Răzvan Nica, Managing Partner BuildGreen, talked to Property Forum about the building certification trends and the company’s development of the CarbonTool platform, which helps property players meet their decarbonisation objectives.

Panattoni has secured €20.7 million in financing from Bank Milennium to develop a logistics hub for Auchan Polska. A fully robotic built-to-suit warehouse is to be constructed in Wilcza Góra near Warsaw.

Construction activity in the 19 Euroconstruct countries is projected to decline by 2.4% in 2024, while next year it should return to growth, with an estimated rate of 0.6%, according to the conclusions of a conference held in early December 2024, in Milan. 

The location of Kyje-Hutě on the outskirts of Prague is subject to expansion in the future with a new housing development, a primary school and two kindergartens, a bus line and other infrastructure. 

Red Bull has become a new tenant in the Churchill Square II office complex, which is managed by the investment group Českomoravská Nemovitostní (ČMN).

Polish fashion producer LPP has leased 42,000 sqm in CTPark Bucharest West, which takes the total occupied area in the project to 131,000 sqm. 

Close to 80% of the office stock is at risk of obsolescence in markets such as Amsterdam, Paris and London, while in CEE-based capital cities this figure stands at an average of 43%, according to a report by Cushman & Wakefield Echinox.

Price pressure and uncertainties still exist in the residential market in CEE. Build-to-sell is dominant and build-to-rent has already started in some countries. According to the panel focusing on the challenges and opportunities in the residential market at CEE Property Forum 2024 in Vienna, stabilised construction costs and lower mortgage prices, however, may boost investments.

Hungary's Indotek Group completed the acquisition of a stake in Auchan's domestic hypermarket business over the weekend. In addition to the 47% stake in the retailer, the real estate investor will also take over the operational management of the Auchan chain. The competition authority has already approved the acquisition, Indotek said.

Praktiker Real Estate, the property company owned by Turkish investor Omer Susli, has purchased the Muntenia Business Center offices, in central Bucharest, from Longshield Investment Group for €8 million.