Property market trends

Demand to buy bigger apartments and larger villas/townhouses is growing as more young families are switching to ownership and relocating to Dubai, data showed on Thursday. Most buyers were looking for two-bedroom apartments and four-bedroom or larger villas in August, according to the latest data released by Property Finder. Demand is mostly driven by residents switching to ownership to beat rising...

The social media influence of Jucica Brown, the new virtual real estate consultant launched by Dubai-headquartered Realiste on the short message platform Telegram, has also already garnered 100,000 followers on Instagram Artificial intelligence (AI) is making gigantic strides in the real estate sector in the UAE, expanding the reach and speed of transactions to stratospheric levels, with...

The rise of tokenization and blockchain technology in Dubai – and the larger UAE – is also boosting fractional ownership of real estate assets, even encompassing various high-value assets such as Savis vacation homes. Tokenization is the new buzzword in Dubai’s real estate sector, fast gaining traction with investors to own properties in the city through stablecoins and tokens on blockchains,...

The Dubai real estate sector recorded more than AED14.65bn ($4bn) of transactions last week, according to data from the Land Department. Sales dominated the figures, with AED10.93bn ($3bn), according to Land Department data. In total there were 3,530 sales transactions recorded between August 19 and August 23. Dubai real estate this week Among the top listed sales transactions listed on the...

The occupier market in Dubai and Abu Dhabi recorded strong levels of activity in the first quarter, propelled by demand due to an increase in new rental registrations. In Dubai, occupier activity remained robust over the first quarter. Data from the Dubai Land Department revealed that the total number of rental registrations reached 46,850 registering an increase of 35.8 per cent compared to the previous...