Abu Dhabi Property

Off-plan speculators double their money in Abu Dhabi
Speculators in off-plan Abu Dhabi property are doubling their investment in as little as nine days, industry sources told AME Info. This looks like a re-run of the gold rush in the early days of the Dubai property market. But finding these high-return opportunities is not easy as the market lacks transparency.
United Arab Emirates: Thursday, February 21 - 2008 at 00:09 |

Will Abu Dhabi property sales overtake Dubai this year?
The organisers of the fourth Abu Dhabi Real Estate and Investments Show, which was held in the capital over the weekend, have reported over $400m in combined sales during the event. This compares with $1.3bn in cash land transactions in Dubai for January. Abu Dhabi is therefore probably still lagging in realty sales, but the question is for how much longer.
United Arab Emirates: Tuesday, February 05 - 2008 at 00:43 |

Biggest Abu Dhabi realty show ever opens this week
The fourth Abu Dhabi Real Estate & Investment Show - IREIS 2008, kicks off tomorrow for four days. Targeted at final end-users rather than investors, the event occupies three halls over 9,500 square meters at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre.
United Arab Emirates: Tuesday, January 29 - 2008 at 11:09 |

Masdar unveils 'world's greenest city'
The World Energy Summit held earlier this week in Abu Dhabi served as a showcase for Masdar, the $15bon future energy initiative that has been launched by the Abu Dhabi government. The most eye-catching aspect of the initiative is Masdar City, which is being billed as the 'greenest city in the world'.
United Arab Emirates: Thursday, January 24 - 2008 at 16:54 |

Rents set to skyrocket as property shortage bites
A new report from UAE investment bank Shuaa Capital points to the lack of new property supply in Abu Dhabi and extrapolates its likely impact on rents and property prices over the next three years, predicting that rents and prices could exceed those of Dubai within this timeframe.
United Arab Emirates: Monday, January 21 - 2008 at 10:45 |

Abu Dhabi real estate a favourite investment class for 2008
Factors as diverse as the likely revaluation of the dirham and the outlook for interest rates combine with property undervaluation to make Abu Dhabi real estate a favourite investment class for 2008. The poor outlook for global real estate and equity alternatives are also increasingly persuading investors that this is the year to invest locally.
United Arab Emirates: Wednesday, January 09 - 2008 at 12:03 |

Mortgage market development to transform UAE realty prices
EFG Hermes has just published a study of the nascent UAE mortgage market, which points to a ten-fold growth from $4.4bn today to $44bn by 2012. The implications for the development of the real estate markets of the Emirates are enormous both in terms of deepening the market and selling prices.
United Arab Emirates: Wednesday, January 02 - 2008 at 10:17 |

Can Abu Dhabi buyers learn from the experience of Dubai?
Abu Dhabi developers report that after a slow start to the year, admittedly with a very limited number of projects to sell, that sales have picked up sharply in the second half. But what lessons can be learned from neighbouring Dubai which started selling real estate to foreigners three years before Abu Dhabi?
United Arab Emirates: Monday, December 17 - 2007 at 14:18 |