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Mena Real Estate Overview First Quarter 2010 May 5 2010 Colliers International has been providing the full breadth of real estate consultancy services on a global scale for over 20 years. Today the company has over 290 offices in more than 60 countries spread over six continents covering every major real estate market.
Source: Colliers International

MENA House View - Dubai Retail: A Market in Transition - May 2010 Apr 26 2010 Most MENA hotel markets experienced the effect of the global eceonomic crisis during 2009, with declining performance and few transactions. However, the sector is now showing signs of reawakening, which is expected to result in additional transactional activity over the next 12 months.
Source: Jones Lang LaSalle MENA

Global Market Perspective April 2010 Apr 21 2010 Property Hits a More Confident Stride. Could this quarter become known as the period when property's stride changed? Supporting the sector’s increasingly energetic steps is the easing of credit conditions and the consequent boost to investor activity, rising capital values in core markets, the REIT sector revival and the re-emergence of sale and leasebacks. With half the deals in Q1 being cross-border, the property market is walking taller around the world.
Source: Jones Lang LaSalle MENA

2010 GLOBAL REAL ESTATE MARKETS Apr 20 2010 At the start of 2009, nearly every global office market was in the midst of a period of weak occupier demand, falling rents and rising vacancy rates. As the year progressed, however, there was a divergence in the fortunes of the major global markets, as some showed early signs of recovery, while others continued to suffer. By the end of the year, prime office rents had begun to move upwards in Hong Kong, stabilised in the West End of London, and continued on a downward trend in New York.
Source: Knight Frank

International Investment Atlas Summary 2010 Apr 18 2010 The following report has been prepared by Cusman Wakefield to provide an overview of activity in the global commercial real estate investment market in 2009 and an indication of activity in 2010.
Source: Cushman & Wakefield

Hotels in MENA: How Much Can I Invest? Mar 30 2010 With the cost of raw materials fluctuating and with global economic conditions shifting the types and patterns of demand, developers are becoming sceptical about when to build, what to build and whether to commit to construction contracts. Therefore, in this article we have taken into consideration the current demand characteristics of each market and have derived the maximum supportable investment for the development of a certain hotel asset in a certain market. We illustrate our findings for 12 markets in the MENA region across the following four hotel asset classes.
Source: HVS

Office Space Across The World - 2010 Mar 23 2010 The weakness in the global economy impacted on the occupational market in every corner of the world in 2009. Vacancy rates increased and, coupled with declining occupier demand, rents fell in the majority of markets as the pendulum swung firmly in the occupiers’ favour. Globally office market rents decreased by 10%, the first aggregated global fall recorded since 2003. No market escaped and rents were down in every region; a trend not previously seen.
Source: Cushman & Wakefield MENA

Global Capital Trends - Year in Review - February 2010 Feb 28 2010 Globally, the volume of commercial property sold in 2009 was $381 b, with nearly 11,000 properties selling in deals valued above $10m. Overall, the volume of transactions was off 30 % from 2008 while the number of properties sold dropped 40%. China was the only country to post a signifi cant gain in 2009, up 139 % to a total of $156 b, which constituted an astounding 41% of global volume.
Source: Real Capital Analytics

Hospital Build Middle East snapshot Feb 16 2010 The healthcare sector in the Arabian Gulf will continue to enjoy high growth in 2010, despite the global slowdown. Growth will be driven by government investment in infrastructure improvement, according to leading industry observers.
Source: Cityscape Intelligence

Emerging Markets Africa & The Middle East Feb 9 2010 Th e process of globalisation continues throughout the Middle East and Africa. However its' progress is sporadic and depends largely on the political will of each country. Th e countries that have opened up their markets to foreign investments; eased foreign entry and started to tackle corruption have seen strong sustained economic growth, despite the ongoing global economic slowdown. Many parts of the region continue to see solid growth in their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which is largely fuelled by the world’s demand for commodities.
Source: Cushman & Wakefield MENA