Investment & finance
RSSPHN – next stage of privatisation
POLAND Polski Holding Nieruchomości is preparing for the next stage of its privatisation.
Sberbank to finance EUR 1.7 bln programme
RUSSIA Crocus Group and Sberbank CIB have signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Moscow, which includes financing for the developer’s 2013–2017 investment programme.
Tesco to sell 35 plots
POLAND Tesco has decided to sell off excess land near its Polish stores.
Renaissance obtains EUR 150 mln financing
RUSSIA Renaissance Holding has obtained a ten-year credit line of EUR 150 mln from Sberbank.
GTC publishes Q3 results
POLAND In the third quarter, Globe Trade Centre’s profit before tax, including the cost of its executive option programme and write-downs on properties, remained at the stable level of EUR 7 mln (it was the same in Q3 2012).
Plaza Centers granted debt moratorium
EUROPE The Amsterdam district court has granted shopping centre developer Plaza Centers’ application for the preliminary suspension of payment proceedings to creditors.
Etalon approves dividend policy
RUSSIA Residential developer Etalon has approved a dividend policy whereby it will pay out in the form of dividends between 15 and 30 pct of its IFRS net profit adjusted for non-cash items if warranted.
PBO Anioła buys Warsaw plot
POLAND Protea Development, a subsidiary of PBO Anioła, has concluded a preliminary agreement for the purchase of a plot in Warsaw.
Investment & finance
Abramovich buys White Gardens
RUSSIA Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich's investment company Millhouse has acquired the White Gardens class ‘A’ office centre in Moscow.
Investment & finance
Feniks in IVG’s hands
POLAND IVG Warschau Fonds, an investment fund managed by IVG Institutional Funds, has bought the Feniks office building on ul. Żelazna in Warsaw for app. EUR 39 mln.
Investment & finance
First Property Group buys stake in Blue Tower Plaza
POLAND UK investor First Property Group has bought a 19.7 pct stake in Blue Tower Plaza (also known as the Blue Skyscraper) on pl. Bankowy in Warsaw, for EUR 5.23 mln.
Atrium sees income growth
POLAND At the end of Q3 the market value of the income portfolio of Atrium Real Estate in Poland (which constitutes 50.3 pct of the income property portfolio of the company) came to EUR 1.2 bln.
Investment & finance
PPF takes over O2 Arena
CZECH REPULIC PPF has become the majority owner of the O2 Arena in Prague after acquiring KKCG’s 50 pct stake in Lindus Services Limited.
Investment & finance
Plaza Centers to default on bond repayments
CEE REGION Israeli-owned CEE shopping centre developer Plaza Centers has announced that it will be unable to make an app. EUR 15 mln payment due to Polish bondholders on November 18th 2013 and an app. EUR 17 mln payment due to Israeli bondholders on December 31st 2013.
Best Q3 since crisis
EUROPE The value of investment transactions on the commercial property market in Q3 2013 increased by 17.7 pct compared to the same period last year, according to research by Cushman & Wakefield.
Orbis finishes Q3 on the up
POLAND For the third quarter the like-for-like EBITDA of the Orbis hotel group amounted to PLN 69.8 mln compared to PLN 60.9 mln in 2012.
Investment & finance
Emerson buys plant for EUR 10 mln
HUNGARY US-owned manufacturer Emerson Process Management Magyarország has bought a 25,000 sqm industrial building on a 12 ha site in the Sóstó Industrial Park in Székesfehérvár (central Hungary).
Investment & finance
Finep sells City West B1
CZECH REPUBLIC Cimex has bought the City West B1 office building from Finep in Stodůlky (Prague 13) for an undisclosed sum, in what Finep claims to be one of the largest transactions in the last three years
Investment & finance
Riga Plaza receives EUR 59 mln injection
LATVIA Plaza Centers’ 50 pct Latvian subsidiary has obtained a EUR 59.3 mln refinancing loan for the Riga Plaza shopping centre.
Marvipol selling more and more
POLAND Warsaw-based developer Marvipol sold 473 apartments over the first nine months of the year – almost 200 more than the 278 residential units it sold in the same period last year.
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
Budimex begins earthworks on Poland's first nuclear power plant
The construction of Poland’s first nuclear power plant has reached an important milestone. Bechtel, the project’s general contractor, is taking over m ...
Budimex wins foundational contract for CPK
Work progresses on Henryk Arctowski Antarctic Station
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
Poland to benefit from data centre realignment
While just a few years ago, investment locations were primarily determined by demand, today access to electricity is becoming a key factor. According ...
Data centres spread out across the region
Poland to be the new data hub
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
The Grand Pardubice now Excellent
The Grand department store in Pardubice has achieved an Excellent rating under the internationally recognised BREEAM In-Use sustainability certificati ...
Outstanding in VGP Park Split
Galeria Jurajska recertified
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
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
Mercure opens in Oradea
Accor has announced the opening of the Mercure Oradea. The new 90-room hotel is the hospitality group’s 26th location in the country. It is managed by ...
Saltic Zieleniec hotel under construction by Mirbud
Marvipol launches Unique Hotel Kołobrzeg
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
EUR 54 bln worth of contracts to be awarded for Port Polska in 2026
Contracts worth more than PLN 14 bln have already been awarded in announced tenders for the Port Polska air and transport hub development in central P ...
Hydrobudowa Gdańsk to modernise Władysławowo quay for BC-Wind
Intermodal strengthens Poland’s position on the European logistics map
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
NEPI Rockcastle expands beyond CEE
NEPI Rockcastle has acquired MegaPark Barakaldo — one of northern Spain's leading shopping and leisure destinations — from Le Retail Hiper Ondara, par ...
EBRD lends NEPI Rockcastle EUR 250 mln
Trade Estates buys into Sofia South RIng Mall
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
Warsaw now a landlord market
The era of comfortable office leasing conditions in Warsaw has come to an end, according to Walter Herz. Record-high demand, combined with the lowest ...
Tatra Bank chooses Pribinova 1
Bucharest office demand picks up
Property and Facility Management
Savills takes on TFI PZU retail portfolio
Savills, which already manages an office portfolio in Poland for TFI PZU, has now also been appointed to manage three of the fund's retail assets.
JLL takes on Equal Business Park
Savills takes on two Warsaw buildings
Public buildings
Budimex wins PLN 86 mln Białystok hospital contract
Budimex has been awarded an PLN 86 mln gross contract for the construction of a new specialist outpatient clinic at the L. Zamenhof University Childre ...
Szczecin castle reconstruction completed
Dewin–Biberstein–Promnitz Castle to be restored
Residential
Liberty Tower sells PLN 250 mln in six months
Since sales began in February 2026, 122 contracts have been concluded in the Liberty Tower residential building in Warsaw, which is owned by Cavatina. ...
Still too few student beds
Mercator ready to begin flagship Kraków project
Retail & leisure
Work begins of Park Kaszuby
Finarto Investments has appointed Allcon as the general contractor for Park Kaszuby, a new retail park in Wejherowo. The construction site is due to b ...
Retail stock breaches 14 mln sqm
Retail market revives
Technology
Singu takes over QRmaint
Singu, a European platform for managing commercial property, has today announced the acquisition of QRmaint, one of Europe's fastest-growing providers ...
Łukasiewicz Research Network opens technology laboratory
Skanska installs NHIB in Studio A
Warehouse & industrial
MDC2 Park Ruda Śląska on its way
MDC2 has launched its latest project – MDC2 Park Ruda Śląska, which will have a total area of 48,000 sqm, with a particular focus on production and lo ...
