Sun, Nov 08 2009
A new holiday resort Kostina will be built in the mountain village of Ribaritsa, located near Teteven city, Stroitelstvo gradut weekly reported.
The resort will be situated on a land plot of 5000 sq m, and will feature 13 units of three different sizes for the total investment of 1.5 million euro.
Investor and developer of the project is Tenbul Ltd, whose owner Ivan Marinov has lived and worked in Spain for the past 10 years. Tenbul is the Bulgarian arm of the Spanish company Interbul, also owned by Marinov, which operates in Tenerife Island.
Designer of Kostina village is architect Elena Kavalska, who has designed the proposed houses to vary in dimension from 144 to 189 sq m. The design envisions modern-type developments that will preserve the features of rural style construction and landscaping. Each house will have an adjoining yard of 300 sq m, and future owners will be offered property management, 24-hour surveillance, maintenance and option for letting out.
The construction is planned to start at the end of 2008, and will be completed in two years.
Ribaritsa is a picturesque village situated in the foothills of Stara Planina Mountain, only 138 km northeast of Sofia and because of its climate characteristics, in 1963 was officially proclaimed to be a health-beneficial resort, attracting Bulgarian and foreign tourists.
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