PSD parliamentarians, together with Coalition partners, announce that they will organize public consultations in order to regulate protective measures for clients who conclude sale-purchase deeds with real estate developers.

The consultations will take place at Parliament. Representatives of real estate developers, public notaries and the National Agency for Cadastre and Real Estate Advertising will participate in the discussion.

The aim is to complete the legal framework with regulations that will offer final clients firm and sufficient guarantees for the advances paid in real estate transactions and that will also ensure the development and proper functioning of the profile market in Romania.

The Romanian government has drastically reduced the budget for the “New House” program in 2025, allocating only RON 500 million, a 50% decrease from last year’s EUR 1 billion fund. The program, which provides state-backed guarantees for home loans, aims to support first-time buyers and individuals who own a home smaller than 50 square meters.

Under the program, the state guarantees up to 60% of the loan value, with a minimum down payment of 5% for homes priced under EUR 70,000. If a borrower fails to pay installments for more than 90 days, the bank can request the state to cover the guarantee. However, a key limitation of the program is that beneficiaries cannot opt for a fixed interest rate, exposing them to potential market fluctuations.

Initially launched in 2009 as “First House”, the government-backed scheme has facilitated over 330,875 guarantees and guarantee promises for individuals securing financing for home purchases. Despite its benefits, the reduction in funding raises concerns about fewer approvals and increased competition for limited resources, potentially making homeownership more challenging for many aspiring buyers in Romania.

Licensed in autumn 2023 by the ASF and launched for trading in January 2024, Stock.estate reports strong results one year after the first transaction on the platform. Basically, around 15% of Stock.estate users have become investors in local real estate products.

Stock.estate is a crowdfunding platform – the first of its kind authorized by ASF in Romania and the only locally operational platform. The objective of Stock.estate is to offer investors the opportunity to invest in the real estate sector in the amount they have available, with a minimum amount of 100 euros. The investment in the Stock.estate platform amounts to more than half a million euros so far.

“We are still a nascent culture in terms of investment tools, it’s true, but we firmly believe that Romanians will be increasingly open to investments of all kinds. We have been observing their increased interest in the investment area for about five years now, and the results of the first year of our platform validate Romanians’ appetite for new investments,” says Vicențiu Vlad – Co-Founder & CEO – Stock.estate.

The platform’s figures count more than 1,500 people enrolled in the platform (i.e., people who have created an account in the platform and have permanently accessed the information on the use of the financial investment tool), more than 200 of them have made direct investments in the platform, and their transactions amount to more than 550 shares – with a total value of more than 750,000 euro.

“The best news of our first results is exactly related to the investors who have become active, some of them recurrently returning to new investments. The percentage of almost 15% of active investors on the platform gives us tremendous confidence that Romanians are increasingly interested in real estate investments. The fact that more than 1,500 users are constantly returning to Stock.estate for information is another extremely positive indicator for the collective investment decision. For example, a certain user decided to invest after a year of constant information on our platform, and we are happy that correct information is developing so much in Romania”, explains Vlad.

The crowdfunding market in Romania has significant potential, estimated at around €200 million, thanks to the steady interest growth from investors and entrepreneurs.

“With recent regulation facilitating access and protecting investors, crowdfunding platforms in Romania, such as Stock.estate, have started to gain traction, providing funding opportunities for the real estate market. This platform democratizes access to capital and enables market validation and project marketing, thus contributing to developing a dynamic entrepreneurial ecosystem”, says Alexandru Constantin – Co-Founder & CTO – of Stock.estate.
According to the co-founders, the company’s expectations for the next year of activity on the Romanian market foresee a growth of over 300%, given the increased interest of local investors.

In 2024 ATALIAN Romania achieves EUR 2,300,000 EBITDA and EUR 1,050,000 net profit after a turnover of EUR 29,500,000, becoming market leader in Facility Management, in terms of turnover, profitability and productivity.

Atalian Romania closed 2024 with a 26.5% increase in turnover compared to the 2023 financial results which were the actual figures considered for the Top SME 2024 awards, i.e. a turnover of EUR 23,330,000, a net profit of EUR 950,000 with an annual average of 735 employees.

Currently, Atalian Romania manages more than 300 working points: 80 office buildings, 10 factories, a residential complex and a supermarket chain.

“Performance through quality is what we always want to characterize us, and it has remained our main objective all these years. Behind this reality, there is our forever young team and when I say “young”, I don’t talk about their age, but rather their ability to continuously adapt and show their desire to always put new things and ideas into practice. In Facility Management, the challenges change permanently, but a constant one remains people’s development. Here, at ATALIAN, we rely mainly on skills, not experience. While experience can be gained through practice, attracting the right attitudes is the most important thing to us. To be able to work so much in such an industry, you first need to like to start from scratch every single day, to meet new opportunities and to have the maturity to adapt to the market,” said Cora Cristescu, CEO of Atalian Romania.