ZEITRAUM, a private operator of student accommodation and serviced apartments active in Central Europe, has appointed Renata Kusznierska as Head of Poland. Kusznierska brings more than 20 years of experience in real estate, including eight years in the living sector, having previously held management roles at Solida Capital, Yugo, CRM Students, as well as at DTZ, Cushman & Wakefield, Savills and Carrefour Property.

Fond Českého Bydlení SICAV, a fund specialising in residential rental housing, is launching a retail sub-fund that opens its investment strategy to a broader group of individual investors. The minimum investment is CZK 500, with an expected average annual return of around 6–8%. Since 2024, the fund has increased the value of its real estate portfolio fivefold to CZK 2.7 billion, and following the completion of a current acquisition, the portfolio is expected to approach CZK 3 billion. The number of residential units under management has grown to 1,100, while the number of investors has risen by almost 80% to 1,660. Investors who have been with the fund since its establishment in 2018 have seen a cumulative return of 84.18%.

Investment manager RCM Group has published a market commentary arguing that Warsaw's office market is better positioned than French and German institutional office markets to weather a prolonged period of higher interest rates. The firm's analysis, authored by George Leslie and dated October 2026, rests on three structural drivers pushing rates higher: rising sovereign debt levels, increased defence spending in a more volatile geopolitical environment, and the capital demands of environmental adaptation and the AI-driven data centre build-out.

DWS has signed binding agreements to acquire 100 percent of Peakside Capital Advisors AG from a group of shareholders led by founders and managing partners Stefan Aumann and Boris Schran. Peakside is a real estate asset manager focusing on value-add and opportunistic investments in Germany and Central and Eastern Europe. The transaction is expected to close by the end of 2026, subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions.

WING Group posted a 41% increase in consolidated revenue and a 23% rise in EBITDA in the first half of 2026 compared with the same period a year earlier. Consolidated revenue reached HUF 130.3 billion, driven primarily by a higher volume of residential development handovers, while EBITDA rose to HUF 19.5 billion from HUF 15.9 billion. Total assets stood at HUF 1,358 billion at the end of June, with nearly 63% of the asset base located in Poland and Germany. Total loans and bond liabilities decreased by HUF 24 billion (3%) against year-end 2025, and financing costs fell by HUF 2.1 billion (10%) year on year.

Cerion Partners has launched as a pan-European investment firm focused on mission-critical real estate, with offices in Frankfurt and London. The firm was founded by Jorgen Verink, Sven Vollenbruch, Luca Krämling and Niklas Sahavi.

7R has appointed Katarzyna Różycka as Chief Financial Officer and member of the Management Board. In her new role, she will be responsible for shaping the company's financial policy and overseeing its finance, accounting and controlling functions, as the company continues to expand its operations in Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany.

PHOENIX Pharma Zrt. has expanded its warehouse at East Gate Business Park in Fót, near Budapest, increasing its floor area from 8,000 to 11,200 sqm. The expansion, which represents a 40 percent increase in capacity, brings total storage to 17,000 pallet positions. The facility is part of the portfolio managed by WING Industrial, a sub-brand of Hungarian real estate group WING.

CTP has signed two new leases totalling more than 104,000 sqm at CTPark Iłowa in western Poland, as demand from Asian-linked e-commerce supply chains and third-party logistics (3PL) operators grows across Europe. A Chinese fast-fashion e-commerce platform serving European customers has taken 66,214 sqm of gross leasable area (GLA) across two buildings of 46,595 sqm and 19,619 sqm respectively, while an international 3PL operator has signed for 37,801 sqm to support its logistics and distribution operations.

Due diligence platform Drooms is forecasting a significant increase in real estate transactions in Germany in 2026, based on activity recorded on its platform in the first half of the year. Transactions in that period already reached around 75% of the full-year 2025 total, and if the trend continues, the number of deals could be 50% higher than in 2025. Across Europe, transactions are expected to rise by 27.24% for the full year.