Imagine this. The developer finally calls, the unit is ready. You've been waiting over a year, possibly two years, for it; watched it go up floor by floor on your phone screen, tracking each payment and readjusting travel plans for two flights at least. And then, it's finally time. You get there. The apartment is gorgeous – fresh paint, gleaming tilework, the very kitchen you imagined from the glossy...
by Black Swan
Let me be blunt with you. In most property purchases in Dubai, particularly for first-time buyers, all people care about is purchase price, payment plan and, perhaps, the handover date. What they almost never consider carefully until the bill is in their bank account is service charge and ignorance there costs people a lot of money. We have met numerous buyers over the years who have been utterly...
by Black Swan
Frankly speaking, most of us either shell out the money or panic and stress-out whenever the landlord sends the rent renewal with a proposed rent increase from anywhere from 10%-15%. There are very few of us who actually know that there's an existing legal system that protects us and fewer still who know how to use this protection as leverage in a rent negotiation. Dubai is one of the best regulated...
by Black Swan
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