Property Forum is thrilled to announce the shortlist of nominees for the SEE Property Forum Awards 2026, celebrating the most outstanding projects, landmark transactions and influential personalities shaping Romania’s real estate market. The winners will be selected soon by a jury committee comprising leading real estate professionals, and the recipients will be announced at our Awards Gala on 20 October, part of our annual SEE Property Forum conference.

Atenor has obtained a building permit for BakerStreet II, a 280-unit residential development in Budapest's 11th district. The project will comprise 280 apartments across three buildings, representing approximately 26,700 sqm of residential space. Located near the Danube and university faculties, it is designed around a landscaped courtyard with green areas and shared amenities.

Quantum Real has begun construction of Quantum Gliwice, a logistics park located directly alongside the A4 motorway, approximately 3 km from the Sośnica interchange where the A1 and A4 cross. The first phase will deliver over 43,000 sqm of warehouse space, including a speculative Class A section, with the facility expandable to more than 60,000 sqm. Completion is scheduled for the first quarter of 2027. The project is being delivered jointly with LCube, with Adamietz Construction serving as general contractor.

7R has appointed Katarzyna Różycka as Chief Financial Officer and member of the Management Board. In her new role, she will be responsible for shaping the company's financial policy and overseeing its finance, accounting and controlling functions, as the company continues to expand its operations in Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany.

CTP has signed a lease for 24,400 sqm at CTPark Bucharest South with Romstal, a distributor of construction installation equipment. The space forms part of a 54,000 sqm facility within the park and will support Romstal's logistics and distribution operations across Romania and the wider CEE region. Romstal's product portfolio spans thermo, hydro, sanitary, electrical and ceramic categories, serving customers in the construction and installation sectors.

The first stop of the Paraguay Real Estate Investment Forum (PREIF 2026) drew significant interest from the Lithuanian investment community when it took place in Vilnius on September 24, setting the stage for the forum's second edition in Warsaw on October 1.

Harden Construction has begun work on City Logistics Łódź V, a two-phase warehouse and production complex at ul. Lodowa 88 in Łódź. Construction started in June 2026 and is expected to take approximately eight months, with completion of the first phase planned for February 2027 and the second for April 2027. The project is being delivered under a design-and-build formula for developer Panattoni, with tenants PGC and Zadbano already secured.

UNIQA Real Estate Management GmbH is launching the UQA Real Estate Fund, a closed-ended real estate fund for institutional investors. The fund will invest in Core and Core Plus office properties across Europe, with a geographic focus on Austria, Poland and the Czech Republic. The move represents a further step in UNIQA Real Estate's opening of its investment and management platform, previously dedicated to the UNIQA Group, to third-party investors.

Ghelamco has completed the sale of The Bridge, a 41-storey, 174-metre office tower at Plac Europejski in Warsaw, to Stockholm-listed Eastnine AB. The deal is based on an underlying property valuation of €285 million and marks the second Ghelamco building acquired by Eastnine, following the purchase of Warsaw UNIT for €280 million in 2024. Eastnine's total investment in Ghelamco-developed office buildings in Warsaw now exceeds half a billion euros.

Czech developer CRESCO REAL ESTATE has introduced an AI-powered virtual sales assistant named Yarda on the website of its Yards Žižkov residential project in Prague, becoming the first developer in the Czech Republic to integrate such a tool directly into a residential project's online sales process. The assistant is available around the clock and communicates with prospective buyers in natural language, answering questions about the project, individual apartments and the surrounding area.