DUBAI — For Middle Eastern commercial real estate funds and investment firms, the US market is still the most desirable investment destination for foreign real estate properties.

Roxanne Kosberg said: “Investors from the Middle East remain active buyers in the global real estate market and continue to target core assets in safe-haven locations. The recent decline in oil price only strengthened the case for investors to diversify their income streams, both in terms of asset and geographical diversification,"...

Property Finder, one of the leading real estate portals in the region facilitating house hunting journey for both, buyers and renters, has signed up Dubai-based communications agency, The Qode, as its new partner for all PR operations across the region.

Launched in 2007 by CEO and Founder, Michael Lahyani, propertyfinder.ae is owned and operated by the Property Finder"...

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With more than 3 billion mobile devices on the planet today, trillions of data trails are left behind as their owners go about their daily lives traversing city streets.

Most of this perfectly good data goes unused, except by a handful of large corporate entities who exploit it for financial gain.

Walton, a real estate investment and land asset management company with US$3.39 billion under management and administration, has expanded its Builder Option Land Development Funds (BOLD Funds), with an investment objective of raising capital to acquire land identified by large U.S. homebuilders for near-term residential development projects.

The collective $500 million in BOLD Funds -- $250 million U.S. fund targeted at U.S. investors and a separate"...

Dubai-based Lumina Capital Advisers, a specialist mid-market M&A firm, has announced the successful completion of a follow-on equity funding round from a consortium of regional investors into UK-based Amara Living.

Founded in 2005 by Andrew and Sam Hood, Amara sells over 25,000 products from a range of leading homewares brands including Missoni, Versace, and Jo Malone"...

Mammoet, a global heavy lifting and transport specialist, has been contracted by Eversendai Offshore for the loadout of the jacket foundation and accompanying piles from its fabrication yard at Ras Al Khaimah (RAK) in the UAE.

Covering an area of 235.8 sq km, TenneT’s Hollandse Kust (zuid) Wind Farm Zone (HKZ) is a designated wind farm zone located in the North Sea off the Dutch province of Zuid-Holland.

Mammoet’s scope consisted of weighing, land transport and load-out of the jacket"...

Britain has raised the threshold at which people start paying stamp duty for residential property from £125,000 to £500,000 ($157,054 to $628,215).

The change, effective immediately, is a temporary measure designed to boost the housing market and the measure will remain in place until March 31, 2021 next year, said the UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak.

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ISLAMABAD, 15th July, 2020 (WAM) -- Pakistan has started construction work at Diamer-Bhasha Dam, the third largest hydroelectric dam for generating electricity, in Chilas city in Gilgit-Baltistan in the north of the country.

While inspecting the construction work, Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan said that his government will, in the future, build the largest dam in the history of Pakistan by exploiting the hydropower potentials that will"...

Sherwin-Williams Protective & Marine has expanded its line of time-tested Firetex passive fire protection coatings with a solution that optimises applications and reduces costs by enabling precise coating thickness specifications for onshore assets.

A major player in the general building materials industry, Sherwin-Williams Protective & Marine said Firetex M90/03"...

As Seoul property prices soar, there's a new apartment on sale this month: for the best part of an estimated $1 million, you could buy a piece of future Gangnam glitz from reluctant seller Noh Young-min - the chief of staff of President Moon Jae-in.

Noh is one of a group of senior government officials facing a public backlash over multiple home ownership in one of the world's hottest property markets, where median apartment prices have rocketed"...