The World's biggest airport being built in Dubai

Dubai World Central (DWC) - the massive 140km2 urban aviation community - is beginning to take shape.

Dubai World Central, which is focused around the Al Maktoum International Airport (JXB) also contains Dubai Logistics City (DLC).

JXB will feature two mega-terminals and six concourses designed to handle in excess of 120 million passengers and 12 million tonnes annually.

DLC will make up one part of the world's first integrated, multi-modal logistics platform in a single-bonded free zone environment comprising DLC, JXB, Aviation City and Jebel Ali port. It is being designed to become the region's unchallenged logistics hub, catering to two billion people throughout the Middle East, Indian sub-continent, Africa and the CIS, which are all within three to four hours flying time of Dubai.

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City of wonders

Salem Al Moosa, on his US$1.5bn Falconcity of Wonders in Dubailand: "I want to tell the world we have mastered tourism in Dubai. I want to remove obstacles and bring cultures together. We are all human, and we should all love and live alongside one another. I want to develop that symmetry of life and for everyone to live happily ever after".

Shaped after the falcon, Falconcity is a community project featuring structures based on the wonders of the world; the Pyramids, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Eiffel Tower, the Taj Mahal, the Great Wall of China, the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the Lighthouse of Alexandria. The project also includes famous international destinations such as Rome, Venice, Beirut, India, and New York.

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Bridging the gap

Here is an interesting story about how Kanoo, one of the large family-owned businesses in the Gulf, has established a broker company - Kanoo International Property Broker - aimed at helping investors from the Gulf who want to buy real estate in UK.

Their business model bears remarkable similarities to that of Desert Invest, and proves the concept that there is a need for someone who commit themselves to working on the buyers side.