The 13th JLL Charity Beach Volleyball Tournament will take place on August 1st at the Monta Beach Volley Club in Warsaw. Funds raised during the event for the second time will go towards supporting the construction of the Ronald McDonald House at the ‘Pomnik - Centrum Zdrowia Dziecka Institute. Property Forum is a Media Partner of the event.

Family office Pannonia Group, together with the Austrian family office of IPD Innovation Park Development, has announced the completion of the transaction of the purchase of a historic building on Štúrova Street in Bratislava from Československá obchodná banka.

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.

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.

CPI Property Group Poland has successfully concluded a green refinancing transaction with Aareal Bank amounting to more than €277 million for three office properties in Warsaw.

Urbano Group will start this year the development of a commercial project in the western part of Cluj-Napoca metropolitan region and named Nhood Romania as exclusive agent of the new complex branded as Urbano Shopping & Living.

Commercial property investment in Romania amounted to €202 million in Q1 2024, up by 69% compared to the same period of last year, with retail accounting for around two-thirds of the deal volume, according to a Colliers report.

The international developer UDI Group has opened a fund of qualified investors. It is intended for private and institutional investors. In addition to funds or banks, large private investors can also invest in the fund. The lowest possible deposit is CZK 1 million (€40,000). In the future, the fund will also include sub-funds aimed at financing individual large projects. In the first phase, the General sub-fund is opened, which will invest in the UDI Group as a whole, and the Conservative sub-fund invests in loans for individual projects. To investors, the fund will offer appreciation in a more conservative form with a guarantee of a minimum return of 6.5% per year, with a premium return of around 15% per year expected. The status and statutes of the fund were checked and approved by the CNB.

MLP Group has entered into a transaction with ING Bank Śląski S.A. whereby the bank has agreed to provide funding totalling €26.8 million, to be used to finance new investment projects in the MLP Poznań and MLP Poznań II logistics parks and to refinance existing liabilities under bank loans.

Real estate investor and fund manager Cromwell Property Group announced the sale of six retail centres across Poland, held by the Cromwell Polish Retail Fund (CPRF), to Star Capital Finance for €285 million.