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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).
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.
Categories
Architecture and urban planning
Praga to tower up over Warsaw
High-rise developments may be developed near the National Stadium metro station. The city's spatial policy clearly aims to break down the division bet ...
ULI releases New Urban Poland report
Plans created for Airport City around CPK
Construction
Poland heading for a two-tier market
The value of the 960 largest construction projects in Poland is already more than PLN 1 tln and continues to rise, driven by a wave of infrastructure ...
Poland underestimates Building site crime
Dekpol debuts in Romania with 20,000 sqm logistics park
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
Data centres
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
Outstanding for Prologis
Prologis has been awarded a BREEAM International New Construction certificate with a rating of Outstanding for its new warehouse development in Ujazd ...
Silesia City Center now Excellent
Outstanding for City Point Okęcie Logistics Park
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 June issue of Eurobuild is now out!
The June issue of EurobuildCEE magazine has now hit the shelves! And one of its recurring themes is how best to operate in an increasingly mature and ...
This sporting real estate life
The May issue of Eurobuild is now out!
Events
August 7th – mark the date
Once again, for the 15th time, the real estate sector is to come together for a worthy cause in support of the Ronald McDonald House Poland Foundation ...
Investment given the green light
SIMA grows internationally
Exclusive
Bringing people together
We take the opportunity to talk with Jacek Kostrzewski, the managing director of engineering consultancy Gleeds, to find out how his passion for sport ...
Laying the groundwork for success
The French connection
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
aHouse to build hotel in Grodzisk Mazowiecki
aHouse Development will deliver a new hotel on ul. Daleka in the centre of Grodzisk Mazowiecki, marking the company’s entry into the hospitality real ...
Swissôtel comes to Gdynia
Strong Warsaw hotel growth
Human resources
Leadership change at Nepi Rockcastle
Marek Noetzel has been appointed CEO of NEPI Rockcastle and announced a new management team, based entirely on internal promotions.
Change at the top for ULI Europe
ULI announces new chairs
Infrastructure
Green light for Port of Poland
The National Appeals Chamber (KIO) has dismissed the appeal lodged against the construction of foundations for the passenger terminal of the Port of P ...
Strabag wins EUR 255 mln contract
Hill International to work on Central Communication Port
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
Central Point sold
Greenberg Traurig advised Lewandpol Property on the acquisition of Central Point, a landmark office building in Warsaw's central business district, fr ...
Apsys shares Posnania with Trigea
Land shortage changing market
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
Hungary's office market returns
The outlook for the Budapest office market no longer depends solely on traditional real estate indicators. The direction of the sector's development w ...
The Shire comes to Poznań
Four signings for B4B
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
Gronów Elbląski station to be renovated
Polish State Railways (PKP) is to modernise the station in Gronów Elbląski. The design is ready, and the company has now announced a tender to select ...
A new look for central Warsaw
Oleśnica railway station restored
Residential
Poland unprepared for ageing population
JLL's latest report, 'TheSenior Housing Market in Poland', reveals a deep supply gap, coupled with a solid demand base. Poland is aging the fastest in ...
Quorum Tower reaches final height
Moja Oszmiańska arises in Warsaw
Retail & leisure
More tenants join Plaza Rzeszów
A number of new leases have been signed for space in Plaza Rzeszów. Additionally, existing tenants have renewed their leases, relocated stores and exp ...
Big Piła begins to fill
Xtreme Fitness enters Karuzela
Technology
Skanska installs NHIB in Studio A
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 ...
Rentujemy to revolutionise the market
Velis has a new name
Warehouse & industrial
Rohlig Suus grows in Poznań
Rohlig SUUS Logistics has expanded its operational space in Poznań by 14,000 sqm. Currently, the operator manages nearly 55,000 sqm of modern warehous ...
