Thu, Feb 09 2012
Scottish company Miller Developments purchased Mall Varna for 120 million euro, consultancy company Forton International reported.
The sales negotiations lasted more than a year and involved consultants from Forton and Cushman&Wakefield, investor.bg reported.
The construction of the mall itself was launched a bit earlier by the investor Interservice Uzunovi.
Gross built-up area of Mall Varna was 70 000 sq m. Nearly half of the mall's area, 32 000 sq m would be offered for rent. The mall should be opened within half a year.
Pavlina Nikova, Forton manager for the project, said that there were already tenants for 26 000 sq m of the area to be rented.
The mall would have a cinema, supermarket, bowling, bookstore and 10 restaurants, she said.
Miller Group is the biggest private property construction holding in the UK, investor.bg said.
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.