Sun, Nov 08 2009
Prices of property in Sofia will remain stable, while quality of construction and additional services offered will increase.
Property purchasers are also to become more demanding.
The property market in Sofia enters a `more mature' phase, Colliers International short-term prediction said.
Residential property supply is increasing and residential complexes of closed type are very popular, Colliers said.
Construction of new luxurious property is most intense in Sofia's southern districts, Lozenets, Vitosha, Manastirski Livadi and Bukston.
The average sale price in 2006 registered a light increase as compared to price increase over the past several years, Colliers said.
Property prices in Iztok residential district raised the most in the second half of 2006, by 17.1 per cent, followed by prices in Lozenets.
Office rent transactions peaked at 65 000 sq m between July and September 2008, but collapsed to 10 700 sq m in Q3 2009, Forton manager Sergei Koinov said.
Most potential buyers are now opting to buy a luxury flat in the range of 120 000 to 150 000 euro or a single family home for about 500 000 euro.
About 30 000 to 35 000 people employed in the construction sector were facing redundancies in 2010, Bulgaria's Regional Development Minister Rossen Plevneliev said on October 26.
Average market prices of housing in Bulgaria dropped five per cent in July-September, measured quarter-on-quarter, the National Statistical Institute said on October 23 2009.
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has released a 43.5 million euro loan to Sofia Municipality, for infrastructure projects worth 88.1 million euro in total