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Dubai real estate in recovery

Jones Lang LaSalle predicts that the Dubai real estate market is in the recovery stage—but the good news applies only to projects in prime locations.

April 15, 2013 1:38

Property speculators back in Dubai

Dubai is certainly monitoring the market more closely now than it did before the crash.

February 28, 2013 8:57

Announcing it doesn’t make it happen: Dubai

Given the number of major real estate announcements over the past few weeks, one could be forgiven for thinking that we were back in 2006 and 2007 again

December 3, 2012 4:48

We got the cash to build this, says Dubai

Many of the new announcements do not represent new plans, but the re-launch of projects that were first launched in 2006 and 2007 and subsequently placed on hold following the impact of the GFC in 2008.

November 29, 2012 11:26

People in Dubai have not forgotten the crisis

European banks have been cutting back their foreign lending because of financial pressures in their home countries, while many have been burned by Dubai debt restructurings since 2009.

November 28, 2012 9:05

Dubai: did I just wake up in 2008 again?

What do you think of Emirate's latest announcement?

November 25, 2012 10:31

Dubai plans ‘Mall of the World’ and other big things

"The current facilities available in Dubai need to be scaled up in line with the future ambitions for the city," Sheikh Mohammed said.

November 25, 2012 8:45

Ghosts of Dubai World’s past may return to haunt

The emirate is once again dreaming big with plans for a city centre canal and a $1 billion replica of India's Taj Mahal.

November 22, 2012 9:00

Dubai demand skewed to specific properties

It seems that Dubai is developing an insatiable appetite for sought after residential projects in key areas.

November 21, 2012 4:33

Dubai builders dust shelved plans off

Developer Nakheel, whose extravagant projects helped trigger Dubai's 2009 debt crisis and which has written off about $21 billion from its portfolio since the crash, pitched its third new project this year.

October 3, 2012 4:28

Service Fee Index to the rescue… 18 months on.

The hoo-ha between developers, landlords, home owners and tenants concerning service fees has been going for well over 18 months. Alas, RERA steps in to prove the A in its name really does name stand for ‘Authority’.

September 4, 2012 3:46

‘Recovered real estate’ on repeat

Kipp jumps on the recovered-real-estate bandwagon as we tell you about the 21 percent increase in land transactions Dubai has enjoyed over the past six months alone.

August 7, 2012 3:01

Dear Dubai Real Estate—Get Real.

Contrary to recent reports about Dubai’s real estate resurrection, the property sector is facing problems far worse than dry swimming pools and empty pockets.

June 24, 2012 3:55

The truth about buying property in the Gulf

Some may say the property sector is slowly recovering, but has investor confidence truly returned to the masses? Our exclusive findings with YouGov Siraj put you in the know...

January 23, 2012 3:20