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Bulgarian real estate still popular with UK and Irish investors

 

Bulgaria continues to be one of the favourite countries for UK real estate and property investors. Altough there has been some recent negative comments regarding corruption in Bulgaria, British real estate buyers are continuing to invest in Bulgaria.  Last year almost 30% of Bulgarian real estate deals have been concluded by foreigners, with UK buyer reaching 30% of the total. American buyers are involved in just over 5% of the Bulgaria real estate deals with the Germans and Italians next in line. Read more…

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Bulgarian properties – prices rise again

Prices for Bulgarian properties rose by almost 10% in January and February of this year. Joining the EU has been the main reason for the increases.  The demand for bulgarian properties continues to grow, driven by the increasing number of young people looking to buy housing, while supply is limited. The trend surprised Bulgaria real estate insiders, who expected prices to remain flat this year especially as they have risen so much in the run up to accession. Read more…

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Bulgaria property attracting new investors on the back of good returns

The latest real estate news after Bulgaria’s first month as part of the EU is that typically conservative investors like pension and insurance companies are starting to take interest in the Bulgarian property market. This new type of investor is interested Bulgaria real estate investments because the political and economic profile for the coutry has improve. There is less perceived risk now that Bulgaria is in the EU and also there is a plentiful supply of cheap credit.

During 2006 we saw several large scale Bulgarian real estate takeovers most notably the purchases of the Mall of Sofia and Business Park Sofia. According to Forton real estate brokers, the main interest for these investors will be prime commercial real estate and office developments in the major cities. Read more…

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The search for something different brings British investors to buy Property in Bulgaria

The usual favorites of UK property investors, Spain and France seem to be dropping in popularity in the face of competition from new emerging property markets such as property in Bulgaria, Cape Verde and Dubai. The latest property report, from currency dealers HiFX, puts the trend down to a search by UK buyers for more interesting property investment locations. Property in Bulgaria has been especially popular recently.

“In a lot of scenarios the developing markets offer properties, which are a lot cheaper than more established locations” says Mark Bodega, marketing director of HiFX, commented. “As property prices have continued to rise quickly in the UK over the last year, as well as rising interest rates, we have noticed that overseas property investment has become increasingly popular with UK buyers” Read more…

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Property in Bulgaria Still Ranks in Top 3 Property Investment locations

Property in Bulgaria is currently ranked as one of the top 3 property investments in Europe. According to leading UK real estate experts Bulgaria and Cyprus are currently the favourite locations from British buyers.

Bulgarian properties remain cheap and affordable and buyers are attracted mostly to the new developments on the coast and in the ski resorts. The capital Sofia is also popular with investors more focused on rental yields. Tourism is booming within Bulgaria and many investors are betting that this will result in increasing prices for property in the Bulgarian ski resorts and coastal holiday villages.

Bulgarian tourism generated in excess of 2 billion euros of income this year from four million tourists. The tourism segment measures almost 15% of Bulgaria’s gross domestic produce and creates more than 150,000 jobs. The goverments target si to increase visitor numbers to 8 million over the next 10 years. International tourism experts believe that this is highly possible based on the wide variety of Bulgarian tourism locations and experiences. The country can over, beach holidays, skiing and snowboarding, spa tourism, heritage and historic trips, wine tasting holiday and many other tourist options.

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UK buyers looking at Bulgarian Properties

Over 15% of all UK overseas investors are thinking about buying property in Bulgaria or Romania. As a result of both countries joining the EU at the start of the year eastern Europe is now one of the property investment hot spot. According to overseas property group MRI accession to the EU is a major factor in boosting investment in property in Bulgaria.

Trips by foreign tourists to Bulgaria went up by over 8 % last year, to almost 1.5 million visitors. There was also a significant boost to Romanian tourism.

MRI has commented that similar to other eastern European countries that have joined the EU, Bulgarian properties are likely to experience stop growth over the next few years

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Bulgarian Property still popular with investors

Bulgarian property along with Cyprus and Portugal, have been named three of the top property locations for UK investors looking to buy abroad in 2007. Spain unusually has not been so popular and experts recommend avoiding Spanish property just now. The continuing low prices of Bulgarian properties make them very attractive with overseas investors.

Investing in Bulgarian property offers many opportunities due to its improving infrastructure and booming economy and tourism sectors. The Bulgarian economy is unrecognizable from the 1990’s when it was slowly emerging from communism and just beginning to adopt a market economy. Read more…

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Potential for Property in Bulgaria

Most developing countries arrive at a stage when they are no longer developing and instead are accepted as part of the regular club of investment countries. For Bulgaria this will most likely be in 2007 and it joins the EU and becomes accepted as a quality investment location within Europe.

There has been a lot of focus recently on investing in property in Bulgaria and many people believe that a lot of the profit potential has already been exhausted in the country. Certainly over the last 2-3 years Bulgarian property has been at the forefront of property investment in developing countries. For sure prices have increased dramatically in the last few years but it should be realized that this was from a very low base and in addition many of the properties that were being purchased were old and of low quality. Read more…

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Bulgarian properties still attracting foreign investors

Bulgaria will become a member of the EU in January 2007 and is fast becoming the main tourist center on the Balkans. Helped by European funds the government has focused on improving the infrastructure and boosting economic activity in the country. This has resulting in a boom for Bulgarian properties investment.  The market is boosting by the major tourism potential in the country. The country is now the number 3 holiday destination for UK tourists with only France and Spain being more popular. As a result of the strongly increasing prices, buying Bulgarian properties is recommended as one of the top property investments at the moment.  Bulgarian property prices rose by almost 40% last year and this is expected to continue after accession to the EU as a result of the better legal framework and rules brought about by joining the EU. Whether looking for a holiday home or an investment property there is still time to get your hand on a cheap Bulgarian property.

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New opportunies in the Bulgarian property market

New opportunties in the market for vacation property in Bulgaria were to be expected, agents said during the Southeast European economic forum that began on October 31. Demand for vacation property in Bulgaria, especially in the central parts of the country was going to increase, mediapool.bg reported. The demand would be highest in villages known for spa treatment opportunities. Hisarya, Velingrad and Sandanski could soon become new vacation property hotspots, mediapool.bg reported. The State Agency for Tourism (SAT) was going to aid developments increasing the popularity of Bulgaria’s alternative tourism. Bulgaria ranked second after Iceland in the availability of mineral water springs and had to make use of this potential, SAT representatives said. Lack of proper infrastructure in these villages hindered the development of tourism options and the Bulgarian property market, mediapool.bg reported.

Source: Sofia Echo

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