Investment & finance
RSSRonson to spend PLN 50 mln on land
POLAND Ronson is planning to spend a total of PLN 50 mln on extending its land bank in 2015. The residential developer, which has already concluded a PLN 21 mln preliminary agreement on the purchase in Warsaw’s Wola district this year, is mostly interested in the Warsaw market.
Investment & finance
Prosperus Real Estate Fund I buys North Star
LITHUANIA Real estate company MG Valda has sold its shares in BCU2, the owner of the North Star business center in Vilnius, to the real estate investment fund Prosperus Real Estate Fund I.
Investment & finance
Segro posts 72 pct revenue drop in Poland
CEE REGION In its last financial year, Segro has seen its Central European portfolio growing by 5.9 pct y-o-y, while the UK-based warehouse developer’s revenues from the Polish business fell by app. 72 pct, to GBP 8.2 mln, as compared to GBP 30.1 mln in 2013.
Investment & finance
Galeria Metropolia gets PLN 91 mln
POLAND Przedsiębiorstwo Budowlane Górski, which is the developer of the Galeria Metropolia shopping centre that is currently being developed in Gdańsk Wrzeszcz, has been given a PLN 91 mln financing for the construction of the project.
Investment & finance
Pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank goes private again
EUROPE German state-owned Hypo Real Estate Holding has put up for sale a 100-pct stake in Pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank, which had been nationalized after the financial turmoil caused by the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
Investment & finance
BIK announces new projects
POLAND Biuro Inwestycji Kapitałowych (BIK) is planning to start the construction of two logistic parks and a shopping centre. The new facilities are to be located in the southern part of the country.
Wikana sells Piaseczno plot
POLAND Wikana Property, a subsidiary of Wikana, has signed PLN 4.3 mln preliminary sales agreement concerning a land plot located on ul. Żeromskiego in Piaseczno near Warsaw, where it intended to build the Osiedle Żeromskiego residential building. The buyer is Bud-Rim Development.
Investment & finance
Kleba Invest finds buyer for Marki project
POLAND Kleba Invest has received a letter of intent concerning the purchase of Prima Park Marki, the company informed.
Investment & finance
CA Immo keeps selling off non-core assets
CZECH REPUBLIC Vienna-based developer CA Immo has disposed of two Czech hotel assets, Prague’s Europort Airport Center and Pilsen’s Diplomat Center, as the company continues to withdraw from the logistics, hotel and residential property segments.
Aareal Bank Group acquires WestImmo for EUR 350 mln
EUROPE German-based Aareal Bank Group has taken over all of the shares of Westdeutsche ImmobilienBank AG (WestImmo), which specialises in commercial property financing, from Erste Abwicklungsanstalt (EAA) for EUR 350 mln.
Skanska optimistic about 2015
CEE REGION Skanska will aim to sell off five office complexes located in Prague, Bucharest, Kraków, Poznań and Katowice this year.
Investment & finance
Czerwona Torebka sells three retail assets
POLAND Czerwona Torebka has sold three retail facilities worth jointly PLN 31.9 mln to private investors.
Belgians enter Wrocław
POLAND The Polish branch of BPI, a company from the CFE group has finalised the purchase of a plot in the centre of Wrocław.
Investment & finance
Acteeum and Rockcastle buy in Tomaszów
POLAND Acteeum group and Rockcastle Global Real Estate have purchased a plot located at the junction of ul. Warszawska and ul. Barlickiego in Tomaszów Mazowiecki, where the investors plan to build Galeria Tomaszów. Formerly, the property was occupied by a textile manufacturer.
Echo and the moneymen
POLAND Echo Investment has obtained a EUR 165 mln plus a PLN 14 mln loan (over PLN 700 mln in total) from UK bank HSBC and HSBC Bank Polska.
Investment & finance
PZU satisfied with real estate investment
POLAND In 2014, the rate on return on PZU Fundusz Inwestycyjny Zamknięty Sektora Nieruchomości 2, which is managed by TFI PZU, exceeded 11 pct.
Great year for Budimex
POLAND 2014 has turned out to be the best ever year for the Budimex group in terms of the value of contracts signed, which amounted to PLN 6.3 bln, a nearly two-fold increase compared to 2013. As of the end of 2014, the value of the company’s real estate portfolio reached PLN 6.1 bln, a 41 pct surge y-o-y.
Investment & finance
AFI back in the game, buys Warsaw’s ‘Pekin’
POLAND Kraków-based company Czerwone Maki, which belongs to the AFI Europe Poland group, has purchased a historical Wolf Krongold tenement house located near Warsaw's city centre. The company now eyes further acquisitions in Poland, according to what ‘Eurobuild CEE’ has found.
Investment & finance
Something old and something new for Budizol
POLAND Włocławek-based company Budizol has acquired another historic property in Warsaw that it is now plans to restore. The company is also planning an entirely new project in the south of the city.
