Investment & finance
According to data from the National Bank of Romania analyzed by the Cushman & Wakefield Echinox, the real estate and construction sector became the second largest recipient of foreign capital in Romania, after industry. The sector attracted approx. EUR 2.2 bln of foreign direct investments in 2023, as the share of this economic activity in the overall FDI stock stood at 17.5 pct at the end of 2023.
Investment & finance
Accolade has secured EUR 29.5 mln net financing from BNP Paribas Bank Polska for the development of Park Szczecin VI industrial park, located in the Dunikowo Special Economic Zone. The facility will have an area of over 54,000 sqm.
Investment & finance
The Galardia shopping centre in Starachowice has been acquired by Future Estate from London-based Stage Capital. It was opened in October 2014 and comprises 18,000 sqm gla.
Investment & finance
Garbe and its joint venture partner Logicenters, Nrep's development and management platform for logistics properties, have acquired a 20,000 sqm plot of land. A logistics centre with a total area of around 11,600 sqm is to be built on this site. Construction is scheduled to begin in Q2 2025, with an investment volume of around EUR 17 mln.
Investment & finance
Czech asset manager Arete Investment Group has entered the Polish market with the acquisition from Kajima Poland and Panattoni of a 65,000 sqm warehousing park in Zgorzelec in Lower Silesia.
Investment & finance
Nepi Rockcastle has acquired the 100,000 sqm Magnolia Park shopping centre in Wrocław from Union Investment in an off-market transaction. The sale price amounts to EUR 373 mln. Union Investment acquired Magnolia Park in 2017 for the portfolio of the UniImmo: Europa open-ended real estate fund.
Investment & finance
Prague-based warehouse developer P3 Group has issued a 7.6-year EUR 500 mln Green Bond. With this, P3 will have signed over EUR 6 bln in new debt since the implementation of its most recent funding strategy in December 2021.
Investment & finance
Karimpol Polska has secured EUR 50 mln in financing from Bank Pekao for the second phase of the Skyliner II development on Rondo Daszyńskiego in Warsaw. The bank also financed the construction of the first tower of the complex.
Investment & finance
ECE Real Estate Partners is expanding its investment activities and has raised further circa EUR 100 mln of capital for its ECE Progressive Income Growth Fund that invests in high quality shopping centres in Europe and holds a portfolio of seven centres with a total market value of more than EUR 2.2 bln.
Investment & finance
Panattoni has launched a pan-European fund that will invest in modern, sustainable, income-producing logistics properties. The Panattoni Income Fund is domiciled in Luxembourg with an open-ended, evergreen structure.
Investment & finance
Smart Park Poland has sold a retail park in Syców (Dolnośląskie Voivodeship) to the Saller Group. The area of the facility is 8,000 sqm.
Investment & finance
Nepi Rockcastle is in negotiations to acquire the 100,000 sqm gla Magnolia Park shopping centre in Wrocław from Union Investment Real Estate.
Investment & finance
CL Property, a Polish developer specialising in multi-functional industrial and logistics space, has announced a transaction with DSV for the Citylink Łódź project. A new DSV logistics centre will be built on the 5.7-ha property located on ul. Zakładowa.
Investment & finance
According to JLL, the Polish investment market saw a significant increase in activity in H1 2024. Despite continuing challenges related to the cost of capital, a return of large transactions was recorded, suggesting a potential end to the slowdown phase.
Investment & finance
European Real Estate Fund has commenced its deployment programme with the acquisition of a logistics portfolio in Poland. Three multi-tenanted properties will form the initial investment in a EUR 300 million joint venture with White Star Real Estate.
Investment & finance
Garbe, in a joint venture with a fund managed by BlackRock, has acquired a brownfield site of almost 200,000 sqm in Salzgitter, Lower Saxony. The joint venture wants to create large-scale logistics on the site. The construction of the property with a total floor area of 70,000 sqm is scheduled to start in Q1 2025 and to be completed in 2026.
Investment & finance
KGAL has acquired the ViE office building in the Austrian capital with a total rental area of 14,100 sqm for one of its property funds. The seller is CA Immobilien Anlagen AG. The building in a central location in Vienna is fully let.
Investment & finance
Empira Group has successfully completed the acquisition of six multi-family buildings as well as residential and commercial properties in the Neukölln, Kreuzberg and Wedding districts of Berlin. The purchase encompasses around 400 residential and commercial units.
Investment & finance
CTP has purchased a 140,000 sqm plot of land located within the Pomeranian Investment Centre - an industrial park located in the vicinity of the largest container terminal on the Baltic Sea. The land acquired from the Gdańsk Economic Development Agency will be used to construct the next stage of the CTPark Gdańsk Port industrial and logistics complex.
Investment & finance
Panattoni has been issued financing for the construction of City Logistics Warsaw Airport IV. The EUR 17.25 mln loan was granted by Santander Bank Polska.
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.
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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 ...
Kempinski Hotels has acquired the Augustine Hotel in Prague. This is the first acquisition for the hospitality group in over 50 years, since it bought ...
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 ...
The value of retail real estate transactions finalised by the end of March 2026 reached EUR 318 mln. This figure was almost 56 pct higher compared to ...
Panattoni has acquired two properties near Gothenburg, Sweden. The brownfield sites will be replaced by a modern 43,000 sqm facility.
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Czech engineering firm Sterplan has moved into new offices in the Port7 complex in Holešovice. Colliers was responsible for both the design and fit ou ...
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 ...
The Napollo Group has appointed Kalter as the general contractor for a residential project. In the first stage of the Mono estate, two buildings are t ...
Half Price is entering the expanded Sekunda retail park in Jędrzejów, with a 1,500 sqm store in the new section to open in H1 2027. Ochnik and Worldbo ...
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 ...
The first quarter of 2026 brought a stable, albeit slightly weaker year-on-year start to the Czech industrial and logistics market, according to data ...