Register for updates

 

Bulgarian Property & Real Estate News

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…

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.

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

Properties in Bulgaria increase by up to 15% annually in 2007

Property in Bulgaria will increase by almost 10% in 2007 according to top Bulgaria real estate agents. Top quality Bulgaria apartments and properties in exclusive location are expected to rie by slightly more and may achieve a 15-20% increase. Bulgaria’s accession to the EU, as well as its cheap prices has lead to very strong demand for property in Bulgaria. Bulgarian apartments were the number one investment for overseas investors and the total amount of Bulgarian real estate sales in 2006 was over 5 billion euro. Bulgarian Properties, one of the leading Bulgarian real estate agents says that is expects the market to continue to grow in 2007 but that the increase will not be as strong as in recent years.

There is still strong demand for Bulgaria apartments in Sofia and these are being purchased by both foreign and local property investors. Sofia property prices compare very favourably to other capital cities in the EU. Average prices in Sofia as 1050 euros/m2 and yields of up to 10% are standard for quality properties. Prices in other European cities are much higher with average prices in Paris, London, Dublin and Amsterdam reaching over 6 times the price per m2 achieved in Sofia.

If you are looking for Bulgarian real estate or off plan property in Borovets look no further than Concept Bulgaria.
Links | Disclaimer