The number of nationals and national corporate bodies of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf(GCC) countries who bought up real estates in another GCC member, other than their home country, increased by 51.1 per cent in 2011 to 16,107, up from 10,654 in 2010, recent figures from the GCC Secretariat General Information Center-Statistical Department, showed.
This takes the total such inter-GCC real estate ownerships to 93,767 by the end of 2011, compared to 77,804 by the end of the previous years.
The UAE came first among GCC nations in terms of attracting nationals of other GCC nationals with 10,873 registered contracts (67.5 per cent), followed by Oman with 3,364 registered contracts representing a 20.9 per cent share, and Bahrain in third place with 1,189 contracts.
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