By Andrei Skvarsky. Emerging markets-focused online real estate trader Lamudi forecasts greater investment activity, including foreign investment, in the real estate sectors of emerging market countries in 2016. Continue Reading
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Lamudi: Online real estate trade increasingly dependent on mobile devices
By Andrei Skvarsky. Lamudi, a two-year-old real estate portal focusing on emerging and frontier markets, says the number of visits to it from mobile devices has surged by an average of 32.17% since 2014. Continue Reading
RenCap: Iran’s banking has more emerging market than frontier market characteristics
Russian investment bank Renaissance Capital, citing sources including Iranian commentators and business people, says Iran’s banking looks more like an emerging market than a frontier market sector in terms of penetration of services. Continue Reading
Dubai UAE’s best market for long-term property investment – Bayut
By Andrei Skvarsky. Dubai-based real estate portal Bayut.com says the city’s property market “continued its price correction” in August, eliminating “all fears of another boom and bust cycle” and becoming the United Arab Emirates’ “best market” for mid- to long-term real estate investment. Continue Reading
Middle classes a key source of emerging markets’ growth – Lamudi
By Andrei Skvarsky. The economies of emerging market countries are largely driven by their rapidly growing middle classes, whose relative and increasing affluence boosts demand and hence spurs production and job creation, says online real estate trader Lamudi. Continue Reading
Plenty of affordable luxury real estate on sale in emerging markets – Lamudi
By Andrei Skvarsky. There is “an abundance of affordable luxury real estate on offer”, says Paul Philipp Hermann, co-founder and managing director of global online real estate trader Lamudi. Continue Reading
Lamudi: Emerging markets a world of ‘financial centres of tomorrow’
By Andrei Skvarsky. Investors shouldn’t neglect financial centres in emerging markets, some of which, though little known, have excellent prospects, according to online real estate dealer Lamudi, which does business in 34 emerging- and frontier-market countries. Continue Reading
EXCLUSIVE: B2B firm Uppler doing business in 150 countries a year after birth
By Andrei Skvarsky. Business-to-business (B2B) deals are a fast-growing market, and B2B company Uppler, set up by three young Frenchmen in Tel Aviv a year ago has been able to extend its multi-industry business to more than 150 countries. The entire personnel of the dot-com firm are about a dozen people one of whom works… Continue Reading
GUEST ARTICLE: How to find a reliable real estate agency in Dubai
The article has been contributed by Dubai-based real estate portal Bayut.com. Dubai’s lucrative real estate market is a haven for thousands of real estate agents who are aiming to help customers make a worthwhile investment, while saving a “slice of the cake” for themselves. Continue Reading
Lamudi property firm advises investors to go to emerging world megacities
By Andrei Skvarsky. Online real estate dealer Lamudi says that, unlike their overpopulated counterparts in the industrialised world, megacities in emerging market countries are still on the rise and offer a gamut of opportunities for investment and other business activities. Continue Reading
Dubai’s Morison Menon audit firm wins Superbrand status for 2nd year running
By Andrei Skvarsky. Dubai-based audit firm and business consultancy Morison Menon has for the second consecutive year been named as a top brand by a highly reputed international branding arbitration group. Continue Reading
Asia Frontier Capital Newsletter – Country Snapshot: Iran
In July 2015, the AFC Asia Frontier Fund gained +1.1%, underperforming the MSCI Frontier Asia Index (+4.3%) and the MSCI World Index (+1.7%) and outperforming the MSCI Frontier Index (-3.1%). The year to date performance of the AFC Asia Frontier Fund A-shares stands now at +2.1% versus the MSCI Frontier Asia Index which is up… Continue Reading
Lamudi real estate dot-com firm launches business in UAE
By Andrei Skvarsky. Lamudi, a two-year-old real estate dot-com company doing business in more than 30 emerging- and frontier-market countries, announced on August 10 that it has launched an operation in the United Arab Emirates. Continue Reading
Standard Chartered’s Pakistan subsidiary gets over first hurdle in Islamic banks contest
By Andrei Skvarsky. The Pakistani subsidiary of Britain’s Standard Chartered was among the winners of the first round of Global Finance’s debut contest for Islamic banks as part of the famous financial periodical’s annual competition for the title of the world’s best digital bank. Continue Reading
