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To: Jeffrey Epsteinfieevacation©gmail.com] From: Sultan Bin Sulayem Sent: Mon 1/25/2010 12:49:40 PM Dubai World's assets worth more than $120 billion Dubai World is estimated to have debts of around ;57 billion. Related articles: • Dubai can pay its debts, says Sheikh Mohammed Sheikh Mohammed said the government is -not worried' about paying • Dubai world's second worst performing property market Dubai is the second performing property market in the world .. Related news: • Dubai World to present standstill offer in January State-owned conglomerate Dubai World will put forth a standstill proposal... • Dubai World did not request a debt standstill at meeting State-owned Dubai World did not ask its creditors Jan 24th, 2010 print email post a comment Property and investment assets owned by government-owned conglomerate Dubai World were worth more than $120 billion at the end of 2009, reports Reuters, quoting Arabic daily Al Ittihad. The newspaper said that the company' s property assets dropped in value from $157 billion in 2008, a fall of around 35 percent. "The drop in the value of investment and strategic assets for the group did not exceed 20 percent" the paper said. Dubai World is estimated to have debts of around $57 billion, and in November last year, announced that it would ask creditors for a six-month debt standstill in order to restructure $26 billion in debt. Next Story P, e\d 01_5 Story Tagged as: assets, debts, Dubai World Saudi to pass mortgage law soon Dubai Holding makes $100 million bond payments Consumer demand still weak in the UAE Rotana predicts 100 percent occupancy during DSF EFTA_R1_01502718 EFTA02432119 One Response » 1. Robert on January 25th. 2010 at 11:57 am. Having valued I setting the price of many of Nakheels developments as both a consultant and employee I really have to ask two questions: 1. What is the date of valuation of the property? I highly doubt that it would be recent as Nakheel does not have the money to pay for a consultant to undertake a valuation. Jones Lang LaSalle completed a valuation about a year ago and this does not reflect the current value of Nakheels assets. 2. There are no recent sales of comparable properties in Dubai. Just because something sold for X number of dollars a year ago, and because nothing has sold recently tie large plots of land with no infrastructure- which is pretty much all they own), means that it's extremely difficult to judge how much something is worth. For example, some individual apartments such as the Shoreline apartments on Palm Jumeirah have asking prices of about a third of what they were selling for a year earlier. This is a 65% drop in value yet still no one is buying. Hence, for buyers to actual buy the price would have to drop even further. Taking into account decreasing demand from increased layoffs and huge decreases in local population levels from westerners retuming to their home countries, I'd say that on average property prices should be at least an 80% reduction from their highest selling price. On a final note, cash flow at Dubai World is a serious problem. When I was working at Nakheel they couldn't even afford toilet paper so we had to bring in our own. So just because Dubai World has these -assets" they are performing extremely poorly and no one would want to buy them unless they can make money off them, and the only way for this to occur is if there's a fire sale of their assets. Leave a Reply Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website DISCLAIMER Ars**********Ock* •**** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and contain privileged or copyright information. If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy, distribute or use this email or the information contained in it for any purpose other than to notify us of the receipt thereof. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately, and delete this email from your system. Please note that e-mails are susceptible to change.The sender shall not be liable for the improper or incomplete transmission of the information contained in this communication,nor for any delay in its receipt or damage to your system.The sender does not guarantee that this material is free from viruses or any other defects although due care has been taken to minimise the risk. EFTA_R1_01502719 EFTA02432120