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2021 1 Sep	Building Construction in Turkey during the Pandemic The Covid-19 pandemic that began in March 2020 has caused significant disruption in the Turkish economy and building construction. Full article
2021 27 Aug	Q2 2021 Permit-Completion in EECFA area Permit-Completion graphs of EECFA have been updated with Q2 2021 data
2021 22 Jul	Countries of EECFA in the European Commission 2021 Macro Forecast EECFA has again examined the main changes in the prospects between the Autumn 2020 and Spring 2021 Macro Forecasts of the European Commission: article
2021 16 Jun	EECFA Q1 2021 permit-completion data Our interactive graphs have been updated with Q1 2021 data. More information
2021 21 May	EECFA News on Bulgaria Property demand pushing up Bulgarian residential construction. Read the article

2021 12 May	EBI Construction Activity Report Hungary Q1 2021 No improvement visible in Hungarian construction industry. Read the blog post
2021 28 Apr	EECFA News on Serbia Serbian construction: one of the strongest growth cycles in recent history Full article
2021 20 Apr	Renewal ratio in EUROCONSTRUCT AND EECFA countries Housing stock and renewal ratio in Europe in the last decade: Turkey leading the way. Blog post
2021 19 Mar	EECFA News on Ukraine The construction market of Ukraine amid the pandemic in 2021 seems to be a mixed bag. Read the full article
2021 12 Mar	EECFA Q4 2020 Permit-Completion results The Permit-Completion visualization of the 8 EECFA (Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine) + 1 Euroconstruct countries (Hungary) has been enhanced with new features. Blog post
2021 22 Feb	EECFA News on Slovenia Will Covid-19 be remembered as the good crisis for Slovenian construction? Blog post
2021 16 Feb	EBI Construction Activity Report Q4 2020 Hungary Value of started construction projects on downward track in Hungary: article
2021 5 Feb	EECFA news on Romania Despite the pandemic home prices in Romania are increasing. But why? Article
2020 10 Dec	EECFA 2020 Winter Construction Forecast 2nd Pandemic edition The 2020 Winter EECFA Construction Forecast Report was released on 8 December. Press release
2020 6 Nov	EBI Construction Activity Report Q3 2020 Hungarian construction industry could not pull itself together in Q3. Full article
2020 13 Oct	EECFA ON CROATIA New Croatian government: Turning point or business as usual? Read the full article here
2020 15 Sep	EECFA on Russia Article on Russian Metropolitan Areas: Crisis Resilience in 2020
2020 14 Sep	EECFA on Bulgarian housing Read whether COVID-19 will shake Bulgarian housing here
2020 7 Sep	A visual summary to Euroconstruct Special Update August 2020 In most countries the stories after the August revision remained pretty similar to those Euroconstruct forecast in June. Read more
2020 21 Aug	EECFA NEWS ON TURKEY Turkey: Despite Covid-19 housing transactions historically peaking. Read the full article
2020 6 Aug	Figures on the pandemic impact on Hungarian construction EBI Construction Activity Report Q2 2020 has been released for Hungary. Press release
2020 9 Jul	EECFA 2020 Summer Construction Forecast, Pandemic edition The 2020 Summer EECFA Construction Forecast Report was released on 29 June. Our press release is available here
2020 19 May	NEWS ON EBI CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY REPORT ROMANIA Q1 2020 sees rush to complete ongoing projects in Romania. READ FULL ARTICLE
2020 8 May	Q1 2020 Permit-completion results of EECFA countries Our graphs have been updated with Q1 2020 figures
2020 3 Mar	Q4 2019 Permit-completion results of EECFA countries Of the 8 EECFA countries, the highest growth of permitted m2 of buildings in 2019 was recorded in Ukraine. READ MORE
2020 26 Feb	NEWS ON EBI CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY REPORT HUNGARY The last quarter of 2019 saw another significant decline in launched construction projects in Hungary, amounting to only HUF 424bln worth started total construction works. FULL ARTICLE
2019 9 Dec	EECFA 2019 WINTER CONSTRUCTION FORECAST The 2019 Winter EECFA Construction Forecast Report was released. NEWS
2019 25 Jun	EECFA 2019 Summer Construction Forecast On 24 June 2019, the 2019 Summer EECFA Construction Forecast Report up to 2021 was published. READ THE PRESS RELEASE HERE
2019 26 Apr	The past, present and future of Port Koper The largest Slovenian civil engineering project in recent history, the construction of the second railway connecting Port Koper with the core international railway network in Slovenia, officially started in March 2019. Still, many questions remain to its successful completion. READ MORE
2019 18 Apr	Serbian office trailing on beaten path Office has been struggling to sustain steady growth as its output performance surprisingly meandered in the previous period. Finally, investments are picking up, but will it be enough to improve market conditions? Full article here
2019 8 Mar	�p�t�saktivit�s vizualiz�lva: Magyarorsz�g A Buildecon EBI �p�t�saktivit�si Jelent�sr�l sz�l� cikke itt olvashat�
