Real Estate

Beirut is a growing city. It extends well beyond its official municipal borders, and there is pressure for it to spread even farther. The need to accommodate young families and …

The vistas around Beirut’s northern gates are changing. For years, the expanse of seaside development in the Dbayeh township was an empty promise of a coming suburbia.  Although much of …

Maarad Street hasn’t looked this vacant since 2000. Here, in restored downtown Beirut, is where luxury retail, dining and living should meet. At lunch time, the roads should be filled …

Tourists, hipsters, everybody is welcome. Party like it’s 1945.” That’s the slogan of the underground political group Hipster Antifa Neukölln, founded last summer in Berlin in reaction to increasing resentment …

A house is more than just a home. It is also an investment vehicle that, if things go well, can produce handsome earnings. With real estate producing double digit returns …

At any given time, Beirut’s skyline is a kaleidoscope of chaos. While the economy may be struggling, in the city center luxury developments rise up with mesmeric frequency. In a …

One of Beirut’s most ambitious residential tower developments, Damac Tower, has now reached ground level. United Arab Emirates-based luxury developer Damac Properties is behind the venture, and Executive sat down …

For hundreds of years, land has been a refuge investment and much-preferred option to cash. The same is true today, as investors have had enough scares with financial market investments …

The enterprise of the Zard Abou Jaoude family is a self-declared attempt at renaissance, as per the very name of its cornerstone property development company, Renaissance Holding. It is a …

If you hear anyone cry wolf about demand in the Lebanese real estate market in 2013, rest assured that this is not the time to panic. The market is not …