Every region with international ambitions eventually reaches the same point. Competitive labour costs, strategic location and investment incentives may succeed in attracting attention, but sustaining long-term growth requires something more. Investors need access to decision-makers, businesses need reliable public-sector partners and local authorities need a platform where regional opportunities can be presented to an international audience.

Recorde Forestay High Street Hotel & Residence Real Estate Development Investment Fund and Erste Bank Hungary have signed a credit facility agreement worth approximately €35 million to finance the hotel development of Váci Utca Center in Budapest's 5th District.

NEPI Rockcastle has signed a €250 million green term loan facility with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). The facility is senior unsecured, matures in 2034, and is fully committed and available for drawdown until the end of March 2027. It is dedicated entirely to green investment across the company's Central and Eastern European (CEE) portfolio.

Alimentation Couche-Tard has announced a voluntary tender offer to acquire all issued and outstanding shares of Żabka Group, Poland's largest convenience retailer listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. The offer, to be made through its wholly owned subsidiary Circle K Polska sp. z.o.o., is priced at PLN 32.00 (equivalent of US$8.48) per share, representing a total equity value of approximately PLN 32.62 billion (equivalent of US$8.6 billion). The transaction, which Couche-Tard describes as the largest in its history, is expected to complete no later than December 2026, subject to regulatory approvals.

An investor club composed mainly of Estonian investors has acquired 100% of shares in EfTEN Domina SIA, the company that owns Domina Shopping Center in Riga, from EfTEN Kinnisvarafond II AS. Following the transaction, a Latvian subsidiary of EfTEN Capital AS will continue to manage the centre. The financial terms were not disclosed.

Commercial real estate investment across six Central and Eastern European markets reached €5.8 billion in the first half of 2026, according to Colliers, with the Czech Republic accounting for roughly a quarter of that total at over €1.4 billion. Although this represents a nominal decline from the record €2.2 billion recorded in the same period last year, analysts at Colliers view the result as a stabilisation following an period of exceptional activity.

RS Group has completed Rezidence U Sadů, a 54-unit residential building in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic. The project, which won the Real Estate Project of the Year 2025 award for the Královéhradecký region, has seen 51 of its 54 apartments sold ahead of completion, with only three units remaining. Layouts range from studio to four-bedroom configurations.

Apsys has completed the acquisition of 3 Stawy Shopping Centre in Katowice from a fund managed by Union Investment. The retail property offers 38,600 sqm of gross leasable area and recorded an occupancy rate of 97.1% at the end of May 2026. Dentons acted as legal counsel and PwC as financial adviser to Apsys throughout the transaction.

North East Romania has long been recognised as one of the country's manufacturing centres, but reducing the region's investment story to factories and production lines no longer tells the full picture. Over the past decade, a broader economic ecosystem has begun to emerge, one that combines advanced manufacturing with technology, research, healthcare, logistics and a rapidly evolving business services sector. It is this diversification that is increasingly attracting the attention of investors and will be one of the key themes explored at the inaugural edition of EastGate this September.

BIG Poland has acquired Grodzisk Sfera Park, an 11,000 sqm GLA retail park in Grodzisk Mazowiecki, located approximately 30 km west of Warsaw. The property becomes the company's 13th retail park in Poland and its second in the Mazowieckie voivodeship, alongside BIG Łubna. The acquisition brings BIG Poland's total portfolio to nearly 258,000 sqm GLA. Rebranding and reopening under the BIG brand are planned for late summer.