Real Estate & Construction

Abu Dhabi’s office, residential and retail markets, long buoyed by undersupply, now face the opposite challenge, with a host of large-scale new completions coming on-line in recent years. This weighed heavily on sales prices and rental rates in 2016, although bright spots remain in the mid-market residential segment, as well as in prime up-and-coming neighbourhoods and commercial districts. In addition renewed demand for more affordable housing in Abu Dhabi has strained rents in the high-end residential sector with developers now shifting their strategies to include new mid-market developments. This has enabled double-digit returns on rental yields for some, making the mid-market segment a bright spot in an otherwise subdued residential market.

This chapter contains an interview with Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak, CEO, Aldar.