Investment & finance
Skanska operations on the rise in CEE
CEE REGION In its last financial year, the Swedish construction and development company Skanska has seen its operating income in construction increasing by 16 pct y-o-y, to SEK 4.5 bln (EUR 470 mln), while the company’s revenues increased by 6 pct and amounted to SEK 145.0 bln (EUR 15 bln).
Categories
Architecture and urban planning
Dance centre opens in Warsaw
The Dance and Performing Arts Pavilion has opened in Warsaw's Powiśle district.
Public consultations held for Park Wilanów
Need for clarity introducing reforms
Construction
Dekpol debuts in Romania with 20,000 sqm logistics park
Dekpol Budownictwo is eentering Romania. In December 2025, the company signed an agreement with a developer to carry out design work for the first sta ...
Construction industry waiting to boom
Warsaw returns another building to its prime
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 signs power purchase agreement
GTC has signed a three-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Ekovoltis, due to which all of the company's office buildings and shopping centres in ...
ESG to evolve with the regulations
Light On takes Platinum
Eurobuild Awards
All the winners of the EurobuildCEE Awards 2025!!
The 15th EurobuildCEE Awards Gala is now behind us and all the winners can be revealed! Special congratulations go to Kazimierz Kirejczyk, who was pre ...
The winners of the Eurobuild Awards 2024!
Call for nominations and jury members!
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 December issue of Eurobuild hits the shelves!
The December 2025 edition of EurobuildCEE magazine has now been published! And, as usual, it's filled with some fabulous interviews, market analysis, ...
The latest issue of Eurobuild hits the shelves!
The October issue is now out!
Events
Merry Christmas to one and all
May Christmas be a time of peace, reflection, and regeneration after an intense year so full of challenges. May the New Year bring bright prospects, s ...
Jazz for the New Year
The ageing population discussed at the Accessibility Forum
Exclusive
BIM now mainstream
The year 2025 clearly demonstrated that BIM methodology and technology have already entered companies on a large scale. Aleksandra Zielazna-Pawlukiewi ...
What is driving the spate of lease renewals
More than just opening doors
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
Swissôtel opens in The Czech Republic
The Swissôtel chain has announced the opening of its first hotel in the Czech Republic in the spa town of Mariánské Lázně.
AC Hotels to open in Port Praski
New look for Novotel Praha Wenceslas Square
Human resources
ULI announces new chairs
ULI Poland has announced the appointment of new co-chairs to its Product Councils and a new Chair of the Young Leaders group. The leadership team shap ...
Panattoni bets big on data centres
Five new board members at JLL
Infrastructure
Budimex builds more roads
Budimex has obtained a permit to build the seventh section of the S10 expressway between Piecnik and Wałcz in the Western Pomerania region.
AI fundamental to future water management
Intercom to construct Jasło bypass
Interior design
New look for Eurocentrum lobby
CPI Property Group has completed the modernisation of the lobby of the Eurocentrum-Alfa building, part of Warsaw's Eurocentrum Office Complex on Al. J ...
New look for Otis offices
Plan B completes fit out for the Association of Polish Cities
Investment & finance
BNP Paribas backs Panattoni in Szczecin
Panattoni has secured EUR 42 mln in financing from BNP Paribas Bank Polska for the construction of two warehouses within the Panattoni Park Szczecin T ...
EIB supports rollout of EV charging stations
Polish capital growing stronger
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
Highest ever Q4 office transactions
The end of 2025 brought a new record to the Warsaw office market – nearly 310,000 sqm was leased in Q4, the highest ever quarterly figures. According ...
One regional office building delivered in Q4 2025
Waterfront fills up
Property and Facility Management
Balmain takes on Adventum
The Balmain Group has taken over the management of a portfolio of four warehouses owned by Adventum International. The properties, totalling around 18 ...
Savills to manage for Yareal
Studio B under new management
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
Agrobex builds in Poznań
Construction work on 50 municipal apartments has begun on ul. Darzyborska in Poznań. The project has been commissioned by ZKZL, and Agrobex Group is t ...
Entering a two-tier market
Student Depot expands in Gdańsk
Retail & leisure
Record high construction
Around 500,000 sqm of new retail space will be delivered to the Polish market in 2025, with the new supply, largely driven by the development of retai ...
OTO Park Kłodzko now bigger
Smart Play to come to Aleja Bielany
Technology
Rentujemy to revolutionise the market
Polish technology company Rentujemy, which is involved in short-term rental management, is launching a co-hosting service. With this solution, the com ...
Velis has a new name
Symbiotic fit for HB Reavis and HqO
Warehouse & industrial
Warehouse market now stable
Modern industrial stock in the Czech Republic reached 13.28 mln sqm according to figures from the Industrial Research Forum.
