Oman replaced its brokerage, joint-ownership and escrow laws with Royal Decree 79/2025 in March 2026. What it means for escrow, off-plan registration, owners associations and your money before handover.
Oman replaced its brokerage, joint-ownership and escrow laws with Royal Decree 79/2025 in March 2026. What it means for escrow, off-plan registration, owners associations and your money before handover.
Oman is an unusually good candidate for retirement, and it does not have a retirement visa. Both halves of that sentence matter. The country has year-round sun, low crime, competent private hospitals, a cost of living well below Dubai, no annual property tax, no capital gains tax for individuals, no inheritance tax and — until January 2028 — no income tax at all. For a couple living on a pension, very...
It is the question that follows almost every enquiry about buying in Oman: can I put it on Airbnb when I'm not using it? The pitch writes itself — a sea-view apartment in an Integrated Tourism Complex, a country adding hotels and flight routes, and a nightly rate that looks flattering against the monthly rent. The honest answer has three parts, and only the first one is the one people expect. Short-term...
Oman is the quiet option in the Gulf. It has no skyline competition with Dubai, no citizenship-by-investment programme, and until recently no income tax of any kind. People arrive expecting a cheaper Dubai and find something stranger: a country where rent is genuinely moderate, electricity is subsidised in winter and punitive in August, schooling can cost more than housing, and — from January 2028 — a...
The two lowest-priced square feet among the Omani projects reviewed on this page appear not to be open to foreign buyers. Not because they are sold out, or expensive in disguise — but because, on our own review, the schemes are for Omani citizens entitled to residential land. At $56 per square foot in Sur and $66 per square foot in Bidbid, they undercut the lowest-priced foreign-eligible project reviewed...
Every off-plan brochure in Oman leads with the same three words: flexible payment plan. Almost none of them tell you the number that actually matters — what share of the price you must hand over before you own anything. We pulled the published schedule from every Oman project on our list. Across freehold homes in the same country, under the same law, that figure ranges from 30% to 100%. One developer...
Almost everything written about selling property in Oman is written for buyers. The brochures model your entry, your payment plan and your yield. Almost nothing models your exit — and in Oman the exit is the part of the transaction most likely to surprise you, because the country's secondary market is younger and thinner than the buying market that feeds it. Here is the number that frames everything...
Beachfront property in Oman is sold under three different legal regimes, and the listings rarely say which one applies. Two homes can sit on the same stretch of Dhofar sand, forty kilometres apart, and one gives you a registrable freehold title you can pass to your children while the other gives you a lease that expires. The price does not tell you which is which — in fact, on our own list, the cheapest...
Registrations, licensed fleet, public charging, building rules, grants, taxes, electricity and petrol prices for electric vehicles in Cyprus as of 29 October 2026, sourced to CYSTAT, ACEA, Eurostat, EAFO, the EAC, CyLaw and the Transport Ministry.
Freehold vs leasehold in Dubai is the first structural question every foreign buyer needs answered correctly, before location, price or developer even enter the conversation — because it determines whether you actually own the property you are about to pay for. Dubai's real estate market is often described, correctly, as one of the most open in the world to foreign ownership. What gets lost in that...
