JLL announced that Ben Rose has been appointed Head of Capital Markets for the Czech Republic. Ben takes over the role from Mike Atwell, who – after four years of heading up the Czech Republic and CEE capital markets team – returned to London to take up a senior position in the EMEA Industrial & Logistics investment team.

CBRE has appointed Carmen Ravon as Head of Retail Occupiers for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in a bid to consolidate operations in the region.

Globalworth has announced a raft of changes in the board and appointed several non-executive directors with immediate effect.

Knight Frank Hungary has appointed Petra Holy to lead the OSCA (Occupier Services and Commercial Agency) services as Head of Office Division. Petra is an experienced leasing, property and asset manager with over 15 years of demonstrated experience in the real estate industry, specializing in landlord representation and strategic consultancy. Previously, she has been involved in the industry both as a consultant and as a landlord, which gives her a full coverage overview. 

Real estate consultancy Cushman & Wakefield Echinox has appointed Cristina Lupașcu as PR & Research Director. She has close to 20 years’ worth of experience in the media and real estate sectors. 

International law firm CMS has bolstered its real estate and construction practice with the addition of a team of 10 lawyers in Poland. CMS will be joined by three respected partners, each with many years of experience and an established market reputation: Agata Jurek-Zbrojska, Małgorzata Madej-Balcerowska, and Dominik Rafałko. Agata Jurek-Zbrojska will head CMS’s real estate and construction practice in Poland, which she will manage in close co-operation with partners Lidia Dziurzyńska-Leipert – who leads international development for CEE Real Estate, Michał Mieciński, Małgorzata Madej-Balcerowska, and Dominik Rafałko.

CTP Romania, the largest owner of industrial projects on the local market, has appointed Sorina Florescu as Head of Marketing as part of its management consolidation strategy.

Globe Trade Centre promoted Ede Gulyás to the position of County Manager, Hungary. He will take over the operations of GTC in the local market end-to-end, following the resignation of Robert Snow, a former member of the Management Board and Country Manager in Hungary.

Zeitgeist Asset Management has announced that on January 1st, 2022, Maximilian Mendel, one of the most experienced practitioners in PRS, student housing and other fields in the living sector, will assume the position of Managing Director of their Polish subsidiary.

Urszula Kowalska, Krystyna Pietruszyńska and Patrick Pospiech were appointed directors in JLL’s Living Investments department at the beginning of October and, with the support of Paweł Sztejter, Head of JLL Living, they will focus on developing transactional and development advisory services on the Polish residential market.