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Cushman & Wakefield was appointed property manager of Horizon Plaza in Warsaw. In addition, Cushman & Wakefield delivers project commercialization services for the owner of the building. The owner of Horizon Plaza is a real estate fund managed by Union Investment.

Warburg-HIH Invest Real Estate acquired a LEED Platinum certified new office building in Budapest on behalf of an open-ended special AIF of an institutional investor. The White House, developed by GTC Group, was completed in summer of 2018 and has a gross lettable area of 22,300 square metres. The property is fully occupied, the main tenants being investment fund manager BlackRock, Jaguar Land Rover and the Dutch co-working provider Spaces. The average lease term is 8.2 years. It was agreed not to disclose the purchase price.

Henderson Park, a pan-European private equity real estate platform, has completed the acquisition of a 70% interest in a portfolio of 11 newly built office buildings located in tier one cities in Poland from EPP.  EPP will retain a 30% stake in the portfolio and continue to manage the assets, in partnership with Henderson Park’s experienced asset management team.

M7 Real Estate has appointed Savills as the property manager for its recent office acquisitions, Green Park, Mazovia Plaza and Delta 44, thereby extending its cooperation with the advisor.

Cromwell European REIT has announced that it is to acquire six office properties in France and Poland. CEREIT is to pay €246.9 million for all six properties.

One United Properties has completed the concept of its new office project One Cotroceni Park.  The new project can offer a floorplate up to 8,000 sqm, addressing companies in search of a headquarter efficiency solution.

According to Cresa’s report, Katowice’s office stock has increased by nearly 9% over the year to almost 520,000 sqm at the end of the first quarter of 2019. More than 30,000 sqm is expected to be added to Katowice’s office stock by the end of this year.

Automotive parts supplier Continental Romania is investing €27 million to expand its office building in Iasi. The new building will have eight floors and a total built-up area of over 21,000 square metres. Completion of the project is scheduled for March 2020.

Skanska has acquired about 13,000 square meters of land in Prague, Czech Republic, from HB Reavis Group B.V. The total investment amounts to €19.5 million.

Łódź’s office market has been well-balanced in terms of demand and supply for several years. According to Cresa’s latest report, the office stock of the Łódź market has increased by nearly 8% year-on-year and amounted to 471,200 sqm at the end of Q1 2019. Take-up in the first quarter of 2019 reached 15,100 sqm, up more than 50% on the same period in 2018.