Analysis and education on UAE real estate, grounded in published, checkable figures.
Market Outlook - 8 min
August registered 12,018 sales, down 36 per cent on last year, and a claim is circulating that this lets you buy at 2022 prices. Most of the numbers behind it are right. That one is not, and the gap between them is where the actual opportunity sits.
Sep 8, 2026
Market Outlook - 4 min
The number of individuals worth more than US$30 million rose by nearly a third between 2021 and 2026, and the UAE has led the migration tables for two years. The interesting part is what mobile capital does when it lands.
Sep 2, 2026
Dubai registered AED 917 billion of property transactions in 2025, the largest year on record. The first quarter of 2026 produced a very different pattern, and how you read it decides how you invest.
Sep 1, 2026
The comparison is made so routinely it has stopped being examined. On the measures that decide how capital behaves, the two emirates are running separate cycles, and the difference is investable.
Aug 24, 2026
While residential prices flattened, UAE offices tightened. Vacancy at 6.1 per cent in Dubai and prime availability near zero in Abu Dhabi make commercial the strongest evidence in the market.
Aug 17, 2026
Knowledge Hub - 4 min
Most property portfolios are not built. They accumulate. What an unplanned portfolio quietly costs its owner, and what happens to it when the owner is no longer there to hold it together.
Aug 12, 2026
Shariah inheritance allocates an estate in fixed shares, and property is the hardest asset to divide. Why real estate succession rewards planning done early, and the tools families use to do it.
Aug 5, 2026
Two owners of identical units can earn very different returns, and the difference hides in the word 'yield'. Gross against net, the costs in between, and what a quoted percentage really tells you.
Jul 29, 2026
What you actually own when you buy property in the UAE: the forms of ownership, where foreign buyers can hold each one, and what the title deed in your name really secures.
Jul 22, 2026
