Money. Property. Investing.
Real numbers on Dubai property, investing and tax.
Most of what gets written about money in Dubai is brochure figures. This is the spreadsheet instead: what was paid, what it cost to hold, and what was actually left.
Why this is different
Every figure is real.
Anonymised where it has to be, but real. No brochure yields and no projections dressed up as returns.
Nothing is left out.
Transfer fees, agency fees, service charges, vacancy, mortgage interest. The costs that quietly get dropped from a headline yield are the ones that decide it.
Written by an operator, not a marketer.
More than 15 years building wealth and business in the UAE across property, investing, tax and company setup.
The two series
Real Dubai Property Returns
One real Dubai property per episode, with the complete numbers: purchase price, every fee, rent, costs and what it actually returned.
Expat Investing, Real Numbers
Tax, ETFs, brokers and the traps that cost expats money, explained with the actual figures.
Episodes
What a Dubai Marina apartment actually returns after 5 years
Five years of real figures on one Marina one bedroom, from the purchase price to what was left after every cost.
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Is it worth buying, and what did it actually return?
Two free tools, both running the same model as the episodes. One works out the real yield on a property you are thinking of buying, after the transfer fee, the agency fee and the service charge. The other works out what a property you already own has actually returned.