STA, 23 October 2018 - The Finance Ministry has produced a blueprint for the new real estate tax, suggesting that a 0.1% tax rate for residential properties and 0.6% for other buildings. 

Harsh winters, the need for repairs, and poor infrastructure turned out to be nasty surprises for those who bought from afar. 

Prices are up, but taxes are coming. 

STA, 25 September 2018 - Real estate prices continued to rise in the second quarter of the year, but data released by the Statistics Office on Tuesday also show that the lowest number of new housing units on record have been sold in this period. 

STA, 13 August 2018 - The Slovenian real estate market keeps booming after another record-breaking year in terms of transactions and prices in 2017. As a result, the construction of new apartments is in full swing around the country. The central bank sees no signs of risks to financial stability as yet. 

STA, 13 July 2018 - Commenting on the Ljubljana real estate market in Friday's commentary, the business newspaper Finance says that the Statistics Office, the central bank and the Surveying and Mapping Authority (GURS) do not give sufficient data on the situation in a time when it seems that a new bubble is being inflated in the capital. 

STA, 6 July 2018 - After three years of unsuccessful attempts to sell Tobačna City, a former cigarette plant in Ljubljana slated to be transformed into a housing and commercial development, the receiver of Imos-G has managed to find a buyer for the site. Austrian company RM Bauträger is to pay EUR 25m and has already deposited an advance.

STA, 22 June 2018 - Housing prices in Slovenia rose by 4.4% in the first quarter of the year compared to the final quarter of last year and by 13.4% year-on-year, the Statistics Office said on Friday. Up the most were the prices for new housing units, by 7.6% and 24.7%, respectively. 

Our first interview with Dan Bendall focused more on his time as an expat in Slovenia, someone who left the UK and started a new life handling property here. The original story was too long for just one post, so here’s part two, as promised, this time focusing on the local property market. 

And 2,718 homes were sold, of which only 144 were new properties.