Sat, Nov 07 2009
The daily ski card in Borovets winter resort will now cost 20 leva.
The resort decided to take down all prices towards the end of the ski season. The three-day card, enabling usage of all facilities, costs 56 leva and the six-day card is worth 104 leva.
Hotels also decreased accommodation prices. Some of them offer special summer packages to attract tourists, Focus news agency reported.
Other offers focus on Easter celebrations in Bulgaria's mountain resorts. A tourism package in Borovets hotels offers three accommodations and Easter lunch worth 113 leva per person.
Resort representatives said that Borovets tracks offer good skiing conditions and the snow coverage reached up to 150cm.
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