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Romania Profi sale breaks record
MidEuropa, a European private equity investor, has entered into an agreement to sell Romanian food retailer Profi Rom Food to Ahold Delhaize. The value of the enterprise was estimated at about EUR 1.3 bln pre-IFRS16 (EUR1.8 bln post-IFRS 16).
Investment & finance
Poland Octava sells Warsaw airport plot
Octava Property Trust (OPT) has sold a 1.3 ha development site for an SBU warehouse project near Chopin Airport in Warsaw to an Austrian investment fund, which now plans to develop an 8,000 sqm small business unit facility on it.
Investment & finance
SLOVAKIA BHM buys second Slovak park
Prague-based investment group BHM group has acquired the Trenčín Industrial Park logistics and production centre in western Slovakia, which has a leasable area of more than 120,000 sqm, for an undisclosed sum. The seller was Fond Nova Real Estate, a fund managed by Prague-based Redside investiční společnost.
Investment & finance
Germany SVP to acquire Apcoa
Apcoa Parking Holdings and Strategic Value Partners, LLC and its affiliates (together, SVP), a global alternative investment firm with over USD 18 bln of assets under management, has announced that SVP-managed funds have entered into an agreement to acquire 100 pct of Apcoa, Europe’s leading parking infrastructure operator.
Investment & finance
Poland mBank finances Panattoni in TriCity
Panattoni has been awarded a loan of over EUR 32 mln from mBank for the development of a 50,000 sqm building in Panattoni Park Tricity East V. Regesta is to operate its largest logistics centre in Poland from the new hall.
Investment & finance
POLAND Octava offloads Obrzeżna Center
Warsaw-based investor Octava Property Trust has sold the Obrzeżna Center office building in Warsaw to an undisclosed Polish company.
Investment & finance
Romania Real estate benefiting from foreign capital inflow
The real estate and construction sector attracted app. EUR 1.2 bln of foreign direct investments in 2022, as the share of this economic activity in the overall FDI stock stood at 17.2 pct at the end of 2022, according to the Cushman & Wakefield Echinox.
Investment & finance
POLAND Archicom raises 220m in share issue
Echo Investment Group’s residential division Archicom has raised PLN 220 mln in a new share issue. Archicom will use most of the capital raised to purchase plots for its future projects.
Investment & finance
POLAND Yareal Polska obtains €45m investment loan
Yareal Polska has secured a EUR 45 mln five-year investment loan from Pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank, part of which is to be used to refinance the company’s Lixa C office development in Warsaw.
Investment & finance
CZECH REPUBLIC Upvest and Lincoln strike for Zirkon
Českomoravská Nemovitostní (ČMN) has sold the Zirkon Office Center in Prague's Karlín district to a joint venture between local investment platform Upvest and US investor Lincoln Property Company for an undisclosed sum.
Investment & finance
Europe Fundraising for MEREP 3 reaches EUR 168 mln
Mitiska REIM, the investor in European convenience real estate, has announced that fundraising for its third flagship fund, Mitiska European Real Estate Partners 3, has now reached EUR 168 mln. The fund has already closed three investments since the beginning of this year, representing a third of capital raised so far.
Investment & finance
Poland & Baltics AEI issues more green bonds for solar plants
Atsinaujinančios Energetikos Investicijos has announced a EUR 13.22 mln green bond issue with a 10 pct yield and which is to mature in December 2025. The company will invest the money to build solar power plants in Poland.
Investment & finance
Poland Partners and Peakside pick up Okęcie site
Partners Group and Peakside Capital Advisors have successfully completed the purchase of a 5 ha plot in Warsaw’s Okęcie district for the development of a last-mile urban logistics project.
Investment & finance
Romania The investment market decline
The number of sold properties increased in Romania in H1 2023, but the average price per asset decreased by more than 50 pct according to data from the Cushman & Wakefield Echinox real estate consultancy company.
Investment & finance
Hungary Skanska sells H2Offices
Skanska has sold the first phase of its H2Offices complex in Budapest to Erste Open-Ended Real Estate Investment Fund, represented by Erste Alapkezelő Zrt. This is the third acquisition that the purchaser has made from Skanska Hungary, after acquiring Nordic Light in 2016 and Mill Park in 2018.
Investment & finance
Poland GLP seals 7R park purchase
7R has finalised the sale of 7R City Flex Gdańsk II to GLP Europe. The facility comprises 11,000 sqm, currently fully leased by brands from the food and FMCG sectors.
Investment & finance
Poland Leclerc picks up former Tesco
E.Leclerc has bought a retail property in Jelenia Góra from Tesco. The building is currently undergoing revitalisation work to transform it into a 24,500 sqm convenience shopping centrre
Investment & finance
Czech Republic Kaprain buys Libeň site for new district
Czech Investment group Kaprain has acquired a 5.3 ha brownfield site in Libeň (Prague 9) from Howden ČKD Compressors.
Investment & finance
Poland Hillwood builds, Pekao finances
Hillwood Polska has signed loan agreements with Bank Pekao SA for the construction of three warehouse parks - in Częstochowa, near Rawicz and in Łazy near Warsaw - granting a total loan of more than EUR 89 mln.
