Tameer vice chairman Khaled Dahleh indicates that the firstphase would include all facilities and services, such as shoppingcenters, craftsman zones and entertainment facilities. "Theresidential units themselves are diversified to meet the tastes andfinancial capabilities of would-be owners," he says. "They varyfrom 80-sm apartments to 250-sm semi-villas."

As it has done in its other real estate projects, the companyundertakes to lay the necessary infrastructures including roads,water pipelines, electricity networks and sewage and drainagesystems, among other basic installations. Would-be owners will havethe option to buy their units on a mortgage system modeled on thoseused in the US in which the buyer pays a monthly instalment that isbelow an average rent rate for 30 years.

Market research indicates that Jordanians were in need of 35,000housing units across various income levels.