September 20 (SeeNews) - Trade in shares of real estate investment trusts (REITs) formed 48% of the regulated market turnover on the Bulgarian Stock Exchange, which totalled 581,000 levs ($349,000/297,100 euro) on Thursday, bourse data shows.
Trading turnover in the preceding session amounted to 384,055 levs.
Aktiv Properties REIT [BUL:5AX] was the most traded among its peers, forming a turnover of 264,730 levs.
The BGREIT index ended the session 0.09% lower at 117.04 points, on the back of a 0.49% drop in the price of Advance Terrafund REIT [BUL:6A6] shares.
The blue-chip SOFIX index edged down 0.08% to 627.08%, despite a 7.49% rise in the share price of Doverie United Holding [BUL:5DOV], which, however, has the lowest weight among constituents of the index.
Resort operator Albena [BUL:5AB] led blue-chip decliners on Thursday, losing 1.96% to a closing price of 50 levs.
Diversified group Severcoop Gamza Holding [BUL:6S4] partially erased gains from the previous two trading sessions, closing 7.89% lower at 3.5 levs on Thursday. Severcoop Gamza Holding shares gained 10% on Tuesday and a further 15.15% on Wednesday, reaching a price of 3.8 levs - their highest close since January 2008.
The decline in Severcoop Gamza Holding's share price brought the wider BGBX40 index down 0.22% to 121.91 points.
The BG TotalReturn30 index, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight, lost 0.17% to 519.77 points.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)