In the first six months of 2012, foreign real estate investors invested €86m in their Romanian companies, barely half the amount they invested during the first half of 2011, according to the National Trade Register Office.
The largest payment was made by real estate division of the French group Auchan, Immochan Real Estate, which invested more than €11.4m in equity in Romania, according to the Mediafax press agency.
Other active real estate investors on the Romanian market in the first six months were Royal Land company, which has invested €7m, Mageta Residential from Spain made three investments totaling €7.2m and the Ideal Residential company (registered in Cyprus), which invested more than €5m.
Another major investor is Area 10 Eastern World from Spain, with a total of €2.9m brought into Romania.
Even the Romanian investors have put money into their real estate companies: Domus Stil capital, belonging Negoita brothers, saw a capital increase of €2.1m.
Other investors who made money in Romania include Gran Via from Spain, by €2.9m, the German fund DEGI (€1.8m), the British fund Tri Investments allocated €1.67m and Multi Development from Netherlands, with a contribution of €1.1m.
