In recent years, sustainable development has emerged as a major social concern and an area of concerted policy focus in the hallways of political power. The word ‘sustainable’ is being prefixed to critical endeavours such as growth, energy, engineering, construction, living and future de...

The basic premise of an experience economy posits that customers are not merely purchasing a product but buying into an experience. Lately, the customer experience (CX) landscape is evolving across asset classes and geographies, including real estate and its verticals. As a testament to the growing ...

Sustainable construction comes of age It is estimated that approximately 5 billion metric ton of concrete is being produced yearly, across the world. Construction industry’s traditional reliance on concrete as the primary building material necessitates huge quantities of cement production, whi...

I wouldn’t be too much of a misrepresentation to say that the real estate industry has long been a little perplexed with preferences of the millennial generation, when it came to housing. Millennials or Generation Y have traditionally been known to favour renting over home ownership, with a view t...

According to the reputable UAE-based real estate platform Property Monitor, which operates under the aegis of Cavendish Maxwell, property prices in Dubai are currently at a seven-year low. The research notes that prices are down 27.5% from their previous market peak in September-2014, while remainin...

One of the burning questions in the US in the 90s was: how do we survive the shifting, volatile real estate market. Across the nation, more than half of home owners had witnessed a rapid diminution in property value in the span of five years. This predicament resulted in buyers seeking an insurance ...

Ever since 2014, the word ‘oversupply’ has been used by a section of real estate analysts and researchers, in the context of the Dubai market. The primary determining factors behind the notion that makes this term a recurring one is the number of under-construction buildings and the proj...