About Urban Living MEA
The Urban Living MEA 2025, takes place in Dubai - more information coming soon.
Hospitality and real estate leaders convene at the region's only b2b conference and exhibition on hotels, serviced apartments, branded residences, coliving, student housing, holiday homes and short-term rentals.
NEW FOR 2025:
- unique workshops focus
- what are the real estate business models of the future?
- hospitality investors and developers update
- branded residences
- the opportunity for holiday homes and short term rentals
- Africa spotlight
- change-maker case studies: new urban living investment models - coliving; student housing; self-sustained mixed use communities
- technology sessions: distribution game changers; future of property management systems.
WHAT'S NOW? WHAT'S NEXT?
Urban Living MEA is evolving to reflect the rapid pace of change in one of the world’s most vibrant and fascinating hospitality markets. The Middle East and Africa regions continue to actively broaden their tourism and hospitality accommodation offerings to address an increasingly diverse and more sophisticated traveller requirement.The agenda reflects the very latest market dynamics such as technology, operations management, space-as-a-service (SAAS), as well as the ever-present topics that form the bedrock of the industry: finance and investment, design, legal, branding, digital, sales and marketing, distribution and more.
DUBAI REAL ESTATE UPDATE*
- Pent-up demand from travellers and increased spending by residents led the post-pandemic recovery of the real estate sector in Dubai.
- Inflation remains a concern for consumers and is expected to impact sentiment resulting in price discovery and rent increases leading into 2023.
- Occupancy for Dubai averaged 72% at the end of 2022, compared to the same period in 2021, while the average ADR over this period has increased by 22% year-on-year to AED 674. This is higher than the majority of the regional and international markets.
- Average sales prices for residential property in Dubai increased by approximately 10% between Q3 2021 and Q3 2022. Average rents also increased by approximately 21% over the same period.
* Deloitte Dubai market review 2023
Forecasts predict that the real estate sector will reach AED300 billion by the end of 2023. In 2022, sales volumes in the emirate registered AED261 billion, showing a 75 percent increase from AED149 billion in 2021.
The MEA region already has a fast-growing hospitality development pipeline with a wide range of projects from local and international developers and operators. The area is rapidly becoming a global hot spot for hospitality real estate with activity levels ramping up considerably - we look forward to seeing you there!
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