All of the figures revealed by RAMCO’s research department confirm a slump in Beirut’s real estate market. A finer analysis of these figures yields some hopeful – and other more…
Karim Makarem
Karim Makarem
Karim Makarem is director of Ramco Real Estate Advisers
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The real estate market is the subject of much speculation, usually the negative kind. There are very few optimists who still see it as a lucrative sector. Yet the reality…
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The Research Department at RAMCO sarl has been compiling data on the residential market in Beirut for several consecutive years: the number of residential projects being built, their total size…
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Without a radical improvement in the political and security climates, Lebanon’s real estate market is unlikely to pick up. The market thus continues to stagnate as the economic, political and…
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Residential development trends are catchy. Companies in Lebanon very often adopt whatever seems to be working best or whatever is applied most on the residential market. Why reinvent the wheel,…
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Lebanon has witnessed an upheaval in recent months over the new law liberating old rental contracts. Inflamed, people took to the streets, some for — some against. While the rental…
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According to a report in French-language magazine Le Commerce du Levant, prominent Lebanese developer MENA Capital recently decided to discontinue a major residential project. This is the first time in…
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The stagnation that characterized the real estate market during 2012 continued throughout 2013. Bad? Perhaps. Stagnation, however, is not regression, and that’s definitely a positive sign. While the market was…
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The Beirut cityscape is dotted — and often blotted — by rundown skeletons of abandoned sites — industrial warehouses, storage depots, schools, etc. Whether the remnants of former industrial sites…
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Investing in a tight market is never easy. Choosing the correct product, paying the correct price, renting at the correct value, building the correct typology: these are much more crucial…
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