One hundred thousand dollars is the number people actually arrive with. Not the number in the brochure, not the threshold in the residency programme — the number sitting in the account, the one that decides whether this is a real plan or a daydream. So we did something we have not seen anyone else do honestly: we took every priced project on our own books across six countries, converted all of it to one...
In a market where 33 of the 38 residential projects we list are still being built, the developer is the product. You are not buying a finished home you can inspect; you are buying a company's promise to deliver one, on a date it has chosen, with your money inside its construction site until it does. Oman's freehold market is spread across more than twenty developers — state-backed joint ventures, Gulf...
Almost everything for sale in Oman today is a promise. Of the 38 residential projects we list in the country, only five are finished homes you could inspect, buy and move into this month. Everything else hands over between late 2026 and the end of 2033 — and when it hands over decides when you can live in it, when it can earn rent, when your residency clock can start and how long your money sits inside...
Price per square metre is the number that cuts through Oman's property marketing. A "from $106,900" studio and a "from $170,600" two-bedroom look like a cheap and a mid-priced option until you divide by size and discover the cheaper ticket is more than two and a half times the price of the space. We did that division for every Omani project we list that publishes both an entry price and an entry size —...
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 cheapest square feet in our entire Omani portfolio are not for sale to you. Not because they are reserved, or sold out, or expensive in disguise — but because you are not Omani. At $56 per square foot in Sur and $66 per square foot in Bidbid, they undercut the cheapest thing a foreigner can legally own in Oman by a third. Both appear on property portals. Both have brochures, floor plans and...
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...
