Real estate, read like an institution.
Independent real estate advisor based in Dubai. Ten years across the full UAE property lifecycle. The notes you read here are the work I would do for one client at a time — published, so a wider room of serious investors can use it.
Dubai · 2026
My background is the full property lifecycle, not a single seat in it. I trained as an urban planner. I went deep on construction management. I worked through regulatory approvals, master planning, feasibility analysis, and the closing of high-value transactions — and that compounded view is the one I use when I read a launch today.
Most off-plan analysis fails the same way. It treats every unit at a launch as equivalent because the brochure does. It quotes a yield without modelling occupancy realistically. It ignores exit liquidity at the price tier the buyer is actually considering. And it never asks the most important question: what is this property FOR — primary residence, holiday home, pure investment, Golden Visa anchor? The same villa can be the right answer to one of those questions and the wrong answer to the other three.
The notes here are written the way an institutional investor would underwrite a position. Developer track record. Masterplan defensibility. Comparables across adjacent launches. Exit liquidity per tier. Payment-plan economics versus mortgage-funded ready stock. Mandate-fit segmentation. The recommendation isn't "buy" or "skip" — it's which specific units, under which conditions, for which type of buyer.
I publish one note per month. There are launches I read and don't write up because the conclusion is short enough to not warrant a 12-page document. I'd rather publish fewer notes that change how a buyer sees an opportunity than more notes that just describe what they already saw on the developer's website.
Geographically: Dubai is the primary market. Abu Dhabi for island launches (Hudayriyat, Saadiyat, Yas). Ras Al Khaimah for the Al Marjan / Wynn re-rating story. Riyadh comes into view periodically when a launch crosses the bar.
I work with HNW and UHNW investors deploying AED 5M and up. Selective mandates. Discretion is the default. The lead form on the homepage is the right way to start — it tells me what you're trying to do and lets us decide together whether what I do is useful for your situation.
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