• Construction

    OBG’s Construction sector analysis highlights investment opportunities in the infrastructure, residential, commercial and industrial segments. Government policies are reviewed along with labour, materials and land costs, trends in bank lending and the public tendering process.
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While Morocco’s real estate sector has fallen after a boom that peaked in 2007 and 2008, recent years have shown signs of a modest recovery. Although the luxury real estate segment has remained depressed as a result of the global economic downturn in 2008-09, government-sponsored financial incentives aimed at attracting developers and builders...

Chapter | Construction & Real Estate from The Report: Morocco 2016

Following a slowdown in 2013 caused by a range of factors, Morocco’s construction industry returned to growth in 2014 and 2015, driven by high demand for housing and investment in infrastructure projects. While the prices of building materials have fallen with global economic downturn – the steel segment in particular has felt the impact of slow growth in international markets – cement...

Morocco benefits from its well-developed manufacturing sector, mining industry, agricultural output, proximity to Europe, sizeable diaspora community, low labour costs and market-oriented public policy.

 

The real estate sector in Dubai is famed for the scale and scope of its ambitious projects, and it continues to play a major part in the emirate’s constant state of development. As a result, the emirate has become a global by-word for the grand and the iconic, continuously pushing the boundaries of architecture and planning, design and...

 

One segment of the real estate sector that has seen continuous growth in recent times, despite the ups and downs of global and local conditions, is facilities management (FM). Dubai is a pioneer in this field within the region, a role that has brought both benefits and costs. As customers grow more sophisticated in their needs, the FM market...

 

Global and local oversupply of many key building materials has helped keep construction costs relatively stable in recent years, with Dubai’s streamlined logistics infrastructure helping to ensure the emirate does not fall foul of some of the transportation bottlenecks experienced elsewhere in the Gulf. Ahmad Thani Al Matrooshi, managing...

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