Fri, Feb 10 2012
ING Real Estate Development (ING RED), the real estate branch of the ING group, was planning to start a large-scale real estate project in the centre of Bucharest, Investor.bg said.
The new project was said to be similar to the Zlote Tarasy project in Warsaw and to include office spaces and a mall, Romanian daily Ziarul Financiar said.
"We found an appropriate plot in Bucharest on which we can build. The situation is quite complicated, however, as it involves several owners, but we intend to pursue this project," ING RED managing director in Romania, Siep Hoeksma, was quoted as saying.
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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.