Bulgarias holiday property market was saturated and big projects found no buyers because they were unprofitable, the managing director of Foros real estate agency Dobromir Ganev has said. Local company Terra Trans Consult has suspended a 200 million euro holiday village project in Balchik due to the severe economic conditions, the towns mayor Nikolai Angelov said. The companys Balchik Paradise complex was to deliver houses, a hotel, a spa centre, a conference hall and a cinema hall.
Archive for October, 2008
Buyers snub holiday properties
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008Largest residential project in Vidin
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008The construction has started of the largest residential estate, with regular flats, luxury flats, shops, and boutiques in the central part of the northern Bulgarian town of Vidin on the Danube River. Located on Yavorov Street in the town, the complex is close to the centre of the old town, about 200m from the river and 400m for the city centre itself, weekly Stroitelstvo Gradut reported.
BREF REIT prepays 20.16M leva loans
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008Bulgarian Real Estate Fund, the local real estate investment trust REIT, has prepaid two loans from Eurobank EFG Bulgaria, worth a combined 20.16 million leva, to avoid interest payment, the head of the funds project manager Kaloyan Ninov said.
Credit crunch goes skiing
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008The snowballing turmoil that has frozen the global financial markets is breathing ice into Bulgarias winter resorts as well, tourism sector representatives said. It was only last year that Bulgarias top mountain resorts of Bansko and Borovets, near Sofia, and Pamporovo, in the south, enjoyed doubledigit growths in tourist numbers. But the crisis dampened new hopes and had the sector bracing up for lower levels. Hotels and apartment complexes mushrooming in the recent years are in for a cold winter.
Property prices in Pamporovo down 15 realtor
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008The global financial crunch has had its effect in the tourist resort town of Pamporovo, Bulgaria. The flats available in the numerous apartment estates recently built in the town have declined sharply in value, according to Yavlena GEOS, a real estate agency based in Smolyan, quoted by website stroitelstvo.bg. The first decline in value was observed in the hotelapartment complexes, especially in the cases where there is a larger loan taken out for their construction.
Bulgarian real estate slumps in value
Monday, October 20th, 2008The Bulgarian real estate market has enjoyed years of gradual growth, with prices constantly being on the upturn providing a healthy climate for the sector. These were the days of predictability and affluence. Not anymore, being on the outskirts of the hurricane of financial trubulence slowly approaching the country from the West, prices have taken on a sharp decline, as offers on the leading property websites in the country show.
Sozopol sets sights for the rich and famous
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008The municipality of Sozopol, a Bulgarian Black Sea resort town, has implemented a construction plan, which aims to attract the rich and famous. Affluent tourists will be teased with the creation of a small airport for private aircraft, with a runway spanning 1.8km between the Ravna Gora and Izvor villages, Bulgarian construction news website stroitelstvo.bg reported. Sozopol chief architect Roumen Alexandrov and the mayor of the town Panayot Reizi have unveiled the plans which also include a 30ha recreational park near Gradina Camping.
Spains Hercesa to invest 500M euro in Bulgaria
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008Spanish investor Hercesa Internacional plans to inject 500 million euro in Bulgaria, 210 million of which will be directed toward the building of an entire neighbourhood with fine infrastructure and even a train station to connect its residents to various parts of Sofia, owner Juan Jose SercadilloCalvo said at a news conference on October 8 2008, at the National Institute of Archaeology and Museum. In addition to fine quality construction and design, Hercesa Internacional says it would offer potential clients an accessible payment plan to make its product available to more people.
Kibela Royal holiday village to rise near Balchik
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008A new holiday village, conveniently located close to the golf course that is being built near the Black Sea town of Balchik, will rise on about 27 000 sq m land plot, weekly Stroitelstvo Gradut reported. Investor of the project is BritanniaBalchik Inc., a partnership with British shareholders, while the design is done by architects Svetoslav Stanislavov and Delyan Zhechev from the Varnabased Disarch studio.
German firm Degi buys Mall of Sofia
Sunday, October 12th, 2008German company Degi has acquired the Mall of Sofia shopping centre, said the antitrust authority, which should rule on the deal. Sources told Dnevnik daily that Degi Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Immobilienfonds was also a bidder for the capitals City Center Sofia but lost to US company Heitman, which offered 101 million euro.Degis marketing director and press spokesman Dietmar Mueller declined to comment until the deal was wrapped up.