Investment & finance
RSSRussia and Hungary among IKEA’s fastest growing markets
CEE REGION In its last financial year, the Swedish furniture retailer and shopping centre developer IKEA Group has seen a 5.9 pct increase in sales, while registering 270 mln visits to its 14 Russian shopping centres and over 700 mln visits to its 315 IKEA stores worldwide.
Bankrupt developer sells Poznań plot
POLAND Bankruptcy trustee of the Kostrzyn-based developer PBO Anioła has sold a Poznań land plot together with the perpetual usufruct rights to the property to Terra Haus.
CEE investment rose almost by a third
CEE REGION Commercial real estate investment in Central and Eastern Europe excluding Russia reached just over EUR 7.7 bln in 2014, according to research by CBRE.
Investment & finance
GTC gets financing for Fortyone
SERBIA GTC Serbia has signed a EUR 9,5 mln construction loan agreement with Raiffeisen Bank to finance the first stage of its Fortyone office project that is currently being developed in Belgrade.
Investment & finance
Military Property Agency puts Kraków plots up for sale
POLAND The Military Property Agency (AMW) has put some of the most attractive investment plots in Kraków up for sale.
Investment & finance
Cromwell takes over Valad
EUROPE Australian fund manager Cromwell Property Group has today announced the acquisition of pan-European property fund manager Valad Europe for EUR 145 mln.
Investment & finance
European investment to hit record levels in 2015
EUROPE Commercial real estate European investment volumes are set to reach record levels in 2015, fueled by the European Central Bank’s quantitative easing programme.
Special zones thriving
POLAND The Suwałki Special Economic Zone issued 16 permits for business operations last year
Dekpol extends land bank in Gdańsk
POLAND Construction and development company Dekpol has concluded a conditional agreement with Jaglana 3-5 for the purchase of the perpetual usufruct of a plot on ul. Jaglana in Gdańsk.
Investment & finance
AEW buys Panattoni Prague Airport for EUR 150 mln
CZECH REPUBLIC AEW Europe has acquired the 255,000 sqm Panattoni Park Prague Airport logistics complex close to the city’s Václav Havel Airport for its Logistis fund for EUR 150 mln.
Kleba Invest to develop Białogard project
POLAND KI Projekt 5, a subsidiary of Kleba Invest, has purchased a plot in Białogard. The PLN 2.75 mln net property will houses a retail and service facility.
Investment & finance
BPT sells Warsaw and Gdynia buildings
POLAND BPT Optima has sold two buildings from its Polish office real estate portfolio to the Octava FIZAN investment fund: the Obrzeżna Building in Warsaw and the Baltic Business Center in Gdynia.
Investment & finance
Gliwice to sell A1/A4 land
POLAND Gliwice city council has invited tenders for the purchase of a plot at the interchange of the A1 and A4 motorways.
Investment & finance
GTC: down EUR 132 mln in three months
CEE REGION The management board of Globe Trade Centre (GTC) has informed that the fair value of GTC’s property portfolio which is to be included in the company’s financial report for 2014 (ended December 31st, 2014) would be app. EUR 132 mln lower than the value indicated in the financial statement published at the end of September 2014.
Investment & finance
Colliers to manage Warsaw’s Metropolitan
POLAND Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management-owned and Cushman & Wakefield-managed Metropolitan, a 38,000 sqm gla office building in central Warsaw, will now be managed by Colliers International.
Investment & finance
Atrium agrees to buy Arkády Pankrác
CZECH REPUBLIC Atrium European Real Estate Limited has signed an agreement to acquire a 75 pct stake in the Arkády Pankrác shopping centre in Prague for EUR 162 mln.
Gazit-Globe becomes Atrium’s majority shareholder
WORLD Gazit-Globe, an Israeli real estate investor that holds a 39.99-pct stake in Atrium European Real Estate (AERE), is acquiring 52,069,622 ordinary shares of AERE, which account for an app. 13.87 pct stake in the company. The shares are being taken over from a consortium managed by CPI CEE Management, which will now have no AERE shares, for a total of app. EUR 229 mln in an off-market transaction.
