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Half empty or half full?

survivor — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:04:02 +0000

Recent article in The Sofia Echo comments the situation with the office space for rent in the city. Naturally, the construction boom will not leave this area of the real estates intact and after overbuilding in resorts the next area is the office space.

For many of this new developments the dilemma “half empty of half full” does not exist at all since they are committed to become fully empty even before they are started but obviously the motives behind building them are not purely financial. Sometimes bankruptcy is deliberately sought by the developers in order to resell the project on more attractive price… It is needless to say the more than half of so called office buildings do not offer anything different than the regular apartment so popular and used as offices in the centre of the city while at the same time offered at prices completely unreasonable for the areas where they are located.

Class A nightmare

survivor — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:16:25 +0000

Poligraphic services buildings in Sofia to become class A offices states recent article published at propertywisebulgaria.com.

Being around this part of Sofia (Dimitar Blagoev Printing House) almost every day it is not hard to notice how “easy” is to access it by car. Bringing another 241 cars in the area (at least) will make the things even worse and the experience from going to work there will not be so much “class A”.

It is strange why the Municipality of Sofia and its Chief Architect still allow such developments but probably the reasons for this should be looked somewhere else. No wonder why the city is empty on all holidays – one hour driving during the working days can make you want to disappear from here at first possible chance. At the same time instead of improving the traffic and trying to make the citizens and visitors of Sofia happy the local authorities are allowing building on every possible space.

Half empty or half full?

Illegal construction in Bansko

survivor — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:01:24 +0000

Since everyone is aware that very few buildings in Bansko are built legally here is the big surprise for those who believed that the law rules in Bulgaria.

Below you will find a scanned document issued by the highest authority in Bulgaria dealing with construction, the National Directorate of Building Supervision, issued on 26 July 2007.

The project for which it has been issued is Bansko Royal Towers.

What you will note is that there is obviously something wrong with this. Although issued by the authority that should monitor and ensure that all construction works in Bulgaria are done properly, this one certifies that a building, which is far away from completion is somehow suitable for living…

The point of this writing is that you should not believe to most of the documents issued in Bulgaria. It is sad but persons like the one signed this document make the whole world laugh at us. There is no other word that can better describe the situation apart from corruption.