I understand many of you are not Arabic speakers, but for those who are, I hope you watched today's show on Qatar TV (احداثيات اقتصادية). In this show, they usually discuss things reated to the country's economy, and today it was about real estate rental policy. The show hosted a local lawyer and a real estate advisor. In the middle of the show someone called and talked about this contract issues we are having with the pearl developers. I couldn't tell whether he bought from UDC or a sub-developer, but it seems that the guy is also mad at the situation. The lawyer made it clear that It is completely illegal to change the cost of a service or a product whatsoever if the original contracts specified the costs initially. It seems that the lawyer is already familiar with what is going on at the Pearl. I think he was referring to things like FQ specifying 150 QR/sqm capped for 3 years and then trying to change them. Also, the extra "registratoin fees" they've added once apartments are delievered ...etc