2018 was a good year for real estate in UAE, particularly Dubai. Though it was predominantly a buyers market, it has shown signs of a steady maturing market, which bodes well for the long run. Where visa reforms and proposed regulations improved buyer sentiment, competitively priced properties with ...

In recent months the UAE administration has announced a wide array of initiatives to help stimulate the local real estate market. These measures are a welcome intervention and have added to a growing momentum of positivity in investor sentiment. Changes in regulation and more proactive engagement wi...

Whether a panacea for low budgets & lack of affordable housing in trying times or a cure for loneliness, co-living is gaining credence as an alternative form of residential development Rapid urbanization poses some obvious challenges to the established models of urban residential developments. S...

It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that the rapidly evolving possibilities of artificial intelligence are almost invariably in the news these days. A widely circulated recent story featured some extremely realistic appearing “photographs” of people that were entirely the creation of Artif...

Dubai’s Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM) has made a recent announcement that will considerably facilitate further expansion in the city’s tourism and hospitality industry. An online business to business (B2B) platform will be launched in the coming days to promote the emirate�...

We are in the midst of the worldwide adoption of digital transformation. Recent decades have marked an irreversible move towards greater urbanisation and technology disruptions. The ability to provide the highest number of people with modern conveniences and amenities in an efficient, sustainable an...

From Robert Kiyosaki’s legendary Rich Dad Poor Dad, often considered a landmark among personal finance books for real estate investing, to PWC’s Global Outlook for Real Estate 2018 (1), carefully considered investment in real estate has a well-deserved and age-old reputation for combining stabil...

The UAE Central Bank’s decision to remove the 20% cap on real estate real estate lending as a percentage of the total deposits of banks comes at an opportune time for the country’s property development sector and real estate market. The underlying sentiment driving this opinion is that ongoing a...

Consolidating relatively smaller investments, and a sizable number of individual investors, to provide the capital needed for a business venture has come into vogue in recent years. ‘Crowdfunding’, as the practice is labelled, has seen renowned names like Indiegogo, Gofundme and Kickstarter esta...

To establish a distinct representation for Dubai’s real estate sector in the international market as well as assist Dubai developers in reaching suitable investors in those geographies, the Real Estate Promotion and Investment Management Sector at Dubai Land Department (DLD) recently organised sho...