DUBAI PROPERTIES GROUP INCREASE REVENUE TO IN 2015

Dubai, 16 Dhulqa’dah 1436/31  August 2015 (MINA) –  Dubai Properties Group (DPG), a real estate developer owned by the emirate’s ruler, will its revenue in 2015 and a rising population will help support residential prices, the company’s chief executive said on Sunday (8/30),  Arab News reported.

After a rocky few years around the turn of the decade when the global financial crisis helped spark a property price crash and numerous projects were mothballed, Dubai’s big property developers have been resurgent.

The sector’s outlook is “very positive there’s an upward trend in the population internally and there’s also an influx of migrants to the city,” Abdullatif Al-Mulla, Dubai Properties Group chief executive, told Reuters.

Every time we launch a new product there’s huge demand.” DPG, Emaar Properties, Nakheel dominate Dubai’s real estate market, with the emirateís government or ruler the largest shareholder in all three.

We compete and cooperate because the end beneficiary is Dubai,” said Al-Mulla, who was appointed CEO this month.

Emaar has posted rising profits in nine straight quarters, while Nakheel — which agreed a $16 billion debt restructuring in August 2011 last month said its profit for the first-half of 2015 increased 53 percent.

Residential prices have slipped slightly this year following gains of 51 percent and 3.4 percent in 2013 and 2014 respectively, according to consultants Cluttons.

Al-Mulla said he did not expected prices to decline in the rest of 2015.
He said the companyís 2015 profit and revenue will be higher than in 2014, but declined to provide further details.

DPG’s results are included within those of Dubai Holding Commercial Operations Group. These show the latter’s real estate revenue was 9.14 billion dirhams ($2.49 billion) in 2014, up 18 percent year-on-year, but these amounts include revenue from other subsidiaries with property interests not just those of DPG.

Al-Mulla said, his companyís revenues were split roughly evenly between property sales and income from leasing residential, commercial and retail units to tenants, predicting this balance would remain stable.

“Retail has always been important because it’s an integrated part of our projects. We will do more retail based on customer demand,” said Al-Mulla.

The company has no near-term plans to refinance debt, go public or build projects outside of Dubai, he added. (T/Imt/R04)

Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)