Burj Khalifa – The world’s new Superscraper

Credit where credit is due (pun intended) – Emaar has opened the long-awaited and much hyped Burj Dubai today. Well done guys – you did it!!
In a surprise move Sheikh Mohammed announced a renaming of the tower. It will now be known as the Burj Khalifa, after the president of the United Arab Emirates and [...]

No Dubai Recovery Yet – Any Blinking Idiot Can See That!

How time flies!
With 2009 on the wane, we may all be wondering if it is safe yet to try our luck in Dubai.
Let me just say though that actually, I am not wondering at all! Personally I still wouldn’t touch it with a bargepole, for numerous reasons including, above all, that I cannot trust [...]

Poetic Justice as Dubai Falls 70%

There’s not been much new to say for the past several weeks. I mean there’s only so many times you can say ‘crash’, ‘bubble’ and ‘recession’ before fatigue sets in, both for reader and writer. So apologies for not posting for a while.
Yes we’ve been getting informal stories and anecdotes from friends and colleagues about [...]

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