According to Bulgaria’s National Statistical Institute 11,000 new houses were built in Bulgaria in 2005.

Despite the thriving construction activity, there are still two people living in every apartment, on average. The most intense house construction in 2005 occurred in Bourgas, which has 474 apartments for every 1,000 people. The figures show that each person in Bourgas has a living space of just 19.05sqm.

Varna and Sofia also registered an increase in the number of new buildings. But according to statistics, Sofia remains the most densely populated city with its citizens owning less than 16.96sqm of living space per person.

Plovdiv was the town with lowest construction activity in 2005.

Traditionally, Bulgarians preferred two-room apartments but an increasing number of citizens in the smaller towns are now looking for three-bedroom houses.

The majority of the 1.6m buildings in Bulgaria are houses in villages nearly 1.6 million, were made of brick. These were mainly houses in villages. Most of the new constructions used modern building materials.