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Dubai: A Tale of Two Markets
Unitas Consultancy (A GLOBAL CAPITAL PARTNERS GROUP COMPANY) Q3 2014
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ExecuTve Summary
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• Historically, Trophy ProperTes have had superior growth rates to Affordable housing in the United States. However, in the last 2 years there has been a reversal of trends, which has accelerated in the last 7 months. These trends are also being witnessed in Dubai over the last 6 months, where the affordable segment (e.g. InternaTonal City) has been the best performer in the market (20% appreciaTon).
• In Dubai, Trophy ProperTes have outperformed the rental market over the last 5 years by 11%, however, recently we have seen a paradigm shi_. In the last 16 months, rental growth rates in the Affordable Housing market (50%) have doubled relaTve to Trophy ProperTes (24%). Currently, the Affordable housing segment returns a net rental income of 6.9%, which is substanTally higher than Trophy ProperTes at 4.4%.
• A market analysis between the transacted and listed prices, shows that the city-‐wide spread has started to converge by nearly 50%. Listed Price have been a leading indicator of transacted price, thus indicaTng a slow-‐down of price acTon. A granular analysis reveals that the spread between Trophy ProperTes have decreased by 50%, whereas Affordable Housing has remained unchanged implying that we may conTnue to see price appreciaTon within this segment.
Table of Contents
A) Affordable Housing Outperforms: Dubai and USA…………………….………………………...…....4
B) Affordable Housing; a BeWer Source for Rental Income….………………………………………….9
C) Market Analysis: The Spread between Transacted and Listed Prices………………………..14
D) Conclusions………………………………………………….………………………………….……………………….17
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Affordable Housing Outperforms: Dubai and USA
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“You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future” – Steve Jobs
Affordable Housing Out paces Trophy ProperTes in the United States
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Metropolitan Area
High Tier Appreciation since 2000
Low Tier Appreciation since 2000
High Tier November 2013
YoY Appreciation
Low Tier November 2013
YoY Appreciation
Los Angeles 113% 112% 15.70% 23.90%
San Francisco 93.40% 64.70% 16.60% 31.00%
Seattle 66.20% 33.90% 10.10% 13.40%
Miami 91.10% 32.50% 14.40% 23.20%
Source: zillow.com
A recent study in the United States, shows that Trophy properTes have historically had superior growth rates to the affordable housing segment. However, a YOY analysis indicates a structural change, where the affordable housing segment has outperformed the market. In the ciTes tabulated below (all major desTnaTons of internaTonal trade and considered major metropolitan centers) have witnessed superior price appreciaTon in the mid and low Ter segment of the market, as the recent price recovery has gathered steam, itself indicaTve of the relaTve undersupply of units in these areas. In San Francisco and Los Angeles (the prime beneficiaries of t h e t e c h n o l o g i c a l b o om ) t h e outperformance has been the highest (a factor of 53% and 93% respecTvely).
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A Closer Look at the New York Real-‐Estate Market (Boom-‐Bust Cycle)
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A Tme series analysis of New York over 32 years, reveals startlingly, a period of 16 consecuTve years whereby the mid income housing segment dramaTcally outperformed the higher end of the market. This encompassed both a boom and bust scenario, whereby mid income properTes exhibited greater resilience in the downturn, laying to rest the noTon that trophy properTes always outperform. Whilst the reasons are plenTful, they converge on the central premise that this segment of the market was systemaTcally undersupplied. We opine that similar trends are currently underway in Dubai.
Source: www.furmancenter.org
Note: ManhaWan is used as a proxy for Trophy ProperTes, while Brooklyn is for Affordable Housing
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… Similar Trends Witnessed in Dubai in the Last 6 months
Price Index Segment-‐Wise AppreciaMon since 2007
AppreciaMon since last 6 months (Oct–Mar ’13)
Trophy ProperMes
Palm Jumeirah 325% 13%
Marina 90% 18%
Downtown 25% 16%
Affordable Housing
Discovery Gardens 33% 15%
InternaTonal City 28% 20%
Sports City -‐15% 19%
The Dubai real-‐estate market has exhibited similar characterisTcs to the United States market, where trophy properTes in the long-‐run have outperformed the affordable housing segment. Similar to the US, Dubai in the last 6 months has also witnessed a paradigm shi_, where growth rates in the Affordable housing segment have begun to exceed that of Trophy properTes given the demand/supply imbalance.
