Lebanese real estate

Investors in Lebanese flagship developer Solidere this summer should see an improvement in the upcoming annual results, compared with the dismal year of 2012 and its 89 percent drop in …

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 …

Roula Helou was four when a car accident made her paraplegic, forcing her into a wheelchair. Back then it looked as if she would have little chance of accessing the …

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 …

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 …

Chahe Yerevanian, the chairman and chief executive of real estate company Sayfco Holding, is clearly comfortable in his capitalist boots. He has no reason not to be, since he owns …

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 …

When times are challenging and it is not enough to call a development “unique” or “best ever” to see apartments, duplexes and villas “fly off the shelves like hot cakes” …

The threat that cultural heritage faces in Beirut as a result of rising land prices and the scarcity of empty plots is a familiar theme. There seems to be no …

Lebanon has all it takes to be a haven for real estate investors; no crash in property prices is known to have ever driven desperate developers to leap off their …