POLAND Bielsko-based developer Murapol is purchasing a land plot in Katowice. The company has signed a preliminary contract for buying a 1.77-ha parcel on ul. Bażantów in Katowice with a net worth of PLN 5 mln.
CEE REGION Warsaw-listed real estate investor Globe Trade Centre (GTC) is planning to issue 140 mln of new shares. The general meeting of shareholders, when the decision is set to be made, will take place on October 13th, 2014.
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POLAND Polski Holding Nieruchomości (PHN) has announced its new strategy to take it up to 2023. By this time the company wants to have increased the net value of its assets by almost 75 pct and spend app. PLN 1 bln on acquiring office buildings that generate revenue from leasing.
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CEE REGION While in Q2 2014 most of the CEE real estate markets still had to face post crisis challenges, their long-term forecasts have continued to improve, says RICS in its latest report.
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POLAND Ghelamco Poland is planning to build an office complex with a leasable area of app. 50,000 sqm in Kraków.
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HUNGARY TriGranit has sold the Millennium Gate building in Budapest to Dutch-registered International Medical Centers for an undisclosed sum.
CZECH REPUBLIC The European Investment Bank (EIB) is to provide a loan of CZK 1 bln (app. EUR 37 mln) to finance the development of municipal infrastructure in Ostrava.
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LITHUANIA Austrian investor ECE European City Estates has sold the Trio office complex in Vilnius to Swedish private investor Nordic and Baltic Property Group (NBP).
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POLAND W. P. Carey, through its non-traded REIT CPA®:17–Global, has completed the acquisition in a sale-leaseback of an office/R&D facility in Kraków with Nokia Corporation.
CZECH REPUBLIC The Prague Stock Exchange has accepted Orco Property Group’s request to delist from the bourse.
POLAND In the last year, the process of obtaining property bank financing in Poland has become more difficult for developers, while the activity of the cooperative banks in providing this kind of backing decreased. Meanwhile, the largest creditors’ market share improved, according to a study by the Polish Association of Development Companies (PZFD).
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CZECH REPUBLIC The Diamant building on Wenceslas Square in Prague has been bought by a German-based fund manager GLL Real Estate Partners (represented by SPI) for an undisclosed sum.
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CZECH REPUBLIC Russian private investment firm GledenInvest has completed the acquisition of the five-star plus Augustine Hotel in Prague’s Malá Strana district from Raiffeisen Evolution.
ESTONIA Stockholm-based asset manager East Capital has acquired the logistics centre and offices owned and occupied by the Baltic grocery retailer Rimi Eesti Food near Tallinn, worth EUR 13.4 mln.
ROMANIA AFI Europe has finalised a EUR 32 mln loan it was given by Erste Group-owned Banca Comerciala Romana (BCR) to develop its two Bucharest office buildings, AFI Park 2 and AFI Park 3.
ROMANIA AGI-RRE Hera, a subsidiary of Greek bank Alpha Bank, has paid EUR 14.2 mln to buy the MLP Bucharest Sud logistics park in southern Bucharest.
WORLD In H1 2014, Cushman & Wakefield’s gross revenue increased to nearly USD 1.28 bln, a 23.7 pct y-o-y increase. The company’s commission and service fee revenue increased USD 174.2 mln, a 24.2 pct increase, to a record USD 895.2 mln, compared to USD 721 mln in H1 2013.
POLAND Warsaw-based developer Echo Investment has decided to issue another tranche of bonds addressed to individual investors. Series ‘C’ will include 750,000 of 3.5-year bonds worth PLN 100 each, the company informed.
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CEE REGION In H1 2014, the Baltic countries have seen office sector dominating their real estate investment volumes, while their total value reached EUR 385 mln, a 18.4 pct y-o-y drop, says Colliers.
CEE REGION UK-based Segro has managed to arrange a EUR 208 mln loan for European Logistics Partnership (SELP), its 50/50 joint venture with Canadian pension fund Public Sector Pension Investment Board, to co-finance the EUR 472 mln logistics property purchase it is making across Europe.
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 ...
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.
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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 ...