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Briefings on Real estate

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  1. Real estate A woman points a pen at a screen of ticks and warning marks beside a tower model and keys

    Dubai has already done most of your property diligence, and it stops exactly where the risk begins

    Ask what makes Dubai property safe to buy into and the answer you will get, in print and across a table, is a list of famous developers. The names are real and the towers are real. 14 min read
  2. Real estate Woman at a marble desk considers four document stacks linked by arrows, ending at a ring of keys

    A Dubai brokerage runs on four permissions, and the trade licence is only the first

    Dubai splits property brokerage between two authorities. 17 min read
  3. Real estate A woman holds one sheet behind a long row of ring binders, a model house and keys nearby

    There is no ‘real estate licence’ in Dubai — there are twenty-one, and they are not tiers of one thing

    The Dubai Land Department's own licensing service lists twenty-one separate real estate activities, from land surveying to development. 17 min read
  4. Real estate Man in a kandura considers a framed house certificate on a desk of keys, coins and building models

    A brokerage licence does not let you manage a Dubai building, value it, or let it by the night

    Most people planning a Dubai property company are planning a brokerage and describing something wider. 15 min read
  5. Real estate Woman in hijab leans over a gilded model of the Dubai waterfront beside coin stacks and a sealed certificate

    Dubai property is not one industry you enter; it is four licensed occupations answering to two different authorities

    Brokerage, property management, owners-association administration and short-term letting are treated as corners of one sector and are not. 14 min read
  6. Real estate Man in a kandura beside a stack of black binders marked with house, handshake and chart icons

    A Dubai real estate company is either a fee business or a balance sheet, and almost nothing crosses between them

    Two completely different companies answer to the phrase real estate company in Dubai. 13 min read

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