The average price per square metre of a new builds in the capital rose by an annual 6.5% to 1,045,000, real estate broker Otthon Centrum said. New homes in the 5th district, in downtown Pest, as well as in the leafy 1st, 2nd and 12th districts of Buda, were listed for over 1.5 million per […]
Output of Hungary’s construction sector fell by an annual 13.6% in August, an improvement after a 21.0% decline in the previous month, data released by the Central Statistical Office (KSH) show. Output of the construction sector started dropping in March, when the first pandemic restrictions were introduced, and the decline reached the double digits in […]
Forint liquidity of Hungary’s banking sector rose in September from a month earlier, which was mainly reflected in an increase in the average stock of credit institutions’ preferential deposits with the National Bank of Hungary, the NBH said in a report.
The government is launching a 12.5 billion forints (EUR 34.4m) scheme to support the placement of 25,000 jobseekers either under the age of 25 or unskilled. Announcing the scheme, the innovation and technology ministry said a new subsidy will cover half of payroll costs of up to 100,000 forints a month for full-time employees, while […]
The government is launching a scheme for subsidising home renovations carried out by households with at least one child, Katalin Novák, the minister for family affairs, told a press conference.
On Wednesday (14th October), the price of petrol will drop by 2 HuF.
Hungary’s economic output is forecast to shrink by 4.7% this year, according to Takarékbank analyst Gergely Suppan. Earlier, Takarékbank forcast a 3.2% contraction. At the same time, output next year is likely to grow by 7.2%, Suppan said. Although much uncertainty surrounds the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, it appears that the Hungarian economy […]
The coronavirus crisis will have a direct cost impact of 15 billion forints (EUR 42m), but an indirect impact on profit-and-loss statements of state-owned companies of over 108 billion forints this year, Andrea Mager, Hungary’s minister in charge of state assets, told a parliamentary committee on Tuesday. Mager said state-owned companies that had to maintain […]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) projects Hungary’s economy will contract by 6.1% this year, but rebounding and expanding by 3.9% in 2021, in its latest World Economic Outlook. The forecast was lowered from a 3.1% contraction, but raised to a 4.2% expansion in the previous WEO released in mid-April, shortly after the country went into […]
Thailand and Japan are allowing imports of poultry produce from all parts of Hungary from October 7 and October 8, respectively, Hungary’s food safety authority (NÉBIH) said. The authorities of the two countries are lifting the restrictions thanks to the eradication of bird flu, NÉBIH said on its website, adding the measure applied to live […]
