Bulgarian Construction Boom Picks Up in Q2
September 6th, 2007
The demand for new construction permits in Bulgaria picked up in the second quarter of the year, with Black Sea port of Varna receiving the largest number of permits, statistics board NSI said on Thursday.
The total number of building permits issued in April-June was 4.660, compared to 4.049 permits issued in the previous three months.
Varna accounted for more than 15% of all new permits - 712, followed by Burgas with 587 permits and Plovdiv with 476. Capital Sofia got 320 permits.
Permits for residential buildings totalled 2.735 for a total 1,67 million square meters of housing.
Administrative buildings permits totalled 85 for the period.
