CEO of Tameer
"We’re considered one of the leaders in this market, what was done of in 3 years is a great achievement."

CEO of Aldar
The size of the gap between supply and demand now in the Abu Dhabi real estate market has been estimated to 29,000 units, and is expected to reach 83,000 units by 2017.

CEO of Hydra Properties
The way Abu Dhabi is growing is by supporting the industrial zones and cities, by improving the ports, creating new university cities and media cities; that will support the real estate. We are going to see how Abu Dhabi will be for the next ten years; the prices are going to go up and appreciate. Also, demand won't match supply; there will be much more demand than supply.

Nakheel Managing Director for investment projects of Nakheel
The universe is our future. That is basically our plan for the future as to what's coming next. It is a new waterfront development or community that is going to be 10-15 years down the road. What's important is that it's showing the grand master plan: what's possible and where there's more and in that spirit we're saying look: this is what is coming up, this is how we are solving some of the issues and this is how it's going to look like as sharing our grand master plan.

CEO of Al Shafar General Contracting
You said “The UAE's construction industry is presently valued at more than a trillion dollars and even as we speak new projects are being planned and announced.”

CEO of Fortune Group and Director of Business Development of Fortune Group
Moody’s believes that the region’s property boom is driven by strong fundamentals and rules out that the bubble being built could be pierced.

Founder and Chairman of Azizi Investments
First, thank you very much. My story is that I left Afghanistan in 1988. At that time there was a war with the Russian army inside Afghanistan.

CEO of Azizi Investments and Marketing Director of Azizi Investments
The report by EFG-Hermes estimates that more than 100,000 new apartments will hit the market by 2008 alone and that the total supply of housing in Dubai will double by 2010.

General Manager of Rasyat Real Estate
I am not saying we are only short - we are suffering from the short supply. To recover from that short supply, we need a minimum of more than 6 years of development to cover such a supply. As has been planned by one of the codes of the Urban Planning Council, so far up to this year, there is a 270 billion US dollars project launch, and there is another one expected within the next two years of 190 billion US dollars, to be launched again for more projects.

CEO of Al Zorah
Al Zorah development is worth 220 billion U.A.E. dirham ($59.9 billion) will be a 12-kilometer squared self-contained city with housing, offices, retail, schools, hospitals and leisure facilities, including marinas and a number of 5-star resort hotels completed in different phases and within a time frame of seven to 15 years.

Managing Director of Asteco
Decree No.27 for 2007 states that “rent will be capped by 5%, which is a drop of 2% from 7% last year. In 2008 we have seen the rent lower from 7% in 2007.

COO of Tamouh
I think the future here is very exciting. Abu Dhabi is the capital city of the UAE, and it’s also the largest emirate of the federation of the United Arab Emirates. It is growing; the whole region is growing and Abu Dhabi has to project itself as an international capital city. The market is very much driven by that. The growth of Abu Dhabi is going to increase. We have the 2030 report, which has come out from the Executive Council and the government of Abu Dhabi. It projects that we will grow from a population of 900,000 to somewhere round about 2.8 to 3 million by 2030.

Central Project Officer of Union Properties
Motorcity is the first project of its kind in the world. It’s been operational for about three and a half years. It started with the Dubai Autodrome, which is the racetrack. It’s developed into a development that consists of five components. Dubai Autodrome is the first one that we launched, about three and a half years ago, and we’ve been hosting a number of races; there’s also the race school with a race track.