How are public-private partnership (PPP) frameworks being developed to encourage private sector participation in housing construction projects?
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Interviews & Viewpoints | Yasser Hassan Abul, Minister of State for Housing Affairs: Interview from The Report: Kuwait 2017
Interviews & Viewpoints | Khaled Al Mashaan, Vice-Chairman and CEO, ALARGAN: Interview from The Report: Kuwait 2017
Articles & Analysis | New housing developments help tackle high demand in Kuwait from The Report: Kuwait 2017
The impressive scale of Kuwait’s real estate sector can be seen from outer space in a time lapse video made from satellite images. These images show a new city in the country’s south being gradually reclaimed from the sea over the course of 15 years. Sabah Al Ahmad Sea City represents KD1.5bn ($5.1bn) worth of private investment by the La’ala...
Articles & Analysis | Kuwait in the midst of a construction infrastructure boom from The Report: Kuwait 2017
With the country beginning to clear a backlog of major projects in energy, infrastructure and housing, the construction sector in Kuwait has seen a resurgence of activity in recent years. The government’s five-year National Development Plan committed to spend KD34bn ($112.5bn) over the 2015-20 period, and KD12bn ($39.7bn) worth of projects...
Articles & Analysis | House ownership rates on the rise in Kuwait from The Report: Kuwait 2017
Home ownership has been on the rise in Kuwait, as the government has begun to deal with a house-building bottleneck that has locked many married couples out of the market. For Kuwait citizens a house was a birthright redeemed upon marriage. With 103,000 couples on the waiting list for a free government home in 2016, delays in government house-...
Articles & Analysis | Kuwait builds multiple industry-leading hospitals from The Report: Kuwait 2017
The opening of Sheikh Jaber Al Ahmad Hospital in 2017 will give Kuwait’s Ministry of Health (MoH) a new flagship medical centre that is reportedly the largest health facility in the Middle East and the sixth-largest in the world. It also sets a new benchmark for the provision of health care in Kuwait, as existing hospitals expand and new...