Fee for Construction of Apartments in Nis Center to Triple

The fee for the development of urban building land which is paid for the construction of apartments, for those who decide to build in Nis center, is to triple, as decided at yesterday’s session of the City Assembly of Nis.

For the construction of apartments in the city center, with a provided connection to the heating network, investors will pay RSD 21,762, said the acting director of the Construction Administration, Goran Zdravkovic.

– So far, investors which build apartments in the first zone paid RSD 7,700 per square meter, and RSD 7,200 in the second zone. Now those zones have been merged into one, in line with the margining of the zones for the payment of property tax that has been carried out by the local tax administration, and a fee of RSD 21,762 applies for it – Zdravkovic stated.

He said that the fees for the development of urban building land in the second zone were now RSD 7,500 per square meter and that they had previously been RSD 6,500.

The mayor of Nis, Dragana Sotirovski, said that the city had increased the fee for the development of urban building land several times so as to “deter as much as possible those investors who want to build in the city center.”

– If somebody is ready to pay that price for construction in the city center, which is several times higher than in the territories of the municipalities of Pantelej or Palilula, alright, let them pay – Sotirovski pointed out.

She said that the city, together with the Planning Commission, was considering how to stop investors which turn garages into outlets after getting the exploitation permit.

Sotirovski said that this amounted to cheating the law and the city and cited the example of Novi Sad, which had decided to penalize the investor with RSD 2 million for each garage turned into an outlet.

Grad Niš

City of Niš

Goran Zdravković

Dragana Sotirovski

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