More expensive offices in Warsaw, is it possible in a pandemic? Walter Herz is trying to answer that difficult question. 

Focus Estate Fund has signed a loan agreement with BNP Paribas Bank Polska for €13.5 million. The funds will be used to increase the Polish portfolio of FEF, as well as for further improvements at three fund’s properties in Poland. It refers to Eden Retail Park in Zgorzelec (GLA - 9,537 sqm), Galeria Sandomierz in Sandomierz (GLA - 4,383 sqm) and Galeria Awangarda in Bartoszyce (GLA - 6,056 sqm). This is not the first deal with BNP Paribas Bank Polska, the bank has already financed the Fund's assets.

The joint venture by Acteeum Group and Equilis Europe is the largest retail park opened this year in Poland. The inaugural ceremony of the 24,000 sqm development was held on November 25th.

JLL will be responsible for searching future tenants for commercial premises inside two of Yareal’s largest projects in Warsaw’s Wola and Kamionek districts.

Real estate advisory firm Savills has been appointed as the exclusive leasing adviser for Marynarska Point I in Warsaw’s Mokotów district.

The Polish star is shining brightly on the European map of private student housing investments with rising rents on the horizon, said speakers during a discussion panel at Living Investment Forum 2021 in Warsaw, moderated by Martin Varga, Head of Real Estate Business Development at Bonard.

Macquarie Asset Management has continued to expand its presence in the logistics real estate sector by acquiring a portfolio of CityFlex properties in Poland from 7R for more than €63 million on behalf of one of its managed accounts. 

MLP Group has released its strategic goals to be met within the next three years to 2024. In line with the strategic plan, the period will see the company’s equity, or net asset value (NAV), double from €387 million in 2021 to €823 million at year end 2024. Significant growth in NAV is expected in 2022, driven mainly by the development of new projects in Germany and Austria, already fully secured.

Panattoni is further developing the warehouse stock of Lower Silesia. Panattoni Park Wrocław XIII is under development next to a junction of the A4 motorway in the village of Pietrzykowice just outside Wrocław and will eventually have an area of 75,000 sqm. Logistics operator Chomar has just leased 15,000 sqm in the park. 

The LCP Group has just finalised the purchase of another 3 Polish retail parks in Bytom, Góra Kalwaria and Plewiska near Poznań.