Reason behind the expansion in Dubai property sector is the changes in laws and provision of flexibility for foreign investors provided by the government, which permits foreigners to buy, rent and sell properties in Dubai. Many real estate development organizations are offering resident visa for those who buy real estate from them. Several multinational organizations are currently establishing their offices in Dubai, which made Dubai a first-rate work market for professionals and skilled workers around the globe. More professionals are fascinated towards Dubai for the reason that the city provides attractive high salary. This phenomenon has created enormous demand for accommodation and office spaces. Especially Dubai apartments are very famous among the young and lively professionals and villas in Dubai are the hot choice of relatively affluent class. Laws in Dubai related to property are very understandable and formalities are minimum as compared to other countries.
With the continuous and rapid surge in Dubai’s population, a substantial proportion of which consists of expats and temporary residents living in Dubai for employment reasons, the question of buying or renting a residential property in Dubai is the talk of the day. Both the potential tenants and home buyers may be troubled by the question. But still reports on Dubai real estate say that the changing picture of global financial markets shouldn’t deter the locals from buying Dubai property if their plan is to stay there over the couple of years. As for those who plan to stay in Dubai for more than five years, buying a property can prove to be the wisest decision they ever made given the prices of Dubai property climbing higher and higher with each passing year.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Sunday, January 18, 2009
How to Negotiate a Real Estate Contract
If you are out for hunting a house for days and you’ve completed your research and now ready to make an offer to buy the house of your beautiful imaginations. At this stage don’t get impulsive, wait and think how much you want to offer the seller?
Prior to do anything else you have to to know what a sensible market cost is for the house you expect to buy. Ask your real estate agent to have a Comparative market analysis for you on the same category of homes that were sold in the last year in your aimed locality. Though an evaluator will only use the data of last six months of sales when making appraisal value, it is useful to get an overall trend analysis of the neighborhood to evaluate that prices are increasing and that investment will be safe in the long run.
To come on a reasonable price you and your agent should compare the location, amenities and condition, location of similar houses that are already sold out the current market competition of other similar property for sale in the area.
You also need to figure out what are expecting to pay for the particular house. If you want to pay existing market value because you don’t want to lose the property then let your agent know this in advance. Most of the agents try and bargain a below market sales value for you because they want to satisfy you and keep you as a prospect client. Only a buyer determine how he may feel if he lose the home to the other buyer for a little difference in price. If you want to buy your desired property than tell your real estate agent this so he can negotiate for you a better deal.
Prior to do anything else you have to to know what a sensible market cost is for the house you expect to buy. Ask your real estate agent to have a Comparative market analysis for you on the same category of homes that were sold in the last year in your aimed locality. Though an evaluator will only use the data of last six months of sales when making appraisal value, it is useful to get an overall trend analysis of the neighborhood to evaluate that prices are increasing and that investment will be safe in the long run.
To come on a reasonable price you and your agent should compare the location, amenities and condition, location of similar houses that are already sold out the current market competition of other similar property for sale in the area.
You also need to figure out what are expecting to pay for the particular house. If you want to pay existing market value because you don’t want to lose the property then let your agent know this in advance. Most of the agents try and bargain a below market sales value for you because they want to satisfy you and keep you as a prospect client. Only a buyer determine how he may feel if he lose the home to the other buyer for a little difference in price. If you want to buy your desired property than tell your real estate agent this so he can negotiate for you a better deal.
Sunday, January 04, 2009
Real estate set for reforms
Dubai: Last year started off with a bang in Dubai's real estate sector, with sky high sale prices and rents, and a series of attention-grabbing projects in the pipeline.
There was a massive 42 per cent increase in house prices between the last quarter of 2007 and the first quarter of 2008.
Additionally, high rents triggered many people to buy property rather than spend on renting, according to Sadallah Abed, property analyst at Colliers International.
The market was a property playground swarming with speculators and investors who wanted a piece of Dubai real estate action.
But as the global financial crisis hit property sectors worldwide and undermined confidence in the banking sector, a few reports published in early summer predicted a downturn in the Dubai real estate market as well. For example, a Morgan Stanley report forecasting a then-unlikely 10 per cent drop in property prices by 2010 triggered deep discussion among industry experts.