Investment & finance
Germany Garbe buys brownfield east of Würzburg
Garbe has acquired a plot of land located some 30 km east of Würzburg. A logistics centre with a total area of around 16,000 sqm is to be built on it. Construction is scheduled to start in Q2 of 2024, with an investment volume of around EUR 25 mln.
Categories
Architecture and urban planning
MoMA wins architectural grand prix
The 11th Architectural Awards of the Mayor of Warsaw [11. edycji Nagrody Architektonicznej Prezydenta m.st. Warszawy] were held on June 3rd, at Teatr ...
Poznań with a green Aura
Dutch-Czech team wins Dejvice contest
Construction
2025 looks optimistic for the construction companies
According to a report by research company Spectis “Construction companies in Poland 2025-2030”, the total revenues of the 300 leading construction gro ...
Strabag to build The Arc
Digitalisation to the rescue
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
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
LightOn with Outstanding design
LightOn – the latest office project being developed by CPI Property Group at ul. Prosta 69 in central Warsaw – has been awarded BREEAM design stage ce ...
Gold for Polona 68
Six buildings certified
Eurobuild Awards
The winners of the Eurobuild Awards 2024!
Who won this year's 14th edition of the Eurobuild Awards? The jury and guests gathered at the Double Tree by Hilton hotel in Warsaw chose this year's ...
Call for nominations and jury members!
Let's live this again!
Eurobuild FM
A breath of fresh air from France, or comments from Cannes part 3
Enjoy the last set of recordings with comments straight from this year's MIPIM. This time, we asked experts from our home country for their input.
A breath of fresh air from France, or comments from Cannes part 2
Poland versus the West
EurobuildCEE
The June issue of Eurobuild is now out!
The latest issue of Eurobuild is now out – and, as always, it’s packed with timely analysis, expert forecasts, industry commentary... and a good dose ...
The May issue of EurobuildCEE is out now!
Time to read Eurobuild's spring issue!
Events
CPK arises
We invite you to join us on June 10th in Łódź at our conference entitled ‘CPK - A new era for Poland and the commercial real estate market’ where we s ...
Back to the Future Conference
Race to the top
Exclusive
Demand for PBSA continues to accelerate
We’ve asked Susanna Graziano, the business development manager of ASK4, who is actively engaged in the evolving Polish PBSA and flex-living markets, t ...
More than 15 minutes of fame
Capitalising on the landlord's market
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
Romanian hotel market continues to recover
The hotel market in Bucharest continued its recovery in 2024, in terms of RevPAR and occupancy rate, while the ADR has finally surpassed the milestone ...
Condo to be built on the Baltic
Marriott plans to expand Four Points by Flex portfolio
Human resources
Five new board members at JLL
Five new members are joining JLL's management board, and will take on their new roles from the beginning of July.
A change of guard at Eurobuild
Changes at the helm of Dom Development
Infrastructure
Tunnel to be built under Baltic
The Polish and Danish governments have entered preliminary discussions for the construction of a tunnel between Szczecin and Copenhagen underneath the ...
Grand station in little Brzeziny
Ghelamco gets go-ahead for Gdańska
Interior design
JLL redesigns its Warsaw branch
JLL has completed the modernisation of its offices in the Warsaw Spire building. The theme behind the design was ‘ReThink. ReUse. ReSpire’, emphasisin ...
Grainy effect for Viterra
Mercedes-Benz stylish Prague office
Investment & finance
Sale and leaseback for Cavatina Hall
Cavatina Holding has signed a sale and leaseback agreement with BPS Leasing for over EUR 22 mln for the Cavatina Hall, building A in Bielsko-Biała.
Budapest Marriott sold
City2 sold
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
Equilibrium 2 awarded WiredScore Platinum certification
Skanska’s Equilibrium 2 building in Bucharest has been awarded the highest-level WiredScore certification for an operational building.
PZU stays in Konstruktorska
Office sizes growing
Property and Facility Management
Studio B under new management
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 ...
Cushman feels the Vibe
CBRE will rule in Skyliner II
Public buildings
Warsaw Uni building underway
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 ...
MHP awarded with ULI prize
Museum of Modern Art opens
Residential
Noli Studios Gdansk Old Town unveiled
Noli Studios is to open its latest project in the Tricity in July. The Czerwone Koszary barracks has been transformed into a PRS project with hotel se ...
Heimstaden starts apartment sales
EBRD supports Resi4Rent
Retail & leisure
M Park opens in Ropczyce
M Core subsidiary LCP Poland has officially opened M Park Ropczyce 35 km from Rzeszów.
Sixteen brands enter the market
Karuzela to grow
Technology
Velis has a new name
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 ...
Symbiotic fit for HB Reavis and HqO
Saski Crescent has WiredScore Platinum
Warehouse & industrial
Work begins on Westside Szczecin Neo by LemonTree
LemonTree has launched Westside Szczecin Neo by LemonTree, its second project in Szczecin. The centre will provide 34,000 sqm of warehouse and office ...
