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GTC disposes of Kraków office property
POLAND A fund managed by GLL Real Estate Partners has signed a preliminary agreement on the EUR 42 mln purchase of Globe Trade Centre’s 15,000 sqm Kazimierz Office Center in Kraków’s Kazimierz district.
Wikana aims to stay in the green
POLAND Lublin-based development company Wikana plans on increasing its apartment sales, selling off non-core assets – including some shopping centres – as well as reducing the number of development projects and operating costs this year.
Investment & finance
Yareal buys Wola office project
POLAND Yareal Polska has acquired from Deka-S-Property Fund No. 1 an office building in Warsaw’s Wola district.
Globalworth completes EUR 90 mln Bucharest deals
ROMANIA Guernsey-registered real estate investment company Globalworth has closed two Romanian office acquisitions: the EUR 43 mln Unicredit Building purchase and the EUR 46 mln Nusco Tower acquisition.
Investment & finance
GTC tries again to issue 140 mln new shares
CEE REGION Globe Trade Centre is to propose an increase in its share capital to its shareholders and issue up to 140 mln of new shares.
Investment & finance
Futureal sells off another Vision Towers building
HUNGARY Hungarian developer Futureal has sold yet another part of its Vision Towers complex in Budapest to the Austrian Erste Real Estate Fund.
Investment & finance
CA Immo and O1 to sue Zehetner
EUROPE The bitter mutual takeover battle between Austrian investor CA Immo and its Russian partner O1 Group on the one side and Austrian investor Immofinanz on the other, has taken a new twist with the announcement that CA Immo and O1 are to take legal action against Immofinanz CEO Eduard Zehetner for “false and misleading statements” made in Austrian publication ‘Profil’.
Investment & finance
Heitman logistics park sold off
ROMANIA Heitman has sold its 34,000 sqm Mercury Logistics Park located near Bucharest. The transaction value was not disclosed.
Investment & finance
Another EUR 300 mln to power European warehouses
EUROPE/SINGAPORE/US Singaporean sovereign wealth fund has teamed up with the US property investment manager Exeter Property Group to jointly invest EUR 300 mln into the European warehouse market.
Investment & finance
Two developers buy Kępa Mieszczańska plots
POLAND Military Property Agency has announced the results of two tender procedures on the sale of its properties located in Kępa Mieszczańska in Wrocław.
Lokum gets financing for Wrocław estate
POLAND Lokum Deweloper has obtained a nearly PLN 22.2 mln loan for the construction of the fifth stage of the Lokum di Trevi residential estate in Wrocław from PKO BP.
Investment & finance
PKP to work with TriGranit again
POLAND Polish State Railway (PKP) aims to establish a joint company together with the CEE developer TriGranit. The entity would be involved in the development of a property at ul. Dworcowa 1 in Poznań.
Investment & finance
P.A. Nova to provide three new retail assets
POLAND This year the Gliwice-based development company P.A. Nova is planning to open Galeria Galena in Jaworzno and two retail parks: in Krosno and Kamienna Góra.
Carrefour aims to acquire Polish liquor retailer
POLAND Carrefour Poland has submitted an acquisition approval request to the Polish Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK) in order to take over a local alcoholic beverages retailer, Galerie Alkoholi.
Investment & finance
Wrocław’s West House 1B changes hands
POLAND The West House 1B office building, which was developed by the Archicom group within the West Forum Business Centre complex in Wrocław, has changed its owner. The property was purchased by GNT Ventures Wrocław, a part of the Irish capital group GNT which owns such assets as the Madison shopping centre in Gdańsk and the BPH Office Park complex in Gdańsk.
Investment & finance
Warsaw city hall sells more plots to Ceraco
POLAND Warsaw city hall has decided to bypass tender procedure and sell to Ceraco the perpetual usufruct of the plots the development company needed for the construction of an office building located in the city centre. The developer will acquire two small parcels with a combined area of 84 sqm located near ul. Waryńskiego and ul. Polna for PLN 84,000.
Investment & finance
Auchan Polska given green light to sell Reals to Schiever
POLAND Auchan Polska has obtained the approval of the Polish Office of Competition and Consumer Protection to sell off eight Real hypermarkets to the French company Anciens Etablissmements Georges Schiever et Fils, which is the dominant entity in the Schiever group.
Immofinanz fires back at unsatisfactory CA Immo bid
EUROPE Immofinanz has made a voluntary partial public offer on the purchase of an up to 29 pct stake in CA Immo. The move comes just a few days after CA Immo and O1 jointly offered to acquire 13.5 pct of the total Immofinanz issued shares for EUR 2.80 per share in a voluntary tender offer, at least EUR 1.20 below Immofinanz’s expectations.
Investment & finance
African investor buys Opole mall, plans extension
POLAND/ MAURITIUS Gontar, a subsidiary of the Rockcastle Global Real Estate company which operates in South Africa and Mauritius, has concluded an agreement on the purchase of the Coucal-owned Solaris Centre shopping mall in Opole. The total purchase price for the transaction reached EUR 52 mln at an initial yield of 7.7 pct.
Investment & finance
PKP wins financing for Gliwice station
POLAND PKP has signed an app. PLN 81.5 mln contract with the Centre for EU Transport Projects on supplementary financing for the modernization of a railway station in Gliwice.
