POLAND Polish Military Property Agency (AMW) has put up for sale a 37.7 ha land plot in Ciechanów. Located on ul. Wojska Polska, app. 1.5 km from the city centre, the plot is packed with 84 military buildings.
Hotels
POLAND Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group has decided to open a five-star Radisson Blu Resort in Świnoujście as part of the Baltic Park Molo complex, developed by Zdrojowa Invest. This will be the first Radisson Blu Resort-branded hotel in Poland.
Investment & finance
POLAND/EUROPE Skanska Central Europe Holding is about to take over SPS Investment, the majority stake owner of Warsaw’s Westin hotel.
POLAND Not Murapol but LC Corp, a company owned by the Polish millionaire Leszek Czarnecki, will buy a 6.4 ha Kraków land plot. The seller is the Jupiter fund, a part of the Gremi group that is owned by Grzegorz Hajdarowicz.
Construction
RUSSIA/UKRAINE Chinese investors have offered the Crimean authorities to build a 4 km long underwater tunnel on the bottom of the Kerch Strait. The tunnel would accommodate two-way railway tracks and a six-lane motorway.
Investment & finance
POLAND In the first half of 2014, Czerwona Torebka has managed to sell 54 units worth nearly PLN 31 mln. Their total leasable area reached 4,900 sqm, a three-fold y-o-y increase, the company informed
CEE REGION Austrian banking group Erste has seen a EUR 929.7 mln loss in the first half of 2014 driven by the writedowns and tax regulations across the CEE markets.
ROMANIA Portuguese commercial bank Banco Comercial Português is selling its Romanian unit, Millennium Bank, to the Hungarian OTP Bank that operates across eight CEE markets.
Investment & finance
ROMANIA South African-owned investor in the Romanian property market NEPI have announced in an annual report that it has bought a 7.4 ha site in Piatra Neamț in the north-east of the country.
UKRAINE At the end of Q2 2014 the primary vacancy level in the warehousing sector in the greater Kyiv area amounted to 10.1 pct, representing a 5.4 pct increase on to Q1, according to research by DTZ.
POLAND In H1 2014 over half of new retail space was completed in cities with less than 100,000 inhabitants, with another 22 pct in cities with populations of between 100,000 and 200,000, according to research by DTZ.
RUSSIA EtalonPromstroy, Etalon Group’s industrial construction subsidiary, has been selected by Japanese investors Unipres Corporation as the general contractor for the design and construction of a 16,000 sqm automobile components factory.
Investment & finance
CEE REGION The first half of the year has seen many European office rentals improving, along with the prime yields hardening in some of the CEE cities, including Bucharest (-50 bps), Budapest (-25 bps) and Prague (-25 bps), a study by Colliers International shows.
Retail & leisure
EUROPE Paris-listed pan-European shopping centre operator Klépierre is set to acquire the Netherlands-based retail group Corio for EUR 7.2 bln. The move comes as Klépierre, which owns assets worth EUR 14 bln, aims to strengthen its position on the market and become Europe’s “leading pure-play retail property company.”
Office & mixed-use development
BULGARIA London-based investor Salamanca Group has opened the 21,000 sqm Infinity Tower office building, a part of the Bulgaria Mall complex.
Warehouse & industrial
CZECH REPUBLIC Toyota Tsusho Europe has leased more than 13,000 sqm of space in Prologis Park Prague-Jirny, increasing its space from the previously leased 7,500 sqm.
CZECH REPUBLIC Metrostav has started work on adapting a section of Václav Havel International Airport in Prague for the use of giant Airbus A380 jumbo jets.
Investment & finance
POLAND Warsaw-listed developer Echo Investment is negotiating a sale of two Polish shopping centres: Pasaż Grunwaldzki in Wrocław and Galaxy in Szczecin.
Hotels
RUSSIA The Park Inn by Radisson Pulkovo Airport hotel in St Petersburg has been opened.
UKRAINE Turkish fashion retailer LC Waikiki has singed a 1,190 sqm lease for space in the Riviera shopping centre in Odessa.
Dutch studio Benthem Crouwel Architects together with Czech architects OVA have won the competition to redesign a quarter of Vítězné náměstí (Victory ...
According to the report released by research firm Spectis, “Modular construction market in Poland 2024-2029”, top 100 manufacturers of prefabricated b ...
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 ...
Kreo, Ghelamco's Kraków office project, has achieved BREEAM certification at the Outstanding level. The building also has a WELL and Green Building St ...
Eurobuild Awards 2023 is behind us, but if you haven't yet gotten your hands on the special "Eurobuild" supplement prepared for the Gala evening, you ...
The next edition of our monthly magazine is now available both in paper and digital versions! Traditionally, the new issue was first sent to our confe ...
Welcome to Eurobuild FM! We invited an excellent expert to the today's episode – distinguished structural engineer Tristram Carfrae, deputy chair of w ...
We regret to inform you that Piotr Kroenke, long-time general director of GTC and co-creator of many of the company's successes, has passed away.
This latest episode of 'Eye to Eye' is hot out of the podcast oven and ready to listen to! Eurobuild’s guest today is Paweł Sapek, the head of Prologi ...
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 ...
IHG Hotels & Resorts and Novum Hospitality announced a long-term agreement that will double IHG’s presence in Germany to more than 200 hotels in almos ...
Kamil Kowa has become the new CEO of Savills in Poland. He is a member of the management board of the company, and for the past nine years has held th ...
The investment programme until 2030 worth more than PLN 1.5 bln has been approved for Katowice's Wojciech Korfanty Airport. The programme will include ...
Designers from Colliers, under the supervision of architect Kateřina Štenclova, prepared the concept for the Mercedes-Benz headquarters in Prague. The ...
Panattoni has completed a sales transaction in Germany. Clarion Partners Europe has acquired a prime logistics hub for EUR 75 mln near Duisburg.
Garbe Industrial Real Estate has secured another plot of land in Rüdenhausen, Germany. The Hamburg-based project developer is planning a logistics cen ...
Intensive commercialization of the multifunctional Fern building under construction at Off Piotrkowska Center has begun. A modern building, the constr ...
The structure of The Bridge skyscraper in Warsaw's Wola district has reached its final height, i.e. 174 m. The builders have just completed the last t ...
M Core announces the launch of ‘Square 7 part of M Core’, a strategic joint venture between M Core and Square 7 Properties, to establish a new managem ...
Echo Investment and its subsidiary Archicom have started the construction of a primary school for 450 pupils on ul. Konstruktorska in the Służewiec su ...
According to the Berlin 2024 Residential Market Report by real estate financier Berlin Hyp and real estate service provider CBRE, purchase prices have ...
Cushman & Wakefield has summarised the situation on the Polish retail market. The opening of 2024 is encouraging and new retail space supply in the co ...
The Symbiosy smart building platform developed in-house by Slovakian developer HB Reavis has been acquired by Massachusetts-based real estate experien ...
The JV of Partners Group and Peakside Capital Advisors has completed the construction of the first warehouse facility in City Point Targówek. The 7,00 ...
