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7 October 2026 · Press · LeBusiness
$3.7 billion in eight months: what Lebanon's property figures don't tell you
LeBusiness on what Lebanon's registry figures can and cannot say — $3.7 billion in eight months, value holding while volumes fall — and the four checks Cedar Keys Estates says any owner abroad should run before trusting anyone with a property they cannot visit.
LeBusiness
19 September 2026 · Press · UAE Stories
Cedar Keys Estates Are Shaping A Stronger Real Estate Future
UAE Stories profiles Cedar Keys Estates founder Mustapha Fouladkar — the warehouse he divided into eleven units while still at university, building the firm through Lebanon's banking crisis and conflict, and why he believes legal grounding should be a broker's minimum standard rather than a differentiator.
Jasmeet Singh — UAE Stories
Property market insights
Lebanese land-registry figures, read as they are published and written up with every source named and every gap stated. Each piece stands on its own.
5 October 2026 · Registry data · updated monthly
The gap is closing
Registered sale value was 17.8% behind 2025 in May. By August the gap was 3.8%. Eight months brought $3.74 billion across 34,549 sales — with the 2025 backlog caveat stated plainly, because without it the figure reads better than it is.
6 October 2026 · Registry data · the annual record
Lebanon property sales by year, 2016–2026
Eleven years of registered sales. The busiest was 2021 at 110,094 — more than double 2019, and 55% above 2025 — in the worst year of the collapse. 2023 managed 21% of that. Why that happened, and what the figures can and cannot be compared with.
5 October 2026 · Registry data · all 25 districts
Foreign ownership of Lebanese land, by district
92,930 non-Lebanese owners hold 0.383% of Lebanon. Beirut alone is 6.22% — sixteen times the national rate, and no other district passes 2.6%. By area the largest holdings are in Aley and Baalbek, not Beirut.
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