{"page":"\u003clink rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https://lessonplanet.com/assets/packs/css/resources-572d6a42.css\" /\u003e\n\u003clink rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https://lessonplanet.com/assets/packs/css/lp_boclips_stylesheets-f4d0de30.css\" media=\"all\" /\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-title='A look at Morocco\u0026#39;s luxury property boom' data-url='/boclips/videos/5c54bf32d8eafeecae1414f2' data-video-url='/boclips/videos/5c54bf32d8eafeecae1414f2' id='bo_player_modal'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='boclips-resource-page modal-dialog panel-container'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='react-notifications-root'\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-header'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-type'\u003e\n\u003ci aria-hidden='true' class='fai fa-regular fa-circle-play'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\nVideo\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ch1 class='rp-title' id='video-title'\u003e\nA look at Morocco\u0026#39;s luxury property boom\n\u003c/h1\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-actions'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='mr-1'\u003e\n\u003ca class=\"btn btn-success\" data-posthog-event=\"Signup: LP Signup Activity\" data-posthog-location=\"body_link_boclips\" data-remote=\"true\" href=\"/subscription/new\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGet Free Access\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e for 10 Days\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e!\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-body'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-info'\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-label='Hide resource details' class='rp-hide-info' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u0026times;\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ci aria-label='Expand resource details' class='rp-expand-info fai fa-solid fa-up-right-and-down-left-from-center' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003ci aria-label='Compress resource details' class='rp-compress-info fai fa-solid fa-down-left-and-up-right-to-center' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-rating'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='resource-pool'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-label'\u003ePublisher:\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-name'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='text'\u003e\u003ca data-publisher-id=\"30356011\" href=\"/search?publisher_ids%5B%5D=30356011\"\u003eCurated Video\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-description'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='short-description'\u003eMarrakech - July 10 - 11 20071. Various of cranes with Koutibia Mosque in background 2. Various of houses under construction3. Mid of street in Medina (old part of city)4. Mid of spices on display5. Mid of men standing outside shop6. Set...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eMarrakech - July 10 - 11 2007\u003cbr/\u003e1. Various of cranes with Koutibia Mosque in background \u003cbr/\u003e2. Various of houses under construction\u003cbr/\u003e3. Mid of street in Medina (old part of city)\u003cbr/\u003e4. Mid of spices on display\u003cbr/\u003e5. Mid of men standing outside shop\u003cbr/\u003e6. Set up of Abdellatif Ben Abdellah opening the door to his riad (traditional house) \u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE: (French) Abdellatif Ben Abdellah\u003cbr/\u003e\"I've spent a part of my life trying to preserve this patrimony. For me Marrakech is a city which is not on the seaside, so what do we have? All we have is this patrimony which is so exceptional, we have riads, traditional houses which have a patio open to the sky, and this is a unique model, which is absolutely wonderful. And I believe that if we want to remain a top tourist destination we have no other choice than to preserve the patrimony of the Medina. This is the core of all Marrakech\".\u003cbr/\u003e8. Mid of street in Medina (old part of city)\u003cbr/\u003e9. Mid of two of men sitting drinking tea\u003cbr/\u003e10. Close of flower petals in fountain\u003cbr/\u003e11. Tilt up from swimming pool to arches\u003cbr/\u003e12. Various of interior of riad\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE: (French) Frederic Scholl, Manager of Riad el Fenn\u003cbr/\u003e\"There is a strong soul in this city, in those people, there is a spirituality that I can feel myself in the everyday life. Whether I go to the spice shop or elsewhere, there are small reflections which looks insignificant but which always links us one to the other and to a divine dimension of things. I believe that this is the strength of this city and of the Moroccan people in general. It makes a huge difference with places like Dubai which are artificial, where there's no sedentary history. In Dubai there are few locals, and all the ideas, all the technology is imported. We don't need to do this in Morocco. We have restored and developed  this place in order to satisfy the taste of our foreign clients, without importing anything.