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Spread between Trophy and Affordable Housing Tightens
USA: Trophy ProperTes – Affordable Housing Spread Dubai: Trophy ProperTes– Affordable Housing Spread
The above charts illustrate a price spread analysis that has been conducted between the trophy and the mid income segments of both America and Dubai. In the former market, spread compression was witnessed during 2005-‐2007, and again from 2011, where mid income housing has systemically outperformed trophy properTes since 2011. In Dubai, whilst spreads have been more volaTle, there has been a spread compression being witnessed from 2011 as well, to the point where it has entered negaTve territory (indicaTng a shi_ in market preferences towards the affordable housing).
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Affordable Housing; a BeWer Source for Rental Income
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“It's tangible, it's solid, it's beauTful. It's arTsTc, from my standpoint, and I just love real-‐estate” -‐ Donald Trump
Net Yields Remain Superior in Affordable Housing
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Community-‐wise Breakdown: Net Rental Yields Market-‐wise Breakdown: Net Rental Yields
A market-‐wise comparison shows that Affordable Housing has the highest net rental yield at 6.9%, whereas the Trophy Property segment has the lowest net return at 4.4%. Within the Affordable Housing segment InternaTonal City currently has superior net returns at 7.6%, followed by Discovery Gardens at 6.7%.
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Gross Yields Start to Diverge Between Market segments! Gross Rental Yields Index: Affordable Housing Versus Trophy ProperTes
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2010 88 112 123
2011 78 131 121
2012 83 127 111
2013 78 121 95
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2011 91 77 116
2012 95 58 127
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The recent Central Bank report, indicaTng a fall in yields relaTve to historical norms is therefore most visible at the trophy end of the market, whereas in the affordable segment, yields conTnue to offer superior cash returns. We expect this trend to conTnue to diverge as the imbalance of supply and dynamics widens.
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Rental inflaTon indicaTng supply shortages
Market-‐Wise: Rental Index (2009-‐2014) Market-‐Wise: Rental Index (2013-‐2014)
Historically, the structure of the freehold market was leaning towards the holiday home and the trophy segment of the market as Dubai dazzled the world with its spectacular array of freehold projects. However, in the last 18 months a trifecta of forces (job creaTon at the mid end, supply shortages and preface for mid income communiTes closer to work) have converged to accentuate demand in this segment, resulTng rents spiraling up by 50% in the last year and a half. This trend is unlikely to be arrested unless the current supply dynamic is altered towards mid income supply*.
*This analysis was highlighted in the last Research Report “The Trophy Buying Phenomena”, which can be found on www.unitasconsultancy.com or www.reidin.com
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Supply Shortages Across the Affordable Segment are Reflected in the Form of the Highest rental growth rates
Community-‐wise Breakdown: Rental Index (2013-‐2014)
A community-‐wise break down shows that Sports City (55%), followed by InternaTonal City (49%) and Discovery Gardens (46%) are the best performers in the rental index over the last 18 months. The worst performers are Palm Jumeirah and Arabian Ranches at 13%, indicaTng resistance to upwards pressures at the top end.
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Market Analysis: The Spread between Transacted and Listed Prices
“When you build a bridge, you insist it can carry 30,000 pounds, but you only drive 10,000 pound trucks across it. And the same principle works in invesTng.” – Warren Buffet
Spread between Listed Price and Transacted Fall in Trophy ProperTes
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Listed Price – Transacted Price Spread: Trophy Property Listed Price – Transacted Price Spread: Affordable Housing
Historically, there has always been a spread between listed and transacted prices as the charts above reveal. This normally reflects aspiraTonal selling prices of exisTng investors, as well as market dynamics of the parTcular market segment that they are operaTng in. The spread has narrowed by 50% in the trophy segment, whereas in the affordable segment it has remained flat (a rolling analysis indicates even a slight increase). This is perhaps the most compelling indicator of price expectaTons in the trophy market ratcheTng downwards in response to lower demand, whereas no such shi_ has been discernable in the affordable segment and in a rendiTon of Keynes dark forces of Tme and uncertainty, is a prelude for an imminent price correcTon in the trophy segment.
