Sunday, October 21, 2007

Win-win as Emaar seals Bawadi land deal

Two months ago, having been forced to scrap a land-for-stock deal in Dubai, critics were suggesting the end of the Emaar gravy train. With Dubai property contributing 85% of the company's revenues, and new land increasingly hard (and expensive) to come by, there would be tough times ahead while Emaar waited for overseas projects to come good.

This morning, the picture looks a whole lot healthier. Emaar has agreed to invest just over $1bn in around 63 million sqft of land in the Bawadi, Dubailand, development. At a stroke the company will double its Dubai land portfolio and secures prime pitch in the one of the emirate's biggest projects. Among other things Bawadi is envisaged as the longest chain of luxury hotels in the world along a 10km stretch which will add 51 luxury hotels and more than 60,000 rooms to Dubai, plus the world's biggest shopping strip.

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