Gemini Park Tychy shopping centre, while the commercialization of the 36,000 sqm gla project is now in progress.
Retail & leisure
POLAND Four new companies signed lease agreements for retail space in the HopStop Zamość Sadowa retail park that is currently being developed in Zamość.
POLAND Piotr i Paweł delicatessen chain has opened its second location in Kraków at the end of January.
Retail & leisure
RUSSIA The average vacancy rate in Moscow shopping centres reached 7 pct at the end of the last year compared to 2.6 pct in 2013, CBRE reports.
Property and Facility Management
CZECH REPUBLIC SB Property Services has been appointed as the property manager of the majority of the portfolio of Česká spořitelna’s real estate subsidiary Reico.
Office & mixed-use development
POLAND Home furnishings e-retailer Westwing Home & Living Polska has leased 1,000 sqm of office space in Spektrum Tower in Warsaw.
Retail & leisure
POLAND The environmental permit has been obtained for a Leroy Merlin DIY supermarket being developed as part of the first stage of the development of a retail park around Galeria Sudecka in Jelenia Góra.
RUSSIA The current military and political conflict in the region has led to the deterioration of the Moscow hotel market and falling property values.
POLAND Supply chain management company Ceva Logistics has opened a new, 5,000 sqm multi-user warehouse next to the sea port of Gdynia.
Technology
NETHERLANDS Logistics giant DHL has carried out a pilot project testing smart glasses and augmented reality in a warehouse in the Netherlands. The trial showed that the augmented reality-enabled warehouse picking solution increased the efficiency of the picking process by 25 pct.
UKRAINE Eight business centres with a combined area of 79,195 sqm are to open opening in Kyiv in 2015 according to consultancy UTG.
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Strabag Romania has been selected by the developer and investor PPF Real Estate as the general contractor for the construction of its new office prope ...
The Globalworth Foundation has provided the authorities in Bucharest with office space for a Covid vaccination centre.
Panattoni BTS and Commercecon together support the establishment of the second Centaurus Foundation centre in Poland to help horses and other animals.
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Two buildings completed as part of the first phase of Good Point V, an investment by Real Management, have received the final BREEAM International New ...
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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 ...
The first The Cloud One Hotel in Warsaw is set to open in the Upper One complex, offering over 360 rooms.
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The Warsaw - Łódź stretch will be the first section of the High Speed Railway in Poland. It is on this route that a new station will be built in Brzez ...
Viterra has moved into its new 1,500 sqm offices in Olivia Prime, part of the Olivia Centre business complex in Gdańsk. The Design Anatomy studio is ...
DL Invest Group has finalized the acquisition of a production and warehouse complex in Bielsko-Biała, with a total rental area exceeding 270,000 sqm.
CTP has agreed to a EUR 155 mln deal to acquire an industrial site spanning over 830,000 sqm in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia. The seller is Vall ...
Peninsula Property is an investor and development company that builds high-quality, thoughtfully designed apartment buildings, boutique residences and ...
BNY, the global financial services provider, has moved its Polish office to the Centrum Południe building in Wrocław. The company has taken 20,000 sqm ...
Colliers has taken over the management of the Studio B office building located in the Warsaw Wola district. The property is owned by Stena Real Estate ...
The University of Warsaw has signed a contract with the general contractor for a project at ul. Bednarska 2/4. The new building will house the faculti ...
Nearly 1,500 flats in six stages will be built in Wrocław as part of the Apartamenty Krakowska project being developed by Robyg on land adjacent to th ...
A new retail park with a total area of 24,000 sqm is set to be developed in Otwock under the name Świderek. The investment will be led by Redkom Devel ...
Velis Real Estate Tech is officially changing its name to Singu, adopting the title of its property management product. The rebranding aims to both re ...
7R will develop a technology and production hub on the site of Kraków's ‘Ruszcza’ Logistics and Industrial Centre. The 230,000 sqm investment will be ...
