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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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