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Post Foreclosure Sales Prices May Be Less than Appraisal Values We ended the last post on KHCB’s credit metrics with some theological ...

Citing informed sources, Al Watan reports that Abyaar will sign an asset for debt swap of KD50 million with a group of lenders.  The amoun...

  Credibility - Now You See It, Now You Don't A very good piece of investigative reporting by Asa Fitch at The Nationa l. In 2007 with...

Rasha AlAss over at The National has an interesting article on how the pricing on "Islamic" banks' real estate financing in ...

A Not So "Unique" 50 Story Dream from 1997    One of our regular readers/commentators, Laocowboy2, called this New York Times   a...

The National is in the process of changing its website.   The draft site site has some articles not in the existing site.  Here's one a...

حقل الأحلام الكويت If you build it, he may not come after all.   AlQabas has a summary of a recent Middle East Economic Digest ("ME...

The Gulf Daily News reports that rentals have fallen across the board in the retail, residential, office and industrial sectors. Martin ...

Discovery Gardens' Residents Cool Off Seems the folks at Discovery Gardens had another unhappy discovery of late.  No air conditioning ...

Photograph Ivanlo   Released to the Public Domain  How often do you hear about companies that advertise services that they really don'...

If you've seen DEPA's 1H10 financials , you know they declared a loss of some AED117.5 million of which AED103.7 million is attribu...

When Global floated the subsequently "ill-fated" AlThourayia Project Management Company to invest in Mazaya Saudi Arabia, it no...

S&P has lowered Aldar's ratings to BB- from A-.   That's a more than one step change! Outlook is negative.  So S&P's mes...

The BIS has launched a new data series on worldwide property prices.  Available here . The property price statistics bring together da...

From The National - the downside of upkeep.  Or perhaps an indication of the quality of construction. But he has been told by the building...

Gulf News has an article about continuing declines in the Dubai residential and commercial real estate market.  And how this is causing an ...

Today an apparently rather "pleased" as well as "satisfied" BIsB announced that: BisB has taken the option of enhanci...

The National points up one of the issues of the strata or condominium form of ownership of real property. One is at the mercy of one'...

On 8 July Bandar Raya Developments Berhad announced that its subsidiary had entered into a conditional sales agreement with Limitless to bu...

According to Bradley Hope at The National , Sorouh Real Estate has introduced a "rent-to-buy" scheme for commercial tenants at i...