Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Company and Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation (Kahramaa) on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to set up 10 electric vehicles (EV) charging stations in Lusail City.
The MoU was signed in the presence of Minister of Transport and Communications HE Jassim bin Saif Al Sulaiti.
The MoU signed by Kahramaa president engineer Essa bin Hilal Al Kuwari and CEO of Qatari Diar Abdullah bin Hamad Al Attiyah is in line with Qatar National Vision 2030, which places"...

Almost half of the people in Qatar found themselves spending more time in a different room this year due to COVID-19, an independent research hosted by Ikea has found.
In 2020, as per the research, people spend the most time at home in the living room, with the bedroom coming in at second.
The Swedish furniture giant carried out a research involving 2,000 people to understand the wants and needs of Qatar better when it came to life at home. It also dug into how this has changed since 2019 with the new challenges"...

Doha: About 135 real estate deals worth QR617.2m have been registered from September 6 to 10. Al Rayyan municipality, which comprised about 48 percent of the total sales volume, outperformed the other municipalities in terms of substantial deals, according to Ezdan Real Estate report.

Building sale transactions dominated the property sale activity, generating up to QR365.7m, or 59.3 percent of aggregate sales volume. As many as 70 building sale"...

Qatar saw 497 real estate deals worth QR4.156 billion being registered in August, according to the Real Estate Registration Department of the Ministry of Justice.
This is a 49 percent increase in terms of financial value from July’s 2.78 billion.
The municipalities of Al Daayen, Doha, Umm Salal and Al Rayyan saw the biggest real estate deals in August in terms of value, followed by the municipalities of Al Wakra, Al Khor-Al Dhakira, Al Shamal and Al Shahaniya.
Deals worth QR1.593 billion were struck"...

The volume of real estate trading in sales contracts registered at the Department of Real Estate Registration at the Ministry of Justice during the period from September 6 to September 10 reached QR617.175 million.
The weekly bulletin issued by the department showed that the list of real estate properties traded for sale included vacant lands, houses, residential buildings and multi-purpose buildings.
The sales were concentrated in the municipalities of Al Daayen, Doha, Umm Salal, Al Rayyan, Al Wakrah, Al Khor,"...

Doha: Qatar’s rental market exhibited resilience from restrictions and lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the first half of this year (H1 2020), however, the full impact of the pandemic on the country’s the property market is to be evident by the year-end, noted a latest real estate report yesterday by a leading consulting firm.

KPMG recently released their Qatar Real Estate Rental Index Q1 2016 –"...

The 2022 FIFA World Cup extends property owners in Qatar a chance to lease out their properties to host football fans and visitors, a senior labour ministry official has said.
The ministry and the World Cup organiser — the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy (SC) — have signed an MoU in this regard, said Mubarak Hamdan Al Arabeed, the Director of Government Housing and Buildings Department at the Ministry of Administrative Development, Labour and Social Affairs (MADLSA), has said.
As per the"...

Doha: The Public Works Authority (Ashghal) has opened the first phase of the Sabah Al-Ahmad Corridor - 13km from Umm Lekhba Interchange in the north to Bu Hamour Bridge in the south. The project will open fully to traffic in the first quarter of 2021.

Seven new bridges were also opened, bringing the number of bridges opened to 21 out of the 32 bridges that make up the vital road, including three bridges at Umm Lekhba Interchange and three at Al"...

The volume of real estate trading in sales contracts registered at the Department of Real Estate Registration at the Ministry of Justice during the period from August 30 to September 3 reached QR QR410.354 million.

The weekly bulletin issued by the department showed that the list of real estate properties traded for sale included vacant lands, houses, residential buildings and multi-purpose buildings and multi-purpose vacant land.
The"...

Qatar’s real estate market has weathered the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, as the country witnessed a significant pick up during the first half of the year, with property sales reaching QR11.4bn during the first six months of the year (H1 2020), an increase of over QR500m compared to the QR10.8bn recorded during the same period last year (H1 2019), according to Ezdan Real Estate report.

The report added that the total value of transactions during the first seven months of 2020 reached QR14.2bn, citing"...