Property

University students seeking to rent houses in Athens this autumn will have to shell out as much as a third more in rent compared to last year.
Contrary to expectations, however, short-term rentals through Airbnb are not to blame.

People in Bulgaria are increasingly choosing a home instead of an apartment for their new home. At least such a trend has been observed in recent statistics on commissioned dwellings. It turns out that between April and June, two out of every three commissioned new residential buildings are houses.

The Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TürkPatent) received 61,278 trademark applications -- 53,645 of them domestic -- in the first six months of 2019.

The Venice Commission, a Council of Europe advisory body made up of independent constitutional law experts, said on Monday that the draft religious freedom law was a step forward, but urged the Montenegrin government to organise consultations with the public, including representatives of religious communities, amid tensions with the Serbian Orthodox Church.

According to preliminary data of the National Statistical Institute in the first quarter of 2019 the number of newly built residential buildings was 635 and the newly built dwellings in them were 2 453, reported the National Statistical Institute (NSI).

Starting today, heating is halted in the capital, reported by Toplofikatsia Sofia, quoted by Darik News.

For this reason, the company urges customers to provide access to all dwellings, including apartments where the heaters are not used or removed.

Property owners with homes or plots of land in the Municipality of Athens can check their assets as of Monday as the online platform for that area is to go live, as part of continuing efforts by the authorities to complete Greece's land register.

Property owners with homes or plots of land in the Municipality of Athens will be able to check their assets from Monday when the online platform for that area is to go live, as part of an ongoing process to complete the country's land register.

The checks are the second stage of a declaration process that began in 2008.

The state promises to subsidize the installments of financially challenged households for repaying their dues to their creditors by between 20 and 50 percent, whether they reach a settlement in court or via the out-of-court mechanisms to protect their main residence from repossession.

The Finance Ministry is expected within the month to invite chartered property surveyors to express their interest in the process of a new adjustment of property rates used for tax purposes, known as "objective values," which will go into force at the end of June.