The city of Prague is buying the company VN 42, owning an office building on the corner of Wenceslas Square and Štěpánské Street, from Komerční Banka, reports E15.cz. The municipality is planning to move employees from the Škoda Palace in Jungmannova Street, leased until the end of March 2028.

We are approaching the halfway point of 2024. Before the semi-annual investment market reports are released, Avison Young is sharing the current insights on the Polish investment market. 

Skanska has sold the Nowy Rynek E office building constructed in the Wilda district of Poznań, Poland. The buyer is Eastnine AB, a Swedish real estate company focused on office premises in prime locations at selected markets in the Baltics and Poland. This is the second transaction between these two parties in Central and Eastern Europe. 

A retail park in Bielsko-Biała, which is being built on the site of a Tesco shop on Warszawska Street, has a new owner. Redkom Development, responsible for the construction and commercialisation of the facility, sold the project to Newgate Investment, a company specializing in managing the value of retail properties, especially retail parks. The price has not been disclosed.

Mitiska REIM has secured a €40 million refinancing with mBank for a portfolio of four Polish food-anchored retail parks. Representing a combined gross leasable area (GLA) of nearly 34,000 sqm, the convenience centres are located in the cities of Września, Turek, Lubliniec and Wodzisław Śląski, and were developed by Mitiska REIM’s Polish partner, Karuzela Holding, and are owned in joint-venture with the FRI 2 fund.

The Penta Group is changing its approach to financing its business – it is preparing new investment funds to offer investors a stake in Penta projects, reports Newstream.cz.

After more than a year of intensive negotiations, the sale and purchase agreement for Budapest Airport Zrt. was signed on Thursday, Hungary's Ministry of National Economy said in a statement. The Hungarian state acquired an 80% stake at a purchase price of €3.1 billion (HUF 1,207.5 billion), and the €1.44 billion (HUF 560.93 billion) loan taken out by the previous owners was extended.

Romanian commercial and residential developer One United Properties has announced that its two Co-CEOs Victor Căpitanu and Andrei Diaconescu have made a combined share purchase in the company.

Private equity fund Greenstone has acquired an almost 80% stake in a special purpose vehicle owning the Format office building in Gdańsk. The vendor was Torus, which was advised during the transaction process by global real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield and law firm Greenberg Traurig. The buyer was advised by LegalKraft and Trebbi. The price has not been disclosed.

Real estate developer Portland Trust has sold a 50-hectare land plot in Moara Vlasiei to FallCreek, a blueberry nursery stock provider, marking the company’s entry in Romania.