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8 May 2025
With the world still recalibrating its relationship with office space post-pandemic, Dubai presents an anomaly. While commercial towers in cities like London, New York, and Hong Kong grapple with under-occupancy and uncertain futures, Dubai’s office market is surging ahead, defying market expectations and setting benchmarks. But behind the headlines of soaring rents and record-high occupancy lies a complex landscape, one that investors and occupiers alike must navigate with precision.
10 March 2025
How can tenants know whether they are getting a good deal or not? How can investors determine whether the rent currently being paid on an existing property (the ‘passing rent’) is above or below the market? And how can existing owners know on what basis they should invest in renovating their properties?
18 December 2024
Saudi Arabia has embarked upon a massive development programme as part of its Vision 2030 plan. This programme includes 14 large-scale and ambitious developments, which it is calling ‘giga-projects’. The most well-known of these is NEOM, but other projects include ROSHN, the Red Sea Project and Jeddah Central.
24 October 2023
Understanding luxury Luxury is a concept as old as philosophy itself. It has stirred debate for centuries. From the musings of Plato to modern economic thinkers like Werner Sombart and Thorstein Veblen, interpretations of the concept of luxury may differ, but they all seem to agree that luxury is an important aspect of society. Sombart championed luxury’s central role in […]
7 September 2022
IPOs have come back into fashion In the Gulf, they have done so in spectacular fashion. 2021 was itself a record year for IPOs globally, but in contrast to the slowing global IPO market the tempo did not let up this year in the region. Ernst & Young reported that MENA IPO markets saw fifteen IPOs during Q1 2022.[1] In […]
