Hotels
RSSChinese giant to take over Starwood's French hotelier
GLOBAL Chinese state-owned travel group Jin Jiang International Holdings has signed a preliminary deal to acquire Louvre Hotels Group, a Paris-based hotelier owned by Starwood Capital Group.
Hotels
Hilton Prague on the market
CZECH REPUBLIC The Hilton Prague, the largest hotel in the Czech Republic, has been put up for sale.
Hotels
Starwood rolls out Bluetooth-enabled entry system
WORLD US hotel giant Starwood, which operates such hotel chains as Westin, Sheraton, Le Meridien, St. Regis, Aloft, W and Element, has introduced a new mobile app functionality that allows hotel guests to use their mobiles as a room key.
Hotels
Orbis to take over Accor CEE assets
CEE REGION Polish hotel operator Orbis has been offered to take over a portfolio of 46 CEE Accor hotels.
Hotels
Holiday Inn Express debuts in Russia
RUSSIA InterContinental Hotels Group and the Russian developer Regional Hotel Chain (RHC) have opened a Holiday Inn Express hotel in Voronezh, 500 km south of Moscow.
Hotels
Hilton Garden Inn to debut in Baltics
LATVIA Hilton Garden Inn Rīga Valdemāra, the first hotel of the Hilton Garden Inn chain to be built in the Baltics, is to open in spring 2016.
Hotels
Mercure debuts in Bucharest
ROMANIA French hotel operator Accor is opening its first Romanian Mercure-branded hotel in Bucharest. Located in the city center, the four-star hotel will have 114 rooms, including 27 suites.
Hotels
Hilton in Wrocław to open by early 2016
POLAND Wrocław-based company West Real Estate, which is planning the construction of the Hampton by Hilton Wrocław City Center West hotel, is planning to begin the construction work proper on the building in spring 2015.
Hotels
Griffin welcomes students
POLAND New halls of residence at al. Niepodległości 36 in Poznań have been opened, offering almost 560 beds for students and tourists, as well as some retail and service space.
Hotels
Hampton by Hilton opens in central Warsaw
POLAND The Hampton by Hilton Warsaw City Centre has opened its doors to guests for the first time.
Hotels
US giant opens another airport hotel in Moscow
RUSSIA US-based hotel group Carlson Rezidor has opened a Radisson Blu-branded hotel at Moscow Sheremetyevo airport, which the company claims to be "the first and the only" international hotel directly connected to the airport.
Hotels
Ibis Styles welcomes guests in Riga
LATVIA The Orbis/Accor hotel group has opened the first Ibis Styles hotel in Latvia: Ibis Styles Riga.
Accor Group sees “very positive performance” across CEE
EUROPE In the first half of the year, French hotel operator Accor has seen a 2.8 pct y-o-y increase in like-for-like revenues as its total revenues hit EUR 2.5 bln. Meanwhile, like-for-like gains in the Northern, Central and Eastern Europe region (NCEE) alone went up 3.2 pct.
Hotels
Czarna Góra resort with condo hotel
POLAND Czarna Góra Apartamenty has decided to build a condo hotel near its existing Czarna Góra resort in Sienna near Stronie Śląskie in Poland’s Lower Silesian Province. Located next to the six luxury apartment buildings, the four storey condo hotel is set to house 142 apartments.
St. Regis opens in Russia
RUSSIA The Nikolskaya hotel in Moscow has officially been included under the management of Starwood Hotels & Resorts, changing the name to St. Regis Moscow Hotel Nikolskaya.
Economic Forum improves St. Petersburg hotel performance
RUSSIA In H1 2014, the St Petersburg quality hotel market saw a 30-pct growth in ADR (up to RUB 4,600) and a 24-pct surgge in RevPar (up to RUB 2,253), compared to H1 2013, according to the latest report by JLL.
Relax, it’s on the house!
HUNGARY Hungary’s central bank (MNB) has found an interesting way to support the country’s recovering real estate market. After what must have been extremely hard bargaining, it has bought a four-star rural residence worth EUR 2.9 mln for over EUR 1.3 mln to pamper its employees, reports the ‘Wall Street Journal.’
Moscow hotel revenue drops in H1
RUSSIA With a 5.4 pct drop in the revenue per room (RevPAR) y-o-y, the performance of the Moscow hotel market for H1 2014 is down, but less than feared, according to the Moscow Hotel Market Update report by JLL.
