Dubai Property Blog

Dubai real estate investors have found villas providing the greater capital appreciation over the past few years. But rental yields have fallen as a consequence, making apartments more attractive in certain locations. Is this a trend likely to continue in 2008, or will villas emerge again as the better choice for investment?

This autumn the Dubai real estate market has absorbed two massive apartment projects - the shoreline apartments on The Palm Jumeriah and the Jumeirah Beach Residence - a total of more than 7,500 units. Both offer an excellent beach location but service charge differentials have become important.

A new report from Better Homes points to a huge appreciation in values for several Dubai International Financial Centre buildings in the past three months, and notes that since the start of 2007 land prices in Business Bay have increased by almost 40 per cent.

AME Info today joined a party of journalists visiting the Australian continent on The World, an artificial archipelago of islands shaped like a map of the world, four kilometers off Dubai, now nearing completion. Host Oqyana expect to start selling units next autumn.