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
Mirbud wins PLN 168 mln contract for Warsaw sports hall
Mirbud has signed a contract with Warsaw University of Technology to build a sports and events hall next to the Syrenka Stadium in Warsaw. The design- ...
Budimex to build archive for Adam Mickiewicz University
Budimex to rebuild the I/43 Road
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
Hillwood moves planned data centre further from homes
Hillwood Polska has revised plans for its planned data centre campus in Reguły, in the Michałowice municipality. Following feedback from local residen ...
Poland to benefit from data centre realignment
Data centres spread out across the region
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
BRE launches BREEAM Refurbishment and Fit Out V7
The Building Research Establishment (BRE) has launched the seventh version of its BREEAM Refurbishment and Fit Out Commercial standard (BREEAM RFO V7) ...
Ocean Winds starts BC-Wind service base in Władysławowo
Signum Work Station earns WELL Health-Safety Rating
Eurobuild Awards
New venue and date for the Eurobuild Awards Gala!
The 16th Eurobuild Awards Gala is now on the horizon! And there has been a CHANGE OF DATE AND LOCATION. The Gala will now take place on December 8th, ...
All the winners of the EurobuildCEE Awards 2025!!
The winners of the Eurobuild Awards 2024!
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
JLL Charity Beach Volleyball Tournament on August 6th
On 6 August, the 15th JLL Charity Beach Volleyball Tournament for the Real Estate Industry will take place at Warsaw's Monta Beach Volley Club. Eurobu ...
Three days of lakeside cycling: EQT on the Move
Let's play volleyball again
Exclusive
The man from NASA
Czechia stands out as the CEE country with the largest volume of domestic capital invested across the region itself. Now, NASA Capital has entered Pol ...
Strengthening our presence – Wolfgang Molnar of Erste Group Bank
Experienced and out-of-the-box – Josef Malíř of SCF
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
Accor to open Tribe hotel at Kraków Airport
Accor has signed a franchise agreement for the Tribe Kraków Airport hotel. Located next to the airport terminal, the 170-room property is scheduled to ...
Bucharest Hotel Market Set for Growth
Bob W to open fifth Tallinn property at Krulli Quarter
Human resources
Ghelamco reshuffles management team in Poland
Agnieszka Ciupak has been appointed managing director of Ghelamco in Poland. She joins Przemysław Dąbrowski, Jakub Kutzmann and Krzysztof Gozdecki as ...
Leadership change at Nepi Rockcastle
Change at the top for ULI Europe
Infrastructure
Port Polska and Kielce plan cargo terminal
Port Polska and the City of Kielce have signed a letter of intent covering plans for a cargo terminal in Obice, near Kielce. The centre would handle b ...
New railway station planned for Łapy
EUR 54 bln worth of contracts to be awarded for Port Polska in 2026
Interior design
ING Hubs Poland opens new HQ in The Form
ING Hubs Poland is officially moving into its new headquarters in The Form office building in Warsaw’s Wola business district. The more than 6,000 sqm ...
New food hall in Poznań
New look for Eurocentrum lobby
Investment & finance
Skanska to sell second stage of H2Offices in Budapest to ERSTE fund
Skanska has agreed to sell the second stage of its H₂Offices complex in Budapest to the ERSTE Open-Ended Real Estate Investment Fund, represented by E ...
AYA Properties Fund and Curtis Group acquire Chmielna 13A
Hillwood sells four logistics properties for EUR 150 mln
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
Prime space comes harder to find
Price is no longer the only issue in Warsaw office negotiations. Finding the right space is becoming a challenge in its own right, with vacancy in the ...
BNP Paribas expands in Avatar
Full façade closure for second stage of H2Offices
Property and Facility Management
ISS takes over technical management of Axis in Kraków
ISS has taken over the technical facility management of Axis, an office building in Kraków owned by French fund Corum XL. The company is providing tec ...
Savills takes on TFI PZU retail portfolio
JLL takes on Equal Business Park
Public buildings
Prague 14 begins construction of primary school in Jahodnice
Prague 14 has begun construction of a new primary school in Jahodnice. The school, at U Hostavického potoka Street, will accommodate 540 pupils, with ...
Construction begins on emergency care unit at Prague’s Thomayer University Hospital
Dekpol to redevelop the Poznań Palm House
Residential
Nova Wola Park receives occupancy permit
The first stage of Nova Wola Park in Nowa Wola near Warsaw has received its occupancy permit. CK Development has started handing over apartments and k ...
Sandberg Capital enters Prague residential market
Archicom signs PLN 87 mln contract for Poznań housing project
Retail & leisure
Primark to open first store in Podlaskie
Primark is preparing to open a store in G City Biała in Białystok. The nearly 3,500 sqm store will be the retailer’s first in the Podlaskie region.
HDREY opens first Katowice store
Two-thirds of CEE retail stock is over 15 years old
Technology
Logicor brings smart metering to Polish portfolio
Logicor is set to complete the rollout of smart metering across all 18 of its logistics parks in Poland by the end of 2026, giving tenants real-time v ...
Singu takes over QRmaint
Łukasiewicz Research Network opens technology laboratory
Warehouse & industrial
Hippocampus signs for 16,700 sqm at CTPark Solingen
CTP has signed a lease with third-party logistics (3PL) provider Hippocampus GmbH for around 16,700 sqm at CTPark Solingen in Germany. The deal covers ...
