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No. Non-residents can buy freehold property in Dubai's designated freehold areas with no residency requirement, and the whole purchase can be completed by power of attorney if you cannot fly in. What changes for non-residents is financing: mortgage terms are tighter and the deposit is larger.

On a purchase we are paid the standard agency fee at completion, which is included in the cost table above. The due diligence file is not a separate charge — it is what the fee is for. Where we hold a mandate from a developer on a project, that project pays us and we tell you so in writing before you view it, so you can weigh our advice accordingly.

Yes, from several UAE banks, but expect a larger deposit than a resident would need, a shorter term, and a rate premium. Approval is driven by income documentation from your home country, and some banks will not lend on off-plan or on certain buildings at all. We introduce you to brokers who know which lender fits your situation — we do not take a cut of the mortgage.

Property above a set investment threshold can qualify you for a long-term residence visa, and the rules now accommodate mortgaged and some off-plan purchases that they previously did not. The thresholds and the eligible-property definitions change, and the paperwork sequence matters — a lot of rejections are process errors rather than eligibility failures. We will tell you where the rules stand when you ask, and we will not tell you a property qualifies unless we have checked it.

Freehold gives you outright ownership of the property and, in most cases, registration of the land it sits on — available to any nationality within designated areas. Leasehold gives you rights for a fixed term, commonly up to 99 years, after which it reverts. Almost everything a foreign buyer looks at in the communities we cover is freehold, but it is always worth confirming on the title rather than the brochure.

Considerably less than the gross figure you will be quoted. Take the annual rent, then subtract the service charge, an allowance for void periods between tenants, management fees if you are not here, and chiller where it is not included. That routinely turns a headline 8% into something closer to 5–6%. We model it that way from the start, because the gross number has never paid anybody's bills.

Structurally, yes — escrow requirements and DLD project registration removed the worst of the old risk, and buyers now have real protection if a registered project stalls. What escrow does not protect you against is overpaying, handing over into a supply glut, or a developer whose delivery dates slip by a year. Those are underwriting problems, not regulatory ones, which is why we run the six checks above on every launch.

Yes, and without any obligation to list it with us. We build the valuation from DLD transactions in your building over the previous ninety days rather than an automated estimate, and we send it in writing. If the honest answer is that this is a bad quarter to sell, that is what the report will say.