Sun, Nov 08 2009
UK investment fund Lewis Charles Sofia Property Fund will provide finance for the construction of a holiday village near the village of Banya, not far from the Bulgarian ski resort of Bansko.
The fund already signed a contract with Bulgarian Winslow Developments to regulate and develop the project, Bulgarian National Radio (BNR) reported.
The project in Banya envisages holiday village including tennis courts, pools, spa centres, a restaurant and bars.
The deal will generate earnings of nearly 113 million euro, Winslow Developments said. The company operates on the real estate market and so far implemented several projects in Bansko.
In July 2006 Winslow developments set up a joint venture with the investment fund of Deutsche Bank, PREEF aiming to develop a project for the construction of 1000 apartments in two residential districts in the capital of Sofia.
The joint venture is 12 per company-owned and 88 per cent PREEF-owned. The planned investment exceeds 100 million euro.
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