Sun, Nov 22 2009
Real estate investment trust (REIT) files for liquidation after two years of doing virtually nothing.
As we prepare to welcome the New Year, we can look back at what happened in the agricultural land market during the now "old" 2008. In retrospect, we can say that the market exhibited quite interesting behaviour. By the end of the third quarter, average agricultural land prices rose to as much as 1900 and even 2000 euro per ha, 50 per cent higher than their 2007 value of about 1300 euro per ha. The market attracted more and more investors, big and small, and saw much speculation.
Bulgarian Real Estate Fund, the local real estate investment trust (REIT), has prepaid two loans from Eurobank EFG Bulgaria, worth a combined 20.16 million leva, to avoid interest payment, the head of the fund's project manager Kaloyan Ninov said. The loans financed the purchases of 78 000 sq m of land plots in Sofia's Mladost district and a building in the Borovets resort complex in the town of the same name.
Strong public opposition to price hikes prompted Prime Minister Boiko Borissov to axe the Finance Ministry proposal to increase the excise duty on spirits, but MPs have put it back on the agenda.
Bulgaria’s Cabinet seeks to reverse recent changes in the telecommunications sector
Kremikovtzi’s prospects for a recovery plan appear increasingly distant
Bulgarians are getting the hang of debit and credit cards, MasterCard says
The two telecoms, both set up to challenge former fixed-line state monopoly BTC, will merge operations and expect to report 20 million euro in revenue and a gross profit of five million euro in 2010.