As part of its value-creating growth strategy with a focus on high-return properties, Immofinanz is acquiring 53 retail properties in the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary from its majority shareholder CPI Property Group (CPIPG). The acquired portfolio has roughly 217,000 sqm of rentable space and is fully let with an occupancy rate of 99%. The purchase price totals €324.2 million. The purchase contract was signed today, together with the closing for 36 retail properties in the Czech Republic and Poland which have 108,000 sqm of rentable space. The purchase price of €191 million for those properties was financed from existing funds. The closing for the remaining 17 properties in Hungary and Slovakia is expected to take place by the end of this year.

The occupancy rate of the portfolio comprised of 12 retail parks has reached 97% in Park Centers Hungary, Revetas Capital announced today. 

Major international fashion and beauty brands will be coming to the shopping centre this autumn. The centre has been refurbished and developed by Hungarian company Wing.

A 1,500 sqm mixed-use real estate development is underway in the Sóskúti Ipark Park, located next to the M7 motorway in the Budapest area. 

The construction of Park West 3 will start in the second half of 2022. It comprises 230 apartments in the renewed Ferdinánd quarter of the 13th District, and is scheduled for delivery in the first quarter of 2025.

Hungary's B+N Referencia Zrt. has acquired Bulgarian facility management company i-Facility EOOD. With this new subsidiary, the company is now present in 7 countries in Central Europe. 

The first two warehouses of industrial real estate developer HelloParks have become 100 percent occupied over a few months. The Maglód and Fót developments, which opened earlier this year, are the first industrial buildings in Hungary to meet the sustainability requirements of the Excellent certificate in the BREEAM New Construction category. In addition to Maglód and Fót, HelloParks’ megapark in Páty is also being developed at full capacity. The nearly two-year-old company plans to deliver two more projects in 2022. As a result, the total gross leasable area offered by the HelloParks megaparks in the county will be increased to 160,000 sqm by the end of this year representing a total investment value of €190 million.

The first phase of the Millennium Gardens office building has opened its doors with an occupancy rate of over 90%, following an investment of €150 million from Revetas Capital for the development of the North Tower. Millennium Gardens is part of the portfolio of assets of Revetas Capital in Hungary, the pan-European real estate investment advisor that also manages 12 retail parks across the country. The project is being developed by TriGranit, which has more than 20 years of experience and has successfully implemented more than 50 landmark projects.

DBH Group, a Dutch-based international corporation, focusing on venture capital, flexible infrastructure & corporate services, has leased office spaces in two buildings owned by Skanska in Romania and Hungary. 

Advance Tower, located on Budapest’s Váci Road office corridor, has become the latest office building to receive a WELL certification. With the International WELL Building Institute’s (IWBI) recent acknowledgement, two out of the three already WELL-certified office complexes in Hungary were developed by Futureal. Since 2020, Advance Tower has been part of Erste Open-Ended Euro Real Estate Investment Fund’s portfolio.