Lamudi property portal: Emerging markets should be top of investors' agenda
By Andrei Skvarsky. Emerging market countries are growing much faster than developed ones, they have been quicker to adopt new high technology than their developed counterparts, and their populations include increasingly affluent and rapidly growing middle classes, real estate portal Lamudi says. Continue Reading
Bayut.com: UAE real estate market’s performance better than expected
By Andrei Skvarsky. The United Arab Emirates’ real estate sector did quite well in the first half of 2015 and, in fact, “exceeded all expectations”, the Bayut.com property portal says. Continue Reading
Lamudi: Dhaka emerging markets’ top place to buy home
By Andrei Skvarsky. Global property portal Lamudi argues that Dhaka should be top of the list for anyone wishing to buy their first-ever home in an emerging market country. Continue Reading
RenCap appoints Elena Kolchina as fixed income strategist
By Andrei Skvarsky. Russia’s Renaissance Capital has given the role of a fixed income strategist and credit analyst to Elena Kolchina, re-hiring her after an 18-month stint at Signet Capital Management, a London-headquartered fixed income company. Continue Reading
Asia Frontier Capital Newsletter – Country Report: Saudi Arabia
This month’s country report profiles the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). While Asia Frontier Capital does not currently invest in Saudi Arabia, we are always evaluating frontier markets that may possibly hold investment potential. For example, Nepal and Bhutan are both in our fund’s investment universe, although we cannot currently invest in either country. Iran… Continue Reading
Guest Comment: Dubai, the Brits’ place in the sun
By Azam Butt, Editor at Bayut.com, a Dubai-based real estate portal. Dubai has been constantly cementing its position as a global investment magnet, courtesy of the its thriving hospitality, tourism and real estate sectors. Continue Reading
Lamudi says Pakistan emerging markets leader for eco-friendly homes
Pakistan leads the emerging markets for eco-friendly and energy-efficient homes, while Bangladesh is the emerging market country with the most environmentally-friendly commercial property, a study by global real estate portal Lamudi shows. Continue Reading
Lombard Odier: Oil, other commodities to stay cheap for quite a while
By Andrei Skvarsky. Swiss bank Lombard Odier’s chief economist argues that low prices for oil and other commodities are here to stay. Continue Reading
RenCap hires ex-HSBC researcher as frontier markets analyst
By Andrei Skvarsky. Russian investment bank Renaissance Capital has hired Seki Mutukwa, a former senior researcher at HSBC, as a frontier markets analyst. Continue Reading
Lamudi: real estate business booming in many emerging markets
By Andrei Skvarsky. Global real estate company Lamudi says real estate business has been booming in many emerging and frontier markets. Continue Reading
Investors diversifying emerging markets strategies over slower growth – Economist
Slower growth in emerging markets is making investors abandon strategies that treat emerging markets as a single bloc, according to a research report from The Economist Group, publisher of The Economist weekly. Continue Reading
Lamudi: Property markets in Asia, M. East, Africa, LatAm gaining momentum
By Andrei Skvarsky. Real estate business in many of the emerging and frontier markets in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America is on the ascent with demand pressing up and foreign capital pouring in, according to online global real estate company Lamudi. Continue Reading
Abraaj to pay scholarships to Royal College of Art students
By Andrei Skvarsky. The Abraaj Group, a global private equity firm focusing on emerging and frontier markets, will yearly pay scholarships for the next five years to five Royal College of Art students from Africa, Turkey, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America as part of a joint project with the London-based postgraduate school of… Continue Reading
RenCap gives ex-Deutsche Bank analyst senior job in MENA team
By Andrei Skvarsky. Russia’s Renaissance Capitalhas appointed former Deutsche Bank researcher Ryan Apache as senior banking analyst in its equity research team forthe Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Continue Reading
Lamudi real estate firm: myths create fear of emerging markets
By Andrei Skvarsky. Lamudi, an online real estate dealer with operations in 28 countries in the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America, argues there exist widespread myths that may stop Western companies from taking advantage of “exciting” opportunities offered by emerging markets. Continue Reading