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Dubai is one of the deepest, most liquid real estate markets the house practises. We approach it file by file, resting on a legal framework we document text by text — never by fashion.
Deep, liquid, globalised — and cyclical. Precisely because Dubai attracts everyone, selection counts double here: we retain operations for their fundamentals (location, title, developer, price per metre), not for the skyline.
The house has not yet published a completed work here: retained operations are presented to qualified investors, privately.
Our Dubai practice is documentary before it is commercial: the house’s Journal dedicates reference texts to it — designated areas, mandatory escrow, off-plan purchase and interim registration — each anchored to the official texts of the Dubai Land Department. That base lets us review fast and decline often.
Targeted real estate operations: quality residential in the designated areas, off-plan files only where escrow and interim registration genuinely protect the buyer. Speculative new-build without fundamentals does not enter the portfolio.
The same method as everywhere: desk review, framework verification (title, developer, escrow), one dedicated vehicle per operation, written governance. Dubai adds a calendar discipline: entry windows are short, so documentation must be ready before they open.
Foreign freehold ownership is possible in the areas designated by Regulation No. 3 of 2006; off-plan purchase is framed by the escrow account of Law No. 8 of 2007 and the interim register of Law No. 13 of 2008. These protections are real — provided you verify, file by file, that they apply. That is what we do, and what our texts explain.
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Facts checked against these texts on 19 August 2026 — jurisdiction: United Arab Emirates (Dubai).
This page is published for general information. The legal and tax regimes cited are dated and sourced; they evolve. Every situation calls for the analysis of locally licensed advisers.