By the end of the year, concerns about the UAE property market were growing, particularly following announcements of job cuts and projects being put on hold.
The global credit crisis further complicated the situation as major home finance companies and banks restricted lending. Less mortgages mean less buying and, unfortunately, higher rents.
"With the lack of mortgage facilities, demand for rentals is actually going up, not down," Nicholas Maclean, managing director of CB Richard Ellis, said earlier.
Developers like Omniyat Properties and Damac are now rethinking payment plans in light of cash-strapped banks and other mortgage lenders.
Dubai's Real Estate Regulatory Authority (Rera) have continued to tighten and implement further regulations in an attempt to highlight the importance of transparency.
The end of December saw the creation of a compulsory online registration site for tenancy contracts, as Rera prepares to finalise the rental index some time in 2009.
The index will help to create zoned areas within Dubai, each zone having an average rental rate.
However, some residents in Dubai have questioned Rera's effectiveness, with dishonest developers still wheeling and dealing in the market and rental rates still high. They argue rents can only be set by market conditions, not by Rera.
The good news is that all of this combined should spell the end of the dreaded one-cheque policy, Marwan Bin Galita, chief executive of the Real Estate Regulatory Authority (Rera) said.
"This is what I'm strongly trying to introduce. People should have the choice, to pay monthly, or quarterly or in six months," Bin Galita said.
But it is hoped that by mid-2009, because of these regulations and genuine efforts to stabilise the economy, the current financial situation will cast no more shadows and Dubai's property industry will be stronger and more successful in the long-term.
Though the last three or four months have been decidedly grim, most analysts believe 2009 will be the year of the end-user, with liquidity awash in UAE banks and mortgage-lending institutions and property prices coming down to reasonable levels.
Source: Gulf News
There was a massive 42 per cent increase in house prices between the last quarter of 2007 and the first quarter of 2008.
Additionally, high rents triggered many people to buy property rather than spend on renting, according to Sadallah Abed, property analyst at Colliers International.
The market was a property playground swarming with speculators and investors who wanted a piece of Dubai real estate action.
But as the global financial crisis hit property sectors worldwide and undermined confidence in the banking sector, a few reports published in early summer predicted a downturn in the Dubai real estate market as well. For example, a Morgan Stanley report forecasting a then-unlikely 10 per cent drop in property prices by 2010 triggered deep discussion among industry experts.
By the end of the year, concerns about the UAE property market were growing, particularly following announcements of job cuts and projects being put on hold.
The global credit crisis further complicated the situation as major home finance companies and banks restricted lending. Less mortgages mean less buying and, unfortunately, higher rents.
"With the lack of mortgage facilities, demand for rentals is actually going up, not down," Nicholas Maclean, managing director of CB Richard Ellis, said earlier.
Developers like Omniyat Properties and Damac are now rethinking payment plans in light of cash-strapped banks and other mortgage lenders.
Dubai's Real Estate Regulatory Authority (Rera) have continued to tighten and implement further regulations in an attempt to highlight the importance of transparency.
The end of December saw the creation of a compulsory online registration site for tenancy contracts, as Rera prepares to finalise the rental index some time in 2009.
The index will help to create zoned areas within Dubai, each zone having an average rental rate.
However, some residents in Dubai have questioned Rera's effectiveness, with dishonest developers still wheeling and dealing in the market and rental rates still high. They argue rents can only be set by market conditions, not by Rera.
The good news is that all of this combined should spell the end of the dreaded one-cheque policy, Marwan Bin Galita, chief executive of the Real Estate Regulatory Authority (Rera) said.
"This is what I'm strongly trying to introduce. People should have the choice, to pay monthly, or quarterly or in six months," Bin Galita said.
But it is hoped that by mid-2009, because of these regulations and genuine efforts to stabilise the economy, the current financial situation will cast no more shadows and Dubai's property industry will be stronger and more successful in the long-term.
Though the last three or four months have been decidedly grim, most analysts believe 2009 will be the year of the end-user, with liquidity awash in UAE banks and mortgage-lending institutions and property prices coming down to reasonable levels.
Source: Gulf News
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