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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
ATHENS — Nominal apartment prices rose 3.2 pct on average in the first quarter of 2021 compared with the same period last year, according to data collected from credit institutions, the Bank of Greece said on Tuesday. The central bank, in a quarterly report, said that the average annual rate of increase was 4.3 pct in 2020, against an increase of 7.2 pct in 2019.
More specifically, in the first quarter of 2021, the year-on-year rate of increase in prices was 2.9 pct for new apartments (up to 5 years old) and 3.4 pct for old apartments (over 5 years old). For 2020, according to revised data, prices of new apartments increased on average by 4.7 pct, against an increase of 7.7 pct in 2019, whereas prices of old apartments increased by 4.0 pct in 2020, against an increase of 6.9 pct in 2019.
According to regional data, in the first quarter of 2021, apartment prices are estimated to have increased by 5.4 pct year-on-year in Athens, 3.7 pct in Thessaloniki, 1.1 pct in other cities and 0.5 pct in other areas of Greece. For 2020, based on revised data, apartment prices increased on average by 7.6 pct, 4.8 pct, 0.1 pct and 1.6 pct, respectively, in the above-mentioned areas. Finally, as regards all urban areas of the country, in the first quarter of 2021, apartment prices increased by 3.3 pct year-on-year, whereas for the whole of 2020 the average annual increase was 4.6 pct, against a rise of 7.4 pct in 2019.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
LONDON (AP) — The British Museum on Thursday appointed National Portrait Gallery chief Nicholas Cullinan as its new director, as the 265-year-old institution grapples with the apparent theft of hundreds of artifacts and growing international scrutiny of its collection.
ATHENS - The European Union needs to get involved in the case of the two-year jail sentence given ethnic Greek Fredi Beleri who was elected Mayor of the seaside town of Himare and said the trial was a farce to get him and protect Prime Minister Edi Rama’s business friends.
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