The Supervisory Board of Immofinanz has approved the commencement of preparations for a squeeze-out of S Immo in accordance with the Austrian Squeeze-out Act. In the course of the squeeze-out, shares in S Immo held by minority shareholders shall be transferred to Immofinanz as the main shareholder in exchange for appropriate cash compensation.

DHL Supply Chain has been operating a carbon-neutral distribution centre for Eaton in CTPark Pohořelice since January 2024. The developer CTP has actively participated in its transformation.

Passerinvest Group has started the construction of a new office and mixed-use building in Prague's Brumlovka. Offices, shops and rental apartments are all listed in the design concept of the Hila project.

The property investment market in the EU reached around €22.8 billion in Q1 2024, down by approximately 26% compared to the same period of last year, although some markets have rebounded significantly in this period, according to an Arnold Investments report.

BNP Paribas Real Estate Poland presented a summary of the opening months of 2024 in the Polish capital. The Warsaw office market is evolving as office availability has been shrinking considerably in recent years. The first quarter of 2024 saw a slower pace of service charge growth, longer leases and the refurbishment of obsolete office stock.

Compared to neighbouring Poland or Slovakia, rental prices for industrial properties in the Czech Republic can run up to one-third higher. Low vacancy rates and a small supply of immediately available space are forcing tenants to prefer more competitive offers from neighbouring countries, as shown in the regular quarterly industrial property market report published by Colliers.

Real estate investor Martin Ladyr, through property management software company Swrop, has bought the office building known as Atrium House in Prague 10 from the investment group Cimex. He has also confirmed plans to reconstruct and modernise it gradually.

Romanian developer Redport Capital has started the construction of the third phase of The Level Apartments project in northern Bucharest.

Mihnea Cristescu, Project Manager & Sustainability Consultant, Cushman & Wakefield Echinox, spoke with Property Forum about the cost approach to sustainable developments and the role of consultants in shaping real estate projects with strong ESG credentials.

CTP has been appointed by dog food manufacturers PsiBufet and Butternut Box to build a specialist facility to produce fresh dog food for distribution across continental Europe.The specialist new facility is being developed in a build-to-suit model at CTPark Zabrze.