Late last night, we confirmed that <b>Sulaiman al Fahim</b> , the founding chief executive of <b>Hydra Properties</b> , . Mr Sulayem was a board member of the <b>Royal Group</b> , owned by <b>Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed al Nahyan</b> . Mr al Fahim has lately for his bid to buy Britain's Portsmouth Football Club and disputes with hundreds of investors over Hydra Villages. Just the other week, , including delayed payment plans and less punishing contracts. Hydra is construing the move as a promotion for Mr al Fahim, who will now take a board member role, but there has been a lot of pressure on the company in the wake of the global financial crisis and property downturn. I guess this means the end of the Hydra Executives TV show, which has been on air since the beginning of the year. It's a beautiful time capsule of an age when you could buy and sell multi-million dirham property with a flyer on a street corner. The (potential) deal between <b>Kingdom Holding</b> and <b>Emaar Properties</b> has been sort of like a roller coaster ride. Angela Giuffrida and Sarmad Khan today quote an analyst . Emaar's shareprice has lost almost all of the gains it made on Sunday. This morning Kingdom made another statement to the Saudi Arabia bourse, though it doesn't reveal much. See it . See a timeline of what happened in . after refunding all its investors, Parag Deulgaonkar reports in Emirates Business 24/7. Deyaar is . , which are at the centre of a dispute between a group of investors and a property company. Vacancy levels for office property in Dubai , Anjana Kumar reports in Emirates Business 24/7.