Warsaw continues to dominate the region
POLAND Warsaw has been ranked 14th in the most attractive places in Europe for investing in real estate, in the Emerging Trends in Real Estate Europe 2015 survey that has just been published by PwC and the Urban Land Institute (ULI).
Murapol planning another Kraków project
POLAND Murapol has finalised the purchase of a 0.85 ha site on ul. Poznańska in Kraków.
Investment & finance
Kingstown goes to court over Orco
CEE REGION CPI Group and Orco Property Group (OPG) have both announced that they have been served with a legal summons by Delaware-based Kingstown Partners and affiliated companies for damages due to alleged violation of minority OPG shareholder rights.
Conferences
24th EurobuildCEE Golf Tournament
20th EurobuildCEE Summer Tennis Tournament
2nd EurobuildCEE Running Tournament
CPK – Nowa Era dla Polski i Rynku Nieruchomości Komercyjnych
9. The 9th Suits on Bikes Ride
The 21st CEE Warehouse & Logistics Conference
31st Polish Commercial Real Estate Market Conference
The 15th Central & Eastern Europe EurobuildCEE Awards 2025
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Architecture and urban planning
Poznań with a green Aura
In Winogrady district of Poznań, the construction of the Aura residential building, designed by Robert Konieczny's office KWK Promes, has begun. The f ...
Dutch-Czech team wins Dejvice contest
Alto launches Sky Park arch-comp
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
Six buildings certified
Six class A office buildings in the PRO Portfolio, which is jointly owned by PineBridge Benson Elliot and Sharow Capital have been granted BREEAM In-U ...
Colliers qualifies as WELL Survey Provider
Nestlé House is Excellent
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 May issue of EurobuildCEE is out now!
The latest edition of our magazine reaches readers at a time when there is a palpable sense of uncertainty on the global market. Nevertheless, a stead ...
Time to read Eurobuild's spring issue!
March issue of "Eurobuild" out now!
Events
Back to the Future Conference
The Back to the Future conference, organised by Urban Land Institute Polska, will take place on 9-10 April 2025 at the Norblin Factory Event Hall in W ...
Race to the top
Investors optimistic again
Exclusive
Rebuilding through tech – Mike Stenson of Kingspan
Irish company Kingspan has recently broken ground on a EUR 280 mln business technology campus near Lviv. This was the first major investment announced ...
A sudden slump is not on the cards
Keen students of the Polish scene – Xior Student Housing
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
Changes at the helm of Dom Development
Jarosław Szanajca plans to resign from the position of president of the management board of Dom Development at the end of the year and join the superv ...
Savills has new CEO
New head of retail at Cushman & Wakefield
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
Grainy effect for Viterra
Viterra has moved into its new 1,500 sqm offices in Olivia Prime, part of the Olivia Centre business complex in Gdańsk. The Design Anatomy studio is ...
Mercedes-Benz stylish Prague office
Saski Crescent eco-friendly and smart
Investment & finance
IP West sold
CA Immo has completed the sale of the IP West office building in Budapest. CBRE and Cerha Hempel Rechtsanwälte advised on the sale.
Silverton sells twice
CEE Commercial Real Estate Rebound Continues
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
Office demand on the rise
In the first quarter of this year, companies leased a total of 25 pct more office space across Poland’s major office markets compared to the same peri ...
Low CEE office take up
Memos grows
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
All.inn to appear in Gdańsk
Torus has announced its All.inn students’ residence concept that is soon to appear on ul. Konarskiego in Gdańsk.
PRS growing rapidly in Poland
Mint lays out its growth plans
Retail & leisure
Bydgoszcz retail park to open 2026
Newgate Investment (NGI) and Redkom Development are developing a large retail park in Bydgoszcz.
Mall Moldova now open
BIG Poland acquires Multishop Suwałki 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
Leasing up but developer activity down
In the first quarter, gross take-up for Poland’s industrial market came to 1.1 mln sqm (+16 pct y-o-y), with tenants increasingly opting to renew leas ...
