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The top ten owners of office buildings in Sofia
They own 600 thousand square meters of offices in Sofia or half of the total available 1.24 million square meters of class A areas in the capital.

A new model: a company builds apartments for lease
AG Capital plans to build 1,000 apartments for this purpose. Then the company will sell them to a fund in a package

Tanks, refugees and unicorns - last week was one to remember
The Russian counterattack in the EU and Bulgaria is just starting. We have a unicorn startup, though

The new owners of Sofia Airport: We have a 100 days plan to change the service
Meridiam fund talks about the fees, the low-cost plans and what will happen with the airport in 10 years time

Promises, promises: How will Bulgaria look like according to the economic programs of the parties
The main parties’ pledges in the fields of taxation, finance, pensions, energy and business development policy

KBC expanding into Bulgaria’s pension insurance market
The Belgian group is acquiring Dutch-based NN’s Bulgarian businesses for 77.7 mln euro

Pension insurance with a pinch of politics
Deteriorating demographics pose a significant long-term challenge while systemic problem in the sector remain unaddressed

Bulgaria’s (non-)recovery plan
Bulgaria stands to receive 12 billion levs (6.1 billion euro) in 2021-2026 from the Recovery Plan for Europe, and will be spending the funding as it always has - on weak, ineffective projects

What a waste
A large-scale Bulgarian business with international reach comes under unexpected attack from the prosecution

Bulgaria gliding on the waves of the economic cycle
The local economy continues to move in sync with European trends, while opportunities for reforms slowly dwindle

The strange new look of Bulgaria’s biggest business association
KRIB has become a quasi-state structure under the chairmanship of Kiril Domuschiev

Sofia bourse turnover falls despite biggest IPO in decade
Turnover totaled 132.6 million euro between March 1 and August 31

Pension funds keep investing in related parties
Despite legislation against such practices adopted in 2017 they continue uninterrupted

Untypical player set to enter Bulgaria’s banking sector
Hamburg-based boutique private lender Varengold Bank intends to open a branch in Sofia after Bulgaria’s Eurofinance acquired a share in it

SOFIX catching fire
Bulgarian stock market ranks second only to regional leader Croatia in 2016, but the growth is shaky and can easily wither