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Wealthy Sofians want to live on the other side of the ring road. PHOTO: YORDAN SIMEONOV
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When wealthy people in our country go to buy a home, 43% of them want to have a separate room for an office. At the same time, their desire for a separate closet room is twice as definite – 91% insist on one. And 61% claim to have a separate bathroom for each bedroom. This is shown by the results of a special survey among 7,000 Bulgarians with monthly salaries over BGN 4,000, mostly businessmen and managers or managers of medium and large companies. It was conducted by the consulting company Cushman and Wakefield / Forton, which mainly deals with office, commercial and industrial space, but with the decline of these markets since the summer has already entered the residential. The company is part of AG Capital of businessman Hristo Iliev.
The survey shows that in terms of the capital, one-fifth of the wealthier people are looking to buy a home beyond the Ring Road, 23% – in the center, and 41% want to live where they lived before, or at least in a similar place, but in a newly built dwelling.
To buy a home, the native businessman has provided an average of 190,400 euros, with which he intends to acquire a property between 100 and 150 square meters. One-fifth of the respondents have prepared more money – 319,600 euros, but for this money they want even more housing. The usual scheme is for half of the money to be available, and for the other half to take out a mortgage loan, which with these salaries and insurances comes out with a rather low interest rate.
91% of the respondents keep the apartment close to a park. For the way of heating in the winter the most – 57% rely on heating, 27% prefer gas, and 16% – heat pump.
“The office market is recovering extremely slowly. Last fall, the business thought it would bring its employees back to the office this spring. When we questioned them in the spring, they thought it would happen in the fall. But at the moment, everyone thinks that the office space market will not recover until next spring, “said Cushman and Wakefield / Forton manager Mihaela Lashova. According to her, especially in IT companies, and especially among their management teams, a new peak in the burnout has been reached. The reason is that their employees often work from different places in other countries and in order to monitor and coordinate activities, their bosses have to work 20 hours a day.
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