Bulgaria needed a strategy for attracting foreign investments in other sectors besides real estates in order to have sustainable development, Rosen Plevanliev general manager of Lindner Bulgaria told participants at the second regional conference Balkan Real Estate Conference BalREc on April 16 2008 as quoted by Dnevnik daily.
The high prices of land mixed with high expectations of local entrepreneurs were the main problems of Bulgarias residential property market. Pablo RodrguezLosada general manager of Spanish developer MartinsaFadesa said on April 16 2008 as quoted by Dnevnik daily.
Bulgarias Transport Ministry extended the deadline for bids in the tender to pick a concessionaire for the Rousse airport to May 7, weekly Stroitelstvo Gradut reported on April 14.Bids would be opened no later than May 21, according to Bulgarias regulations on public tenders.
A referendum in Sozopol municipality on the construction of BourgasAlexandroupolis oil pipeline was announced invalid on April 6 as turnout was below the necessary minimum of 50 per cent. Slightly more than 30 per cent of the 12 000 residents of the municipality voted, Bulgarian language daily Dnevnik reported.
People living in the centre of Sofia have been forced to leave their personal data exposed in their windscreen if they wanted to park for free in front of their homes in blue zones, or areas where parking is paid.
US investment bank Merrill Lynch, hired to advise the sale of Kremikovtzi steel mill in Bulgaria, has asked several extra weeks before choosing the best candidate, the press service of theEconomy and Energy Ministry said on April 4.
Sofia city hall discussed the possibility to allocate a one ha municipal plot in Zona B5 neighbourhood for the construction of a new building for the Sofia City Court and Sofias prosecutors office, investor.bg reported on April 2 2008.
Bulgarias Ministry of Regional Development and Public Works will assign a new procedure for developing a new master plan of Bourgas, regional minister Assen Gagaouzov announced on March 31, quoted by Dnevnik daily. He explained that the new plan for urban development will add new territories to the municipality.
Amendments to the law on beach concessions envisage Regional Development and Public Works Minister Assen Gagaouzov deciding which 100 coastal beaches would be given on concession or rented out.
Bulgarias Directorate for National Construction Supervision DNCS has issued a total of 193 orders for the demolition of illegally constructed buildings, including 94 on the north coastline and 99 along the southern coast, DNCS head Ivan Simitchiev told a news conference in Bourgas on March 31, as quoted by Dnevnik daily.