Real Estate

Dubai service charges 2026: what owners really pay per sq ft by community, chiller and sinking-fund rules, plus how the DLD index and Mollak work.

Buy vs rent Dubai 2026: compare 20% down payments, the 4% DLD fee, mortgage rates, rental yields and break-even years to decide which makes more sense.

Dubai's real estate market recorded AED 120 billion in property transactions in Q1 2026 — a new quarterly record — as off-plan sales continued to dominate, prices per square foot in premium areas exceeded AED 3,000, and international investors from India, Russia, China, the UK and Europe maintained elevated purchasing activity.

Off-plan apartments purchased in 2021-23 and now reselling near completion are trading 10-15 per cent below original investor prices in supply-heavy Dubai communities — creating a genuine buyer opportunity alongside the removal of the AED 750,000 residency visa threshold and a 65,000-unit pipeline being delayed to 2027.

Kuwait's South Saad Al-Abdullah New City — a 64 square kilometre development for up to 400,000 residents across 23,551 plots — has $863 million in contracts underway, with main roads at 55.6 per cent complete as Kuwait's largest housing programme accelerates under Vision 2035.

Riyadh has quietly become one of the world's most compelling real estate investment markets. While Dubai has dominated GCC property headlines for the past...

Abu Dhabi real estate in 2026 is outperforming Dubai's property market on four key metrics: transaction volume growth of 39 per cent year-on-year, lower supply overhang, government-backed mega-development projects, and rising population supported by new visa categories driving sustained demand.

Off-plan property, buying a unit before it is built, directly from the developer, has been one of the most consistent wealth-creation strategies for Dubai...

Dubai rent prices in June 2026 have softened by an average of 6.7 per cent emirate-wide, with premium areas like Downtown Dubai and Palm Jumeirah seeing drops of up to 15 per cent, as 120,000 new units entering the market shift negotiating power firmly toward tenants.

Dubai's property market recorded Dh176.7 billion in total sales in Q1 2026, across nearly 48,000 transactions, in a performance that underlines why real estate...

The Dubai Land Department has launched a pilot to integrate blockchain-based property titles into the official land registry, enabling fractional ownership to be recorded and transferred on-chain and opening Dubai's real estate market to a new class of investor.

Sellers across Dubai have reduced asking prices by a combined AED 2.36 billion across 3,292 properties, reflecting a softening in secondary market demand as a record supply pipeline approaches delivery.