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26 February 2025

Dubai Residential Market Performance 2024

The Gulf’s macroeconomic performance remains impressive, with the UAE leading the charge. While macroeconomic cycles have not disappeared, investors can take confidence in the fact that their impact has been significantly less in the past decades. The positive macro signals correlated strongly with exceptional real estate performance.
15 January 2025

Currency Adjustment Real Estate Indices: An Update to 2025

When we introduced currency adusted real estate indices six years ago, we argued that alongside multinational corporates,[1] international real estate investors are inadvertent currency speculators, facing currency risk from unhedged investments. We pointed out that they receive two returns: the performance of the real estate itself, and then a gain or loss as a result of changes in the value of the currency in which the real estate performs and that of the overseas investor. Since then the argument that currency volatility can be significant, and the return from the currency can sometimes swamp the performance of the real estate in domestic currency has been amply demonstrated.
6 August 2024

Value Through Infrastructure Development: The Case of Gulf ports

The rise of Gulf ports The history of seafaring throughout the Gulf is well known. The construction of the famous Arab dhow and the existence of extensive fisheries across the region in what are now the countries of the UAE, Oman and Saudi Arabia are part of a proud tradition that urban planners wish to capture. More recently, Gulf governments […]
7 September 2022

The significance of Gulf IPOs for real estate

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 […]
17 February 2020

Reverse Osmosis Plant – Bahrain

Client: Private Company – Reverse Osmosis Plant Type: Reverse Osmosis Plant Reason for study: Financial Reporting Scope of Work: Seawater reverse-osmosis desalination plant with a capacity of 4,000 m³/d
17 November 2017

Power Plant – Dubai

Client: Private Company – Power Plant Type: Power Plant Reason for study: Insurance Scope of Work: Emergency power plant, and six GE LM 6000PC gas turbine generators, with total output of 300MWe, plus all associated plant storage and logistics services consisting of freezers, cold stores, racking and transportation.

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