How to Get Your Full Security Deposit From Your Landlord
– 6 min read The security deposit is one of the most common sources of dispute between landlords and tenants in Dubai. For tenants, it represents a significant sum — typically 5 to 10% of the annual rent — that should be returned once the tenancy ends. For landlords, it is protection against damage, unpaid […]
How to Choose a Property Management Company in Dubai: What to Ask Before You Sign
– 7 min read Dubai has no shortage of property management companies. Every landlord in the city has seen the ads, received the cold calls, and been pitched on the same promises — maximum occupancy, stress-free management, full transparency. The problem is not finding a property management company in Dubai. The problem is knowing which […]
Property Insurance in Dubai: What Every Landlord Actually Needs
– 6 min read Most Dubai property owners have some form of insurance. Most of them are not entirely clear on what it actually covers. This is not a criticism. The structure of property insurance in the UAE is genuinely spread across multiple parties — the building’s Owners’ Association has a policy, the bank may […]
Managing Your Dubai Property From Abroad: The Complete 2026 Guide
– 7 min read You own property in Dubai. You do not live there. Between those two facts sits a very specific set of challenges that nobody fully explains to you when you sign the purchase agreement. You find out about them later — usually when rent doesn’t arrive on time, when a maintenance issue […]
Average Rent in Dubai 2026: The Complete Area-by-Area Guide
– 7 min read Whether you are moving to Dubai for the first time, considering a property investment, or simply trying to understand whether what you are paying — or charging — is close to market, one question comes up constantly: how much rent costs in Dubai in 2026 — whether you are looking at […]
The Good Tenant Guide: What Dubai Landlords Can Do to Attract — and Keep — the Best
– 6 min read Here is something most landlords learn the hard way: great tenants do not materialise by luck. They are attracted — and, more importantly, they are kept — by deliberate decisions that most landlords either do not know about or simply do not get around to making. In a Dubai rental market […]
Still Managing Your Dubai Property Yourself? Read This First
– 6 min read Good for you. Seriously. Self-managing a Dubai rental property takes effort, organisation, and a reasonable working knowledge of a regulatory environment that most people would rather not engage with at all. If you have been doing it and it has been working, that is not nothing. But here is the thing […]
The Best Time to Hire a Property Manager Was Before You Needed One
– 6 min read Most landlords appoint a property manager at exactly the wrong moment. Not at the start of a tenancy, when everything is calm and negotiable. Not when the property is vacant and the window to set things up properly is wide open. They appoint one after the tenant has stopped paying. Or […]
Your Dubai Property Doesn’t Take Days Off. Neither Should the Person Managing It.
There is a particular type of landlord who discovers property management the hard way. They own an apartment in Dubai. They manage it themselves because they are capable adults who send emails and negotiate contracts and do not see why they should pay anyone to do something they are perfectly capable of handling. The arrangement […]
My Tenant Hasn’t Paid Rent. What Can I Do?
The cheque bounced. Or the bank transfer never arrived. Or your tenant — perfectly charming at the viewing, very enthusiastic about the parking space — has suddenly developed a profound inability to answer their phone. You have sent the polite message. Then the slightly less polite one. You have been understanding, reasonable, and patient. And […]
