Real estate

The number of uninhabited housing in Bulgaria is growing. They are 1,220,416 or more than 31 percent of all homes in the country, the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Works (MRDPW) announced.
 

Most of the demand is for apartment buildings, and it seems multidwelling units have once again become an interesting long-term investment. As experts believe that a high number of apartments could easily be sold in Maribor at this moment, it is high-time to seize the opportunity and invest in Maribor's undeveloped land lots.

The luxury property market in Bulgaria is moderately high during the first quarter of 2018, according to an analysis by the consulting firm Unique Estates.

According to the preliminary data of the National Statistical Institute, the number of new buildings put in operation in the first quarter of 2018 was 565 and the newly constructed apartments were 1 530. Compared to the first quarter of 2017, the buildings were 103 more, or 22.3% increase, while the dwellings in them decreased by 221, or by 12.6%, the NSI reported.

Nowadays real estate prices are increasing steadily ... Is the new home becoming a more distant dream? comments Bulgaria On Air TV show together with Nevena Stoyanova, a partner in a real estate agency, Snezhana Stoycheva, the manager of imoti.net and the singer Nora Karaivanova.

Buying or renting a new home is accompanied by a lot of stress and ... money.

Diagnostic and Therapeutic Center of Athens Hygeia SA announced on Tuesday that its 2017 earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization from continuing operations reached 33.5 million euros, recording a 10 percent annual rise. 

Its revenues increased marginally last year to reach 206 million euros, from 205.9 million euros in 2016.

For several months now, work has been done to make sure "the issue would no longer be such a cancerous problem for our citizens and the economy," Brnabic said, according to the government.

The huge fire on Saturday night in Sandanski was without casualties or wounded people but with the evacuation of the whole apartment block and serious material damage. 40 families were left homeless. The apartments are burned down and hardly any of them is fit to live, NOVA points out.
 

Too many buildings in Athens and other cities around Greece have been allowed to fall into the hands of anti-establishment and other groups.

The owners of these buildings have to pay property taxes and watch other bills pile up even though they are unable to access them and have no control over what is happening to their assets.

A 35-year-old gas station employee from Ioannina, northwestern Greece, is believed to have led the far-right group Combat 18 Hellas, according to police who arrested 11 suspected members of the organization earlier this week.

Of the 11, seven are to face an investigating magistrate on Saturday on charges of running a criminal organization.