Sun, Nov 08 2009
Investment fund SECURE Investment Ltd has announced plans to invest nearly 150 million euro in South Eastern Europe, focusing on Bulgaria, Romania and Serbia.
Forty per cent of the fund is owned by Italian investment company Aedes Investissement. In February 2007 it announced plans to invest in the property market in Central and Eastern Europe, investor.bg reported.
The company's strategy envisions investment in partnership with a construction contractor or other investors in residential development projects.
Aedes's participation in SECURE Investment is worth 20 million euro and the company expects a 22 per cent return on investment.
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