Real Estate Prices Moving Higher

Real Estate Prices Moving Higher

Experts predict rising real estate prices Upon completion of local “lockdowns”, the price of properties in various segments may increase by an average of 5%. Prolonged quarantine restrictions have slowed demand in the secondary market of Kyiv by10%. 🔵 Enjoying a peace window, on Monday Ukraine placed 8-year Eurobonds worth $1.25 billion at 6.875% per […]

Russian Troop Withdrawal, Bankers Optimistic on Mortgage Lending

Russian Troop Withdrawal, Bankers Optimistic on Mortgage Lending

🔵 Ukraine’s GDP warrants and Eurobonds reacted positively to news yesterday that Russia will start to withdraw its troops from Ukraine’s borders. Warrants jumped from 102.5% to 104.4%, and Eurobonds rose by 0.8-2.3 percentage points, depending on maturity dates. 🔵 Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu declared military drills near Ukraine to be over and that units would be withdrawn […]

By James Brooke

By James Brooke

🔵 Russia’s naval deployments in the Black and Azov Seas threaten to “block important trade routes in international waters,” Ukraine’s Defense Minister Andriy Taran warned the European Parliament’s subcommittee on Security and Defense on Wednesday. The bulk of Ukraine’s $103 billion in foreign trade last year moved by ship. Taran has predicted: “The total number of Russian […]

Ukraine gets a lucky break

Ukraine gets a lucky break

Ukraine’s position is improving noticeably even if it is being threatened by Russian troop movements and I’m beginning to get more optimistic as it has had a run of luck. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy was just in Qatar where he did a string of deals and big investment projects into ports, rail, construction and trade […]

IMF Raises GDP Growth

IMF Raises GDP Growth

🔵 The IMF has raised its Ukraine GDP growth to 4% this year, up from its forecast of 3% made six months ago. World GDP is to increase by 6% this year, “reflecting additional fiscal support in a few large economies and the anticipated vaccine-powered recovery in the second half of the year,” the IMF wrote in […]

IMF Windfall

By James Brooke 🔵 Ukraine may receive $2.7 billion from the IMF this summer under a plan by the International Monetary Fund Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva, to allocate $650 billion from international reserves to restore the world economy after the coronavirus crisis. Unlike the conventional IMF programs this money would not have to be paid back. The […]

New Europe Security Deal – BNE Intellinews

New Europe Security Deal – BNE Intellinews

New European security deal   Talk of war is dominating the conversation in Eastern Europe the moment and tensions are high. Follow us on Twitter @bneintellinews or me personally @bneeditor for the latest. As we keep saying we don’t think it will come to blows but yesterday there were reports that Russia has moved up […]

KRER is Hiring!

KRER is Hiring!

Position: Office Assistant Salary: starts with UAH 11 000 Monthly net (FOP registration requirement after probation period: all taxes will be covered, registration by our accountant) Duties & Responsibilities (shortly): office maintenance & personal assistance for the team Requirements: English (can be elementary/pre-Intermediate); basic knowledge of Excel; communicability; logical thinking; the desire to work 32 hours/week (Mn-Th: […]