AFI and Echo Investment have signed a lease for approximately 20,000 sqm across 11 floors of AFI Tower in Warsaw with PwC Polska, described as the largest office leasing transaction in Poland so far this year. PwC will become the anchor tenant of the 150-metre, 40-storey tower and plans to relocate its Warsaw office there in early 2029. The building is the tallest element of the Towarowa22 mixed-use development, which is being delivered by AFI, Echo Investment and Archicom and combines office, residential, retail and leisure uses.

Polish residential developer Develia spent close to 174 million złoty on land acquisitions in the first half of 2026, securing plots for more than 1,600 homes in the Warsaw Metropolitan Area and Katowice. The seven purchases included sites in Białołęka for over 370 units, Bemowo for around 120 units, Pruszków for over 360 units, and a student residence of 360 rooms on Bielany. A plot in Katowice carries capacity for nearly 450 homes. Despite the pace of new project launches, the company's land bank stands at approximately 16,000 units.

Commercial real estate investment across six Central and Eastern European markets reached €5.8 billion in the first half of 2026, according to Colliers, with the Czech Republic accounting for roughly a quarter of that total at over €1.4 billion. Although this represents a nominal decline from the record €2.2 billion recorded in the same period last year, analysts at Colliers view the result as a stabilisation following an period of exceptional activity.

RS Group has completed Rezidence U Sadů, a 54-unit residential building in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic. The project, which won the Real Estate Project of the Year 2025 award for the Královéhradecký region, has seen 51 of its 54 apartments sold ahead of completion, with only three units remaining. Layouts range from studio to four-bedroom configurations.

GTC has renewed a lease agreement with an international bank at Advance Business Center in Sofia, with the tenant also expanding its footprint to more than 5,500 sqm of office space within the complex.

Apsys has completed the acquisition of 3 Stawy Shopping Centre in Katowice from a fund managed by Union Investment. The retail property offers 38,600 sqm of gross leasable area and recorded an occupancy rate of 97.1% at the end of May 2026. Dentons acted as legal counsel and PwC as financial adviser to Apsys throughout the transaction.

North East Romania has long been recognised as one of the country's manufacturing centres, but reducing the region's investment story to factories and production lines no longer tells the full picture. Over the past decade, a broader economic ecosystem has begun to emerge, one that combines advanced manufacturing with technology, research, healthcare, logistics and a rapidly evolving business services sector. It is this diversification that is increasingly attracting the attention of investors and will be one of the key themes explored at the inaugural edition of EastGate this September.

BIG Poland has acquired Grodzisk Sfera Park, an 11,000 sqm GLA retail park in Grodzisk Mazowiecki, located approximately 30 km west of Warsaw. The property becomes the company's 13th retail park in Poland and its second in the Mazowieckie voivodeship, alongside BIG Łubna. The acquisition brings BIG Poland's total portfolio to nearly 258,000 sqm GLA. Rebranding and reopening under the BIG brand are planned for late summer.

Hungary's residential property market saw 9,292 transactions in July 2026, according to the monthly estimate published by Duna House. The figure is 5.8% below the June level and 2.1% lower than the same month in 2025.

Hungary-based investor Appeninn Nyrt. has completed the acquisition of a retail portfolio from Polish company Dekada S.A., comprising eleven commercial properties across Poland with a combined leasable area of approximately 53,000 sqm. The portfolio consists of seven retail parks and four shopping centres located in Brodnica, Ciechanów, Grojec, Kraków, Myślenice, Olsztyn, Nowy Targ, Malbork, Sieradz, Skierniewice and Żyrardów. The transaction, valued at over €100 million, was financed through a combination of Appeninn's own funds and debt financing from Austria's Erste Group Bank AG. The exact purchase price has not been disclosed.