Investment &amp; finance

Around EUR 408 mln was transacted on Romanian in H1 2020 – an 18 pct y-o-y increase, despite the pandemic, according to Colliers International’s latest Romanian market update.

ROMANIA Sino-Cypriot takeover of Floreasca Park

07 August 2020

GLL Real Estate Partners has sold the Floreasca Park office building in northern Bucharest to a joint venture between Resolution Property and Zeus Capital Management.

ROMANIA AFI and NEPI finally seal portfolio deal

06 August 2020

AFI Europe has concluded its on-off deal for the acquisition of a portfolio of four office projects in Romania from Nepi Rockcastle.

POLAND Kajima and Savills IM buy Łódź park

06 August 2020

Kajima Properties Europe and Savills Investment Management have acquired Panattoni's interest in the 144,880 sqm Łódź City VI logistics park.

POLAND CBRE GI buys near Bielsko-Biała again

06 August 2020

CBRE Global Investors, on behalf of its Logistics Venture Fund (LoVe), has acquired building C of 7R Park Beskid I, a newly developed 15,000 sqm logistics warehouse in Czechowice-Dziedzice in the southwestern Bielsko-Biała region of Poland from 7R.

CEE REGION Atrium to speed up repositioning

05 August 2020

Atrium European Real Estate has managed to maintain a stable occupancy for its shopping centre portfolio in the region of 95.4 pct (down by only 1.6 pp) through its “focus on pro-active management” during the pandemic, according to an announcement of the company’s H1 figures

ROMANIA EUR 80 mln loan for Hermes

05 August 2020

Atenor has received an EUR 80 mln financing loan from Pbb and Erste Bank for its Hermes Business Campus in northern Bucharest.

HUNGARY CPI to issue Hungarian green bonds

04 August 2020

Czech real estate company CPI Property Group has announced its intention to issue green bonds in Hungary.

POLAND Metropol buys portfolio of five Atrium centres

03 August 2020

Metropol Group has acquired a portfolio of five Polish convenience shopping centres from Atrium European Real Estate for an undisclosed sum.

CEE REGION EUR 6.4 bln transacted in CEE in H1 - JLL

30 July 2020

More than EUR 6.4 bln was transacted on the CEE real estate investment market in the first six months of the year, according to JLL’s CEE Investment Market H1 2020 report.

CEE REGION Poland still the most transparent CEE market

28 July 2020

Poland still has the most transparent real estate market in the CEE region, according to JLL and LaSalle’s 2020 Global Real Estate Transparency Index.

POLAND First buy for latest M7 fund in Katowice

27 July 2020

London-based investor and asset manager M7 Real Estate has completed the first acquisition for its M7 CEREF II fund: the Atrium building in Katowice.

POLAND Land prices still holding up and set to rebound

24 July 2020

The investment land market has been as seriously affected by the Covid-19 pandemic as the wider economy, according to Emil Domeracki, the director of investment land services at Colliers International in Poland.

RUSSIA Sberbank AM buys PNK Park Veshki

24 July 2020

Sberbank Asset Management has signed an agreement with PNK to buy PNK Park Veshki in Moscow for an undisclosed sum.

POLAND Harmond Capital Partners enters investment scene

24 July 2020

A new player has entered the investment market: Harmond Capital Partners. The investment platform has been established with the aim of providing institutional and private investors with high yielding proposals for both single asset and portfolio real estate in the CEE region, while offering comprehensive support through the investment’s entire life cycle.

POLAND Polish 2020 investment unlikely to fall by more than a fifth – Savills

20 July 2020

Polish commercial property investment activity reached EUR 2.92 bln in H1 2020, up by almost 5 pct on the same period in 2019 – according to Savills.

POLAND Highest ever Polish r.e. investment volume in H1 2020

17 July 2020

A record high volume of EUR 3.5 bln of real estate transactions were closed in Poland in H1 2020, 30 pct higher than the same period last year, according to Avison Young.

SLOVAKIA Karimpol buys Bory Business Park

16 July 2020

Penta Real Estate has sold the Bory Business Park project in Bratislava to Karimpol Group for an undisclosed sum.

EUROPE European real estate investment down by 39 pct

16 July 2020

European real estate investment volumes came in at EUR 43 bln in Q2 2020 – a decrease of 39 pct on the same period last year, according to CBRE.

EUROPE Q1 real estate returns worst since 2012

15 July 2020