decline in rental rates

it's a good thing as well that the country was not pre-selected to host the games. hopefully, the rent will go down

Chances r there,
But this middle men who take up this flats and villas for breaking in to small-small acco. for Family and bachelor's will not allow the rents to decline

First stop renting houses from them, then there is scope of decline in rents

pradeep...

thats impossible... who would gonna sacrifice to stay under the palm trees? absolutely.. nobody... climate here is so bad... everybody should be sheltered cool.

still the rates would go "as is"
as is where it had been started.. it will go as it is...:)

~~~winner never quits~~~

Im one of the community here in Qatar suffered high rental of accomo.... I couldnt believe it would be like these since now that Im starting to rent & doing it all alone!!!

I wish someone incharge here in Qatar review the situation dramatically & seriously take a necessary action!!!! Expat like me who sacrifice far away from family just to earn a bit higher than in our origin country but its like we been trapped & force to pay the landlord,high cost of foods now,etc. Well, for instant, we dont want to share a room or do the bedspace but were force to do it due to the high cost of living here.

said in the previous post about rent and the asian games that the games and DAGOC were never the cause of high rents.
I say now what I said then, there were more people going to Qatar for other organisations including Qatar Airways, QF, Dolphin and many others. It will only be when the situation stabilises that the rents may drop and even then not significantly.

well theres strong rumours in our building that rent is going to be increased, so we will see what happens..

If landlords follow the new laws of not increasing rent until 2010, they will just stay the same, but i highly doubt it some greedy landlords will follow the law..

Pradeepnair ,"First stop renting houses from them, then there is scope of decline in rents."

I keep hearing this, but landlords are never to be found, in our experience of house hunting, there was only real estate agents. ..Where are they????

Babes the caretakers are useless, i guess they are stuck in the middle, not much they can do...

Morning KSA..Take the car out and keep driving around, how do i spot them, do they wear "im a landlord sign" around their necks?

If i drive around will it be easier to find them and seeing with a "Im a Landlord sign!!!!" Funny.......

I like that..........

Ill tell you once - NEVER, NEVER rent from an agent.
These cons will tell you "oh yeah good price" but remember they have a vested interest in MAXIMISING not only the rent you pay but future rental rate as well.
These last few years I have seen nothing but unscrupulous fleecers prey on all the public. Everyone will tell you to "hurry and make decision, have 5 other people looking at same property, demand is strong and getting stronger" - LIES . Do your utmost to avoid every one of these thieves. Thats what they are - opportunistic thieves. If they work for a realty company
or represent a landord AVOID like the plague.