Fri, May 25 2012
As many as 1550 out of 5820 firms have not confirmed registration with the construction chamber as at September 1, which is a mandatory requirement to continue operations, construction chamber executive director Ivan Boikov said.
Kavarna has a new trade-administrative complex - Kavarna City Centre, which started operating from January 2009. It had taken a little more than a year for Planex OOD to reconstruct and modernise the otherwise unappealing, communist-era concrete monster of a building in the centre of the town, and subsequently transform it into a modern steel and aluminium-glass structure, which has now become the new administrative and business centre of Kavarna and the surrounding region, Bulgarian weekly Strotelstvo Gradut reported on January 15.
On Wednesday January 31, London Sofia Property - the developers of the forthcoming Bulgaria Mall - broke ground on their latest project, called Mount View. The complex is a luxurious, high-end residential development in the Vitosha foothills, near the road Simeonovsko Chausse. At a news conference Hugh Fraser, London Sofia Property's executive director, gave details about the 20 million euro development.
"You can explain everything 10 times... and they still won't understand," says Desislava Stoyanova, administrator for Gallant Ltd, a real estate agency. "But when you show them the real thing, it immediately becomes crystal clear." She ought to know. It is at this stage of selling that deals often close - or fizzle. But what if the structure in question only exists on paper, yet, if ever, to be realised?
Worst is over for Bulgaria's property market after three years of decline, reports by Yavlena and Bulgarian Properties real estate firms claim.
Draft law envisages professional association for real estate agents and a public register of real estate companies to bring order to the business and get rid of rogues and rip-off artists.
Landmark Centre Varna’s financial reports show its largest debt is an investment loan of 6.9 million euro issued by Eurobank EFG Bulgaria in mid-2008 and secured with a mortgage.
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.
As I understand it, Part of Planex is owned by TIM group. So I suppose it is just another way to further spread their tentacle's upon Sofia!!
Jon,
seriously.
Why do we always have to bitch when someone is building something in BG?
Why are the building this in Sofia? It has terrible infrastructure and poor communications. The Obshtina and Government are complaining about population migration from the rest of the country. It seems that we are working towards two nation states; Sofia and Bulgaria. Its about time the government give investement assistance to other regions - and tell private investors that if they insist on over developing Sofia, then financially they are on their own.