2019 25 Feb	Mixed Feelings on the Romanian residential market Revisiting the Romanian residential construction market
2018 10 Dec	EECFA 2018 Winter Construction Forecast EECFA released its 2018 Winter Construction Forecast Reports on 5 December 2018. Key findings are summarized in this article
2018 26 Oct	From gloom to boom: Residential market in Serbia Residential construction in Serbia is performing extremely well with 2018 volumes again surpassing initial expectations. Dejan Krajinovi� (Beobuild Core D.O.O, EECFA Serbia) has written this article
2018 9 Oct	Russia: mortgage boom Mortgage loans in Russia have been the most common means for purchasing homes in recent years, compensating for the crisis years of 2015-2016 in Russia. The full blog post written by Andrey Vakulenko (MACON Realty Group, EECFA Russia) can be read here
2018 14 Sep	Turkey forecast in hindsight In EECFA's many previous forecast rounds, we communicated a soft-landing scenario for Turkey's construction market. After this very turbulent summer, this is a second look taken at our latest forecast
2018 7 Sep	Global warming: near-future effects on the Croatian coastal infrastructure Blog post written by Michael Glazer (SEE Regional Advisors) and Tatjana Halapija (Nada Projekt), EECFA Croatia: Global warming: near-future effects on the Croatian coastal infrastructure
2018 17 Aug	Residential construction in Bulgaria Residential construction in Bulgaria - Growth goes on, challenges remain: full article written by Yasen Georgiev and Dragomir Belchev, EPI (EECFA Bulgaria)
2018 10 Jul	EECFA countries in the 2018 Spring Macro Forecast of the European Commission Before the publication of the 2018 Summer EECFA Forecast Report, the European Commission released its spring forecast, revealing the prospects for almost all EECFA member countries.The main changes are highlighted in this post written by Aron Horvath, PhD, EECFA Research, ELTINGA
2018 21 Jun	EECFA 2018 Summer Construction Forecast EECFA has released its 2018 Summer Construction Forecast Reports up to 2020. The main findings of the reports are summarized in this blogpost
2018 24 May	Housing market prospects in Ukraine The most likely scenario for the housing market in Ukraine in the current situation of overheating is a gradual deceleration. A sudden market collapse is unlikely. The full article is available here by Sergii Zapototskyi (EECFA Ukraine)
2018 25 Apr	Ljubljana among cities with the fastest growing real estate prices Ljubljana has strongly rebounded from the recession. Since the bottom of the recession in 2015 till 2017, the average real estate price has increased by 15%. However, the price growth accelerated in 2018, making Ljubljana one of the hottest real estate markets in the world. Read the full article written by dr. Ales Pustovrh (EECFA Slovenia).
2018 5 Mar	Updated Permit and Completion Data 2017 We have updated our interactive permit & completion charts for residential and non-residential buildings
2018 14 Feb	The stability of the Romanian residential construction market Housing market in Romania is seeing a rapid expansion, which rings the bell to some experts: there is a growing concern that the 2008 turmoil might repeat itself. This article written by Dr. Sebastian Sipos-Gug (EECFA Romania) is looking at the probabilities of this to happen.
2018 13 Feb	Housing Production and Housing Price Relationship in Turkey Written by Prof. Dr. Ali T�rel (EECFA Turkey), this blogpost is to elaborate on the paradoxical situation Turkey is facing: while building construction cost has risen by 22.8 per cent in nominal, 9.8 per cent in real prices, real housing prices have decreased by up to 7 percent.
2017 6 Dec	EECFA 2017 Winter Construction Forecast and Revision EECFA, the forecasting association conducting research on the construction markets of 8 Eastern-European countries, published its 2017 Winter Construction Forecast Reports on 4 December. A concise summary on the main findings is outlined here.
2017 5 Oct	Retail in Serbia: primed for take off Retail sector in Serbia is now reaping the benefits of the permit reform launched in 2015 with the country now experiencing a new investment cycle of the construction of high-volume international-type shopping malls. The full article was written by Dejan Krajinovi�, Beobuild Core, EECFA Serbia.
2017 11 Sep	Housing market in Russia This article, written by Andrey Vakulenko, MACON Realty Group, EECFA Russia, is showing another angle of predicting housing market developments in Russia: Demand potential shaping future market dynamics.
2017 22 Aug	Dealing with construction permits in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania Buildecon coordinated the Subnational Doing Business project of The World Bank on two indicators (dealing with construction permits and getting electricity) in the private sector in Hungary in 2016. This article is looking at the key findings on the dealing with construction permits indicator in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania.
