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Warsaw city hall sells more plots to Ceraco
POLAND Warsaw city hall has decided to bypass tender procedure and sell to Ceraco the perpetual usufruct of the plots the development company needed for the construction of an office building located in the city centre. The developer will acquire two small parcels with a combined area of 84 sqm located near ul. Waryńskiego and ul. Polna for PLN 84,000.
Investment & finance
Auchan Polska given green light to sell Reals to Schiever
POLAND Auchan Polska has obtained the approval of the Polish Office of Competition and Consumer Protection to sell off eight Real hypermarkets to the French company Anciens Etablissmements Georges Schiever et Fils, which is the dominant entity in the Schiever group.
Immofinanz fires back at unsatisfactory CA Immo bid
EUROPE Immofinanz has made a voluntary partial public offer on the purchase of an up to 29 pct stake in CA Immo. The move comes just a few days after CA Immo and O1 jointly offered to acquire 13.5 pct of the total Immofinanz issued shares for EUR 2.80 per share in a voluntary tender offer, at least EUR 1.20 below Immofinanz’s expectations.
Investment & finance
African investor buys Opole mall, plans extension
POLAND/ MAURITIUS Gontar, a subsidiary of the Rockcastle Global Real Estate company which operates in South Africa and Mauritius, has concluded an agreement on the purchase of the Coucal-owned Solaris Centre shopping mall in Opole. The total purchase price for the transaction reached EUR 52 mln at an initial yield of 7.7 pct.
Investment & finance
PKP wins financing for Gliwice station
POLAND PKP has signed an app. PLN 81.5 mln contract with the Centre for EU Transport Projects on supplementary financing for the modernization of a railway station in Gliwice.
Investment & finance
Union Investment buys Sarni Stok
POLAND Union Investment has acquired the Sarni Stok shopping centre in Bielsko-Biała from CBRE Property Fund Central Europe, which is managed by CBRE Global Investors.
Tristan is starting new EUR 950 mln fund
EUROPE London-based real estate investment fund manager Tristan Capital is launching a new EUR 950 mln pan-European value-add fund . So far Tristan raised one third of the targeted equity.
Investment & finance
CBRE GI buys Campus Square from AIG/Lincoln
CZECH REPUBLIC A fund managed by CBRE Global Investors has bought the Campus Square retail park in Brno’s Bohunice district from AIG/Lincoln.
MLP looking to double its scale of operations
POLAND The value of MLP Group’s assets increased to PLN 557.9 mln at the end of 2014, almost 10 pct more than for the previous year.
CA Immo and O1 raise bid for Immofinanz
EUROPE Vienna-based developer CA Immo and the Russian investment group O1 are willing to buy 13.5 pct of the total Immofinanz issued shares for EUR 2.80 per share in a voluntary tender offer.
C&W boasts record income
WORLD Cushman & Wakefield has increased its gross revenue by 14 pct y-o-y to USD 2.85 bln and its net income by 33.3 pct to USD 61.6 mln, according to 2014 financial results.
Investment & finance
Echo in Griffin’s hands?
POLAND Michał Sołowow, the largest single shareholder of development company Echo Investment, has called an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders.
AXA starts new logistics developer
EUROPE Real estate investment company AXA Real Estate has launched a new pan-European logistics and industrial development company, Baytree Logistics Properties, which has EUR 100 mln already earmarked for its project pipeline.
Investment & finance
CTP obtains EUR 162 mln from the banks
CZECH REPUBLIC Czech warehousing developer and owner CTP has secured a EUR 132 mln loan from its new financial partner pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank to finance CTPark Bor in Bor u Tachova, close to the German border.
Atal to spend PLN 100 mln on land plots
POLAND Development company Atal is aiming to spend PLN 60-100 mln on land purchases this year.
Investment & finance
Hines buys Capital Partners Moscow building
RUSSIA Hines has reportedly acquired a 32,000 sqm office building that makes part of the Capital Partners-developed Metropolis mixed-use complex located by the Leningradskoe highway in Moscow.
Investment & finance
Lithuanian Post puts 60 assets up for sale
LITHUANIA Lithuanian postal operator Lietuvos paštas (LP) will auction off app. 60 domestic properties.
Investment & finance
European investors eye demographic and social trends
EUROPE Berlin, Dublin, Madrid, Hamburg and Athens performed best among the European cities showing the strongest property investment prospects in 2015. Warsaw was ranked 14th, a three place drop compared to the 2014 ranking. Prague took the 18th position, a two place y-o-y fall, while Budapest was ranked 22nd, a five place jump compared to the last year, according to an annual investment prospects survey by PwC.
Investment & finance
TMR mulls switching from Katowice park to Ostrava
POLAND/CZECH REPUBLIC Slovakian resort operator and developer Tatry Mountain Resorts is considering abandoning plans to re-develop the Śląskie Wesołe Miasteczko amusement park in Chorzów and to develop another park in Ostrava instead.
Investment & finance
Amrest to run more Starbucks CEE coffee houses
ROMANIA/ BULGARIA Wrocław-based restaurant operator Amrest is acquiring two sole operators of the Starbucks-branded stores in Romania and Bulgaria for app. EUR 16 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
GTC teams up with Paul
GTC, together with PAUL Tech AG, has announced a strategic partnership to sustainably upgrade GTC’s residential portfolio in Germany. Almost 4,800 res ...
Well comes to Panattoni
LightOn with Outstanding design
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
Eurobuild celebrates its 300th issue!
We are proud to present the exceptional 300th anniversary issue of ‘EurobuildCEE’ magazine! This is not just a round number, it’s also an important mi ...
The June issue of Eurobuild is now out!
The May issue of EurobuildCEE is out now!
Events
Race'N'Raise supports rural children's education
Logicor has raised over PLN 40,000 in the 4th Race'n'Raise charity cycle race to support the EFC Foundation's Horizons Scholarship Program.
CPK arises
Back to the Future Conference
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
Panattoni bets big on data centres
Panattoni is launching a new strategic initiative to develop data centres in Europe, the UK, India and the Middle East. Four experienced specialists h ...
Five new board members at JLL
A change of guard at Eurobuild
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
Strong Romanian volumes in H1
The total volume invested in income-producing real estate assets in Romania reached around EUR 391 mln in H1 2025, down by 6.5 pct on the same period ...
Santander finances Panattoni Poznań XIV
Adventum acquires four industrial assets
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
First new tenant for V Office building
The refurbishment of the V Tower office building in Warsaw is nearing completion with the first tenant to move into the building in the autumn. The St ...
Warsaw offices squeezed by fewer deliveries
Landlord’s market begins for Warsaw offices
Property and Facility Management
Savills to manage for Yareal
Savills has taken over the comprehensive management of a portfolio of properties in Warsaw owned by Yareal Polska. The portfolio includes buildings C, ...
Studio B under new management
Cushman feels the Vibe
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
Zeitraum – Racławicka to open for next semester
The Zeitraum – Racławicka student residence is to open in Krakow's Krowodrza district.
Noli Studios Gdansk Old Town unveiled
Heimstaden starts apartment sales
Retail & leisure
Scallier to take on five more retail parks
Scallier has obtained the exclusive rights to commercialise five new retail parks in Toruń, Bydgoszcz, Ruda Śląska, Zabrze, and Darłowo. Construction ...
Andersa retail park to open in 2026
Redkom to open Białystok retail park
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
7R Park Gdańsk IV extended
Work has been completed on the second stage of 7R Park Gdańsk IV in Barniewice, in the Tricity area. Dekpol Budownictwo was the general contractor.
