Fri, Feb 10 2012
Icon Ltd, a daughter company of the Greek GEK Group, plans to invest in the construction of a tourism centre near the Bulgarian mountain resort of Samokov.
The project envisions the construction of a spa hotel, mini golf course, a trade centre and trade street, sports fields, petrol station, swimming pool, tennis courts, apartment houses and carting track, investor.bg reported.
In three years the company will invest 72 million euro. The total investment in the complete project could reach 108 million euro.
The complex will cover an area of 166 000 sq m in the region Pashenitsa that Icon bought from Samokov municipality in July 2007 for 37.5 million leva.
Samokov municipality representatives said that this was the largest deal in its history. The price for the terrain exceeded the initial price reaching 225 leva a sq m during the tender.
The terrain of Pashenitsa is part of the tourism route Samokov-Borovets-Beli Iskur.
Average market prices of homes in Sofia fell by one per cent in the fourth quarter of 2011 compared to the same period of 2010, according to the Raiffeisen Real Estate Index, as quoted by Klasa daily.
Proportionately, the number of transactions in leva increased as people reacted to speculation that the euro would disappear.
Nearly all banks are ready to finance between 80 per cent and 90 per cent of the price of a home, provided it is a good building in a large city, Bulgarian daily says.
Property prices in Bulgaria were five to 10 per cent lower in 2011 than in 2010, while initial estimates for this year are that they will remain largely unchanged, with transactions remaining at ‘crisis levels’.
Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia ranks 17th, report says, quoting Global Property Guide.