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2018 remains a critical year in Dubai’s real estate market trajectory as this is the third consecutive year with average sales prices softening across (...)
Real estate in Abu Dhabi continues to feel downward pressure across most sectors due to the lingering impact of job losses and consolidation activity (...)
Real estate in Abu Dhabi continues to feel downward pressure across most sectors due to the lingering impact of job losses and consolidation activity (...)
Despite the popular global assumption that the majority of Dubai’s real estate stock and transaction volumes are concentrated in the prime/luxury end of the (...)
Analysing real estate investment opportunities and risks in the backdrop of contracting yields and continued market softening. As 2017 came to a close, a clear (...)
As the UAE gears up for the 8th Abu Dhabi Grand Prix – the last race of the 2017 F1 calendar – we compare (...)
Dubai’s office leasing market saw slow but steady growth in Q3 as UAE economic indicators witnessed stabilisation over 2017. Grade A offices saw a (...)
As we enter the final quarter of 2017, a year in which most market players expected the Dubai residential market to bottom out, there (...)
Dubai’s residential market continues to be fragmented both in terms of demand and sentiment, as polarised perceptions develop in the wake of widespread contractions (...)
A lot of different factors continue to negatively impact Abu Dhabi’s real estate market, such as contractions in household income and workforce redundancies in (...)
Dubai’s residential market performance and its future course is something that cannot be genaralised in a sweeping statement: it requires a granular analysis as (...)
The United Arab Emirates are the flag bearers of sustainability within the region, despite restrictive climatic conditions and a relatively young real estate market. (...)
Dubai’s office leasing market has been relatively flat with lower level rents displaying continued resilience, while upper level rents have dropped across most areas (...)
The timing of the Dubai residential market’s decisive recovery, is what most of the market players have been trying to gauge over the last (...)
Dubai’s retail and trading sector, by contributing 29% to Dubai’s GDP while employing about a quarter of the workforce, remains the cornerstone underpinning Dubai’s (...)
The adjustment to the of low oil prices over the past 2 years, slower global economic conditions and the ensuing austerity measures continue to (...)
In Dubai, there has been a paradigm shift of supply with higher product offerings in the affordable and low to mid-market options. Transaction activity (...)
Unlike the Dubai office market, which is largely fragmented, the residential market has been bottoming throughout 2016 as a single entity. However, upon detailed (...)
The backdrop of volatility and geopolitical uncertainty continues to affect global trade volumes and in turn the job market. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the (...)
A surge of responses from existing tenants indicated towards a transition to own, with 51% planning to buy a residence in Dubai in the (...)
After a drop for seven consecutive quarters, Dubai’s overall sales market has finally witnessed a marginal 1% quarter-on-quarter rise in sales prices in Q2 (...)
Although Dubai’s position as the regional logistics hub remains unchallenged, the curtailed global trade volume and the region’s adaptation to the new norm of (...)
As of Q2 2016, Dubai has around 8.3 million sq. m. (90 million sq. ft.) of office stock, out of which only about 30% (...)
This publication comes at a time when Dubai’s residential market indices are witnessing a drop for the 7th consecutive quarter due to a number (...)
The socio-economic drivers in the last year have been somewhat turbulent across the globe. We have seen the rise in US Federal Reserve interest (...)
Affordable housing is a fundamental urban issue faced by most of the global cities and the quantity and quality of this residential strata greatly (...)
Middle Eastern real estate economies are typically volatile and sensitive to both oil price movements and political events. However, as the region’s real estate (...)
Although Dubai is not directly reliant on the hydrocarbon sector, there is no doubt that the downturn in global oil prices will have at (...)
Over the past 40 years Dubai has grown from a small trading port serving the Gulf States to a global hub for trade, manufacturing (...)
Dubai's real estate market peaked in October 2014 at levels higher than those achieved in August 2008, and that Dubai's residential sales market has (...)