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When the Mortgage Instalment Looks Like the Rent: The Full Rent-vs-Buy Comparison UAE Renters Should Run Before They Switch
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When the Mortgage Instalment Looks Like the Rent: The Full Rent-vs-Buy Comparison UAE Renters Should Run Before They Switch

Nearly half of UAE renters surveyed this month have considered buying, and a third of those comparing say the mortgage payment and the rent look about the same. This deep dive explains why that comparison is incomplete, what sits beside the...

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18 min read 09 Oct 2026

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Buying in Dubai’s Secondary Market With a Mortgage: The Valuation Gap, the Cash You Cannot Borrow, and the Test to Run Before You Sign Market Insight

Buying in Dubai’s Secondary Market With a Mortgage: The Valuation Gap, the Cash You Cannot Borrow, and the Test to Run Before You Sign

Secondary-market sales in Dubai rose more than 20% quarter on quarter in Q3 2026, and most resale buyers borrow. This deep dive explains the three places a mortgage-financed resale...

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The October Close: Why a Household Should Shut Its Books in the First Month of Q4, Not the Last Market Insight

The October Close: Why a Household Should Shut Its Books in the First Month of Q4, Not the Last

Every treasury desk I worked on treated the first weeks of Q4 as the real year-end: reconcile, decide what cannot roll on current terms, set next year’s limits. Households do...

14 min read 04 Oct 2026
Mortgage Payment Deferment in the UAE: How Temporary Relief Works, What It Really Costs, and When to Ask Market Insight

Mortgage Payment Deferment in the UAE: How Temporary Relief Works, What It Really Costs, and When to Ask

With the UAE Base Rate at 3.90% and the fourth quarter's heaviest bills arriving together, more households are asking banks for breathing room. This MPCL deep dive explains how a m...

12 min read 02 Oct 2026
Handover Year in Dubai: Moving From an Off-Plan Payment Plan to a Mortgage Without a Cash-Flow Shock Market Insight

Handover Year in Dubai: Moving From an Off-Plan Payment Plan to a Mortgage Without a Cash-Flow Shock

Tens of thousands of Dubai homes are due to be handed over while average prices have just recorded their first annual decline since 2021. For off-plan buyers, that makes the comple...

14 min read 30 Sep 2026
The Price of Staying Put: What Dubai's Tenants Just Taught Us About Inertia Market Insight

The Price of Staying Put: What Dubai's Tenants Just Taught Us About Inertia

This summer, Dubai tenants did something the data had never recorded before: more of them signed new leases than renewed old ones, because comparable homes had become cheaper to mo...

12 min read 27 Sep 2026
Mortgaged Rental Property in the UAE: What to Do When the Rent No Longer Covers the Instalment Market Insight

Mortgaged Rental Property in the UAE: What to Do When the Rent No Longer Covers the Instalment

Many UAE landlords bought on the assumption that the rent would carry the mortgage. With the UAE Base Rate at 3.90% and rents softening in several communities, that assumption dese...

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