While transparency has increased in most markets in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) over the past two years, the region continues to experience lower levels of transparency than other parts of the world. This is revealed by Jones Lang LaSalle’s new Global Real Estate Transparency Index for 2012 that was released this week. […]
Craig Plumb
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While a number of global real estate funds have looked closely at opportunities in the Dubai market over the past two years, no suitable deals have been sourced and they have all left town empty handed. Today’s announcement that Brookfield Asset Management has teemed up with the Dubai Governments ICD (Investment Corporation of Dubai) to […]
The social and political turmoil that has swept through the MENA region over the past 6 months (the Arab Spring) has had a positive but muted impact upon the Dubai real estate market. While increasing demand in some sectors of this traditional ‘safe haven’ this has been insufficient to offset the impact of the Emirates […]
Property & Asset Management is increasingly important in distinguishing between the ‘winners and the losers’ in the UAE real estate market in 2011 according to JLL’s recently released Top Trends for 2011. While the overall market is expected to move further in favor of tenants (with average prices and rentals declining in most sectors), selected […]