Tue, May 22 2012
Days after real estate investment trust Equest Balkan Properties announced that it would sell some of its assets in Bulgaria and other neighbouring countries, it announced that it had sold the former Hotel Serdika to Uniqa Real Estate, the real estate subsidiary of Austrian insurer Uniqa, Dnevnik daily reported on May 15.
Equest managing partner Georgi Kroumov confirmed the news but declined to specify the value of the transaction until the deal was finalised.
This is Equest's second asset divestiture after City Center Sofia, a key shopping and entertainment complex in Bulgaria's capital.
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