Dubai consumers spend like crazy

cherrypicker's picture

No recessionary fears in Dubai !!! At least that's what I got from a recent article in Business24-7.ae

The report cites total consumer spending by UAE citizens/nationals and expatriates at over $10 billion. It also appears that Europeans spent more money than Emiratis, and Emiratis spent more than other Arabs...

yamtech4's picture

For the past 5 years, landlords have rightfully earned the rank of being Dubai's scum of the scum. They basically screwed 99% of dubai's population and -each other's reputation along the way- by demanding ridiculous terms such as doubling rent, single payment advance cheques, creating hidden "charges" such as fees for parking, facility, service (or the lack of it to be more precise), bending tenant protection laws and many other low-life type of behaviour. With over 40,000 new residential units expected to hit the market in 2009, and thousands of other empty units already bought by speculators waiting to be flipped, not to mentioned the ones that will be foreclosed, the balance of power will be disrupted a bit more in favor of us tenants. Keep your fingers crossed.