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Dubai's Deyaar switching more investments to international markets
Source: BI-ME and Reuters , Author: BI-ME staff
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UAE. Dubai property developer Deyaar is looking to expand into five countries to tap into cheap valuations stemming from the global financial crisis, the company's CEO said over the weekend.

In an interview with Reuters Financial Television, Markus Giebel said he expected the market to hit the bottom in a year's time.

"We have been negotiating in five different countries right now and we hopefully will be able to announce the first one or two deals in the next couple of months," he said.

Deyaar will be looking at markets in the Middle East and Africa, he said.

"The mature countries are not good for us. We need underdeveloped and developing countries to invest in," he said.

Dubai has been hit hard by the global financial crisis, which brought to an end a six-year construction boom that had driven up property prices and rents.

Dubai-based developers have put dozens of projects on hold and made thousands redundant in recent months as the property market crashed with valuations down 43% in the last quarter according to a Colliers International report.

Many developers in the United Arab Emirates have said they will be looking to expand in other parts of the region to spread their risk and as the crisis brings bargains to the market.

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