NEWS & INSIGHTS

Beating out traditional hot spots such as Hong Kong, the USA and Singapore, the two emirates of Qatar and the UAE give female professionals more income, savings and career opportunities across the board. According to the 2015 HSBC Expat Explorer […]

Stabilising property prices and the UAE lifestyle are now major draws, reassuring expats formerly planning to leave. Results of a recent survey report 36 per cent of expatriate respondents are now planning to stay long-term in the Emirates. The same […]

Have you ever flipped through the glossy travel magazines and stopped at the page, “Dubai – the center of now” and think, why not? There’s a photo of the pristine, turquoise waters off Jumeirah beach, the unbroken blue skies, glorious […]

DUBAI // Twenty-eight private schools have improved their rankings this academic year, in a record for the eight years since Dubai’s education regulator began its classifications. And the Knowledge and Human Development Authority says more than twice as many pupils […]

Dubai: A growing number of expatriates and investors in Dubai are taking legal steps to ensure their assets in the country, as well as their savings and other investments, are distributed according to their wishes after they’re gone. The DIFC […]

The number of UAE expats planning long-term residency in the UAE has increased mainly due to falling property prices, UAE-based finance comparison group compareit4me.com has revealed. According to a survey carried out by the firm, only 36 percent per cent […]

One of my favourite tweets of recent times was from a Qatari on holiday in the USA. “Why does every petrol station I’m passing seem to be closed?” he asked. You see, we don’t get out of the car to […]

The total number of students in the GCC education sector is projected to reach 15 million in 2020 but the region faces a shortage of teachers and an overdependence on expats, according to a new report. Alpen Capital said the […]

Real estate developers in Dubai have reportedly been asked to warn landlords against short-term lets or they would face fines of up to AED100,000 ($27,000). Dubai’s Department of Tourism & Commerce Marketing (DTCM) issued a notice to developers across the […]

Dubai to introduce star rating system for buildings Dubai’s buildings will receive a star-rating as part of a complete overhaul of the emirate’s building classification system, Dubai Land Department said in a statement. The new Building Classification System utilises state-of-the-art […]

Dubai-based shopping mall developer Majid Al Futtaim has announced that it will boost total investment in Oman to OR705 million ($1.83 billion) by 2020. The company, Oman’s largest non-energy GCC investor, said in a statement that it will increase its […]

Demand for residential and commercial property in Qatar has seen a significant slowdown in the first quarter of 2016 due to cuts in government spending, according to a new report. DTZ Qatar’s latest report said most commercial real estate lettings […]