Economy

The dynamics of home purchases continues to decline, it seems that inflation is already taking its toll on the housing portfolio after several years of record figures in the sector. Today, the National Administrative Department of Statistics (Dane), revealed the quarterly figures (with respect to the last three months of 2022) of housing financing where it evidenced a 37.3% annual drop in loans disbursed. In housing lease the decrease was 26.5%.(Read: VIS projects increase in high-income neighborhoods in Bogotá). Between October and December, the different financial institutions disbursed $2.54 trillion pesos, 34.4% less than the previous quarter; in number of…

Pedro Gómez Barrero, known as the 'father' of the Unicentro shopping center in Bogotá and the mastermind behind 23 other shopping centers in Colombia, countless urbanizations, like Metropolis, Calatrava, Sindamanoy and La Felicidad, in the capital of the country they will spend this Friday afternoon at their 94 years. Gómez, who also implemented the concept of educational theme parks in the country such as Divercity in 2006 and which spread to Peru, began as a independent builder.In 1968, he carried out projects in the south of Bogotá and for the middle and popular classes, and later he did focus on…

In the meeting of the board of directors for the month of February, held this Thursday, the Federation of Colombian Insurers (Fasecolda) elected Gustavo Morales Cobo as its new executive president of the guild. He is a lawyer from the Universidad de los Andes with International Studies from the Diplomatic School of Madrid (Spain). He will take office this Friday, February 17.(Also read: In Colombia some 25 million people have at least one life insurance) Also has more than 30 years of work experience and has held various positions in the public sector such as auxiliary magistrate of the Constitutional…

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