The company "Sebre Marina Doroćol" is owned by the company "Sebre holding AS" from the Czech Republic. In 2019, she bought the land on which Marina Dorćol is being built at a public tender in the Directorate for City Construction Land and Construction of Belgrade in November 2019 at a price slightly less than 32 million euros.
The company "Sebre Marina Dorćol", to which the City of Belgrade is selling land, announced that the City implemented the procedure of "correcting the borders of the adjacent cadastral plot" and selling several adjacent, smaller plots and joining them to larger plots that are already owned by Sebra.
In the decision of the Temporary Authority of the City of Belgrade, which its member Dobrica Veselinović announced, it is stated that the total area of the land is 3.934 square meters, the total price is 484.170.086 dinars, which is about 4,1 million euros, or about 1.500 euros per square meter.
Also, in the case of a one-time payment, that amount will be reduced by 30 percent, which would mean that the price of that land would be 338.919.060 dinars, or about 2,9 million euros, which would be about 740 euros per square meter.
Low price for expensive land
"What continues and what we see through this decision of the Provisional Authority of the city of Beograd is that the most valuable city land is sold at a very low price to a private investor. In this case, it is a Czech fund, which bought Marina Dorča for 2019 million euros in 32. These are some four hectares of the most valuable city land on the banks of the river, in Doroćol, which also includes protected buildings such as the Snaga i sveltat thermal power plant, which is a cultural and historical monument. Now, with this decision of the temporary body, additional concessions are made so that the investor can create an exclusive residential and business complex there," says Veselinović.
He adds that the trend of not defending public interests is just continuing.
Belgrade's immeasurable loss
"There is no protection of a public asset, such as the river bank, but, as in the case of Belgrade on the water, it is given to an investor who will turn it into a closed, exclusive part of the city where he can make a lot of money," points out Veselinoc. "For the sake of illustration, when that land was sold, the estimate was that around 80.000 square meters of residential and business space could be built on that area." If you multiply that 80.000 by just a few thousand euros, and the price in such locations is known to go up to 10.000 euros per square meter, you will see how much an investor's earnings can be."
He says that the loss of the City is practically immeasurable because it is a coastal area, and this is something that could have enormous value for future generations.
From the company "Serbia Marina Doroćol", they point out that the price of 1.050 euros per square meter was set by the competent city body responsible for the assessment, and that, bearing in mind that most of the mentioned plots do not meet the requirements to be classified as building land, the realized price is actually extremely good. for the City of Belgrade.