About the Journal

Construction Entrepreneurship and Real Property, e-ISSN 2683-0280, is a peer-reviewed academic research journal that publishes original author manuscripts on current contemporary economic issues in the field of construction entrepreneurship and real estate. The journal seeks to give way to innovative ideas, stimulate scholarly debate and reflect the scholarly heritage by presenting it refracted through the prism of contemporary economic development.

The journal started being published in June 2024 by the Department of Business, Investments, Real Estate at the University of Economics – Varna and inherits the traditions of the published between 1985 and 2022 proceedings from the International Scientific and Practical Conference "Construction Entrepreneurship and Real Property".

The journal is open access, which means that all content is available free of charge to users and they have the right to read, download, copy, distribute or use for other legitimate purposes without seeking prior permission from the publisher or the author (Budapest Open Access Initiative, BOAI).

The priority objectives of the journal are:

  • To contribute to the advancement of scientific knowledge in the field of property development and real estate
  • To help promote cooperation between national and international researchers
  • To enable the sharing of best practices from academia, business and public administration

The thematic areas of the journal are:

  • Spatial Planning and Settlement Planning
  • Local Governance and Self-Government
  • Investment Process and Investment Projects
  • Organization and Economics of Construction
  • Management of the Construction Enterprise
  • Innovation in Construction
  • Sustainable Construction
  • Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence in Construction and Real Estate Business
  • Real Estate Market and Valuation
  • Economic, Managerial and Legal Aspects of Real Property
  • Property and Facility Management of Buildings and Facilities
  • Infrastructure and Network Services Economics
  • Management of Energy and Utility Companies
  • Public-Private Partnerships
  • Public Procurement
  • Risk Management and Insurance

The journal is electronic, published in two issues per year (June and December) and accepts manuscripts in Bulgarian and in English.

All manuscripts undergo a plagiarism check and a double-blind peer-review process with strict adherence to ethical standards for publication and copyright protection.

The journal is included in the National Reference List of contemporary Bulgarian scientific publications with scientific review (ID Nº 5134) of the National Centre for Information and Documentation (NACID).

The journal "Construction Entrepreneurship and Real Property" is indexed in Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Google Scholar and Research Papers in Economics (RePEc).