A Chinese consortium is now involved - be careful - also they made the same mistake that was made with the Burj - no study as to the effect of sand being carried down by the currents and deposited around the base - Green peace have predicted that this will be an island only for 5 years and then it will be a pile of rockas on a very large beach

I recall studying such things at University (Engineering School) and although I do highways now and not beaches I recall the effects of breaking a coastline in the way that these 2 developments have done when there is a longitudinal current (almost always is) is that sand builds up on the upstream side, and gets eroded on the downstream side.

My prediction for the Palm (not so much for the burj) is that in time (nature left to it's own devices of course) that the Plam will become more the shape of the letter P when viewed from the land side and the beach to the east will be eroded away - eating into the original beach.

We have sat down and thought hard and have decided to buy one of the European design villas in Jumeirah Islands when they are finished. We spoke to the kind dears at Naches, all the villas are sold out so we will have to buy from the 2ndary market. We have been to look at a few already, they will be finished in May 2005 but they are coming along nicely!!! I have been told also that they are QUITE a step up in quality compared to Emaar in all aspects really, so they would definitely be better than the villa we live in now which is from Union Properties!!!
Do have a look at them, the current price for the one we want is Dhs 2.6million but we intend to buy it when it is ready as we'd simply love to look at the finished product first, by the time the price will probably reach Dhs 3million but we are prepared Did this help you dear?

I'm assuming you mean use their rental allowance to pay off their mortgage, which is good and all, until

1) They lose their job and have no way to pay that mortgage

2) The value of the house drops precipitously from its purchase price (which it will, guaranteed), and said expat wants to move back to the UK, US, or wherever (or just loses their job). That expat then is saddled with dealing with the negative equity relating to their mortgage, basically, if they sell the house, they'll continue to pay off the mortgage difference between the mortgage (theirs) and the homes sale price, basically paying for nothing, and getting nothing in return.

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