 Helexpo, the main organiser of the event, has stated that the public sector, together with the imported businesses, makes up to 12 per cent from the total of exhibitors, and 19 per cent of the exhibition space. | South East Europe 21:22 Thu 26 Jun 2008 - sofiaecho.com On September 6-14, the Greek city of Thessaloniki will host the 72nd international fair, which traditionally gathers exhibitors from all over the world as well as boasts 12 thematic events.
This year, the fair will present participants from 26 countries among which are South Africa, Cyprus, Brazil, India, Turkey, Romania, France and Italy, as stated on the event's official website. read more  |
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11:32 Thu 22 May 2008 - Elena Koinova
Hungarian property developer SCD Holding unveiled plans to expand to Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia, Hungarian newspaper Napi Gazdasag reported on May 21, as quoted by bbj.hu.
In Bulgaria, in particular, it would hone its attention to office and commercial property, the newspaper quoted SCD spokesperson Peter Elkan as saying. In Romania it will focus on residential property and in Croatia on tourism. read more
18:00 Wed 07 May 2008 - Elena Koinova
Over the past two years, Greece has staged a “real onslaught” onto the Bulgarian and other Balkan markets, Greek business newspaper Imerisia reported on May 7.
Greek construction companies, mainly from the northern part of the country, have been building large residential, office and retail developments in Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania and, recently, Macedonia. read more
14:51 Thu 24 Apr 2008 - Elena Koinova
Use of unconventional energy resources in Romania in new buildings or in renovating new ones is still a pioneering activity, hence a correct design that can be replicated across other buildings is yet to be found, said architect Gabriela Tabacu, a professor at University of Architecture and Urbanism Ion Mincu, at Build Green CEE. read more
14:05 Thu 24 Apr 2008 - Elena Koinova
The Romanian government has only just started to involve itself in the green building concept but the new attitudes are gaining momentum. A host of Romanian public administration officials took the floor during the second and closing day of the Build Green CEE conference in Bucharest, Romania. read more
12:42 Thu 24 Apr 2008 - Elena Koinova
In June this year the world will witness the first zero emissions building ever, Gamze Celikyilmaz from the Regional Environmental Center (REC), told participants of Building Green CEE conference. read more
14:45 Fri 18 Apr 2008
Romanian capital Bucharest will host the Build Green CEE: Energy Efficient and Ecological Design for the Region conference on April 23-24. read more
15:34 Tue 15 Apr 2008 - Rene Beekman
Bulgarian company Doverie Brico, which holds the rights of the French Do It Yourself (DIY) retailer Mr. Bricolage for Bulgaria, Macedonia and Serbia, announced plans to expand open new shops Serbia and Montenegro in 2009, Namnews said on April 15.
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14:02 Tue 08 Apr 2008 - Alex Bivol
Real estate developer Globe Trade Centre (GTC) will invest 40 million euro in a new shopping centre in the town of Osijek in Croatia, consultant and leasing agent for the project Colliers International Croatia said on April 7. read more
14:56 Fri 04 Apr 2008 - Alex Bivol
Serbian real estate firm NBGP Properties has agreed to buy the property portfolio of International CG, which includes Belgrade's five-star Hotel Continental, real estate consultancy firm Colliers International Serbia said on April 4. read more
12:59 Thu 03 Apr 2008
Although some European markets are marking growth, latest data on residential prices indicate that things in Europe, like in the United States, are slowing down, according to a survey published by Forbes magazine on April 1.
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18:18 Wed 02 Apr 2008
Equest Balkan Properties investment fund said it borrowed 25.675 million euro from Raiffeisen Zentralbank – Austria to finance its Equest Logistics Centre project in Romania, investor.bg reported. The loan has a five-year maturity.
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17:52 Wed 02 Apr 2008
Prices of Montenegrin real estate rose abruptly after the country declared its independence on May 21 2006, which coincided with growing investor interest, Kapital weekly reported. For instance, property along the Adriatic coast gained 96 per cent on average during the first five months of 2007, as compared to the respective period in 2006 read more
13:25 Wed 02 Apr 2008
The prospects of Russian customers to acquire a new housing unit remain relatively stable. However, like in 2007, only 13 per cent of the residents were planning to improve their living conditions or to buy a new residence in the next seven years read more
12:23 Tue 01 Apr 2008
Colliers International Croatia says that a new wave of office development in Zagreb is underway, prompted by falling vacancy rates in recently constructed class A offices. The findings come in the international property consultants’ new Zagreb Office Market Overview for the first half of 2008.
