Atenor has obtained a building permit for BakerStreet II, a 280-unit residential development in Budapest's 11th district. The project will comprise three buildings with approximately 26,700 sqm of residential space, arranged around a landscaped courtyard with green areas and shared amenities.

Peakside Capital Advisors has completed construction of Hall D at the City Point Targówek logistics park in Warsaw and obtained an occupancy permit for the facility. The new hall offers 17,000 sqm of space designed for warehousing, distribution and light manufacturing activities. Each module includes office and welfare areas, and loading is possible via both dock levellers and ground-level gates. The general contractor was Depenbrock Polska, and all available modules have been let.

BIG Poland will open its BIG Olkusz retail park on 22 October 2026, developed in cooperation with BOIG The Blue Ocean Investment Group. The scheme covers 13,500 sqm GLA and brings the company's operating portfolio to 14 retail parks with approximately 271,500 sqm GLA across Poland.

As FDI becomes increasingly concentrated in infrastructure-intensive sectors, corporate location decisions are becoming an important signal for real estate and institutional investors.

W. P. Carey's Head of European Investments, Christopher Mertlitz, has shared his assessment of market conditions following Expo Real 2026, pointing to cautious but active sentiment among participants and rising interest in alternative financing structures.

Addleshaw Goddard (AG) has advised a US investor on the acquisition of Panattoni Park Poznań A2, a logistics complex located in Robakowo, Poland, for approximately €160 million. The asset is fully leased to H&M, which will continue to occupy the facility following the transaction.

Property Forum is pleased to announce that Courtney Fingar has joined as Strategic Advisor – FDI, supporting the platform’s expansion into foreign direct investment and strengthening connections between international investors, companies, locations and the real estate industry.

Yareal Polska has begun upgrading Żupnicza Street between Bliska and Chodakowska Streets in Warsaw's Praga-Południe district, as part of a developer-funded programme to modernise three streets surrounding its SOHO by Yareal mixed-use development in the Kamionek neighbourhood. The works include new road surfacing, refurbished pavements, one-way cycle lanes on both sides of the street and additional greenery, complementing earlier works on Bliska Street that are nearing completion.

The foreign direct investment (FDI) stock in Romania's real estate transactions sector reached approximately €22.1 billion at the end of 2025, accounting for 16.4% of the country's total FDI stock, up from 16% in 2024, according to data from the National Bank of Romania analysed by Cushman & Wakefield Echinox. This makes real estate transactions the second-largest sectoral destination for foreign capital, behind manufacturing, which attracted €35.7 billion and a 26.5% share. The construction sector separately recorded a stock of €1.82 billion after attracting net inflows of €74 million during the year.

CEE's strong economic growth, improving liquidity and increasingly sophisticated local capital base are strengthening the region's appeal to real estate investors. At the Poland & CEE conference session at Expo Real 2026, panellists highlighted Poland as the region's benchmark market while pointing to opportunities across the Baltics and wider CEE, with offices, living, logistics and alternative sectors all attracting capital.