2017 28 Jul	Game of Towers Written by Yasen Georgiev and Dragomir Belchev, EPI, EECFA Bulgaria, this article is about New Dynamics in Office Construction in Sofia.
2017 22 Jun	EECFA 2017 Summer Construction Forecast and Revision EECFA has released its summer construction forecast on 16 June 2017 on Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey and Ukraine. This blogpost intends to summarize the most important projections for these construction markets for the years 2017-2019.
2017 2 May	Agrokor aggravation Do the Agrokor Group's tribulations threaten the Croatian construction sector? This article, written by Michael Glazer, SEE Regional Advisors and Tatjana Halapija, Nada Projekt, EECFA Croatia, is answering this question.
2017 5 Apr	Small is beautiful and has the potential to grow! This article, written by Ales Pustovrh, Bogatin, EECFA Slovenia, looks at how the Slovenian economy has rebounded after the recession, which is improving the construction industry and might even result in the implementation of big projects.
2017 17 Mar	2016 Permit-Completion results of EECFA countries Our updated residential and non-residential graphs are available. More details
2016 9 Dec	EECFA 2016 Winter Forecast EECFA has released its winter construction forecast reports on 2 December 2016. In this post you will find the concise summary on our expectations for the 8 construction markets we are dealing with: Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey and Ukraine.
2016 19 Oct	EBI Construction Activity Report EBI Construction Activity Report is the collaboration of three research companies where ibuild.info contributes with project research and its project database, while ELTINGA and BUILDECON contributes with developing the indices and aggregating the algoritms. Article
2016 13 Sep	Q2 2016 Permit and Completion results of EECFA countries In Q2 2016 the number of permits issued in the latest 4 quarters for residential homes increased in the Balkan EECFA countries together, compared to the same period last year. Turkey registered growth in this term, while Ukraine?s Q1 2016 figures are up. More information
2016 1 Aug	The Do-It-Yourself guide to success in Central Eastern Europe In this post, we first define success in CEE. Second, using the Global Competitiveness Report, we analyze what aspects could help a country achieving that success. And third, we present you the ultimate D-I-Y Success Guide to CEE.
2016 29 Jun	New manufacturing coming: Europe or China will be the new China? The way we manufacture products is about to change dramatically in the next decade. Full article
2016 22 Jun	EECFA countries in the European Commission (EC) 2016 Spring Macro forecast The Spring Forecast of the European Commission has been released, and it covers EECFA member countries: Russia, Turkey, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, and Bulgaria, it only lacks Ukraine from the EECFA?s coverage. Read more
2016 6 Mar	Q4 2015 Non-residential: permit and completion As almost all Q4 figures were published, we have updated our interactive graphs containing quarterly development of permit and completion in the countries we cover. Details
2016 29 Jan	What has the EU ever done for us? Roads! Infrastructure! Transport investment = EU money. At least in the CEE region. Declining EU funds and moderate economic growth point towards lower levels of transport investment in the coming years, especially in the CEE region. Read the full post
2015 10 Dec	The coming wave of energy efficiency investments This article deals with a new wave of energy efficiency investments in housing.
2015 4 Dec	80th EUROCONSTRUCT Conference hosted by Buildecon Buildecon hosted the 80th EUROCONSTRUCT Construction Forecasting Conference which included a lot of new features and covered altogether 27 countries including EECFA region. Conference website
2015 10 Nov	The oil price decline and the construction market: riding the Saudi bull After assessing the impact of immigration on the European Union, this post concentrates on another current issue: the oil price decline and its consequences on the construction sector. Read more
2015 27 Oct	Increasing immigration Our current post is the next in line dealing with migration that has an impact on construction. Such issues will be discussed at the 80th EUROCONSTRUCT Conference.
2015 15 Oct	Europe at crossroads: Economic decline and the possibilities of increased immigration There is a series of current issues having an impact on construction that will be discussed at the 80th EUROCONSTRUCT Conference and first, we would like to address a very current issue in Europe: migration. There are many aspects of this phenomenon and it would be hard to present them all. Instead, we will address only one: how immigration can help slowing the ageing of the population in the EU and thus increase growth prospects. Full article
2013 24 Jun	Buildecon >> EECFA Twelve years after Buildecon was founded with the purpose of carrying out comparable research in 8 Eastern European construction markets, and after two years of nesting, there is a major change in our life. A new association was formed last November in order to serve your market intelligence and planning needs better. In it, local research institutions work under the umbrella of a central body. This is the Eastern European Construction Forecasting Association. The first materialization of this transition is a conference organized by EECFA in Moscow this September, and all Forecast Reports will be released there. Please check out the programme on www.eecfa.com. This transition does not affect our membership in Euroconstruct, thus, we will continue to provide the Hungary Report to Euroconstruct in the future as well.

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