ARTICLES LABELLED WITH TAG afi-europe
06
Oct
2022
Oct
2022
AFI Europe Romania aims to reach carbon neutrality by 2025
Property developer AFI Europe aims to obtain by 2025 the LEED Zero Carbon certification for all ongoing office projects, and also for all future AFI Europe’s projects targeted to be developed in the future in Romania.
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01
Sep
2022
Sep
2022
AFI Europe to develop its first retail park in Romania
AFI Europe has officially started the development of its first Romanian retail park in Arad. The project will have a leasable area of 29,400 sqm and has already reached an occupancy rate of 70%.
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10
Aug
2022
Aug
2022
State fails to sell €43 million palace in Prague city centre
The Czech state continues to unsuccessfully trying to sell Prague's functionalist Broadway Palace from the 1930s. The Office for Representation of the State in Property Matters (ÚZSVM) offered it for the third time in an electronic auction, this time with a starting price of CZK 1.05 billion (€43.153 million), but no one took part in the auction, a spokeswoman for the office told the Czech News Agency.
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28
Jul
2022
Jul
2022
Emerging office shortage will support rising rents in Bucharest
Emma Toma, Head of the Office Leasing Division at AFI Europe Romania, spoke to Property Forum about the developer’s expansion plans in the residential segment and the trend of rising rents in Class A office buildings.
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21
Jul
2022
Jul
2022
AFI Europe enters Prague's rental housing market
Developer AFI Europe has announced the completion of the Tulipa residential project on a five-hectare brownfield site in Prague 3 Strašnice. This latest, fifth phase with an eight-storey apartment building cost the developer more than CZK 250 million and will be the only one dedicated exclusively to rental housing with 61 apartments.
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21
Jun
2022
Jun
2022
AFI Tech Park 2 in Bucharest gets LEED Platinum precertification
AFI Europe Romania has secured the LEED Platinum precertification for AFI Tech Park 2, the second phase of the AFI Tech Park office development located in Bucharest. The developer worked with Colliers on the certification process.
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10
Jun
2022
Jun
2022
AFI buys 70% of Towarowa 22 project for €180 million
EPP has finalised the sale of its 70% stake in the Towarowa 22 mixed-use project in Warsaw to AFI Europe. It is historically one of the largest land transactions in Poland in terms of value, with the total plot value exceeding €180 million.
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23
May
2022
May
2022
AFI completes refurbishment of Bucharest office building
AFI Europe Romania has completed the refurbishment of all public areas within its AFI Lakeview office building in Bucharest following an investment of around €2 million.
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23
May
2022
May
2022
Plaza Centers seeks damages from Romania in court
Property developer Plaza Centers is seeking €262.2 million in damages from the Romanian state, alleging that it recorded massive losses from the Casa Radio project in Bucharest. The company filed a complaint with the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in Washington.
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02
May
2022
May
2022
Primark to open store in AFI Cotroceni
Irish fashion retailer Primark will open a new store in AFI Cotroceni, the shopping mall owned by AFI Europe in Bucharest.
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Latest news
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- New office deliveries in Warsaw top 40,000 sqm in Q1 2026
- GTC secures €149 million refinancing for German resi assets
- Bucharest office fit-out, among the most affordable in CEE
- Echo Investment marks 30 years on the Warsaw Stock Exchange
- Industrial leads Polish investment in Q1 2026
- Indotek CEO backs wealth tax in Hungary but warns of risks
- Crestyl secures €165 million funding for Polish expansion
New leases
- Vastint Romania secured its first tenant for Bucharest-based Timpuri Noi Square Phase 2, signing SCOR for 3,250 sqm. The transaction, brokered by CBRE, facilitates SCOR’s expansion within Vastint’s local portfolio. The company has previously leased 2,320 sqm in Business Garden Bucharest.
- EVO Properties has named Alexandru Marin as the new Property Manager for the London and Oslo office buildings in Bucharest. He brings over 15 years of property management experience.
- IF&B Mille Sapori, the importer and distributor of Italian food products in Poland, has leased 4,118 sqm in the MLP Pruszków II complex. The lease deal was brokered by Coldwell Banker Commercial.
New appointments
- Katarzyna Myjak has joined Axi Immo as Senior Business Advisory Manager, tasked with strengthening the company’s Industrial & Logistics business line.
- Czech investment group SCF has expanded its team by appointing Jan Simandl as Senior Leasing Team Leader. In this role, Simandl will oversee leasing activities across the company’s commercial property portfolio. He previously worked for CPI Property Group and CBRE.
- Michał Kochanowski-Laren has joined Avison Young Poland’s Technical Advisory and Project Management team as Project Manager. In his new role, he is responsible for delivering a variety of consultancy projects across all segments of the commercial real estate market in Poland. Kochanowski-Laren is an electrical engineer and a graduate of the Warsaw University of Technology.
