June 2010 Affordable Housing Report
Bahrain’s real estate market has undergone a paradigm shift as market players continue to adopt a conservative approach towards property transactions. This behavior shows no sign of changing in 2010, indicating that the market is undergoing a major restructuring in its fundamentals.
DownloadOctober 2009 Warehousing Logistics Report
This issue tackles the warehousing and logistics industry in Bahrain. As the popularity of alternative real estate assets grew in 2009, this industry has began to witness momentum. The report looks into Bahrain warehousing & logistics market size and current existing demand for such assets.
DownloadJuly 2009 Income Generating Properties
This edition focused on Investors sentiments after the global economic downturn, and analyzed which asset class appeals the most to them. One dominating factor that was recurrent throughout this report is Investors seeking the conservative approach revealing the on-going somber mood of the market and the shaken level of confidence.
DownloadMarch 2009 Global Crisis Impact on Real Estate
In the review, we provided a comprehensive update of the chain of events that stormed the local and international markets. We have dissected the current global market crisis, the after-math and its effects on Bahrain’s real estate market. Furthermore, we have conducted an in-depth analysis on the aspects that contributed to the rise of the real estate market and assessed the credibility of the fall and its capability.
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This report was dedicated to look into Bahrain efforts to transform itself into a trading hub of supply and demand, assess land prices trends in addition to analyzing the market’s outlook, government initiatives and the popularized industrial park concept.
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Bahrain’s legal framework comes under focus, looking into foreign and freehold ownership in the Kingdom illustrating the strengths, competitive edge and challenges faced in the arena. Freehold property has developed as investors’ confidence grew offering freehold properties in prime residential areas apart from the mega projects becoming a new focal point of urbanity offering social points, leisure activities and exclusive environments.
DownloadApril 2008 Retail Properties Report
This report focuses on the mechanics of Bahrain’s retail sector, looking into the past trends, shopping malls models, assessing performances in terms of rental prices and absorption rates. Bahrain retail market has undergone substantial changes in recent years, where the number of retail malls has increased by 180% since the 1990s.
DownloadJanuary 2008 Construction Report
With the overwhelming increase in real estate products demand, the construction and building material costs showed outstanding hikes. This report presents an in depth overview of the construction and building materials market, as well as analyzes the reasons and factors behind the cost rise of developing a project. Also focuses on three main building materials namely cement, steel, and sand.
DownloadOctober 2007 Hotel Industry Report
This report looks into the Kingdom’s flourishing hotel industry market, noticing the year-on-year growth for tourism sector grows 10%-15% since 2004 which created a huge demand for hotels, shopping malls and leisure attractions. It also highlights and analyzes the Kingdom’s hotel categories from five stars to one star hotels followed with the future trends and supply of the hotel market.
DownloadJuly 2007 Luxurious Residentials Report
The report presents an overview of the luxurious residential market in the Kingdom’s most prominent locations such as Juffair, Seef District, Al Mahooz, Al Hoora, and Sanabis area with a SWOT analysis of each one of them. It also pointed out some of the upcoming residential mega projects and future trends
DownloadApril 2007 Office Market Report
This edition focuses on Bahrain’s office space providing an in depth analysis on the performance of the year 2006 and the first quarter of 2007, and discusses the characteristics of Bahrain’s central business districts (Diplomatic Area, Seef District, and Government Avenue) looking into determinants such as rental rates, occupancy rates, building age and location.
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