How would you assess the balance between mid-market and upper-market development in the sector, and are investors responding?
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Interviews & Viewpoints | Khaled Al Mashaan, Vice-Chairman and CEO, ALARGAN International Real Estate: Interview from The Report: Kuwait 2016
Articles & Analysis | Implementing Basel III requirements to change incentive structures for bank financing in Kuwait from The Report: Kuwait 2016
In the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, banking sectors around the world introduced steps to mitigate future risks and create more stress-resilient financial institutions with the Basel III regulations. Due to their effects on bank liquidity, these requirements could have important implications for Kuwait’s real estate sector. As the...
Interviews & Viewpoints | Ahmad Kasem, Deputy CEO, United Real Estate Company: Interview from The Report: Kuwait 2016
How far might the continued growth of vacant apartments affect rental and building prices in the short to medium term?
Articles & Analysis | Kuwait's real estate market remains healthy and records price increases from The Report: Kuwait 2016
Real estate has long been a mainstay of Kuwait’s non-oil economy. In 2014 real estate and construction services together accounted for 10.6% of non-oil GDP, according to the IMF. Although a range of factors, including lower oil prices, have affected growth projections across the GCC, Kuwait’s real estate sector is particularly well-poised to...
Articles & Analysis | Kuwaiti authorities press ahead with big-ticket construction projects despite cutbacks from The Report: Kuwait 2016
The construction industry in Kuwait is among the strongest in the region and a rising star in the country’s non-oil economy, with its steadily growing population, tightly regulated land market and relatively wealthy populous all combining to fuel demand for new building. Between 1995 and 2013, Kuwait’s population doubled from 1.8m to 3.6m,...
Chapter | Real Estate & Construction from The Report: Kuwait 2016
Real estate has long been a mainstay of Kuwait’s non-oil economy, while its construction industry is among the strongest in the region and a rising star in the non-oil economy, with its growing population, tightly regulated land market and wealthy populous all combining to fuel demand for new building. In 2014 the two industries together accounted for 10.6% of non-oil GDP. Although a range of...