Investment & finance
RSS100,000 sqm leased out by Echo Investment
POLAND Echo Investment signed leases with 75 tenants for a total area of over 100,000 sqm in 2017.
Fitch takes a shine to Bydgoszcz
POLAND Ratings agency Fitch has raised its assessment of the city of Bydgoszcz from stable to positive and gave it a BBB+ rating for debts in foreign and domestic currencies with a long-term rating of AA.
Investment boom set to continue
CEE REGION Economic sentiment still suggests a further increase in investment volumes in the CEE-6 (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia) in 2018, after a high of EUR 12.9 bln in 2017, claims Colliers International in its latest ‘Investment Outlook’ report.
Investment & finance
Golub to build Praga student halls
POLAND Golub GetHouse has bought a 1.15 ha investment plot at ul. Jagiellońska 82 in Warsaw’s Praga-Północ district for a student housing project.
Investment & finance
Union on spending spree
POLAND Union Investment is acquiring two Holiday Inn hotels on behalf of its funds in a total investment that comes to app. EUR 80 mln.
Investment & finance
Robyg (almost) taken over
POLAND Bricks Acquisitions Limited has obtained subscriptions for over 98 pct of the shares of Robyg SA, allowing the Goldman Sachs group owned company to take over the developer.
Investment up for Romania
ROMANIA The total investment volume for 2017 was of EUR 930 mln. a 24 pct increase compared to 2016 and the second highest figure since 2008, according to the latest ‘Market View’ report by CBRE.
Investment & finance
Agora disappears from Old Market
POLAND Newspaper publisher Agora is selling the perpetual usufruct to an historic building in Gdańsk’s Old Market for PLN 8.65 mln.
Sharp eyes for real estate
POLAND Corelens, which provides lenses for cataract surgery is to enter the real estate market.
UBM in the money
POLAND Over 2017, UBM sold Polish real estate assets worth over EUR 160 mln, including the Kotlarska office building in Krakow to Slovakian investor IAD Investments, for app. EUR 30 mln.
Investment & finance
Hansainvest growing larger
WORLD Hamburg-based asset manager Hansainvest Real Assets, which bought the Generation Park X building in Warsaw last year, has announced its 2017 results.
Investment & finance
Volkswagen to spend EUR 450 mln in Poland
POLAND Volkswagen will invest EUR 200 mln in the construction of a new production hall and the extension of its welding plant in Antoninek near Poznań.
Turto Bankas sells Vilnius land
LITHUANIA Turto Bankas has put two plots in Vilnius up for sale, on which commercial and residential projects could be built.
Bank lending stays strong
POLAND In 2017, real estate transactions hit a record-breaking volume of EUR 5 bln, up by nearly 10 pct y-o-y, according to figures from Cushman & Wakefield.
Investment & finance
CPI sells Budaörs Office Park
HUNGARY Czech real estate investor CPI Property Group has announced that it has sold the Budaörs Office Park in Pest county on the western outskirts of Budapest.
Arcona property fund reports record growth
CEE REGION The valuation of the Arcona Property Fund closed 2017 up by 3.7 pct y-o-y. This was largely due to a rise in value of the fund’s four-building Czech portfolio of 5.7 pct and a rise of 2.8 pct in the value of its eight properties in Slovakia. The value of its twelve properties in Poland remained stable.
Investment & finance
Knight Frank: investment hit EUR 4.7 bln in 2017
POLAND According to Knight Frank, in 2017 investors invested 3 pct more funds in Polish real estate than in 2016.
Investment & finance
Cromwell sells Warsaw Corporate Center
POLAND Cromwell Property Group has sold the Warsaw Corporate Center to Raiffeisen Immobilien Kapitalanlage-Gesellschaft (Raiffeisen Capital Management) for EUR 27.8 mln.
Łódź pockets PLN 74 mln from real estate
POLAND In 2017 the city of Łódź sold 60 properties and raised over PLN 74 mln.
Europa Capital raises EUR 716 mln
EUROPA Europa Capital has raised EUR 716 mln for its fifth European value-add fund and associated co-investment vehicles.
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 to rebuild the I/43 Road
Budimex has begun reconstructing a more than 2-kilometre section of the I/43 road near Černá Hora in the Czech Republic. The CZK 250.2 mln contract (E ...
Budimex to complete Bydgoszcz hospital expansion
Berger Bau to modernise Wrocław police headquarters
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
New venue and date for the Eurobuild Awards Gala!
The 16th Eurobuild Awards Gala is now on the horizon! And there has been a CHANGE OF DATE AND LOCATION. The Gala will now take place on December 8th, ...
All the winners of the EurobuildCEE Awards 2025!!
The winners of the Eurobuild Awards 2024!
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
Accor to open Tribe hotel at Kraków Airport
Accor has signed a franchise agreement for the Tribe Kraków Airport hotel. Located next to the airport terminal, the 170-room property is scheduled to ...
Bucharest Hotel Market Set for Growth
Bob W to open fifth Tallinn property at Krulli Quarter
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
Vilea joins Christie’s luxury property network
Vilea Property Boutique has become the exclusive Christie’s International Real Estate partner in Poland. The partnership brings the Polish firm into t ...
PGIM sells data centre development
Mint rezidenční fond buys 306 apartments in Prague
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
Full façade closure for second stage of H2Offices
The façade is now fully closed at Skanska’s H₂Offices Phase 2 in Budapest, while roof waterproofing is also complete. The building is now weather-tigh ...
Łódź City Council to move to University Business Park
Unimot renews lease in DL Jagiellońska 1
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
Mill-Yon launches sales at Osiedle Brzechwy in Pruszków
Mill-Yon has launched sales at Osiedle Brzechwy in Pruszków. The development will comprise five four-storey buildings with 289 apartments ranging from ...
OKAM brings SiDLY telecare to PRESTIA senior residences
Dantex plans Nurt residential project in Wilanów
Retail & leisure
Xtreme Fitness Gyms to open at Gemini Park Tarnów
Gemini Park Tarnów is adding a new fitness and leisure concept. Xtreme Fitness Gyms, Poland’s largest fitness club network, will join the centre’s ten ...
Castorama Studio Projektowe opens in Galeria Świdnicka
Retail parks strengthen their position in Poland
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
Phoenix Pharma stays with Segro
Phoenix Pharma Polska has renewed its lease at Segro Logistics Park Warsaw, Pruszków, where it occupies 8,635 sqm of warehouse space and around 700 sq ...
