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See below main business and financial news from the previous week:

NEWS FROM THE REAL ESTATE MARKET: RENTAL PRICES IN BUDAPEST

The average rental price on the real estate market in the Hungarian capital increased from last year’s 130 thousand HUF (420 Euros) to 140 thousand HUF (450 Euros) per month. Read more HERE.

FREE HOME DELIVERY COMES TO ITS END IN HUNGARY?

Despite the constant growth of online commerce, home delivery services suffer from serious labour shortage problems in Hungary. Therefore, they do not have enough drivers to deliver the goods and those who already work at the company have to be well paid to make them stay. Can home delivery come to its end in Hungary? Let’s see what the results show. Read more HERE.

DANUBE BANK GETTING GREEN AT BUDA

The result of the recent competition was announced: it was revealed that the coastline of the Danube between Felhévíz and Budapest University of Technology and Economics will be rebuilt on four sections. Two entries applied for the competition related to the new view of the Danube at the Buda side, both will be carried out. Read more HERE.

GE HUNGARY WINS PAKS TURBINE TENDER

A consortium led by the local unit of General Electric won a 793 million euro tender to supply turbines for two new blocks at the Paks nuclear power plant. GE Hungary, partnering with GE unit Alstom Power Systems, beat Russia’s Silovye Mashiny in the tender.

NBH ALLOCATES HUF 75 BN OF IRSS TO FLATTEN YIELD CURVE AT FIRST TENDER

The National Bank of Hungary allocated 75 billion forints (EUR 242m) of monetary policy interest rate swaps (MIRS) at the first tender for the instruments designed to flatten the yield curve, well over the 50.0 billion forints announced offer. The average accepted fixed rates were 0.76 percent for the five-year swap and 1.46 percent for the ten-year MIRS, well under the yields of the respective secondary market benchmarks of 1.03 percent and 2.05 percent on the day of the tender.

DRAFT LEGISLATION WOULD LEVY 25 PC DUTY ON SUPPORTERS OF ILLEGAL MIGRATION

Hungary’s government announced draft legislation that would make data provision mandatory for supporters of illegal migration and levy a 25 percent duty on support they receive from abroad. The legislation dubbed the “Stop Soros” package would also allow the issue of restraining orders for individuals who organise illegal migration.

PM ORBÁN MEETS AUMOTIVE INDUSTRY EXECS

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán met with German carmaker Audi’s executive in charge of production Peter Kossler and the head of the company’s Hungarian unit Achim Heinfling in Budapest. He also met with the top executives of India’s Apollo Tyres, discussing the possibility of expanding the company’s local activities with chairman Onkar Kanwar and vice chairman and managing director Neeraj Kanwar.