Most conversations about Oman real estate start and end with Muscat and Salalah, and for good reason — they are the country's two largest, most liquid property markets. But tucked away at the northern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, separated from the rest of Oman by a strip of UAE territory, sits a governorate that barely registers in most investors' searches: Musandam. Known to sailors and geographers as...
Inheritance for foreign property owners in Dubai works very differently from what most buyers assume, and the difference matters far more than in most markets. Unlike some jurisdictions where courts simply have discretion over how a foreigner's estate is handled, Dubai's default position is explicit: without a registered will, UAE courts apply Sharia inheritance rules to your Dubai property, regardless of...
Inheritance for foreign property owners in Oman is one of the most overlooked parts of buying real estate in the Sultanate, and one of the most important. Foreign buyers routinely research freehold zones, financing and rental yields in detail, then give almost no thought to what happens to that same property when they die. Oman does not charge inheritance tax, and non-Muslim foreign owners are not...
How a mortgage in Dubai for foreigners works as of 5 November 2026: Central Bank LTV limits, debt burden and tenor rules, EIBOR-based rates, DLD and bank fees, worked examples and the Golden Visa conditions for mortgaged property.
Buying off-plan property in Oman means purchasing a unit before construction is complete, usually straight from the developer, most often inside one of the Sultanate's Integrated Tourism Complexes (ITCs) or, under newer rules, in a qualifying special economic zone project, at a price below what the same unit will cost once it is finished and handed over. It is how most international buyers enter the Omani...
Oman's real estate price index rose 15.9% in Q1 2026, transaction values reached RO 678.1 million by March — up 18.4% year-on-year — and foreign buyers now account for roughly a quarter to a third of all sales in the country's freehold zones. Behind those numbers sits a market at a genuinely early stage of its growth curve: a government actively opening the country to foreign ownership through Royal...
Dubai recorded AED 286.43 billion ($77.99 billion) in property sales across 79,229 transactions in the first half of 2026, according to Dubai Land Department (DLD) data reported by Khaleej Times on 14 July 2026, after the DLD reported that total real estate transactions in Q1 2026 reached AED 252 billion ($68.62 billion), up 31% year-on-year. Later data are cooler: Savills counted about 34,500 residential...
Muscat and Salalah are Oman's two flagship real estate markets, and they offer genuinely different investment cases rather than simply competing on price. Muscat is the capital: a diversified, year-round economy anchored by government, energy, finance, and an expanding freehold property sector built around Integrated Tourism Complexes (ITCs). Salalah is the south's tourism powerhouse, transformed every...
How off-plan property in Dubai works as of 5 November 2026: Oqood registration, escrow accounts, payment plans, DLD fees with worked arithmetic, default and refund rules, defect liability, resale and Golden Visa conditions.
Most conversations about buying property in Oman start and end in Muscat — Al Mouj's marina towers, Jebel Sifah's golf villas, Muscat Bay's cliffside residences. That's not surprising: Muscat's Integrated Tourism Complexes were the first freehold zones opened to foreign buyers, and they remain the most polished, most photographed corner of the Omani market. But roughly 550 kilometres south of the...
