Newmark Group, Inc., today announced that it has fortified its presence in the CEE market through an agreement with a leading commercial real estate group of experts in Poland, which formerly operated as Cresa Polska. The team will provide a full spectrum of client services in Poland and the surrounding area, operating as Newmark Polska.

Golub GetHouse has completed the sale of the site of the planned 140-foot Liberty Tower skyscraper at ul. Grzybowska in Warsaw for an undisclosed amount. The buyer is AT Capital Group of Singapore.

TAG Immobilien AG has entered into a share purchase agreement to acquire a 100% interest in ROBYG S.A., a leading residential development firm in Poland, for an estimated purchase price of c. PLN 2,500 million (c. €550 million), net of certain adjustments ROBYG's currently secured pipeline consists of c. 23,000 residential units across four Polish cities, enabling TAG to a meaningful market entry into Warsaw. 

Palmira Capital Partners has acquired another property for the European Core Logistics Fund in Gliwice, southern Poland. The vendor is a fund advised by Crescendo Real Estate Advisors. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price.

The shareholders of Atrium European Real Estate have voted in favour of the company merging with Gazit Globe subsidiary Gazit Hercules 2020.

Poseidon Group, an investor, asset manager and property manager of the Capitol Park centres across Croatia, confirmed the sale of the assets they fully manage in Zadar, Križevci, Krk, Jastrebarsko, Ivanić-Grad and Makarska, to a group of local private investors.

Stockholm-based global investment manager EQT Exeter has acquired five logistics halls in two parks in Ostrava (Logistics Park Nošovice and Ostrava Airport Multimodal Park) offering 140,000 sqm of Class A space from J&T and Concens Investments. CBRE advised the sellers in the €150 million transaction.

The commercial part of Horizon Development’s mixed-use property in downtown Budapest, Szervita Square Building was purchased by Union Investment for one of its institutional real estate funds. The parties agreed not to disclose details of the purchase price.

Following years of turmoil in retail, 2022 will bring rental growth and increased investment capital to the sector across Europe, according to Savills.

Immofinanz is following its market entry in Italy with the expansion of its Stop Shop retail park brand across the Adriatic region in line with the corporate strategy. In Croatia, plans call for an increase in the number of Stop Shops from the current level of 4 to more than 20 locations over the medium term. The completion of a newly developed Stop Shop and the expansion of an existing location is scheduled for the first half of 2022. Detailed market and location analyses indicated high demand by the Croatian population for decentralised, local supplies. This conclusion led to a decision by Immofinanz to secure 22 sites in medium-sized Croatian cities for the development of Stop Shop retail parks. The purchase price for these sites totals approximately €80 million.