Investment & finance
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
POLAND Home Invest is planning to spend PLN 80 mln on the purchase of land in Warsaw this year.
Investment & finance
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
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.
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.
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 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
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
POLAND The Military Property Agency (AMW) has put some of the most attractive investment plots in Kraków up for sale.
Investment & finance
EUROPE Australian fund manager Cromwell Property Group has today announced the acquisition of pan-European property fund manager Valad Europe for EUR 145 mln.
The Urban Land Institute Poland has published the ‘New Urban Poland’. Using 14 projects from Warsaw, Łódź, Poznań, Gdańsk, Gdynia, and Wrocław, the pu ...
According to the latest BauWatch crime report only 56 pct of building site managers across the EU believe crime to be rising, but in Poland this figur ...
The Globalworth Foundation has provided the authorities in Bucharest with office space for a Covid vaccination centre.
Panattoni BTS and Commercecon together support the establishment of the second Centaurus Foundation centre in Poland to help horses and other animals.
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 ...
City Point Okęcie Logistics Park, a joint venture between Partners Group and Peakside Capital Advisors, has achieved BREEAM Outstanding certification ...
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 ...
We spoke with Zdena Noack, managing director of Zeitraum Student Housing, during the opening of Zeitraum Racławicka in Kraków.
On the occasion of Easter, we extend our warmest wishes to all our Readers for peace, good health, and the joy that comes from spending time with love ...
ULI Poland is to hold the 'Matrix of Real Estate' conference from April 15th -16th at the Norblin Factory in Warsaw to discuss the impact of geopoliti ...
With the opening of Data4’s second data centre in Jawczyce just outside Warsaw, we took the opportunity to catch up with Olivier Micheli, the presiden ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Bucharest’s hotel market recorded the strongest performances in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in 2025, with revenue per available room (RevPAR) inc ...
Marek Noetzel has been appointed CEO of NEPI Rockcastle and announced a new management team, based entirely on internal promotions.
The Central Communication Port (CPK) has selected the general contract engineer for the new national airport as part of the Port Polska programme. The ...
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 ...
BNP Paribas Bank Polska and Bank Pekao have granted a EUR 160 mln investment loan to refinance Mennica Towers. With the funds, Mennica Polska has now ...
Panattoni has acquired two properties near Gothenburg, Sweden. The brownfield sites will be replaced by a modern 43,000 sqm facility.
SIMA – The Global Hub of Living is the world’s leading investment fair and conference for the residential and living sector, offering a unique and com ...
IAG GBS Poland, the shared services centre of the International Airlines Group, has extended its 2,2000 sqm office lease in the O3 Business Campus com ...
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 ...
The city of Warsaw has allocated PLN 5 million for the construction of al. Centralna, a green passageway between the Warsaw Śródmieście railway statio ...
Capital Park Group is preparing to start construction work in Szczecin. Rezydencja Aleja Fontann, a late 19th-century townhouse, is to be renovated wi ...
LCP Poland, part of M Core, has opened the M Park Ozorków retail park with over 5,600 sqm gla and ten retail units.
Skanska CDE has become the first company in Poland to introduce a Neutral Host In-Building (NHIB) infrastructure model, based on the BTS hotel, in its ...
Röhlig Suus Logistics is opening a new logistics centre in Szczecin, combining warehousing facilities with a cross-dock terminal. The operator is to c ...