\"\u003cbr/\u003e17. Various of palm grove on outskirts of city\u003cbr/\u003e18. Wide of construction site\u003cbr/\u003e19. Mid of buildings under construction\u003cbr/\u003e20. Mid of worker unloading bucket\u003cbr/\u003e21. Wide of room under construction\u003cbr/\u003e20.  Set up of Jaouad Kadari, Manager of Mandarin Hotel \u003cbr/\u003e21. SOUNDBITE: (French) Jaouad Kadari, Manager of Mandarin Hotel\u003cbr/\u003e\"The project will be managed by the group Mandarin Oriental with a hotel built on 7 hectares, and the hotel will have only 161 rooms, on 7 hectares. The entire site is of 54 hectares on which we will build only 8% and on the rest of the space we will plant. For the moment we have planted 10.000 trees but it's only the beginning as we will get to 100, 000 trees.\"\u003cbr/\u003e22. Various of exterior of Mandarin Hotel\u003cbr/\u003e23. Tilt down from ceiling of hotel room\u003cbr/\u003e24. Various of interior of hotel\u003cbr/\u003e25. Mid of glass bottles\u003cbr/\u003e26. SOUNDBITE: (French) Jaouad Kadari, Manager of Mandarin Hotel\u003cbr/\u003e\"The clients are people from the show business, big stars of cinema, of fashion, well known businessmen. And for the price of a 200 square meters (2,152 square feet) apartment they can have here 10, 000 square metres (107,640 square feet) of garden and a house of 1, 500 square metres (16,145 square feet). They can live in a palace for the same price of an apartment in London or in New York.\"\u003cbr/\u003e27. Mid of sunset on the swimming pool\u003cbr/\u003eForeign property investors are being lured to Marrakech in the hope of snapping up their own exclusive corner of North Africa.\u003cbr/\u003eMany traditional Moroccan houses are being luxuriously developed as the rich and famous make Morocco their new playground.\u003cbr/\u003eMarrakech is fast becoming a real estate hot-spot thanks to its warm winters and priceless landscapes. \u003cbr/\u003eThe boom is transforming the Bohemian Arab capital into Africa's answer to Palm Springs. \u003cbr/\u003eThe colour, diversity, and vibrancy of Marrakech is attracting more and more fashionable and sophisticated travellers.\u003cbr/\u003eThanks to the boom, large up-market housing developments have been springing up throughout Marrakech's city limits.\u003cbr/\u003eMany of the city's new residents are snapping up properties in the old quarters of the city, better known as the Medina.\u003cbr/\u003eIt is in these winding streets where the authentic heart of the city is. \u003cbr/\u003eWithin the Medina reside many of the city's traditional shops and artisans workshops.\u003cbr/\u003eTraditional houses in the Medina are known as riads, meaning garden in Arabic.\u003cbr/\u003eBuilt around a courtyard, the life of a riad is turned away from the outside world. \u003cbr/\u003eWith thick walls and few windows, most of the natural light comes from the courtyard. \u003cbr/\u003eToday, more than 650 riads have been bought by Europeans and renovated as chic modern Moroccan vacation homes. \u003cbr/\u003eAbdellatif Ben Abdellah is an owner of a traditional riad.\u003cbr/\u003eHe says traditional riads in Marrakech must be restored and cared for if the city wants to remain a top tourist destination.\u003cbr/\u003eThe inward structure of the houses reflects traditional Moroccan life which emphasises the importance of the family.\u003cbr/\u003eMarrakech has seen prices quadruple in the last 10 years, and prices are continuing to rise about 20 percent a year.\u003cbr/\u003eOne of the city's more glamorous riads is Riad El Fenn.\u003cbr/\u003eOpened as a luxury nine room guest house at the end of 2004, the El Fenn has become the Medina's must-sleep in. \u003cbr/\u003eFrederic Scholl, the manager, says Morocco, unlike Dubai, has plenty of history to offer the visitor.\u003cbr/\u003eIntrepid property-seekers are now looking farther afield, setting their sights some 10 miles (16.9 kilometres) from Marrakech in the Palm Grove, an oasis of 150 000 palm trees and with views of the snow-capped Atlas Mountains.\u003cbr/\u003eIn the Palm Grove construction is in full swing for the new to the Mandarin Oriental Hotel.\u003cbr/\u003eSpread over 7 hectares, the hotel will offer 161 guest rooms over 80sq metres in size (861 square feet).\u003cbr/\u003eJaouad Kadari is the manager of Mandarin Hotel.\u003cbr/\u003eHe says part of the project will include planting over 100,000 trees.\u003cbr/\u003eThe hotel will be surrounded by 45 villas 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