Dubai Informer

Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world which forms the iconic centerpiece of Downtown Dubai, has been named the winner of the mixed use project award in the prestigious Cityscape Awards for Real Estate in the Middle East and North Africa. The awards are held in conjunction with Cityscape Abu Dhabi which runs until [...]

The observation deck of Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, formerly known as Burj Dubai, has been closed for repairs only a month after the iconic tower was inaugurated. “Due to unexpected high traffic, the observation deck experience at the Burj Khalifa… has been temporarily closed for maintenance and upgrade,” Emaar Properties said in a announcement. “Technical issues [...]

Impenetrable secrecy surrounding the Burj Dubai’s real height has confounded the American-based world body that officially recognizes the world’s tallest buildings. Burj Dubai is reportedly 818 meters tall but the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) says it has yet to receive any official notification from the builder Emaar of the record-breaking height. [...]

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Today the Dubai Stock Market DFM rebounded from it’s low yesterday on a relatively high turnover. The last few days since the shocking announcement of Dubai World had obviously an impact on the stock markets of the United Arab Emirates. Let’s analyze what happened so far: The DFM (Dubai Financial Market) reached it’s high mid [...]

The Burj Dubai, the tallest building in the world, will not open this year. Emmar announced yesterday that it will not open until January 4 next year. The opening will coincide with the four-year anniversary of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum becoming the ruler of Dubai, the official news agency WAM reported. “We decided [...]

Developer Emaar has confirmed the Burj Dubai will open on December 2nd. Speaking to CNN, Emaar chairman Mohammed Alabbar said the developer was aiming for a UAE National Day opening, as previously reported by Construction Week. Alabbar said he was “shooting for UAE National Day”, adding that “12,000 staff were working inside trying to get [...]

For years now, poets and singers have spun their yarns to describe the ‘top of the world’ feeling… and perhaps never got it right. Now, At The Top of the world is becoming a reality, at Burj Dubai, the world’s tallest building, developed by Emaar Properties. One of the world’s highest public observation decks, At The [...]

The Burj Dubai’s name may translate as Dubai Tower, but the publishers of the Guinness World Records book say the structure is not a tower at all. Instead, the 818m building has the distinction of being the world’s tallest free-standing structure. The biggest “tower”? That honour goes to Toronto’s 553m CN Tower, which this week was [...]

The defense apparatus in the United Arab Emirates arrested 45 suspects, most of them Palestinian and Lebanese, after the plot to blow up Burj Dubai (Dubai Tower) was uncovered. Dubai Tower, currently under construction, is the tallest building in the world. The current wave of arrests adds to the eight other suspects detained immediately after the [...]

 Jittery investors went on a selling spree on the UAE markets on Monday, as both the Dubai Financial Market (DFM) general index and the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) index falling considerably. In Dubai, real estate stocks led the slide, as the general index slumped 5.76 per cent to 1,774.01. Emaar was down 8.75 per cent [...]

Check out this amazing new high definition video of the Burj Dubai Lake Fountain. The Burj Dubai is nearly finished as the world’s tallest tower (opening in September 2009), the Dubai Mall is already open since the end of last year and recently the worlds biggest and highest fountain was inaugurated by Emaar. This area of [...]

This video was taken in June 2009 and shows the Burj Dubai. Construction is still going on, the opening of the world’s tallest skyscraper is scheduled for 09-09-2009, coincidentially the same day as the Dubai Metro inauguration. YouTube Direkt

A new resolution issued by Lt. General HH Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan states that foreign

If you have invested in a development in Dubai that has since been cancelled by the emirate’s property regulators, don’t despair – new rules have been announced that will ensure investors receive a full refund. All cash paid by buyers on property development projects that are officially cancelled by The Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA) will [...]

Testing work of The Dubai Fountain, one of the world’s tallest performing fountains, is in progress for the official unveiling. Undertaken zone by zone across its entire length, most of the testing and operations are being executed underwater in a series of electronic, mechanical and process checks, executed by experts from WET, the California-based designer of [...]

The Dubai Mall, the city’s newest shopping and leisure destination, has opened The Waterfall, a spectacular water feature that offers a vantage meeting point for visitors to the mall. Adjacent to The Grove, a key component of The Dubai Mall, The Waterfall opens to views of Burj Dubai, the Dubai Fountain on the 30-acre Burj Dubai [...]

Burj Dubai is believed to have risen to its final height of 818 meters, according to one of the project contractors. “We have been shown the final blue-print for our installation work and it states the height to be 818 meters,” said the contractor. The towering commercial and residential building reached the final stages of [...]

Dubai’s government plans to increase public expenditure by around 20 per cent in 2009 to stimulate the service-based economy, the Financial Times quoted a senior policy-maker as saying on Saturday. Nasser Al-Shaikh, director-general of Dubai’s finance department said it would

Fears over the health of Dubai’s real estate sector are overblown and a stronger dollar would help rid the market of speculative buyers, Al Mal Capital’s head of equity research said on Thursday. Prices are likely to ease in 2010 after rising another 10-15 percent in the coming year, but developers like Emaar will still [...]