Bucharest's residential real estate sector is experiencing a significant downturn, with a notable drop in both permits and completions, raising concerns about the market's trajectory, according to an opinion by Dr. Sebastian Sipos-Gug - Ebuild srl, Eastern European Construction Forecasting Association (EECFA) Romania.
Romanian textiles maker Brainconf is looking to start an urban reconversion project on a land plot it owns in Brăila.
Meta Estate Trust has exited its investment in The Lake Home residential project developed by Novarion, in a deal valued at €2.65 million.
Romanian developer Bellemonde is set to expand its residential project in Pipera, near Bucharest, will take the total investment to around €70 million.
More Romanians are looking to rent homes over higher prices and tighter lending conditions, shows a recent survey by Unlock Market Research for Colliers.
Bucharest is bracing for another year of low residential deliveries, mirroring the trend observed in 2024. Approximately 18,000 new homes are expected to be completed in Bucharest and its surrounding areas in 2025, according to a report by SVN Romania.
Primes developer, part of R.U. Shalit group, is investing around €20 million in the construction of a new luxury residential complex in northern Bucharest.
Liebrecht & wooD will kick off this summer the construction of the second phase of its residential complex near Bucharest.
Garanti BBVA has announced a long-term financing agreement of €10 million for the development of the National Golf & Country Club, a project developed by DM Sport & Energy that is located in Dâmbovița County, less than 37 km north of Bucharest.
Local residential developer Impact Developer & Contractor recorded a net individual profit of around €17 million in 2024, double compared to the previous year. At the group level, the consolidated net profit was €12 million, also double compared to 2023.
Romania's housing market faced a significant imbalance in 2024, with new home deliveries falling 15% nationwide and over 20% in Bucharest, while demand rose by 7%, finds a Colliers report.
Scandia Română Development, the real estate division of the Scandia group, has announced the commencement of works on a new residential project in Sibiu.
Bucharest remains the leader on gross rental yields, while the overall prices in the residential market rose by 14% in 2024, according to a market study by The Concept.
Romania recorded a 17% decrease in the number of transactions in January, compared to the same period last year, totaling just over 8,400 property deals, according to data by the National Agency for Cadastre and Land Registration (ANCPI).
KÉSZ Group has announced that its Corallis residential complex in Bucharest has already sold homes amounting to around €11.5 million, which accounts for 27% of the whole residential stock in the project.
The highest annual increase in home sales among the five largest regional residential markets in Romania was recorded in Iasi, with an increase of 38.1%.
Romania remains one of the countries with the lowest mortgage penetration rates in the European Union, according to a Colliers' analysis.
Mortgage loans totaling €7.3 billion were granted in Romania during the first 10 months of 2024, up by 43% compared to the same period of last year, according to an analysis by SVN Romania.
The total number of homes completed in Romania in the first nine months of the year was 42,312, down by 18.1% compared to the same period last year, according to a report by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).
Victor Terheș, Sales Director at Bellemonde, talked to Property Forum about the status of its €40 million residential investment in northern Bucharest and the growing demand for homes in this area in the long term.
The Romanian government has approved a new state aid scheme with a total budget of RON 578 million (up to €150 million) to assist large energy consumers in Romania.
Romania's unemployment rate at the end of February 2025 was 3.37%, a decrease of 0.01 percentage points compared to the previous month.
Electrica saw a net profit of RON 376.5 million (€75.5 million) in 2024, down 39.3% compared to 2023, while its operating revenues totaled RON 10.87 billion (€2.1 billion).
Romania's Ministry of Finance successfully raised RON 75 million (€15 million) from commercial banks on Friday.
Distribuție Energie Oltenia (DEO), the electricity distribution company part of Evryo Group, has signed a large scale syndicated loan.