Dubai, UAE - October 6^th 2008: Landmark Properties, one the Middle Easts leading real estate firms, today announced an exclusive corporate partnership with Massachusetts Institute of Technologys Center for Real Estate (MIT-CRE), the real estate program of one of the worlds most prestigious educational institutions.

Under this new agreement both the entities, MIT-CRE and Landmark Advisory, the real estate research and analysis division of Landmark Properties, will conduct a series of research based initiatives on UAEs real estate market. This will help leverage Landmark Properties unparalleled research, consulting, asset management and financial services experience within their Advisory division as well as MIT-CREs international partnerships network in emerging markets.

Chairman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technologys Center for Real Estate, Tony Ciocetti, explained that Landmark Properties was the perfect fit for MIT-CRE in the region.

"We have had a long-standing relationship with many institutions from the region, however this is our first corporate partnership, and we are thrilled to partner with Landmark Properties," he added.

"Our responsibility is to enhance the Centers mission of improving the global built environment through industry relevant research and to promote more informed professional practice. There is no better partner for that in the region than Landmark Properties."

Landmark Advisory provides market overviews, unparalleled research consultancy and real estate investment management services covering the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. This filters through to the retail brokerage operations at Landmark Properties, providing them with recommended product with significant best in class due-diligence behind it.

"This is a great milestone for us and we look forward to working with MIT-CRE said Cliff Kelaita, Chairman & CEO of Landmark Properties. Our market intelligence, consulting, and syndication division, Landmark Advisory, has developed a special relationship with MIT-CRE based on a shared vision and dedication to knowledge-based initiatives and approaches to Global Real Estate."

He added, "Leveraging MIT-CREs industry relationships and other corporate partnerships, Landmark Properties will continue its expansion across the MENA region with the knowledge that we have developed from our strategic alliances with advisory groups from around the world who are considered to be best in class consultants."

Landmark Advisory has already hosted a group of summer interns from top US universities specializing in real estate programs. It plans to continue to do so this fall, working with MIT-CRE students on term-long projects which will enable cross-border education and interaction. The experience offers interns the opportunity to work across a wide range of disciplines, including real estate product development, sophisticated product development projects such as real estate derivatives, international benchmarking, and master-plan modelling.

With five locations already in the UAE and offices opening in Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Jordan, Egypt and Syria before the end of 2008 Landmark Advisory is expanding its network throughout the MENA region to meet the needs of its clients and offer them unparalleled market expertise.

For further information, kindly contact: Landmark Properties
Name:		Yasmeen Seif
Email:		yasmeen@landmark-dubai.com
Telephone:		+971-4-3298484

Renno Communications Group
Name:		Samer Renno
Email:		samer@rennocg.com
Telephone:		+971-4-4278687

About Renno Communications Group
Renno Communications Group (Renno CG) is a specialized corporate communications consulting agency, with offices in Dubai, Cairo, Amman and Beirut, as well as field coordinators in markets such as Bahrain, Qatar, KSA, Kuwait, Iraq, Syria and Turkey.

Renno CG is committed to delivering outstanding value and support to its clients by increasing their brand exposure throughout the Middle East. As a boutique Agency, Renno CG offers 110% commitment to client servicing; great attention to fine details, as well as commitment towards advancing the communications discipline in the Arab World.

About Landmark Properties
Landmark Properties (LM) is jointly owned by a unique and dynamic group of experienced entrepreneurs with diverse backgrounds in investment banking, real estate development, marketing and Media Production. The company recently formed a strategic alliance with Amlak Finance.

Landmark Properties was created with one goal in mind: to strive to present a standard of real estate services yet to be offered in Dubai through our unsurpassed customer service and state of the art technology. LM boasts a multi-national group of Sales Executives, experienced within their specific fields, providing concentrated attention to individual sectors of the business.

Landmark Properties offer a professional, efficient service, dealing with all aspects of real estate and catering to the needs of both the individual and corporate client, specializing in:

• Residential Leasing
• Commercial leasing
• Freehold Property Sales
• Local(GCC) Property Sales
• Exclusive Project Marketing
• Investments
• Property Management
• Consultation and Advisory

About Landmark Advisory
Originally established in 2006 under the name of Landmark Consulting Associates, Landmark Advisory offers unparalleled research, consultancy and real estate investment management services covering the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Our sophisticated market intelligence, combined with local and international networks and alliances, ensures that we provide invaluable advice to our clients. Landmark Advisorys experienced team has demonstrated ability to evaluate the viability of real estate projects and analyze and select quality investments for our clients portfolios.

About MIT-CRE
MIT-CRE is an interdepartmental research and educational unit within MITs School of Architecture and Planning that administers MITs Master of Science in Real Estate Development program, and provides a link between MIT and the real estate industry.

MIT founded the Center in the same spirit that it established its world-renowned engineering schools to apply academic discoveries to practical problems in effective, creative ways. Mirroring MITs multidisciplinary approach, the Centers programs investigate every field that impacts the real estate industry from design and development to construction, management, finance, and the law.