The Rome City Hall has not approved the plan to build a new stadium for the AS Roma football club on a brownfield site, which until recently was the favourite for this development and which is owned by the CPIPG group. According to the Italian media, the group wanted to invest €5 billion there. Its further Italian expansion is thus slowing down. Alongside the impact of the Covid pandemic and the war in Ukraine, this is another blow to the group's business plans in Italy, writes E15.cz.

German optic company Fielmann wants to set up a new highly automated fulfilment centre for its markets across Europe and therefore signed an agreement about a future lease in Garbe Park Chomutov. The company plans to occupy approximately 30,000 sqm and the planned investment is up to €65 million. This will create 500 jobs in the region, Garbe announced.

MLP Group's financial condition remains strong, as demonstrated by its reported H1 2022 performance figures. In the first six months of the year, the Group’s net asset value (NAV) went up 26%, to PLN 2.3 billion. The value of its investment properties rose 25%, to more than PLN 4.2 billion. Consolidated revenue increased 26% y-o-y, to PLN 123.2 million. Net rental income, on the other hand, rose 22% y-o-y, to PLN 90.4 million. Operating profit rose 181%, to PLN 577.2 million. For the first half of this year, MLP Group posted PLN 433.9 million in net profit, an over 2.5-fold improvement (+161%) relative to the same period last year.

Slovak developer Corwin has sold the Blumental office centre in Bratislava to Czech real estate fund ZFP realitní fond. With more than 21,000 sqm of lettable area, it is one of the largest Bratislava office transactions of 2022. The price of the acquisition has not been disclosed.

CPI Property Group (CPIPG) has become the owner of approximately 79.2% of the shares of the Austrian company S Immo. CPIPG, in its mandatory takeover offer, offered to buy out the shares of S Immo for €23.50 per share. This offer, available until August 12, 2022, was taken up by holders of approximately 36.66% of S Immo shares.

First Property Group has acquired another 7,171 sqm (or 32.1%) of Blue Tower in Warsaw city centre, bringing its ownership of the property up to 80.3% (17,937 sqm).

GTC signed an SPA to sell its Matrix A and B office buildings in Zagreb to a strong local real estate group from Croatia. This transaction will mark a return on cost exceeding 22% and is about 7% above the book value. GTC’s ability to sell assets well above the book value demonstrates that the current discount to NAV on its share price is not justified.

Real estate investments amounting to around €1.2 billion are currently in various stages of negotiation, while over €600 million in investment volumes were completed in the first eight months of this year, according to real estate consultancy Cushman & Wakefield Echinox. 

Zeitgeist Asset Management has obtained a loan from Česká spořitelna for the largest ever refinancing of its portfolio in the amount of €113 million (CZK 2.7 billion). In total, it concerns 23 properties with a total value of €220 million, located in various Prague locations. These are mainly residential properties with apartments for rent and private campuses for student accommodation.

BIG is expanding its operations in Europe and entering the Polish market for the first time by purchasing two open commercial centres in Poland with a total value of €65 million.