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			<title>RAK Properties reports $49m profit for first nine months</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Ras Al Khaimah developer says its total equity for period amounts to AED3.15bn.]]></description>
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			<title>RAK Properties secures $150m loan</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Ras al Khaimah developer says money will be used to 'support and finance' existing projects.]]></description>
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			<title>RAK Properties makes no sales Q1 2009</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Abu Dhabi listed company posts a 38.5% fall in first quarter profits. ]]></description>
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			<title>RAK Properties delays projects worth $1.1bn</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[UAE real estate developer shifts focus to affordable housing amid economic downturn.]]></description>
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			<title>UAE's RAK Properties Q4 profit plunges 74%</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Ras Al Khaimah-based property developer earns AED50.9m ($13.86m) Q4 profit.]]></description>
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			<title>Abu Dhabi bourse trebles trading performance</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Stable and sustainable market helps ADX to achieve huge growth in trading.]]></description>
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			<title>RAK and roll-out news</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[RAK Property's managing director and CEO, Mohammed Sultan Al Qadi, sheds some light on Ras Al Khaimah's waterfront development, Mina Al Arab.]]></description>
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			<title>RAK plans Morocco, Egypt and Sudan jobs</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[RAK Properties plans to expand into Morocco, Egypt and Sudan during 2008, and to other markets later on.   ]]></description>
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			<title>Mina Al Arab infrastructure complete by end of 2008</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Darwish Engineering is expected to complete its US $95.3 million (AED350 million) infrastructural contract by the end of the year, allowing construction of precinct four to begin, according to client RAK Properties.  ]]></description>
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			<title>Bids for Mina Al Arab next month</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Ras Al Khaimah-based real estate developer RAK Properties will invite bids for one of the main construction packages on its Mina Al Arab project in March.  ]]></description>
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			<title>Challenges ahead for RAK</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Ras Al Khaimah is trying to compete with Dubai and Abu Dhabi, but in its own inimitable style.]]></description>
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			<title>French connections</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[RAK Properties will be forging closer relationships with French investors following strong interest in the UAE real estate sector at the recent UAE-France Partnership Forum.]]></description>
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			<title>Cityscape special</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  Thousands of property professionals flooded Dubai last month for the world's largest property expo. Arabian Property reports on the real estate mega event that was Cityscape Dubai 2007.]]></description>
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			<title>RAK records third-quarter sales boost</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  RAK Properties has recorded a 229% increase in sales in the third quarter of 2007, compared to the third quarter of 2006.  ]]></description>
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			<title>RAK after more value</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[RAK Properties is looking to increase the value of its portfolio of ongoing projects from US $3.3 billion to $8.2 billion by 2012.  ]]></description>
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			<title>Hidden gem</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Ras Al Khaimah is being transformed into one of the region's brightest tourist and business hotspots.]]></description>
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			<title>RAK Properties planning $2bn sukuk</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Ras Al Khaimah-based developer to sell bonds early next year to finance new projects, CEO says.]]></description>
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			<title>RAK to the future</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Sheikh Tariq bin Kayed Alqassimi tells us why investors in the emirate have a short window to reap RAK's rewards.]]></description>
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			<title>RAK gets attention</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Cityscape Abu Dhabi 2007 ended on an upbeat note for RAK Properties, one of the largest property developers in the Northern Emirates, with its Mina Al Arab and Julfar Towers projects attracting local, regional and international investors during the three-day exhibition.]]></description>
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			<title>Get the facilities managers involved</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Bringing facilities management in at the design stage is a hot topic at the moment.]]></description>
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			<title>Design to deliver</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  Facilities management must be brought in at the design stage if the building is to remain sustainable. This is the joint message Operon Middle East and RAK Properties will be promoting as they join forces and create a new FM company.]]></description>
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			<title>RAK infrastructure project win for Darwish Engineering</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Darwish Engineering Emirates has won a US $92.6 million (AED340 million) contract for infrastructure works on the Mina Al Arab development.]]></description>
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			<title>Services: get in early to avoid disappointment</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Facilities Management remains a fledgling concept in the regional construction industry. But, as Christopher Sell reports, efforts to champion its cause from the early stages of a construction project have led to some major deals being signed in the UAE.  ]]></description>
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			<title>RAK &amp;amp; Operon sign MOU</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  Memorandum of Understanding has been signed to form new FM company.   ]]></description>
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			<title>RAK Properties logs dramatic first year</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[RAK Properties has announced rich returns in record time netting first year profits of AED473 million.]]></description>
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			<title>Al Qudra forms JV with Bin Ladin</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Abu Dhabi-based Al Qudra Holding has struck a deal with Saudi Bin Ladin Group to establish a joint investment company.]]></description>
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			<title>Woods Bagot takes RAK job</title>
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