Honesty and trust are two major issues plaguing the Dubai property market at the moment. Dubai is crashing hard and fast, with The Trump International Hotel and Tower in Dubai canceled, and numerous developers in Dubai firing staff, yet still the developers and government insist on putting out dis-honest press releases aimed at presenting a false picture of the market. And so-called “news,” sources in the Gulf continue to publish them. Even when they directly contradict the facts.
For the past few years, mostly since the IT boom and lot of NRI’s pumping money into real estate in India, prices, especially in the major cities, have skyrocketed. Chennai is no exception. Chennai, located in South India, where most of the IT companies started booming, witnessed a very high appreciation in property prices over the last few years. Flats are being priced at around 4500 per sft in areas like Egmore.
