Company Insights Aldar Properties Construction Aldar Properties News Opinion Markets Saudi Arabia and the UAE set pace in GCC equities race The post-Covid recovery strategy has paid off big time for UAE markets November 18, 2024 Real Estate Real-estate growth pushes IHC revenue up by 49% Abu Dhabi conglomerate International Holding Company (IHC) said revenue surged 49 percent year on year for the first nine months of 2024 to AED64 billion ($17.4 billion), supported by the real estate and construction segment. The segment’s growth was driven by an increase in Aldar’s revenue from strong property development sales, higher income from acquisitions […] November 7, 2024 Construction Aldar Properties reports ‘strong pickup’ for London projects Aldar Properties remains bullish about London’s property market despite high interest rates and fears that tax rises will be announced in the UK budget on Wednesday. The government-owned Abu Dhabi company bought British developer London Square in a deal worth AED1.07 billion ($291 million) last year – its first acquisition outside the Middle East and […] October 29, 2024 Analysis Construction UAE warehousing attracts new institutional investors A lack of suitable warehousing across Dubai and Abu Dhabi is providing opportunity for institutional investors to get into industrial real estate. Non-industrial developers are also poised to take advantage of the gap. Strong demand for facilities in ecommerce and logistics, and the expansion of oil and gas companies in Abu Dhabi in particular, has led […] October 21, 2024 Real Estate Mubadala and Aldar reveal $8bn property collaboration Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund Mubadala and its largest property developer, Aldar, have joined forces to develop and manage more than AED30 billion ($8.17 billion) worth of real estate across the emirate. The partnership, announced Wednesday, will be structured through four joint ventures. It will be owned 60 percent by Aldar and 40 percent by Mubadala, […] September 18, 2024 Analysis Real Estate Project stardust: why Dubai developers still want celeb tie-ins Lionel Messi, Rohit Sharma and Chris Hemsworth are just some of the famous faces who have promoted UAE real estate in recent years. Superstar sportsmen and Hollywood heroes do not come cheap, but are they really a good investment for developers or just an excuse for the CEO to get a selfie? Many industry observers […] September 18, 2024 Real Estate UAE real estate companies rebound after market turmoil Real estate companies bore the brunt of Monday’s stock sell-off in the GCC, although prices showed significant signs of recovery on Tuesday. Dubai Financial Market closed on Monday down 4.5 percent, while Saudi Arabia’s Tadawul exchange was down 2.1 percent. Kuwait’s bourse was showing a negative of 2.13 percent on a day when $6.4 trillion […] August 7, 2024 Real Estate Aldar reports strong half-year performance Strong interest from international buyers, an increasingly tight office sector and a record development backlog at the end of June helped Aldar Properties to double-digit profit and revenue growth for the first half of 2024. Profit rose 57 percent year on year to AED3.3 billion, while revenue surged 73 percent to almost AED11 billion, the […] July 29, 2024 Logistics Aldar’s new Dubai logistics park to break ground in Q4 Aldar Properties, an Abu Dhabi-listed developer, will break ground on a new logistics park within DP World’s 21-sq km National Industries Park (NIP) in Dubai in the fourth quarter of 2024. The 1.55 million sq ft grade-A logistics park will cater to the emirate’s high demand for warehousing facilities. It will comprise three modular buildings […] July 16, 2024 Logistics Dubai veg market to double despite warehouse shortage Dubai plans a massive expansion of its fruit and vegetable market to make it the world’s largest, despite the fact warehouse rents in the emirate keep increasing amid a lack of quality supply. On Wednesday Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum oversaw the signing of a deal between Dubai Municipality and ports operator DP World […] July 11, 2024 Posts navigation Previous 1 2 3 … 9 Next
Opinion Markets Saudi Arabia and the UAE set pace in GCC equities race The post-Covid recovery strategy has paid off big time for UAE markets November 18, 2024
Real Estate Real-estate growth pushes IHC revenue up by 49% Abu Dhabi conglomerate International Holding Company (IHC) said revenue surged 49 percent year on year for the first nine months of 2024 to AED64 billion ($17.4 billion), supported by the real estate and construction segment. The segment’s growth was driven by an increase in Aldar’s revenue from strong property development sales, higher income from acquisitions […] November 7, 2024
Construction Aldar Properties reports ‘strong pickup’ for London projects Aldar Properties remains bullish about London’s property market despite high interest rates and fears that tax rises will be announced in the UK budget on Wednesday. The government-owned Abu Dhabi company bought British developer London Square in a deal worth AED1.07 billion ($291 million) last year – its first acquisition outside the Middle East and […] October 29, 2024
Analysis Construction UAE warehousing attracts new institutional investors A lack of suitable warehousing across Dubai and Abu Dhabi is providing opportunity for institutional investors to get into industrial real estate. Non-industrial developers are also poised to take advantage of the gap. Strong demand for facilities in ecommerce and logistics, and the expansion of oil and gas companies in Abu Dhabi in particular, has led […] October 21, 2024
Real Estate Mubadala and Aldar reveal $8bn property collaboration Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund Mubadala and its largest property developer, Aldar, have joined forces to develop and manage more than AED30 billion ($8.17 billion) worth of real estate across the emirate. The partnership, announced Wednesday, will be structured through four joint ventures. It will be owned 60 percent by Aldar and 40 percent by Mubadala, […] September 18, 2024
Analysis Real Estate Project stardust: why Dubai developers still want celeb tie-ins Lionel Messi, Rohit Sharma and Chris Hemsworth are just some of the famous faces who have promoted UAE real estate in recent years. Superstar sportsmen and Hollywood heroes do not come cheap, but are they really a good investment for developers or just an excuse for the CEO to get a selfie? Many industry observers […] September 18, 2024
Real Estate UAE real estate companies rebound after market turmoil Real estate companies bore the brunt of Monday’s stock sell-off in the GCC, although prices showed significant signs of recovery on Tuesday. Dubai Financial Market closed on Monday down 4.5 percent, while Saudi Arabia’s Tadawul exchange was down 2.1 percent. Kuwait’s bourse was showing a negative of 2.13 percent on a day when $6.4 trillion […] August 7, 2024
Real Estate Aldar reports strong half-year performance Strong interest from international buyers, an increasingly tight office sector and a record development backlog at the end of June helped Aldar Properties to double-digit profit and revenue growth for the first half of 2024. Profit rose 57 percent year on year to AED3.3 billion, while revenue surged 73 percent to almost AED11 billion, the […] July 29, 2024
Logistics Aldar’s new Dubai logistics park to break ground in Q4 Aldar Properties, an Abu Dhabi-listed developer, will break ground on a new logistics park within DP World’s 21-sq km National Industries Park (NIP) in Dubai in the fourth quarter of 2024. The 1.55 million sq ft grade-A logistics park will cater to the emirate’s high demand for warehousing facilities. It will comprise three modular buildings […] July 16, 2024
Logistics Dubai veg market to double despite warehouse shortage Dubai plans a massive expansion of its fruit and vegetable market to make it the world’s largest, despite the fact warehouse rents in the emirate keep increasing amid a lack of quality supply. On Wednesday Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum oversaw the signing of a deal between Dubai Municipality and ports operator DP World […] July 11, 2024