- Property Finder Trends, now in its third edition, share real estate data from the country’s largest property portal for Q2 and Q3 2017, with expert commentary from over a dozen top property professionals
- Rents in Dubai for apartments are falling faster than sale prices, so yields are declining but still remain very strong and are amongst the best in the world
- Apartments for sale in Abu Dhabi saw low single-digit declines in their asking prices over the past six months
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KEY TAKEAWAYS
Coming to the end of 2017, the trend of decreasing prices across the market continues as observed since their peak in mid-2014. There’s a gradual and uniform decline in Dubai.
Dubai villa rents have experienced the biggest decline of all the categories in this report, but the decline is shallowing for other categories when compared to January 2016. This may be due to a significant amount of affordable villas released to the market in areas such as JVC and Al Furjan.
The Abu Dhabi rental market has seen the swiftest decrease, while the Abu Dhabi villa market was relatively stable over 2016, but has seen a step-down in 2017 so far, possibly due to a large number of handovers this year.
While Dubai and Abu Dhabi have seen declines on roughly a similar rate, there is a noticeable difference in the speed of decline for apartments to rent in Abu Dhabi vs Dubai. Abu Dhabi has declined much faster.
There is a silver lining.
Falling prices, as we’ve seen, makes buying more feasible for a larger percentage of the population. We’re seeing the “forever renters” moving into the buyer category, preferring to pay off their own mortgage rather than someone else’s.
says Lahyani.
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