IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eme/jpifpp/v30y2012i2p175-197.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Shariah compliant real estate development financing and investment in the Gulf Cooperation Council

Author

Listed:
  • Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim
  • Seow Eng Ong
  • Kola Akinsomi

Abstract

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to investigate Shariah compliant real estate development financing and investment in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Design/methodology/approach - In this paper, the authors employed desk research and survey to examine issues relating to Shariah compliant real estate development financing and investment. Following the desk research, 18 in‐depth interviews were conducted with senior executives of banks, real estate developers and consultants. Findings - Equity Shariah instruments are found to be in high demand by real estate investors, however they are rarely offered by Islamic banks. In addition, the survey results confirm that Islamic financiers tend to partner real estate companies through land acquisition to post construction, contrary to how conventional financiers operate, therefore reducing moral hazard issues. Research limitations/implications - As Shariah compliant real estate research and knowledge is limited, the authors faced a challenge in getting respondents who are familiar and willing to participate in the interview. Nevertheless, the 18 respondents gave adequate inputs to enable the authors to write the research paper. Practical implications - The paper includes challenges and implications for the future developments of Shariah compliant real estate development financing and investment. Originality/value - This paper provides the Shariah compliant perspective of real estate development financing and investment, where the current knowledge is very limited.

Suggested Citation

  • Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim & Seow Eng Ong & Kola Akinsomi, 2012. "Shariah compliant real estate development financing and investment in the Gulf Cooperation Council," Journal of Property Investment & Finance, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 30(2), pages 175-197, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:jpifpp:v:30:y:2012:i:2:p:175-197
    DOI: 10.1108/14635781211206913
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/14635781211206913/full/html?utm_source=repec&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=repec
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers
    File URL: https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/14635781211206913/full/pdf?utm_source=repec&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=repec
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1108/14635781211206913?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Omokolade Akinsomi & Seow Eng Ong & Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim, 2013. "Corporate Real Estate Holdings and Firm Returns of Shariah Compliant Firms," ERES eres2013_99, European Real Estate Society (ERES).

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eme:jpifpp:v:30:y:2012:i:2:p:175-197. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Emerald Support (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.