Thu, Feb 09 2012
Shopping City West Ltd, a daughter company of Austrian companies Real Finanz, Real Consult and Real Finanz East, and Bulgarian Silvana Forest, will invest 250 million euro in the construction of a mall in the western part of Sofia.
The complex would be called Eurogate and would receive a first class investment certificate, investor.bg reported.
The project would include the construction of offices and shopping areas, Invest Bulgaria Agency said.
The mall would cover an area of 1.3 million sq m and be situated near the E80 highway connecting Sofia and Belgrade.
Trade and office centres would surround the complex, the centre of which would be covered by parks with trees, fountains and small buildings.
The complex would have its own subway station, investors said.
The first part of the investment, scheduled for 2007, totals 82 million leva. In the next two years the companies would invest 82 million leva per year.
Average market prices of homes in Sofia fell by one per cent in the fourth quarter of 2011 compared to the same period of 2010, according to the Raiffeisen Real Estate Index, as quoted by Klasa daily.
Proportionately, the number of transactions in leva increased as people reacted to speculation that the euro would disappear.
Nearly all banks are ready to finance between 80 per cent and 90 per cent of the price of a home, provided it is a good building in a large city, Bulgarian daily says.
Property prices in Bulgaria were five to 10 per cent lower in 2011 than in 2010, while initial estimates for this year are that they will remain largely unchanged, with transactions remaining at ‘crisis levels’.
Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia ranks 17th, report says, quoting Global Property Guide.