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18:58 Fri 28 Mar 2008
UK-based international property advisory King Sturge, which declared its intention to enter the Bulgarian market, as previously reported, has already chosen a local partner – ProCon International property consultants, Yani Stoimenov and Andreana Petkova, managing partners in the Bulgarian company, said in a media statement. read more
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Russian property investment company AFI Development Plc, owned by Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev, nearly doubled last year, boosted by the rising demand for high-quality office and residential space on Moscow market, the company said in a statement on March 27. read more
12:06 Thu 27 Mar 2008
Spain remains a favourite destination with property investors as it offers a number of attributes that emerging destinations cannot match, Terry Walker, spokesperson for PropertyInSpain.net, said, as quoted by holidaylettings.co.uk. read more
18:54 Wed 26 Mar 2008
Russian holding Etalon-Len-Spets SMU (ELS), specialising primarily in residential construction, started its international expansion through a 30 million-dollar investment in a housing complex in Bulgaria, Property Xpress reported.
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18:22 Wed 26 Mar 2008
King Sturge, the international real estate advisory, is surveying opportunities for entering the Bulgarian market, company officials told investor.bg.
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13:28 Wed 26 Mar 2008
A new 26 000 sq m logistics centre is to be developed in Horní Počernice in the Czech Republic, as a joint home for distributors PNS and Mediaservis. It is the result of an imaginative solution to the needs of both companies by Colliers International Czech Republic. read more
17:04 Tue 25 Mar 2008
Belgium-based Immo Industry Group (IIG), a European leader in design and construction of tailor-made industrial schemes, doubled the volume of its business during 2007, the company said in a recent media statement.
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11:58 Tue 25 Mar 2008
Colliers International Poland has changed its company structure to a partnership, owned by twelve partners, the company said in a statement. The change took place in the fourth quarter of 2007 and marks the beginning of a new chapter in the company’s eleven-year history in Poland, the company said.
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17:15 Mon 24 Mar 2008
Israeli real estate company Gazit-Globe and Citi Property Investors Europe, the investment manager arm of Citygroup, plan to invest 800 million euro in Austrian fund Meinl European Land, Bulgarian-language Stroitelstvo Gradut (Construction and the City) weekly reported on March 24. read more
16:44 Mon 24 Mar 2008
The current rising demand for new construction units in Bucharest has propelled a keen building activity, Bucharest daily Business Standard reported on March 24. read more
12:16 Fri 21 Mar 2008 - Anelia Zaharieva
Immoeast has opted to proceed cautiously in the currently ambiguous market situation, Immoeast officials told Reuters. read more
11:08 Fri 21 Mar 2008 - Anelia Zaharieva
Enormous property price growth in Central and Eastern Europe is offering investors an escape route from blighted British and Spanish markets hit by the credit crunch, analysts Property Secrets said. read more
10:13 Mon 17 Mar 2008
Colliers International Montenegro has announced that it will be the exclusive agents for Atlas Capital Center, the biggest mixed-use project in Montenegro. The joint venture in the capital Podgorica is by Atlas Group and Capital Investment of the United Arab Emirates, and will feature residential, retail and office units.
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16:30 Wed 12 Mar 2008 - Desislava Leshtarska
The European retail-centres market is expected to see another year of growth, largely on the back of developments in Central and Eastern European countries, investor.bg reported on March 12, quoting a Jones Lang LaSalle consultancy report.
Trade centres occupying a record-breaking six million sq m have been developed in 2007. In the next two years, Russia alone will see six million sq m of retail areas delivered. Italy, Turkey and Poland's markets will add two million sq m of retail areas to their current stock in the coming two years.
read more15:54 Tue 11 Mar 2008 - Anelia Zaharieva
Moscow real estate beat Paris for the title of Europe's top market in terms of investment appeal and growth potential, according to a survey presented at the 19th edition of the MIPIM international real estate projects exhibition that opened in Cannes on March 11 read more
10:23 Tue 11 Mar 2008 - Desislava Leshtarska
Swiss International Air Lines (Swiss), Switzerland's flag carrier, will launch daily flights between Sofia and Zurich on March 30. The daily flights were put on the schedule as a result of the increased commercial and leisure traffic between the two countries, the company said in a statement on March 10.
The flights would be operated with an Airbus A319 aircraft and would connect Sofia to Zurich and to other destinations on Swiss' network, the company said. Both business and economy-class tickets would be offered.
read more17:16 Fri 07 Mar 2008 - Anelia Zaharieva
The Central Europen division of Global Principal Investment (GPI), Merrill Lynch's commercial real estate investment arm, plans to invest 550 million euro in real estate in Serbia read more
20:15 Thu 28 Feb 2008 - Anelia Zaharieva
The Ukrainian property market has recorded remarkable rises in all its segments. Prices of retail, office and industrial areas have reached the highest levels in Central and East Europe (CEE) region, driven by lack of supply and boosted demand, Kyiv Post reported, cited by investor.bg. Foreign and local companies are quickly expanding their activity in the country read more
16:50 Thu 28 Feb 2008 - Anelia Zaharieva
GE Real Estate investment company, one of the owners of Mall Sofia, invested 6.5 billion euro in the European property market during 2007, including 2.6 billion euro in land portfolios and 3.9 billion euro in equity investments, PropertyEU reports.
The total value of GE Real Estate's assets in Europe reached 14.8 billion euro.
