It seemed like a great idea at the time: Rent a fabulous apartment and spend a week living like a Parisian.
First of all, look at all the money we would save with four of us staying in an apartment instead of pricey hotels, then doing our own cooking to avoid expensive restaurants and cafés where [...]

The Grand Rotana Resort & Spa Sharm El Sheikh has triumphed as ‘Best Middle East & North Africa Resort of the Year’ at the DEPA Hotel Awards beating 26 participants although it has been open for less than 2 years.
The awards, attributed by live ‘Interactive Voting System’, were presented during a glittering ceremony at Dubai’s [...]

Dubai’s government bolstered its holdings of New York City real estate, announcing Sunday that its Istithmar PJSC holding company had purchased a majority stake in Manhattan’s five-star Mandarin Oriental hotel.
The US$340 million (euro260 million) purchase of the Mandarin Oriental, part of the Time Warner Center on Manhattan’s Columbus Circle, adds to the growing U.S. [...]

The real estate arm of family-owned Shaheen Business and Investment Group (SBIG), Vantage Real Estate Development, has launched a $2.5 billion residential resort and hotel on Egypt’s Red Sea Coast.
Homi Mullan, Vantage Real Estate’s vice-chairman finance and strategy, described the project, known as Serrenia, as the “world’s most exclusive waterside address” at its official [...]

Jones Lang LaSalle , the leading global real estate services and money management firm, identifies the Gulf Cooperative Council (GCC) region as a major source of global capital against a backdrop of the rising investment by Middle Eastern investors in international real estate markets.
The announcement means Dubai will join other leading global financial centres such [...]