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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).
Investment & finance
Dubai investor to pour EUR 2.3 bln into SEE resort
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA Dubai-based developer Buroj Property Development plans on developing a EUR 2.3 bln (BAM 4.5 bln) residential, hotel, retail and sports complex in Trnovo near Sarajevo in a move to turn the former Winter Olympics site into a luxury regional mountain resort.
Investment & finance
Ares buys two Warsaw office assets
EUROPE An Ares Real Estate Group fund has acquired two Warsaw office properties from IVG Institutional Funds: the app. 8,000 sqm gla three-building Jerozolimskie Business Park complex and the app. 8,000 sqm gla Jerozolimskie Offices building.
Robyg shops in Gdańsk again
POLAND Robyg group has signed a conditional for the purchase of plots with a combined area of app. 1.5 ha in Gdańsk.
Investment & finance
PKP plans to invest PLN 350 mln in stations
POLAND In 2014 the Polish State Railways (PKP) made PLN 363 mln on the sale of real estate (PLN 203 mln in 2013). PKP also carried out 21 station projects in an investment of PLN 220 mln. It also sold properties on ul. Targowa in Siedlce (PLN 28.7 mln), ul. Toruńska in Gdańsk (PLN 26.2 mln), ul. Głowackiego in Sochaczew (PLN 12.1 mln), ul. Bokserska in Warsaw (PLN 6.7 mln) and a leisure centre in Jachranka for PLN 13.8 mln, among others.
LafargeHolcim to sell off EUR 6.5 bln assets to CRH
CEE REGION Two merging cement and aggregates suppliers Holcim and Lafarg aim to sell EUR 6.5 bln assets, including plants and other facilities, to the Irish building materials company CRH. These will include Holcim's assets in Hungary, Serbia and Slovakia, as well as Lafarge's properties in Romania.
Investment & finance
CA Immo disposes of two office projects
HUNGARY/ BULGARIA CA Immo has sold two small office assets: the 8,000 sqm gla Europark office building in Sofia and the 6,400 sqm Buda Business Center office building in Budapest, for EUR 17 mln.
Investment & finance
BPT Optima sells Young City site and Baltic assets
POLAND/BALTIC STATES BPT Optima, a fund managed by Northern Horizon Capital, has agreed to sell seven office and retail properties in Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipėda, totalling app. 112,000 sqm of leasable space, as well as the large-scale Young City urban regeneration site on the Gdańsk waterfront, including the historic former shipyard.
BBI obtains financing
POLAND BBI Development subsidiary has received two loans from PKO BP for the financing of the next stage of the Małe Błonia residential project in Szczecin.
Unibail-Rodamco reports healthy annual figures
POLAND In its last financial year, the French commercial property investor Unibail-Rodamco has seen its net recurring results reaching EUR 1,06 bln, up 8.3 pct y-o-y. The company attributes the surge to “strong like-for-like growth in shopping centres and offices, the successful deliveries in 2013, the acquisition of a stake in CentrO in May 2014 and a record-low cost of debt of 2.6 pct.”
Investment & finance
Marvipol refinances Prosta Tower and plans land purchases
POLAND MBank has granted the Marvipol group a five-year loan of EUR 13.6 mln for refinancing – with a higher LTV (leverage-to-value) index – a loan taken out for the construction of the Prosta Tower office building in Warsaw.
Home Invest to invest – PLN 80 mln in land
POLAND Home Invest is planning to spend PLN 80 mln on the purchase of land in Warsaw this year.
Investment & finance
Marvipol obtains financing for Warsaw estate
POLAND Warsaw-based developer Marvipol has signed a PLN 30 mln loan agreement with Bank Ochrony Środowiska to finance a large Warsaw project.
Investment & finance
Polish land in demand
POLAND Transactions on the residential land market will be dominant in 2015. They also dominated last year and turned out to be so attractive that investors from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, India, the Republic of South Africa and China have been coming to Poland to survey what is on offer –these are some of the conclusions of Daniel Puchalski, the director of the investment land service department at JLL, while recently discussing the consultancy’s ‘Investment Land Market in Poland’ report.
Russia 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.
