Real Estate

Passing through the bustling Gouraud or Pasteur Street in the Gemmayze neighborhood of East Beirut, one cannot help but notice the hive of activity in what was formerly one of …

Creative Solution for Housing is a Lebanese real estate advisory and consultancy firm. Established in 2009, the company aims to introduce a ‘pay as you grow’ housing loan scheme for …

“Buy land, they’re not making it anymore,” said the American author and humorist Mark Twain. Following Twain’s advice in a small country like Lebanon makes sense, as both the country’s …

Grandiose visions of splendor have dissipated for Dubai’s developers after a sobering couple of years spent rethinking their payment schemes and trying to re-galvanize investor confidence. Now they are left …

It has been 20 years since the end of the war, but we still haven’t seriously started reconstructing the country,” said Serge Yazigi, head of the Majal urban observatory, part …

Over the course of July and August 2006, Israeli air strikes pounded Beirut’s southern suburb of Haret Hreik, pulverizing infrastructure and forcing many of the quarter’s residents to flee. Four …

Lucas William, tapped to be the director of operations at the Hilton Beirut, is not talking about the elephant in the room. Indeed, most of the affiliated parties are keeping …

In the late 1940’s after World War II, to avoid tenants from being thrown out of their homes and exacerbating the economic and social distress of the time, the Lebanese …

  Georges Jebran, a 57-year old hairdresser who owns a salon in Mar Mikhael, Beirut, considers haircuts for his customers his top priority. But for the last six years, he …

  Northeast of Beirut and far from the coast’s cloud of persistant pollution lays the village of Kfardebian. The village’s 40 square kilometer boundary, of which the most well known …