Kajima has appointed Michał Obara as the Managing Director of Student Depot, Poland’s largest student accommodation provider. The appointment follows Kajima acquiring Griffin Capital Partners’ shareholding in Student Depot and opening nearly a thousand additional beds in 2023. 

Yareal Polska has announced the successful closing of a €45 million investment loan, with a term of 5 years, from pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank (pbb).

Uncertainty and volatility have been the two dominant trends shaping the commercial real estate market and buyer sentiment in recent months. However, according to the latest report from Cushman & Wakefield, the Polish market, whose fundamentals remain strong, is broadly expected to regain equilibrium. Change is being seen in the number and types of real estate transactions taking place – due to the constrained availability of safe prime assets for sale on the office market and high financing costs, investors seeking higher returns are turning their focus to higher-risk transactions. With retail footfall figures for large schemes back at satisfactory levels after the pandemic and attractive asset pricing, the retail market has become an interesting sector for bargain hunting. The warehouse and logistics sector continues to feature prominently on investors’ radars.

Panattoni has recently launched construction work on the main European production plant for Maxcess in Łubowo near Gniezno and has now been awarded bank financing of around €10 million from Santander for this development.

The logistics operator from the LPP Group, the largest fashion company in the CEE region, has renewed its lease agreement for 31,800 sqm at Panattoni Park Gdańsk III. The owner of such brands as Reserved, Cropp, House, Mohito and Sinsay supplies stationery stores in Central Europe from the facility. 

Real Management S.A. has been granted a business expansion loan of PLN 47 million (ca. €11 million) for its development activity. The loan was extended by mBank S.A.

After 15 years in the Polish market, HB Reavis is changing its business profile. From the beginning of this year, it will be limiting its property development business by changing to HB Reavis Investments and remaining the property manager of Varso Place and Forest. CEO Sebastian Proć will be replaced in the management of the company by commercial director Cezary Błaszczyk.

Savills has promoted Kamil Kowa to Managing Director of Savills Poland. In his new role, Kowa will work closely with Stuart Jordan, CEO of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) at Savills to help clients operating in or looking to enter the Polish real estate market.

2024 will be a challenging year for many companies in the CEE real estate sector that will have to refinance their loans at new, increased costs. Those that need to redeem their corporate bonds in the coming quarters may also have a lot of problems.

Redan has signed an agreement to sell the Top Secret brand's chain of stationary and e-commerce shops. The buyer is the company Greenpoint, which is also to take over the brand's trademark.