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Dubai Marina
Discovery Garden
Dubai Sport City JLT InternaMonal
City Palm
Jumeriah Business Bay The Greens Average
Jan-‐13 11% -‐13% 15% 17% 4% 42% 7% 5% 11%
Feb-‐13 8% 4% 7% 11% 5% 19% 20% 4% 10%
Mar-‐13 20% -‐8% 5% 7% -‐3% 13% 24% 11% 9%
Apr-‐13 20% -‐11% 3% 9% -‐4% 5% 12% 12% 6%
May-‐13 18% -‐4% 3% 9% 19% 20% 12% 11% 11%
Jun-‐13 18% -‐6% 0% 7% 1% 5% 13% 7% 6%
Jul-‐13 22% -‐15% 0% 8% 4% 9% 8% 7% 5%
Aug-‐13 19% -‐5% -‐9% 13% 16% 35% 8% 16% 12%
Sep-‐13 18% 10% 5% 5% 14% 15% 17% 8% 12%
Oct-‐13 28% -‐6% 2% 12% 2% 20% 7% 11% 10%
Nov-‐13 25% 3% -‐2% 10% -‐2% 11% 8% 26% 10%
Dec-‐13 15% 6% 3% 6% 3% 15% 8% 0% 7%
Jan-‐14 23% -‐9% 11% 19% -‐4% 10% 4% -‐1% 7%
Feb-‐14 19% 0% 1% 11% 4% 20% 27% 2% 11%
Mar-‐14 15% -‐5% 7% 13% 3% 5% 7% 7% 7%
Apr-‐14 16% 0% 5% 5% 1% 11% 10% 2% 6%
Community-‐Wise Spread Between Transacted and Listed Prices
A city wide analysis of the gap between transacted and listed prices shows a narrowing across the board for most property segments in the higher and the t rophy segment , whereas In communiTes such as Discovery Gardens, it as actually widened, indicaTng strong investor demand and indicaTve of the fact that investors are both cognizant of the supply shortages in this segment as well as aligning themselves with the job creaTon which is the source of the demand in the first place
50% Convergence in Average Differences Between Transacted and Listed Prices
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Conclusions Affordable Housing Outperforms Affordable Housing BeWer Rental Yields
Analysis of Transacted and Listed Prices Outlook
The middle-‐income segments accounts for 43% of the total popula8on, and will be the key d emand d r i v e r f o r t h e affordable housing in the coming years
The Dubai real-‐estate market h a s e x h i b i t e d s i m i l a r characteris8cs to the United States market, where trophy proper8es in the long-‐run have outperformed the affordable housing segment. However, recently a reversal of trends have transpired
There have been periods in Tme, as seen in the bust and boom cycles of the New York real estate market, where Affordable Housing has had superior growth rates to that of Trophy ProperTes. A recent study in the United States illustrates that in the last 2 years there has been a structural change in major metropolitan ciTes where Affordab le Hous ing CommuniTes have appreciated faster Similar trends are witnessed in Dubai in the last 6 months , whe re commun iTes such a s InternaTonal City has outperformed Marina, Downtown and Palm Jumeirah
A community-‐wise analysis shows that affordable housing communiTes produce the superior net rental yields at 6.9%, which is higher than both High end segment (6.2%) and Trophy ProperTes (4.9%) A Tme series analysis of 5 years indicates that rental growth rates have been higher in Trophy compared to affordable housing communiTes by 10% However, in the last 14 months, we have seen a reversal of trends, driven by lack of supply and mid-‐income job creaTon leading to rental growth rates within the Affordable housing market out preforming
Historically, there has always been a spread between listed and transacted prices. The spread has narrowed by 50% in the trophy segment, whereas in the affordable segment it has remained flat. A city wide analysis of the gap between transacted and listed prices shows a narrowing across the board for most property segments in the higher and the trophy segment, whereas In communiTes such as Discovery Gardens, it as actually widened, indicaTng strong investor demand
it is evident that there is an acute shortage of mid income housing, leading to extra ordinary price and rental appreciaTon levels in this segment Dubai's phase of real estate price cycle has been one where trophy properTes have outperformed as developers have offered a spectacular array of dazzling projects. However, the job engine going forward is predominantly in the mid income segment Investors will start to snap up properTes, and even buy land in mid income areas such as DWC, Al Furjan, DSO, DRC, Arjan, Majan and Jumeirah village.
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