Dubai investor lab

Calculate first. Request properties second.

Use one consistent set of assumptions to compare ready and off-plan opportunities. The outputs are illustrations—not quotes, valuations or financial advice.

International property matcher

Build your preliminary Dubai investment plan

Choose the factors that materially change the shortlist. You will receive an immediate direction before deciding whether to request current properties.

Your preliminary direction

Completed or near-complete apartments with building-level rental evidence

Areas to researchJVC, Business Bay, Dubai Marina and selected ready communities

Evidence requiredAchieved rent, service charges, vacancy, management cost and competing supply

TimingTrack two or three areas and update the shortlist when the purchase window approaches.

Cross-border checkConfirm home-country tax, banking, currency-transfer and foreign-asset obligations.

$250,000–$500,000 · Open to ready or off-plan · Cash. This result organizes the research; it is not a property recommendation or promise of availability.

Send me a property-matched shortlist

Purchase-cost calculator

Estimate cash required

Property price$400,000

Illustrative 4% DLD fee$16,000

Illustrative 2% brokerage$8,000

Trustee + conveyancing allowance$3,300

Illustrative cash total$427,300

Excludes mortgage, valuation, insurance, furnishing, developer, bank and currency-transfer costs. Confirm all fees for the exact transaction.

Net-yield calculator

Look beyond advertised gross yield

Gross yield9.00%

Net before management/tax$29,700

Illustrative net yield7.42%

Off-plan schedule

Split construction and handover capital

During construction$240,000

At/after handover$160,000

Actual milestone dates, post-handover plans and late-payment consequences are controlled by the developer contract.