however buying urban and periurban property housing land lots and flats is an attractive investment for those who work abroad flat sales in chisinau are growing annually this means that there is a growing demand for housing in the capital and in the immediate vicinities however the land is not yet used intensively chisinau like most moldovan cities still has a lot of available land in developed blocks and some abandoned land lots this nonintensive urban land use situation currently provides an opportunity for replacing upgrading and developing the physical infrastructure eg utilities transport which is needed due to the growing demand for housing with new constructions and land acquisition progressing there is a need to have adequate spatial development plans in place