Radisson to open in Polish Tatra mountains
POLAND Hotel group Carloson Rezidor, which owns 1,340 hotels worldwide including Radisson-branded hotels, has decided to enter another Polish city, the mountain resort of Zakopane.
Sharp hotel occupancy drop in Kyiv
UKRAINE In H1 the hotel occupancy in Kyiv dropped to 28 pct, an all-time low, compared to 50 pct in the first half of 2013, according to the latest Hotel Intelligence report by JLL.
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
Budimex wins foundational contract for CPK
Budimex has been awarded a PLN 146 mln contract to construct the foundations of the passenger terminal of the new airport that forms part of the massi ...
Work progresses on Henryk Arctowski Antarctic Station
Poland heading for a two-tier market
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
Strabag snaps up Olivia Star
Strabag Group has purchased the Olivia Star office tower in Gdańsk. This is the largest office building in a regional city with 40,000 sqm gla and the ...
Not only for horses
Panattoni sticks to the fairway
Data centres
Data centres spread out across the region
The EMEA data centre market is entering a new phase where power availability, not demand, is defining growth, forcing a structural shift in how and wh ...
Poland to be the new data hub
Data centres to transform Polish economy
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
Punkt goes Platinum
The Punkt office building in Gdańsk has been awarded LEED v4 Platinum certification. This is the first Torus Group development certified under this ve ...
Outstanding for Prologis
Silesia City Center 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
Three days of lakeside cycling: EQT on the Move
More than 70 representatives of the Polish logistics real estate market participated in the third edition of EQT on the Move: Ride the Lakes. The even ...
Let's play volleyball again
August 7th – mark the date
Exclusive
A statement deal – Tomasz Nowakowski of Lewandpol Group
A few weeks ago, Lewandpol Group hit the headlines with its EUR 107 mln acquisition of the 19,300 sqm Central Point office building in Warsaw city cen ...
Bringing people together
Laying the groundwork for success
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
Pbb refinances Radisson Blu Bucharest
Deutsche Pfandbriefbank (Pbb) has provided EUR 123 mln in investment financing to funds managed by Cerberus Capital Management and Revetas Capital for ...
Griffin and Primestar join forces
aHouse to build hotel in Grodzisk Mazowiecki
Human resources
Leadership change at Nepi Rockcastle
Marek Noetzel has been appointed CEO of NEPI Rockcastle and announced a new management team, based entirely on internal promotions.
Change at the top for ULI Europe
ULI announces new chairs
Infrastructure
PKP to modernise two more stations
Polish State Railways (PKP) has announced tenders to prepare designs for the reconstruction of the Lubań Śląski and Kudowa-Zdrój railway stations.
Port of Poland moves closer with location decisions
Budimex builds in Slovakia
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
Poles turning online for mortgages
Poles are taking out mortgages online while the memory of Swiss Franc loans is fading with each generation. This is the result of a new study by Busin ...
Spain now most attractive European economy
Skanska sells Studio A to Stena
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
CA Immo to build from wood
CA Immo has begun leasing the space for its Skygreen at Hallesche Ufer 74–76 in Berlin. A modern, sustainable 18,400 sqm six-storey office building u ...
Offices above the warehouse
Improved Water pressure in City Tower
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
Warszawa Wschodnia station to be modernised
Polish Railway Lines (PKP) has signed a contract with general contractor Torpol for the modernisation of Warszawa Wschodnia station (Warsaw East), wor ...
Gronów Elbląski station to be renovated
A new look for central Warsaw
Residential
Cavare commercialises Jankego apartments
Cavare is taking on the role of an independent PRS property operator. The company has opened a leasing office in Katowice at ul. Jankego 15, and has b ...
Alides announces project in Żoliborz
Olivia Pulse to start rentals in Gdańsk
Retail & leisure
Scallier builds in Bolesławiec
Scallier is building a modern retail park on al. Tysiąclecia in Bolesławiec.
M Park opens in Nasielsk
Czech Republic attracts retail brands
Technology
Łukasiewicz Research Network opens technology laboratory
The Łukasiewicz Research Network - Automotive Industry Institute has completed a PLN 36 mln project, of which PLN 24.7 mln comes from the Regional Dev ...
Skanska installs NHIB in Studio A
Rentujemy to revolutionise the market
Warehouse & industrial
Unilever expands in Poznań
An automated 36m high-bay warehouse is being built next to the Unilever factory in Poznań.
