Morning Roundup: "We're not the Jumeirah culture"

Welcome to Crane Country, the property blog of The National. In this inaugural post, we'll kick off our daily feature, the Morning Round-up, in which we scan the UAE's juiciest property news so that you don't have to.

This morning, Crane Country's own Bradley Hope interviews Abid Junaid, the chief executive of ETA Star, who's take on his own company's plan for surviving the downturn sounds like a cultural temperature taking. In sum: speculation is out, catering to "regular people" is in. "Our moorings are in the old part of Dubai" he said. "We're not the Jumeirah culture."