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Dubai developers time payment schemes to perfection

The upfront payments are getting to be less of a burden for end users Dubai: In the season of giving Dubai’s developers are doing their part. And payment plans are turning ever more generous — Nshama is allowing payment terms whereby up to 80 per cent can be done on completion. This is for units…

Dubai’s Grade A offices surge on demand gains

They are helped by more multinationals consolidating regional operations in Dubai Dubai: Dubai’s office properties — and the Grade A addresses in particular — are seeing some heavy activity on the leasing side. And, in some cases, it is coming about at the expense of landlords elsewhere in the Gulf. “What we see is a…

Buy now, pay later deals spur Dubai property market

Payment plans have evolved from being front-loaded to back-ended to spur a slow market Developers have used payment plans as a key tool to reinvigorate the real estate market since 2014, changing from mostly front-loaded to back-ended payment plans. In 2013, more than 80 per cent of launches had payment terms that were front-ended, whereas…

Give Dubai property market’s lower volatility its due

That this shows up more prominently during a correction is all to the good In recent months, the media and the analyst community have hailed the “maturation” of the Dubai real estate market, even as they have continued to harp on the sluggishness of prices and investor sentiment. An examination of the term reveals that…