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Aldar Properties acquires security services provider for $34m

Abu Dhabi-listed Aldar Properties has acquired Spark Security Services, a UAE-based security services provider, for AED 125 million ($34.03 million). The all-cash transaction strengthens the UAE developer’s property and integrated facilities management platform, WAM, the UAE state news agency, reported. These security services will add significant value to Aldar’s AED 23 billion ($6.3 billion) portfolio […]

Turtle, Sea Life, Animal

UAE rallies private sector to realise 2050 net-zero pledge

The UAE has launched its first ‘Climate-Responsible Companies Pledge,’ in a bid to boost the private sector’s role in helping the country achieve its target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050 – dubbed the Net Zero 2050 Strategic Initiative.  More than 21 UAE-based companies have so far signed up to the pledge, unveiled by […]

Landscape, Nature, Outdoors

Aldar to start work on $313m new housing project in Q1 2023

Abu Dhabi-listed Aldar Properties has launched Yas Park Gate, its latest gated community, next to Yas Park, Abu Dhabi. The AED 1.15 billion ($313 million) residential development, which is part of the second phase of North Yas, will house 508 new homes over 255,000 square metres. Construction of Yas Park Gate is due to begin […]

Kuwait net zero city planned for 2034

Construction of the world’s largest sustainable community is scheduled to start in Kuwait in 2024.  The new megacity, it is claimed, will provide a net zero carbon lifestyle for 100,000 residents, as the Gulf country aims to tackle rising demand for energy and water. Dubai-based URB, the company behind XZERO City, is planning to build […]

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Aldar says retrofit project to save $11m per year in energy costs

Abu Dhabi-listed Aldar Properties’ retrofit project will save AED 40 million ($10.89 million) per year in energy consumption costs, with the developer reporting it reduced energy consumption by 20 percent in 2021. In its  2021 Sustainability Report, the company said that the group’s retrofit project is the largest of its kind in the UAE and […]

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Apollo acquires $400m minority equity stake in Aldar subsidiary

NYSE-listed Apollo Global Management’s investment vehicles acquired an 11.1 percent minority stake in Aldar Investment Properties, a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi-listed Aldar Properties, for $400 million (AED1.47 billion). The acquisition is part of Apollo’s previously announced $1.4 billion investment into Aldar’s transformational growth initiatives, UAE state-owned news agency WAM reported. The transaction involved issuing $400 […]

UAE stock markets target London in foreign investment push

Stock markets in Dubai and Abu Dhabi are targeting London as they aim to strengthen their status as key destinations for international investors. Both the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) and the Dubai Financial Market (DFM) have completed investor roadshows in the British capital, holding hundreds of meetings with some of the world’s largest asset […]