As Poslovni Dnevnik/Suzana Varosanec writes, prestigious property in unique locations in the market context has never been endangered, and a new example in which this is confirmed once again is the luxury new building in Zagreb, the very first Marko Rubelj Croatian project. In addition to being the fruit of the labour of this entrepreneur, it is also a family project of the Luxe residence investor.
Back at the beginning of the building’s construction, some of the apartments was snapped up, and obviously many famous names, successful people from the business world and some famous athletes will end up staying at that new Zagreb address.
Above European regulations
As an electrical engineer from Zagreb’s FER, entreprener Marko Rubelj has been in the real estate business by vocation for twenty years now over in the United States, where he also received his master’s degree from the University of Florida.
He is the author of a book about the investment side of this business, which was otherwise a 2016 bestseller on Amazon. Today, Rubelj employs 40 people in California, but now he is active with his first Croatian project, transferring the (very different) American mindset here to Croatia, which seems to be reflected in every detail of the luxury new building – Building M, which is coming more and more to life in Kukuljeviceva street.
The glass walls of the first Marko Rubelj Croatian project that connect the interior with the park open up, which raises Croatian standards, the staircase is very large, done in American dimensions, and the same goes for the building’s lifts as well.
Axor pipes are planned, made by the renowned French industrial architect and designer Philippe Starck, who, for example, designed the super yacht Venus, co-founded by Apple Steve Jobs, whose value stands at a whopping 105 million euros.
In addition to this top Zagreb location and sense of luxury, the building is also characterised by its top security. At the request of the Marko Rubelj Croatian project’s investors, it is designed to withstand a 20 percent higher seismic load than what is prescribed by applicable European seismic standards for residential buildings in the area of its construction.
This has been ”signed” by the famous statician Berislav Medic, who has stated that this building has seismic resistance, which is provided by regulations for buildings of great importance (such as schools, halls for large gatherings, etc.), which significantly exceeds the earthquake standard of the vast majority of modern residential buildings.
“This is currently the most seismically residential building in the entire country,” Marko Rubelj said. Construction began back in October 2020 and will be completed in October 2022, but two floors with five apartments out of a total of 22 the building will boast will remain within the family ownership of the investor.
The Zagreb-based company Prosperitas is the contractor, and the consulting company taking care of the supervision is Stimar d.o.o. which has seen hundreds of thousands of square metres of business and residential buildings throughout Croatia come to realisation.
The value of the investment is around 12 million euros, but although the building isn’t yet visible because earthworks are underway, more than 30 percent of the apartments have been sold so far. Regarding cooperation with real estate agencies across Croatia, Lux residences have chosen several of them.
For more, follow our business section.
