Deyaar developments in Dubai has admitted to a default rate of 60% on works-in-progress, and has agreed to reduce prices in an effort to bring defaults down to a manageable level. “Around 60 per cent of our customers came back to us saying they were unable to pay up on their property.” said Markus Giebel, CEO Deyaar.
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The Gulf property market still has attractive opportunities for investors seeking to escape a global fall in property investment transactions according to a leading real estate consultancy
Robin Williamson, managing director of DTZ’s Middle East operations, said although the worst of the first phase of the sub-prime crisis appears to have passed, the credit crunch has further to go and will continue well into 2009, particularly across the European and US property markets.
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