Morning round-up: The great population shift

as renters upgrade to better locations and larger apartments now that prices are becoming more affordable, Anjana Kumar reports in Emirates Business 24/7 today. Property brokers tell Ms Kumar that

Discovery Gardens

, which has about 20,000 residents, is 60 per cent full - 15 per cent more than six months ago.

The

Burj Dubai

is now

, Angela Giuffrida reports in The National. Two contractors told her that there was too much work to be done. While the exterior looks complete, the time-consuming part of building a tower is fitting out the inside. The actual structure is basically taken care of by a team of concrete and steel contractors, while the interiors are handled by a stream of contractors with specialties in everything from marble to plaster to plumbing to electrical to air-conditioning.

Nakheel

counters claims from

ACI

's

Robin Lohmann

that it is delaying his projects, Alex Delmar-Morgan reports in Arabian Business. The company says it has already handed the plots over to ACI. But I gather that Mr Lohmann was also talking about the fate of the master development as a whole - nothing is more dispiriting than a tower alone in the desert. Damian Reilly, the editor of Arabian Business,

.