OBG announce The Market: Abu Dhabi

With more than 100 pages of detailed market information, the report includes a full profile of each property sector, detailed models of supply and demand, assessments of the residential, office, retail, hospitality and industrial sectors, as well as information on infrastructure development and urban planning.

Written exclusively by consultants from OBG Consulting's Real Estate Division, topics include luxury residential development and the need for affordable housing, green buildings, the new urban framework plan, transport planning, delays, construction costs, institutional investment and the levels of foreign ownership in developments across the capital.

Amongst other facts uncovered by The Market: Abu Dhabi, OBG establishes precisely how residential and commercial rentals continue to climb, that construction costs have risen dramatically since the beginning of 2008 and details the forecast changes in market supply and demand over the next five years.

To be released in June 2008, The Market: Abu Dhabi is foreshadowed by a limited release of a chapter on the current state of the market, which includes OBG's residential, commercial, retail and hospitality forecasts and is available for collection at points throughout Cityscape Abu Dhabi.

Due to the levels of demand experienced for The Market in 2007, the initial print run has been tripled, and the introductory chapter of The Market: Abu Dhabi can be collected from the Cityscape Market Information Service (CMIS) exhibition stand, at various points around Cityscape Abu Dhabi and also at the conference.

Under OBG's continuing partnership with Cityscape and the Cityscape Market Intelligence Service, complimentary online access to The Market: Abu Dhabi will be provided free to conference participants and to subscribers to the Cityscape Market Intelligence Service, with OBG also accepting pre-orders for the report.

The partnership between OBG and Cityscape began with the commission of The Market, a review of the real estate and development in 22 countries produced for Cityscape Dubai 2007.

The Market, which looked at the real estate sector and ranked markets where OBG Consulting operates, was a runaway success with copies being collected by conference delegates and exhibition visitors and requested from as far away as London, New York, Shanghai and Brazil.

Apart from our joint publishing of real estate information, OBG and CMIS have partnered to make the CMIS website one of the best information services on real estate across the Mena Region, Asia and beyond, providing regular research and coverage of the real estate sector.

OBG Consulting was established in 2005 and focuses on market research and feasibility studies in the real estate sectors.

As well as covering markets in the GCC, OBG Consulting focuses on emerging markets in North Africa, Asia and the Levant.