Sandanski Mall To Open This Month 11/04/2008
Sandanski Mall, the first multi-use shopping and entertainment centre in the town, will open in April 2008, developers Sandanski Property said on April 10, as quoted by investor.bg. The mall is in the town centre, near the park and Sandanski Hotel, the developer said. The three-storey building includes also a hotel, given that Sandanski is a popular tourist destination, which attracts one million people every year. The total built-up area of the mall is 4090 sq m, featuring a supermarket, restaurant, night-club and 29 stores. The mall also has a 100-car parking lot. Sandanski Property, set up in 2005 as an investment and construction company, spent 12 million leva on the mall, investor.bg said. more

The Netherlands In Bulgaria: The Dutch Are? Coming Even Closer - Sophia Echo 26/04/2008
The Netherlands has never departed from its role as a close partner of Bulgaria, at least not since the latter entered onto its pro-European path in the early 1990s. Unlike a host of other countries whose businesses flooded Bulgaria only on European Union and Nato accession, the Netherlands did it the difficult way by, instead, co-treading aspirant member states’ path to accession. Institutionalising the building of bilateral business ties – and in a steady, perennial and concerted manner – is a policy of the Dutch government. It persists in implementing it irrespective of the partner country’s level of development and is instrumentalised with technical and financial support programmes. These programmes – PSO and Matra – have been ongoing for so long that they ring familiar to many... more

Bulgaria Property Market Stays Strong In Jan 08 15/03/2008
Named the world’s strongest price riser in 2007, Bulgaria’s property market is successfully keeping up its momentum in the first month of the new year, realtors said. The capital city of Sofia and the Black Sea town of Varna are recording the most impressive growth with asking price levels in the most expensive districts nearing EUR 1500/m2, shows data of the local real estate site imot.bg The districts of Yavorov, Ivan Vazov and downtown Sofia remain the costliest residential areas in the capital, commanding prices of EUR 1467/m2, EUR 1466/m2 and EUR 1425/m2 respectively. Prices of residential property in the most expensive districts of coastal Varna, such as the Greek neighbourhood, overtake those in the capital with offers averaging EUR 1561/m2. Experts point out that the sale... more