Nearly 80% say construction will never return to peak
Nearly 80 percent of people believe Dubai’s construction industry will never return to its peaks of 2008 following the impact of the global economic crisis, according to the results of an Arabian Business poll.
Some 39.6 percent of respondents said they thought the market would not return to its heyday, when property prices were at their highest and billion dollar deals were common.
The majority of people (39.9 percent) said they did not think the sector would ever recover from the current global recession.
The UAE’s real estate and construction sectors have been badly hit by the downturn. A recent report suggests they have seen the biggest declines in the Middle East region. Some 566 projects have been shelved or cancelled in the country – the majority of which are in Dubai – according to the research house Proleads.
