Investment &amp; finance

POLAND Generali Real Estate has purchased the Plac Małachowskiego office building in central Warsaw for its Generali Europe Investment Holding (GEIH) fund from Europa Capital and White Star Real Estate.

Millions raised by Archicom

26 July 2018

Opr./edited by TC

POLAND Wrocław-based developer Archicom has raised PLN 50 mln from a private issue of bonds addressed to financial investors.

Kołobrzeg seeks outside investment

25 July 2018

POLAND The town of Kołobrzeg is looking for an investor to help finance and develop municipal complex for recreation, education, sport and entertainment to be built on a seaside plot owned by the council.

Malta’s mystery purchaser revealed

24 July 2018

POLAND The Galeria Malta mall in Poznań has been sold to Balmain. Eurobuild CEE has confirmed this information with the Balmain press office despite the fact that the original information released to the market on July 18th contained neither the price nor the buyer, but only that Balmain Asset Management had been appointed asset manager and that BSC Real Estate Advisors (which is part of the Balmain group), was its new property manager.

Energy buildings for PLN 24 mln

23 July 2018

Anna Pakulniewicz

LITHUANIA The headquarters of Lietuvos Energija in Vilnius has been sold at auction for a gross amount of EUR 24 mln – EUR 563,000 above the starting price.

Focus takes Awangarda

23 July 2018

Alex Hayes
journalist

POLAND Ukrainian Investor Focus Estate Fund has purchased the Galeria Awangarda mall in Bartoszyce, its second retail property acquired this year in Poland.

Juncker finances Poznań university hospital

POLISH The Poznań University of Medical Sciences has been granted almost PLN 115 mln in loans from the Juncker Plan to build the Centre for Medical Simulation and the Centre for Innovation and Pharmaceutical Technology.

Dekada secures expansion land

Aneta Cichla

POLAND Dekada has bought four of the five plots it needs to extend the Dekada centre in Skierniewice.

ULI advises Gdynia

POLAND Urban Land Institute in partnership with the city of Gdynia has developed a set of recommendations regarding the redevelopment of the Molo Rybackie fishing pier.

Investors still smitten by retail

POLAND Given the number of ongoing transactions and the availability of product, the investment volume in the retail sector should exceed EUR 3 bln this year, which would be the highest volume in the history of the market, claims JLL.

Invesco sells Amazon centre to Vestas

19 July 2018

Aneta Cichla

POLAND Vestas Investment Management has bought a logistics centre in Kołbaskowo, which is leased by Amazon, from Invesco.

Real estate investment still on the rise

19 July 2018

POLAND Total real estate investment volumes in Poland reached EUR 3,246 mln in the first half of the year – up 113 pct y-o-y, according to Cushman & Wakefield.

Tomasz Cudowski
editor-in-chief

Centrum Haffnera changes hands

17 July 2018

POLAND EuroEast 2 has bought the Center Haffnera shopping centre in Sopot for an undisclosed sum.

Russia sees less investment

17 July 2018

Anna Pakulniewicz

RUSSIA Total Russian real estate investment volume reached USD 1.29 bln in H1 2018, down 39 pct y-o-y from USD 2.13 bln in H1 2017. According to JLL the slowdown should be temporary, with activity to pick up again towards the end of 2018.

Latest round in Galeria Wilanów tussle

17 July 2018

Tomasz Szpyt-Grzegórski

POLAND Warsaw city council has unveiled its latest proposals for a local zoning plan for the quarter of Wilanów where GTC is hoping to develop the Galeria Wilanów shopping centre.

Green light for Resi4Rent

16 July 2018

POLAND The European Commission has agreed to the establishment of Resi4Rent, a joint venture of PIMCO and Echo Investment, which is to be Poland's first rental platform.

First Property takes Maestro in Cluj

16 July 2018

Alex Hayes
journalist

ROMANIA UK investment fund First Property Group, together with a number of partner investors, has purchased the Maestro Business Center office building in Cluj-Napoca.

Globalworth buys Spektrum

12 July 2018

POLAND Globalworth has bought the Spektrum Tower office building in Warsaw’s Central Business District from Europa Capital for app. EUR 101 mln.

Ceetrus looking for partners

12 July 2018

POLAND Ceetrus Polska (formerly Immochan), which owns a large land bank (200 ha – or about 280 football pitches), is planning to gradually develop these sites and is inviting investors to cooperate on such projects.

CBRE sets up SEE office

12 July 2018