Sun, Nov 08 2009
Investment from real estate deals is expected to reach one billion euro by the end of 2005, according to research by Bulgaria's Elta Consult real estate services . By the middle of August the sale of office, trade and industrial property had accumulated 120 million euro, Elta Consult's managing director Valeri Iliev said. About 25 per cent of all investment in Bulgaria was in the property sphere, Iliev said. Interest is currently highest in the acquisition of office and trade property, but more investors are interested in construction plots, which permit the development of different projects. Among the most active buyers are companies from Greece, Cyprus, Israel and Ireland.
The Serbia and Montenegro managing director of Colliers International, Tony de Graaf said he believed the trade property market remained the most active in the Balkan region. Various companies are planning to start the construction of new malls in Bourgas, Stara Zagora, and Sofia, Dnevnik daily reported.
Kindergartens to be dealt with on a case-by-case basis and universities to decide for themselves whether to suspend classes.
Five illegal immigrants from Iran and Iraq caught by Bulgarian police in Sliven.
Leonid Lavchev sent an intermediary to collect 1000 leva from a dairy farm in Haskovo, investigators say
Former labour minister Emilia Maslarova follows the example of Socialist party leader and former prime minister, Sergei Stanishev, in requesting that her MP immunity is lifted
Health Minister: Influenza strain is not seasonal flu, it is swine flu. More than 100 000 Bulgarians are down with the H1N1 strain.