Ryan Mahoney is the Managing Director of Better Homes, one of the UAE’s most prominent real estate agencies that has been in operation in the region since 1986.

Better Homes has been through the thick and thin of the ever changing landscape of UAE’s property market, particularly in the Dubai market. This has earned Better Homes a solid reputation as well as given them an unprecedented operational know-how in the region.

We asked Ryan to share a few thoughts about the real estate scene in Dubai and the UAE at large with us, and he was kind enough to oblige.

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We thought we’d share this video; it’s an exclusive interview with Tiger Woods about his investments outside of the golf course. He is a co-investor in a soon to be constructed $1.3 billion exclusive private golf residential community called Albany Golf & Beach Club in the Caribbean island, Bahamas.

He also talks about the Dubai property market & Tiger Woods Dubai, the first Tiger Woods-designed golf course and resort to be located in Dubailand.

Although he did not invest early, he is owns Google shares and is bent on holding.

He finally clarifies that he did not buy a $65 million New York, Hamptons seaside estate as this article suggests.

Stefan von den Driesch, the CEO of Ourbania.com; a unique Web 2.0 community for architecture, real estate and construction enthusiasts is our guest this week. Mainz/Germany based Ourbania.com has been creating a buzz in the blogosphere. We asked Stefan to share a few thoughts with us, and he was kind enough to oblige.

What exactly is Ourbania.com? Can you please expand more on its concept?

Ourbania.com is built upon two cornerstones: First, it’s a vivid online directory of outstanding commercial real estate property worldwide. It’s based on the contributions of its users and taps relevant online resources (e.g. Flickr photos, Google maps).
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Yannick Laclau, the CEO of Properazzi.com the global property search engine that covers over 4 million properties in 50 countries is our guest this week.

Yannick’s Barcelona based Properazzi.com was featured on CNN’s Business 2.0 yesterday. We asked Yannick to share a few thoughts with us, and he was kind enough to oblige.

Having gone through Properazzi.com, your claim of the coverage of 4 million properties in 50 countries & 32 languages makes you the largest property aggregator website (if not largest property website); can you tell us what Properazzi.com is all about?

Definitely. Properazzi is simply a property search engine through which people can access an unprecedented number of properties to buy or rent, free of charge. We work with tens of thousands of real estate agencies and property portals to present their listings on a single website. This is so that people wouldn’t need to spend hours trawling through dozens of sites, or looking for those sites in the first place. With 4 million properties, it’s getting to the point in many European countries where if a property isn’t on Properazzi, it’s not anywhere to be seen. Real estate agents worldwide are now approaching us without stop to get their listings on Properazzi. They love it because it’s free.
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