NEPI Rockcastle, through its subsidiary, has acquired all the issued shares in the Forum Gdańsk shopping centre from a company ultimately owned by Blackstone-managed funds. The transaction encompassed the repayment of all the asset’s outstanding debt. Forum Gdańsk is a 63,500 sqm GLA shopping centre, situated in Gdańsk, the sixth largest city in Poland by population, with over 470,000 inhabitants.

Berlin-based property developer firm Bauwert AG is entering a strategic partnership with Hungary’s Wing Group, as well as international investment & asset manager Griffin Capital Partners. For this purpose, the three companies signed an agreement under which Wing and Griffin will together acquire 60% of Bauwert’s shares. The remaining 40% will be kept in the ownership of the existing shareholders. Wing Group will have a controlling interest in the company.

Immofinanz is acquiring 17,305,012 shares in S Immo AG from its core shareholder, CPI Property Group, thus obtaining a controlling stake in S Immo of 50% plus one share. The purchase price amounts to €337.5 million or €19.5 per S Immo share. The transaction will be financed through a long-term credit facility provided to Immofinanz by CPIPG. The share purchase agreement was signed on 19 December 2022. The closing of the transaction will take place before the end of 2022. Consequently, Immofinanz will fully consolidate S Immo in the 2022 annual financial statements.

Portiva Group, with a portfolio of wind and solar parks with a total capacity of 30 megawatts, is set to build more solar farms in the Czech Republic. Although its focus in recent years has been on real estate and IT, the company now sees the time as opportune for investment in photovoltaic parks. It plans to build at least three, reports Hn.cz.

LivUp has finalized the purchase of a property in Kraków from Galinvest. The new LivUp project will include about 80 residential apartments for long-term rental, as well as additional amenities and facilities. The first tenants are expected to move in by Q2 2023.

Following the previous financing of four phases of the Dock In Office Park in Prague, Deutsche Pfandbriefbank (pbb) and Helaba have jointly underwritten an investment facility, totalling €63 million to refinance “Dock In Five”, the last addition to the Dock project developed by Crestyl Group. pbb and Helaba acted as joint lead arrangers and provided equal portions of the funding; pbb also acts as the facility and security agent for the transaction.

Czech real estate fund Investika has decided to take another step in diversifying its real estate portfolio. Its latest acquisitions are luxury properties in Croatia for short-term rentals.

Logport Development and Invesco Real Estate have teamed up and, via a forward funding structure, committed to developing a 37,900 sqm Grade A last-mile logistics facility, Logport Prague West, strategically located adjacent to the Prague ring road. The transaction was mediated by Cushman & Wakefield. Logport Prague West, where construction started in September 2022, has already attracted the first tenants to move in during the summer of 2023. The entire commercial zone is scheduled for completion in Q1 2024.

One United Properties has announced the acquisition of three historical buildings in Bucharest with the purpose of restoring and transforming them into a new development of the company - One Downtown.

The retail property investment market sector in Poland is thriving, thanks to the stable growth of retail parks (above 5,000 sqm GLA) and convenience retail (retail parks under 5,000 sqm GLA) schemes. Since 2016, 160 assets of this type have been finalized, says Avison Young Poland.