Take one Omani apartment priced at OMR 100,000. In January 2021 a buyer paying in euros needed about €211,500 to buy it. In late September 2022 the same apartment, at the same rial price, cost about €271,900. Today it costs about €230,800. The Omani rial did not move a fraction of a cent against the US dollar at any point in that stretch. The euro buyer's bill swung by almost a third anyway. That...
Nobody selling you an Oman apartment mentions the six months after completion. That is the period where most absentee-landlord problems actually happen — not because the property is bad, but because the owner is 4,000 kilometres away and nobody told them a power of attorney has to be legalised before a management company can sign a lease on their behalf. This is the practical, unglamorous half of owning...
Ask us this question and we will not give you the answer most agencies give. Legally, yes — Oman places no nationality restriction on who can buy freehold property in an Integrated Tourism Complex, and Oman has not joined the sanctions regime against Russia. That part is simple and has not changed. What has changed, and what nobody selling you a villa in Muscat will mention first, is banking. The...
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...
Want one developer in depth? See our directory of real estate developers in Oman, with ten sourced profiles. Oman's freehold market is spread across more than twenty developers — state-backed joint ventures, Gulf groups, Egyptian groups that have recently entered Oman, and Omani companies. 33 of the 38 residential projects we list are currently under construction. This guide maps who they are, which...
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...
