1.1 Building sector
The total building stock area in the Republic of Bulgaria is about 261 Mm2
from which 75% is
related to residential building stock and the rest relates to service sector (see Figure 1 and
Table 1). In total there are about 3 million dwellings, from which about 45% are in multi family
buildings and 55% in single family houses. In terms of residential floor area, multi family
buildings have about 55% and remaining 45% comes to single family ones (BPIE). In the
case of single family houses, detached houses are most typical (about 98%), semi-detached
houses (1%) and row houses (1%) are not typical for the country.
About 0.7 million dwellings (around 23% of the stock) are situated in panel buildings (precast
concrete structure) constructed after 1958. The number of the dwellings are distributed
approximately 2/3 in the towns and1/3 in the villages.