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2018 Oman Property Market Report

Reports and Whitepapers

11 February 2019

Market-leading real estate consultancy and chartered surveying firm, Cavendish Maxwell, has released its Oman Market Report for 2018. This marks the second comprehensive report on the health of Oman’s real estate industry, covering the residential, office, industrial, retail and hospitality sectors within the industry. The unique, in-depth market report was compiled by the firm’s in-house strategic consulting and research team, […]

The Gulf Real Estate Year in Review

Opinion

31 January 2019

A market in perspective: Economists are a sober lot, generally. Facts alone do not satisfy us. At a macro-economic level, our interests lie predominantly in the relationships between economic indicators, market performance and policy-based decision-making. We are generally wary of speculation, preferring to base our analysis on the links between economic data wherever possible. Identifying the reasons behind the performance […]

2018 Abu Dhabi Property Market Report

Reports and Whitepapers

29 January 2019

This comprehensive report offers key insights on the health of Abu Dhabi’s real estate industry, covering the residential, office, retail and hospitality sectors within the market.

2018 Dubai Property Market Report

Reports and Whitepapers

22 January 2019

Rental and sales indices for Dubai’s real estate market in 2018 revealedReport offers key insights into trends in the residential, office, retail and hospitality sectorsThe firm casts […]

Perfect Time to Buy?

Opinion

1 November 2018

Property Monitor’s Moe Abeidat discusses buying property in Dubai and the factors that influence purchasing decisions. One thing that stood out, amidst our last sprint to publish Cavendish Maxwell and Property Monitor’s Q3 2018 Residential Market Report for Dubai, is how today’s average prices for a villa/ townhouse and apartment, $517,000 and $327,000 respectively, are approximately the same as in […]

Q3 2018 Abu Dhabi Market Report

Reports and Whitepapers

18 October 2018

Our Abu Dhabi Q3 2018 market report provides a summary of the Abu Dhabi residential market. Price and rent movement and upcoming supply of residential properties are provided through Property Monitor, a real estate intelligence platform, powered by Cavendish Maxwell.

Q3 2018 Dubai Market Report

Reports and Whitepapers

15 October 2018

This report provides a summary of the residential market activity and highlights price movement, rent and yield statistics, residential transactions and upcoming supply of residential properties. The data is provided by Property Monitor, a real estate intelligence platform. The report also includes the recent Property Monitor Residential Survey for Q3 2018, with a summary of market sentiment for Q4 2018 […]

Further Lessons from Tragedy

Opinion

1 October 2018

Cavendish Maxwell’s Craig Ross discusses developments in fire safety standards in the UK and UAE. Following my article in August 2017 on the subject of building fires in Dubai, and following the Grenfell fire tragedy in the UK, there have been several interesting developments in both the UK and the UAE, in terms of fire safety standards. While the Grenfell enquiry […]

Dubai Industrial and Logistics Market 2018 Mid Year Review

Reports and Whitepapers

12 July 2018

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Q2 2018 Dubai Market Report

Reports and Whitepapers

11 July 2018

This report provides a summary of the residential market activity and highlights price movement, rent and yield statistics, residential transactions and upcoming supply of residential properties. The data is provided by Property Monitor, a real estate intelligence platform. The report also includes the recent Property Monitor Residential Survey for Q2 2018, with a summary of market sentiment for Q3 2018 […]

Delivering a new economic future

Opinion

10 July 2018

Moe Abeidat, CTO at Property Monitor, analyses what sort of impact the latest amendments to residency laws in the UAE will have on the country’s real estate market This May, the UAE Cabinet announced a number of amendments to current residency laws, a move that has created a stir in the country’s real estate market, with a number of […]

Q1 2018 Abu Dhabi Market Report

Reports and Whitepapers

19 April 2018

Our Abu Dhabi Q1 2018 market report provides a summary of the Abu Dhabi residential market. Price and rent movement and upcoming supply of residential properties are provided through Property Monitor, a real estate intelligence platform, powered by Cavendish Maxwell.

Benjamin is a Chartered Building Surveyor bringing over 15 years of global professional experience to the Project and Building Consultancy team at Cavendish Maxwell. Over the course of his career, he has successfully advised top-tier international clients from around the world on portfolio acquisitions/disposals, lifecycle costing, technical due diligence, and building pathology, among others. He has delivered a full range of project management services including new builds, refurbishment, fit-out and alterations.

Prior to his role at Cavendish Maxwell, Benjamin headed up the building consultancy department of the New Zealand arm of a global real estate firm. He also has extensive experience in the UK and the wider Middle East, covering building consultancy services across the GCC for a variety of projects and asset classes for developers, investment trusts, local authorities and large private clients in the region. He has advised clients from China, Singapore and Australia on some of the largest property acquisitions in both New Zealand and Australia.

Being an RICS-accredited Assessment of Professional Competence (APC) assessor, Benjamin provides consistently distinguished standards of service for the company and the wider surveying profession in the UAE.

Paul has 20 years of experience in valuation and consultancy services and has worked in leading international practices across the UAE, Oman, Europe and the UK.

His professional knowledge encompasses all property asset classes including large, complex master plan developments of mixed-use properties in office, retail, industrial, leisure, hospitality and residential sectors. Paul is professionally qualified to value minerals, waste and recycling properties as well as environmental land considerations.

Paul’s client portfolio includes international and local banks, lending institutions, developers, investors, owner occupiers as well as accountants, legal firms and insolvency practitioners. As joint head of the Commercial Valuation department he is responsible for valuations of all property types. He ensures quality assurance and provides timely RICS Red Book/International Valuation Standard Council (IVSC) standard reports.

Sarah-Jane joined Cavendish Maxwell in January 2020 as Head of Marketing and is responsible for the development of the marketing strategy and execution across the Middle East region. An energetic and results driven marketer, Sarah-Jane possesses a wealth of multi-channel marketing experience, within both B2B and B2C environments which she has gained over a 25 year career. Prior to joining Cavendish Maxwell, Sarah-Jane held senior marketing positions for major developers in Dubai including Emaar, Dubai Properties and Dubai Sports City. She also worked for IWG as the Regional Marketing Director responsible for the MEA and APAC regions. Before relocating to the UAE in 2005, Sarah-Jane held various management roles in public and private sector companies in the UK including ten years at Royal Mail and seven years at the Bank of America.

Sarah-Jane is a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and has a BA(Hons) Degree in Business and Marketing

P P Varghese leads Cavendish Maxwell’s strategy and consulting team. Varghese comes with over 17 years’ experience gained through advising government, private and institutional clients on single-use, mixed-use, standalone, and master planned projects. He has been exposed to consulting and operations functions with his expertise spanning development planning and strategy, cost-benefit analysis, operational reviews and monitoring, hotel operator search and negotiations, as well as arbitration support and dispute resolution for hotel management agreements.

In his previous role, Varghese served as Partner - Real Estate Strategy and Consulting at Knight Frank Middle East. There he was responsible for advising clients on real estate development strategy, optimising department processes to enhance revenue, and developing client acquisition and retention strategies.

At Cavendish Maxwell, Varghese will lead an expert team that provides development advisory, feasibility, portfolio analysis and real estate research for all real estate asset classes and will identify new growth opportunities for the business.

Varghese is a Master of Management in Hospitality, majoring in real estate investments and finance from the Cornell School of Hotel Administration, Cornell University, New York.