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Are Middle East Logistics Assets Prepared for Climate Risks?

Across global markets, climate risk is fast becoming a defining issue for industrial real estate.

P.P. VargheseRobert Thomas • 2025-08-25

Thought Leadership • UAE

How UAE Valuers Are Pricing Risk in 2025

The UAE’s real estate market remains dynamic, but in today’s environment, pricing risk has become more complex. For investors, lenders, and developers, understanding how valuations are being shaped is critical to making informed decisions.

Rashpal HeerPaul Barker • 2025-08-20

Thought Leadership • UAE

Al Maktoum International: A Catalyst for Dubai’s Industrial Real Estate

The expansion of Al Maktoum International Airport (DWC) represents a major shift in Dubai’s logistics sector.

Robert Thomas • 2025-08-19

Thought Leadership • UAE

From Cycle Timing to Structural Conviction: What Global Capital Can Learn from the UAE

While much of Europe is still working through pricing resets, Dubai has moved into a different phase of the investment cycle, one defined by fundamentals rather than speculation.

David Abood • 2025-08-19

Thought Leadership • UAE

What Occupiers Want: UAE

The latest global occupier survey from Cushman & Wakefield tracks how real estate priorities are evolving in step with broader shifts in corporate structure, cost control, and workforce strategy.

Robert Thomas • 2025-07-23

Thought Leadership • UAE

UAE Real Estate Mid-Year 2025: A Market Tightening Beneath the Headline Stability

At the halfway point of 2025, the UAE real estate market remains anchored by the same fundamentals that have drawn capital here for years: population growth, government-led diversification, and an expanding role in global capital flows.

P.P. Varghese • 2025-07-18

Thought Leadership • UAE

UAE Retail Is Holding Its Line, But With Clearer Contours

As we move through 2025, UAE retail real estate is proving both resilient and more selective. Headline demand remains solid, but leasing conversations, tenant expectations, and pricing strategies have all tightened.

Warren Krawchuk • 2025-07-07

Thought Leadership • UAE

Abu Dhabi and Dubai Take Top Global Rankings in Data Center Growth

Abu Dhabi and Dubai now lead the world’s emerging data center markets, taking first and second place in Cushman & Wakefield’s 2025 Global Data Center Market Comparison.

Edward Macura • 2025-06-30

Thought Leadership • UAE

Commercial Off-Plan Begins to Emerge in Dubai

For much of the past decade, Dubai’s off-plan market has been a residential story.

Robert Thomas • 2025-06-17

Thought Leadership • UAE

Dubai’s Office Investment: Stability, Scarcity and Strategic Allocation

Across much of Europe, office investors are watching for signs of a rebound but in Dubai, the story is fundamentally different.

David Abood • 2025-06-17

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MARKETBEAT- Office Q4 2025, Dubai, UAE (image)
Marketbeats • UAE

MARKETBEAT- Office Q4 2025, Dubai, UAE

Dubai’s office market has experienced a prolonged period of muted new supply, with annual completions remaining under 1.0 million sqft per annum over the last four years, reflecting delayed handovers and limited speculative single-owned institutional-grade stock.
Prathyusha GurrapuRobert Thomas • 2026-03-16
MARKETBEAT- Residential Q4 2025, Dubai, UAE (image)
Marketbeats • UAE

MARKETBEAT- Residential Q4 2025, Dubai, UAE

In 2025, approximately 46,700 units were delivered, in line with prior forecasts.
Spoorthi BadariPrathyusha Gurrapu • 2026-03-16
MARKETBEAT- Office Q4 2025, Abu Dhabi, UAE (image)
Marketbeats • UAE

MARKETBEAT- Office Q4 2025, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Just 90,000 sqm, barely 2% of stock was handed over in 2025 and another 73,500 sqm is expected to be completed in 2026, limiting any upward drift in vacancy.
David Short • 2026-03-16