The value of annual land sales in Dubai has risen by AED30 billion over the last 5 years, among the emirate's most significant property brokerages revealed today, identifying Business Bay as a key area for further growth.

Firas Al Msaddi, Chief Executive Officer of fm Properties, said that as of 9th November land sales for this year had reached AED68 billion as compared to AED38 billion for the whole of 2012.

Highlighting a growing land-for-development change by capitalists, Al Msaddi said the company has just sold a AED150 million plot in Business Bay to a developer new to the Dubai market.

They are currently collaborating to create a property tower on the 500,000 sq ft plot in an offer which will eventually be worth more than AED700 million.

" Considering that 2012, specifically in the Business Bay area, we have actually experienced a guaranteed upward pattern for both the value of land purchases and the size of stories being bought," said Al Msaddi.

" Over the previous 5 years, with total land sales in Dubai rising annually from AED38 billion to AED68 billion, Business Bay has seen an increase from AED482 million to AED3.3 billion. At the exact same time, the complete location of land marketed has actually grown from 731,000 sq ft to 2.5 million sq ft."

Added Al Msaddi: "Business Bay has witnessed enormous renovations recently and the opening of the new canal extension has freed up the area for a new range of growths. The new programmer we're working with there sees wonderful possibilities in Dubai, and their first financial investment below will ultimately deserve upwards of AED700 million."

Over the past couple of years, fm Properties has actually negotiated land sales in Dubai worth more than AED3 billion, and Affiliate Partner Tarek Bou Karroum says the expanding need for specialist land advising solutions suggests exactly how the market is growing.

" Market problems because 2014 have made it difficult to deal land commercial in the short term, and the emphasis has actually shifted from speculation to creating stories as a long-term investment," he claimed.

" Developers and individual individual who acknowledge the potential are relying on development administration companies with a tried and tested land consultatory document to assist them safeguard the very best plots and build inning accordance with demand."

Karroum has worked closely with Saudi-based ARTAR Real Estate Development on Mada Residences, the 36-storey luxury domestic tower in Downtown Dubai set to be delivered on schedule next summer season.

He states the project is an instance of exactly how the Dubai home market is developing, not just with the fading away of speculators, yet additionally in the fostering of much more innovative research, and marketing, to bring the very best roi.

" There's a much bigger focus on marketing research specifically, not only to identify the appropriate plot of land, however to develop residential or commercial property which fulfills demand due to a unique offering," he said.

Recently, fm Properties covered AED1.6 billion in residential property sales at City Walk, the new location developed and managed by Meraas in the heart of Jumeirah.

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1. Firas Al Msaddi, Chief Executive Officer of fm Properties
2. Tarek Bou Karroum, Partner of fm Properties