By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 11th October 2010.
It is estimated that about 30 per cent of all energy used in commercial buildings is wasted, partly as a result of the materials used in construction. Read more »
By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 6th September 2010.
Any entrepreneur will testify that two of the greatest barriers to success are regulation and access to resources. Read more »
By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 26th August 2010.
The modern game of football, especially in the Premier League, is riddled with change. But we football fans don’t particularly like change. Read more »
By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 3rd May 2010.
Is this a great time or what? That was a slogan the senior executives at the doomed MCI Worldcom adopted for one of their marketing campaigns in the 1990s. Read more »
By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 21st January 2010.
Last week, the people of Haiti suffered a terrible natural disaster. If I were buying or selling a new building there that had been turned to rubble, it would be classified by the lawyers as a force majeure event. Last week also saw a property developer inform its buyers in an off-plan project in Dubai that a force majeure event had taken place, right here in the UAE. Read more »
By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 10th December 2009.
Don’t you just love the idea of cutting out the middleman? After all, Dell did it with computing and Amazon did it for books, so why not try it in real estate? Read more »
By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 12th November 2009.
I watched the children’s faces light up as the magician made one ball into two. He doubled it. Then with a sleight of hand he made the two balls go back into one. Ooh, said the children. Wow, said I. That is what it must have felt like if you had purchased an off-plan property recently. Read more »
By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 15th March 2009.
Remember the first time you heard the word “Blackberry”? A fruit, surely. And Wii? That’s something babies do. Until recently, you might have been similarly perplexed by the word “premium” as it’s used in Dubai. Read more »
By Rehan Khan. Published in The National www.thenational.ae on 29th January 2009.
There is a scene in the film Gladiator when the mighty Maximus Decimus Meridius, played by the tough as nails Russell Crowe, and his fellow gladiators are thrust into the great Roman Coliseum to face down an enemy unbeknown to them. Read more »