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.

Tenants are still eager to choose Warsaw's Służewiec district for their headquarters. The district also has a rapidly developing residential sector. These factors are enhancing the district’s image as an attractive place to live.  Nearly 35,000 sqm of office space was leased in Q1 2019, 3,900 apartments delivered to the market in the last three years with transactions worth over €600 million concluded in the office market since 2015 - JLL analysed investor activity in Warsaw’s Służewiec Przemysłowy.

Immofinanz is acquiring the Warsaw Spire Tower Building in the Polish capital through the purchase of the respective property holding companies. This roughly 220 metre-high office tower has approximately 71,600 sqm of rentable space, with roughly 65,000 sqm representing offices and the remainder used primarily for retail purposes. The agreed property value for the office tower amounts to approximately €386.0 million. The expected annual rental income based on invoiced rents totals roughly €19.6 million. The sellers are Ghelamco Group, which completed the tower in 2016, and Madison International Realty, a global Real Estate Private Equity Firm.