Investment & finance
CEE REGION The US real estate giant Blackstone has acquired six logistics and distribution parks, located across Poland and the Czech Republic, from Pramerica Real Estate Investors. Meanwhile, Blackstone's logistics platform, Logicor, has bought a portfolio of European logistics facilities, including a Hungarian warehouse.
POLAND In order to better concentrate on residential construction, the Lublin-based developer Wikana, has sold its commercial property in Krasnobród for PLN 4.2 mln. The mini-mall housed a Biedronka store and a few smaller retailers. The new owner is a private person, specialized in running retail facilities.
POLAND Mirbud, the Polish construction company, will carry out two new projects worth a gross total of PLN 50 mln.
Investment & finance
POLAND Capital Park, the investor of the Royal Wilanów office project, located at the junction of ul. Klimczaka and ul. Przyczółkowa in Warsaw, has got a loan from PKO BP to further develop the project. “We have reached the required level of commercialization of the facility, and met the requirements over our deposit, which has paved the way for us to get the first tranche of funding. The total amount of the loan granted by PKO Bank Polski amounts to EUR 61.1 mln,” informed Michał Majewski, treasury manager of Capital Park.
Investment & finance
POLAND Michał Sołowow, the founder and biggest shareholder in Echo Investment, has put his nearly 46 pct stake in the Kielce-based company up for sale. The shares were offered for sale by London branch of Citi. Neither Echo Investment nor Sołowow himself have commented on the news. While Sołowow didn’t find time to answer our questions for over a week, we have confirmed with three independent market sources that the offering is now on.
Investment & finance
POLAND Octava Fizan, the Polish non-public assets closed investment fund, has finalized the purchase of six office buildings from Arka BZ WBK, the real estate closed investment fund that is set to be liquidated. The office buildings which changed their owner include: FDS Plaza and Light House in Warsaw, Quattro Forum in Wrocław, Winogrady Business Center in Poznań, Red Tower in Łódź and Alfa Plaza in Tricity. Their total leasable area amounts to app. 48,300 sqm.
POLAND Capital Park generated PLN 3.2 mln in net profit in the first quarter – app. PLN 9 mln lower than the figure last year. The group is continuing its acquisition policy and is planning purchases worth as much as PLN 200 mln this year.
POLAND American fund SOF-IX International Holdings, which is owned by Starwood Capital Group, is to buy three office buildings developed by Ghelamco. The properties changing hands are Katowice Business Point and two office complexes in Warsaw – Łopuszańska Business Park and T-Mobile Office Park on ul. Marynarska.
Investment & finance
CZECH REPUBLIC Vienna-headquartered property developer Warimpex has sold its last five-star hotel in Prague, the Savoy Hotel, to a private investor, as the company completes the withdrawal from the city’s declining luxury hotel market.
Investment & finance
POLAND One of the most interesting and largest investment plots in Warsaw’s Wola district will most probably soon be changing hands.
WORLD/EUROPE Middle Eastern investors are expected to spend USD 180 bln in the world’s commercial real estate markets over the next decade, with 80 pct of it (USD 145 bln) to be allocated in Europe, according to the latest research from global property advisor CBRE.
Investment & finance
CZECH REPUBLIC Radovan Vítek has decided to merge his Czech real estate investment company CPI Group into GSG Group (formerly Orco Germany), with the intention of further expansion into the European property market.
CZECH REPUBLIC ING bank has agreed to a financing package worth EUR 93.6 mln to Brno-based industrial developer CTP.
ROMANIA Investment company Globalworth Real Estate Investments has bought several plots with a combined area of app. 3 ha at the corner of Dimitrie Pompeiu boulevard and George Constantinescu street in Bucharest.
RUSSIA Moscow-based equity firm Baring Vostok has increased its stake in residential real estate developer Etalon Group to 16.39 pct.
Investment & finance
ROMANIA AFI Europe has received a EUR 220 mln loan for the refinancing of the AFI Palace Cotroceni shopping centre in Bucharest.
RUSSIA Residential developer PIK Group has signed a loan agreement with VTB Capital to receive a one-year loan of RUB 23.4 bln (app. EUR 500 mln) with an extension option of five years.
Investment & finance
POLAND Robyg group has signed a contract for the purchase of the perpetual usufruct of a plot of almost 5,500 sqm on ul. Przasnyska in Warsaw’s Żoliborz district.
POLAND The bookshop chain Matras has made the first step towards a change in ownership – a contract for the purchase of a minority stake in the company has just been signed between its current shareholders and an SPV company affiliated with the Traffic Club company.
Investment & finance
POLAND The Dexa construction and furnishing centre in Rzeszów has been bought by businessman Jarosław Karczewki, who had previously wanted to buy the Millenium Hall mall in the city in 2010.
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 ...
BIK Park Sosnowiec II has successfully passed the BREEAM certification at the Very Good level. Last year, BIK Park Wrocław I and II - two other proper ...
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 ...
CPI Property Group has sold a 50 pct stake in a subsidiary that owns eight hotel properties in the Czech Republic to Bratislava-based Best Hotel Prope ...
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 ...
According to the special research report Romania Retail Destinations 2024, released by CBRE Romania, by the end of 2024 the stock of modern retail spa ...
Slovak investment fund Prvý realitný fond, through its company Logis Rugvica, has acquired a plot of land in the area of the village of Sveta Helena n ...
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 ...
One United Properties has concluded a memorandum of understanding with CPI Property Group for the acquisition of a 21 ha site close to the Eroii Revol ...
Centrum Černý Most, a shopping centre in the Prague region, is set to undergo a significant expansion of 9,100 sqm that will add over 30 new shops and ...
The Symbiosy smart building platform developed in-house by Slovakian developer HB Reavis has been acquired by Massachusetts-based real estate experien ...
Panattoni has finished the last stage of Panattoni Park Sulechów III. The centre has been developed for BestSecret, a European members-only online des ...
