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Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Dubai

An email series of pictures showing all the new construction in Dubai has been floating around so I decided to share it. I am including two of the most surreal below.

Dubai is absolutely crazy. Supposedly 20% of all the world's cranes are in Dubai. There is construction everywhere. But so far, demand still seems to be outstripping supply. We talked to a few ex-pats who were renting homes in Dubai. They said that for a nice, 3br/2ba place they were paying us$20,000 per month in rent!!

Everyone we talked to on the commercial side said they were sold out as well as so many multinational companies are moving their Middle Eastern headquarters (or global headquarters, like Halliburton!) to Dubai and need real estate.

More to come.


Dubai in 1990
Dubai in 2008