Conferences
Schedule 2026
12th Commercial Real Estate Investment Conference
25th Eurobuild Golf Tournament
2st EurobuildCEE Summer Tennis Tournament
3rd EurobuildCEE Running Tournament
The 22nd CEE Warehouse & Logistics Conference
Data Center – Real Estate, Technology, Investments
32nd Polish Commercial Real Estate Market Conference
The 16th Central & Eastern Europe EurobuildCEE Awards 2026
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Architecture and urban planning
Świecie remodelled around castle
The Teutonic Castle in Świecie is undergoing a restoration as part of a broader plan to redevelop the town, providing space for education, culture and ...
Dance centre opens in Warsaw
Public consultations held for Park Wilanów
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
Designer Outlet Sosnowiec goes green
the Designer Outlet Sosnowiec shopping centre has installed a 50 kWp solar panel installation, with all of the energy to be used by the centre.
Idea Aurora takes BREEAM
Retro Office now accessible
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
Kazimierz Krupa takes the helm of Eurobuild magazine!
We are pleased to announce that Kazimierz Krupa, an economic journalist and capital market analyst, has been appointed editor-in-chief of Eurobuild CE ...
The March (MIPIM) issue of Eurobuild is now out!
The latest issue of Eurobuild has hit the shelves!
Events
Greetings from day three of MIPIM!
On a very busy second day of the MIPIM in Cannes, Eurobuild CEE and MDDP held their MIPIM lunch at the La Plage du Festival beach restaurant on the re ...
Let’s meet in Cannes
The night is worth billions
Exclusive
Our plans are ambitious
Recently, Martin Ohly was appointed to the newly created position of head of Germany at 7R, so what better opportunity could there be to find out abou ...
Our plans are ambitious
From Tallinn to Dubrovnik
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
Hotel transactions boom
The Czech hotel market is building on an exceptionally strong year in 2025, marked by a significant increase in transaction volumes and investor inter ...
Mercure expands in Romania
Lithuanians construct hotel in Gdańsk
Human resources
Change at the top for ULI Europe
The Urban Land Institute (ULI) has appointed Simon Durkin as Chief Executive Officer Europe, ULI, succeeding Lisette van Doorn, commencing early March ...
ULI announces new chairs
Panattoni bets big on data centres
Infrastructure
Road agreement signed for CPK
The Central Communication Port (CPK) and the General Directorate for National Roads and Motorways (GDDKiA) have signed an agreement regulating the pre ...
One step closer to atomic power
Intercor to build Piaski-Dorohucza
Interior design
New food hall in Poznań
The Wiedeńska Town House in the centre of Poznań, which dates back to the early 20th century, has been renovated and converted into a food hall with i ...
New look for Eurocentrum lobby
New look for Otis offices
Investment & finance
Brain Park A sold
Echo Investment has sold the Brain Park A office building in Kraków to the SCPI Transitions Europe fund, managed by Arkéa REIM. The building comprises ...
Germany still core
Ireks plans centre near Bucharest
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
Record-breaking annual take up in Kraków
According to the latest ‘Kraków Office Market 2025’ by Axi Immo, the Kraków office market closed 2025 with high demand and a clear division between ce ...
SB Software stays on in Black Pearl
Sick moves into Campus
Property and Facility Management
JLL takes on Equal Business Park
JLL has been appointed the exclusive leasing agent responsible for the Equal Business Park office complex in Kraków, owned by Apollo Rida. JLL's other ...
Savills takes on two Warsaw buildings
Tensions in the gulf promote energy efficiency
Public buildings
A new look for central Warsaw
The city of Warsaw has allocated PLN 5 million for the construction of al. Centralna, a green passageway between the Warsaw Śródmieście railway statio ...
Oleśnica railway station restored
Warsaw Uni building underway
Residential
PRS gains strength in Kraków
Kraków is strengthening its position as one of the most important residential markets for institutional investors in Poland, according to the report ' ...
Antczak given the go-ahead for Twarda 7
IMV to manage Słowackiego
Retail & leisure
Zdrofit continues to grow
The Zdrofit fitness club chain has opened two new clubs in Warsaw. Benefit Systems currently operates 294 clubs across Poland, with a total of over 42 ...
Cinema City to open in Tarnów retail park
More stores in Środa Wielkopolska
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
Geodis signs up with Prologis
Global logistics provider has leased 9,600 sqm of warehouse and office space at Prologis Park Teresin. The agreement includes 200 sqm of office space, ...
