hi nadt... :):)
i am with you in this matter you know... :)
Zoobi, your friend is twisting facts.. if he is talking about these new miserable flats, that the agents were hoping to rent for 8K, and now are willing to give away for 6,5K so it's a BS.. as these flats are not worth even 6k! total area of these "2 BR" flat is less than a normal 1BR! ....rooms are pathetically small, finishing are cheap, everything looks so bad... they could split the same area for 5 rooms and to offer it as a 4-br flat.. but are they really 4 BR?.. they are unfurnished too...
I have been doing a little survey for the last month, just to check the prices... I called 100 agencies and 100 agents... I say: i need a FF 2-br flat in a good area for 7000. They all say: no ma'm, your budget is too low.... They have for 8K, 8.5K, 9K and so on.. no one 2 br flat for 7000 has been offered to me so far, except of these two defective ones, on Al Sadd and in Bin Mahmud..
I will only believe that prices went down when i see it by my own eyes..

My friend pays 1000 QR for 2-BR flat in Beverely Hills.. does it mean prices went down?? NO! ...the rest of her Rent, which is 17,000 in total, her boyfriend is paying..

so don't tell me the stories about someone's friend's friend who got something (we don't know what) for some price (we don't know how much), coz it means nothing...

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