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Go East Young Man!

Go East Young Man!                                                                                     24 June 2021 For the past week ending 24 June, Dubai Land Department recorded a total of 1,982 real estate and properties transactions, with a gross value of US$ 2.10 billion. It confirmed that 1,336 villas/apartments … Continue reading

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A Change Will Do You Good!

A Change Will Do You Good!                                                            27 August 2020 A new CBRE report is relatively bullish on the Dubai property sector, indicating a rise in demand for villas and town houses, as many end-users are looking for more space, … Continue reading

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Hotel California

Hotel California                                                                                             06 August 2020 As noted in a blog last month, (‘Riders On The Storm’ – 16 July), property prices and rents in some of Dubai’s popular communities remained fairly stable in H1, despite a slowdown induced by the … Continue reading

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Riders On The Storm

Riders On The Storm                                                                                        16 July 2020 According to reports this week, JLL estimate that 12k units were handed over in Q1, a long way short of the 83k that was forecast at the beginning of the year … Continue reading

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Only Time Will Tell!

Only Time Will Tell!                                                                       18 June 2020 Nakheel has posted villa sales, totalling US$ 63 million, over the past three months, as demand jumps with consumers beginning to adapt to the ‘new normal’; of that total, US$ 40 million (70 … Continue reading

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The Lights All Went Out in Massachusetts

The Lights All Went Out In Massachusetts                                                28 May 2020 According to Property Finder, and despite the Covid-19 economic impact, there were still 1.8k property sales last month, worth US$ 1.0 billion, of which 70% were off-plan and the rest … Continue reading

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No Turning Back!

                                                                                     No Turning Back! 09 April 2020. The Dubai week started with the much-expected announcement that the curfew would be extended for a further two weeks and that any individual would only be permitted to leave their home for stipulated … Continue reading

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Paperback Writer

Paperback Writer                                                                              19 March 2020 Coronavirus came too early for the Dubai real estate sector which had been showing a marked improvement for the first two months of the year, with both January and February having significant increases of … Continue reading

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