Among the company’s most significant real estate transactions during the second half of 2007 were:
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18:21 Wed 27 Feb 2008
Two Bulgarian companies were distinguished at the end of one of the largest international fairs of properties abroad – DomExpo in Russia.
New Address, a partner of the event's administrators and an organiser of the Bulgaria Day at the fair, received two awards. The first was for active participation in the preparation and conduct of the fair's business agenda and the second was for best stand design of an exhibitor.
The other Bulgarian winner was Dream Homes, cited for the best organisation of a stand's work during the exhibition.
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10:00 Tue 26 Feb 2008
Property developers have opportunities in Eastern Europe to create luxury homes in undiscovered territories.
Countries such as Turkey, Bulgaria and Croatia are benefiting from huge government-funded benefits and awards for real estate firms looking to transform historic buildings into high-quality hotels, says Paul Kerr, chief executive of UK-based Small Luxury Hotels of the World, quoted by Forbes news agency.
This trend follows strong growth in foreign tourism bringing economic benefits to Eastern European countries, the article said.
Turkey received about 819 million dollars in revenue from holidaymakers in 2006, according to Turkish Statistical Institute figures quoted by the news agency.
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13:25 Mon 25 Feb 2008
Greek industrial and construction Copelouzos Group chose Bulgarian market as the first destination of its international expansion plan, investor.bg reported.
The company is a part of the HELPE-THRAKI consortium, which is developing the Bourgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline on the Greek side, and, as such, has established some useful contacts with Bulgarian business.
This year Copelouzos Group plans to invest 15 million euro on Greek and Bulgarian real estate markets, according to the Greek publication Capital.gr.
In Bulgaria it will target the residential sector, investor.bg said.
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13:09 Mon 25 Feb 2008
German construction firms should focus on the Romanian and Bulgarian building markets, said Helmut Echterhoff, vice-president of the German Construction Industry HDB (Hauptverbandes der Deutschen Bauindustrie) at the 13th International trade fair for building and construction Bautec 2008, held in Berlin.
The two new EU members offer good perspectives for 20 to 30 per cent annual growth, particularly creating excellent entrepreneurial opportunities for medium-sized construction companies, said Echterhoff at the second CEEC (Central and East European countries) enterprise conference, which was held during Bautec 2008 under the aegis of the German Minister of Economics and Technologies Michael Gloss and was organised by the economics and technologies ministry and the Central Union of the German Construction Industry.
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12:59 Mon 25 Feb 2008
Investors tantalised by Tirana
Real estate in emerging locations proved to be massively popular again in January on TheMoveChannel.com's top 10 list of hot investment properties, with far-flung destinations dominating the site.
January's top ten proves once again that investors are shunning well-established markets like Spain and France, preferring instead to take calculated risks on cheaper properties in expanding markets across the globe.
Last month's top property came from Bulgaria, and this month there's been no change.
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11:13 Mon 25 Feb 2008
Colliers International Croatia has announced that it is the exclusive leasing agent for the upgrade and extension of Dalmare Shopping Center in Sibenik. The second phase of the Dalmare development extension, which will transform it into an international-style regional shopping center, will be completed in spring 2009. The 50 million euro investment will increase the size of the shopping center to 54 000 sq m of gross leasable area.
The upgrade is being undertaken by the investor, Zagreb Montaza group, which has over 1 000 employees and an annual turnover of nearly 100 million euro. read more
16:30 Thu 21 Feb 2008
Bulgaria's State Agency for Tourism will promote the country as a tourist destination to Russians. It has launched an advertising campaign, including 30-minute videos, to be broadcast on the Rossiya Channel and on Channel One in the Russian cities of Yekaterininburg, Irkutsk, Kazan, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Samara, Ufa, Chelyabinsk, Kransnodar, Perm, Rostov-na-Don, Omsk - between February 18 and February 29.
A second advertising campaign will take place in the same cities between May 5 and May 25. Three shorter videos will also be shown on the NTV and TVC channels in the Moscow region, St.Petersburg, Yekaterininburg, Novosibirsk, Samara and Rostov-na-Don. read more
11:02 Wed 20 Feb 2008 - Anelia Zaharieva
Greek property market misses a considerable investment volume each year due to its “immaturity,” Greek business daily Imerisia reported, as quoted by investor.bg.
An underdeveloped market and state policy toward business, as represented by high tax rates, expensive red tape and lack of robust legislative framework, curtails private incentive. At the same time, other Balkan countries are undergoing a rapid development, attracting significant foreign investment, the daily claimed.
read more16:58 Tue 19 Feb 2008 - Desislava Leshtarska
Plaza Centers N.V, a leading emerging markets property developer, announced on February 10 2009 that it had acquired a site in Hunedoara, Romania.
The 41 000-sq m site near Hunedoara city centre would be developed into a modern shopping and entertainment centre, with a built area of 28 000 sq m, and 20 000 sq m of lettable space. The centre had a catchment area of 500,000 people in the region, the developer said.
The development project is expected to cost approximately 37 million euro, with construction due to start in mid-2008 and be completed in the first quarter of 2010.
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