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Uffici a Damasco, prezzi alle stelle


Doron Peskin, pubblicato da Ynet News il 02.05.09

 

I prezzi immobiliari a Damasco sono alle stelle e la città e’ nella lista delle città più costose al mondo in termini di realtà commerciali, non lontano da capitali come Parigi, Londra e Mosca. Di recente, una società di consulenza americana Cushman & Wakefield, ha rilasciato uno studio che indica la capitale siriana come essere all'ottavo posto nel mondo in termini di costo di immobili commerciali. Durante l'anno 2008, i prezzi degli immobili commerciali nella capitale siriana sono aumentati di circa il 14%. Per un metro quadrato in un ufficio a Damasco si deve pagare una media di $ 1274, due volte e mezzo il prezzo nella capitale libanese di Beirut, dove la gente paga per un ufficio di una media di $ 520 per metro quadrato. In un'intervista con la rivista Oggi Siria, l’esperto immobiliare Nabil Marzouk ha cercato di spiegare il forte aumento dei prezzi degli immobili a Damasco. Secondo Marzouk, il problema deriva in primo luogo dalla mancanza di pianificazione urbana organizzata.

 

Articolo originale:

Damascus office prices skyrocketing

Doron Peskin, Gil Feiler, published by Ynet News 02.05.09

 

Commercial real estate prices in Syrian capital increasing, putting Damascus on list of top 10 expensive cities in terms of commercial realty. Syrian expert explains lack of organized urban planning led to shortage in areas, projects

 

Commercial real estate prices in Damascus are skyrocketing, putting the city on the list of the most expensive cities in the world in terms of commercial realty, not far from capitals like Paris, London and Moscow.

 

Only recently, American consultancy company Cushman & Wakefield released a study showing the Syrian capital was in the eighth place in the world in terms of the cost of commercial real estate.

 

The study examined more than 200 cities in 57 countries worldwide, and discovered that Hong Kong was the most expensive with a price of some $2,276 per square meter.

 

During the year of 2008, the commercial real estate prices in the Syrian capital rose by some 14%. For a square meter in an office in Damascus one must pay an average of $1,274, two and a half times the price in the Lebanese capital of Beirut, where people pay for an office an average of $520 per square meter.

 

Prices in some areas tripled

In an interview with the Syria Today magazine, Syrian real estate expert Nabil Marzouk tried to explain the sharp rise in real estate prices in Damascus. According to Marzouk, the problem stems first and foremost from the lack of organized urban planning.

 

The failed planning of the city, he said, has led to a shortage in commercial real estate areas. There are currently almost no office building projects in Damascus.

 

According to Marzouk, the past two years saw an increase in investments by companies from the Gulf states operating in the Syrian real estate market. The demand for real estate rose, while the supply remained limited, sending the prices up in a significant manner.

 

Arab companies which have entered the Syrian market since 2006 did not find it difficult to pay a lot of money for real estate properties, causing the prices to triple in some areas.

 

Marzouk added that the real estate price hike has begun to trickle in the past few months from Damascus to other Syrian districts. According to the Syrian expert, the real estate prices in the capital do not decline like in other cities as a result of the global crisis, due to their individual ownership.

 

According to Marzok, in other places in the Arab world companies usually own the property and are therefore affected by the global financial crisis. "In Syria, the ownership over real estate belongs to individuals and they are not interested in the financial crisis, which does not influence them," Marzouk told the paper.


 

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