Over half of Poland’s top 200 residential developers are family-owned firms using domestic capital and most are led by individuals over 50 who lack formal succession plans. According to a JLL Living and Crido report, the frequent absence of a family heir may soon force these owners to sell their businesses.

MLP Group has acquired a development plot in Vienna's 11th district to build its second urban logistics project in the Austrian capital. The 5,879 sqm site is located approximately 700 metres from Wien Hauptbahnhof, the city's main railway station.

EPP, Poland's largest retail asset manager, has secured a €323.9 million loan to refinance existing debt on its shopping centre portfolio. The financing covers four retail assets: King Cross Marcelin in Poznań, two assets in Szczecin (Galaxy and Outlet Park), and Pasaż Grunwaldzki in Wrocław.

In one of the most consequential political shifts in Central Europe in decades, Hungary's opposition Tisza Party led by Péter Magyar delivered a landslide victory over Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in parliamentary elections held on April 12, ending a 16-year grip on power and sending immediate shockwaves through financial markets. For real estate professionals and foreign investors, the result may represent the most significant opportunity reset in Hungary's post-communist history.

Segro is building a new, custom-fit facility for Corning Optical Communications, a provider of solutions for AI data centres and fibre to the home. Corning's existing operational base is being expanded with a third production and logistics building within Segro Logistics Park Stryków.

Penta Real Estate and PSN have received a building permit for the Vinohradská 8 mixed-use project in Prague that will feature apartments, boutique offices and an active ground floor with shops and restaurants.

The closing panel of Bratislava Property Forum 2026 highlighted a market navigating both maturity and transformation, with some segments approaching saturation while others continue to offer strong growth potential. Moderated by Martin Polák, Managing Director CEE at GARBE Industrial Real Estate, the discussion covered retail, logistics, offices, ESG, accessibility and data centres, outlining how shifting demand patterns and operational priorities are reshaping strategies across Slovakia and the wider CEE region.

Poznań's Andersia Tower, owned by DEKA Immobilien, has reached near fully occupancy following lease agreements covering over 3,500 sqm of space that have been closed in 2025.

Developer Matexi Polska, active in the Warsaw and Kraków markets, signed 92 apartment contracts in the first quarter (70 in Warsaw and 22 in Kraków). This represents growth of around 30% compared to the first three months of the previous year, when 71 contracts were signed.

A structural shift is rewriting the financial logic of European commercial real estate. It isn't being driven by ESG pressure or voluntary sustainability labels. It's being driven by regulation — and the numbers are concrete enough that ignoring them is becoming a financial risk. A recent white paper by workcloud24 traces the mechanism in detail: how the operational energy and CO₂ performance of a building transmits into net operating income, asset value, and financing conditions. The argument isn't that green buildings are virtuous. It's that inefficient buildings are becoming measurably more expensive to own, operate, and finance.