Middle East Insight

Buyers want more in Gulf property boom
- Customer expectations are on the rise as the number of development projects booms through out the GCC countries, but many property companies still fail to keep buyers happy during the sales process.
- Middle East: Tuesday, October 16 - 2007 at 10:17 |


Middle East real estate: when will the boom end?
- Doomsters have been wrong so far about oversupply in the Middle East as new real estate developments have multiplied. But a new regional report from Colliers International, released to coincide with Cityscape, analyses the true supply and demand situation by geographical area and type of real estate. No boom, after all, can last forever.
- Middle East: Wednesday, October 10 - 2007 at 16:37 |


The Middle East's 20 Richest People
- Sky-high oil prices may be quashing Americans' appetite to spend, but in parts of the Middle East it is stoking business and fueling immense fortunes.
- Middle East: Thursday, October 04 - 2007 at 11:15 |


Dubai Diamonds
- Dubai has been called a capitalist dream on steroids. Indoor ski mountains in the middle of the desert. The world’s only (self-proclaimed) seven-star hotel, where one night in the Royal suite costs $13,600. An archipelago of man-made private islands designed to look like a map of the World from outer space. (Rod Stewart is rumored to have bought Britain for $33m).
- United Arab Emirates: Tuesday, September 18 - 2007 at 22:43 |


Middle East leisure real estate market booming
- The leisure real-estate market in the Middle East offers enormous potential for developers and investors due to increasing demand for a wider choice of vacation accommodations in the region, according to experts at the second Annual Middle East Leisure Real Estate Symposium in Dubai. However, they warn that tighter regulations are needed to protect consumers and investors who are keen to buy into this market.
- Middle East: Wednesday, September 12 - 2007 at 10:24 |


China ripe for Middle East investment
- Investments between China and the Middle East will be the next big growth area, as the two regions with massive cash surpluses begin to move away from the western markets. At the China-Middle East Investment Forum in Dubai, speakers representing companies from both regions said although still relatively immature, we will see more wealth flowing between the two.
- Middle East: Tuesday, September 04 - 2007 at 00:28 |


Working With Islamic Finance
- Islamic finance refers to the means by which corporations in the Muslim world, including banks and other lending institutions, raise capital in accordance with Shariah, or Islamic law. It also refers to the types of investments that are permissible under this form of law.
- Middle East: Monday, August 13 - 2007 at 12:55 |





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