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Investors Must Stay Clear Of Falling Real Estate of Dubai,

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Thursday, September 8, 2016 08:25 AM 

Dubai is a MLM Pyramid scheme. Only new influx of foolish investors feeds to the existing ones already conned in to it. When new influx of money slows or stops, investors will go bust or bankrupt.

Do your research and educate yourself before losing in Dubai. Invest in your own country Pakistan with a lot of potential for huge long term gains. Dubai market is already over supplied and they are adding countless new supply to already oversupplied market. Now to make Pakistanis fool they have started to market plots in sand deserts 50 KM away from Shaikh Zayed road. That's Amazing. Fools investing in Dubai will soon regret.


http://www.arabianbusiness.com/dubai-property-price-declines-to-accelerate-in-coming-months--635055.html


Dubai property price declines 'to accelerate in coming months'

The fall in Dubai property values and rents is set to continue over the summer, despite some predictions that the market has bottomed out, a local expert has warned.

In its latest research note, Phidar Advisory said that since Dubai rents peaked in May 2014, the market had declined by an average of -0.3 percent.

However, in May, the monthly rent decline widened to -1.3 percent.

“In a down-cycle, the lowest advertised rent is particularly sensitive to market shifts and can be the harbinger of market trends,” the research said.

“By the beginning of June, the lower limits of asked rents decreased by 4.1 percent compared to the same week of the previous month.

“This is a significant monthly decrease, even for Dubai real estate, a market that regularly experiences annual volatility of 20-30 percent, both on the up- and down-cycles."

Phidar said that although less than 20,000 residential units had been completed over the past year, giving some stability to the market, anecdotal evidence pointing to a pattern of redundancies and slowed job growth – as a result of the impact of the oil price and tighter regional liquidity – might be beginning to take their toll.

“Rent declines usually turn into sale price declines, especially considering the prevalence of yield-sensitive investors,” the research added.

“So, the sale price decline will likely accelerate in the coming months.”

Phidar also said that the oversupply in Dubai’s residential market was expected to remain until 2019.

The firm said that apartment rents had dropped by 1.5 percent during the first half of the second quarter, while sales fell by 3 percent.

Villa rents declined by 3.2 percent, although prices remained stable. In March, real estate consultant ValuStrat said that Dubai property prices may have bottomed out, with values rising slightly in February.


MOST IMPORTANT TO NOTE HERE:

"Phidar also said that the oversupply in Dubai’s residential market was expected to remain until 2019."

AvoidDubaiCrisis replied on Thursday, September 8, 2016 08:37 AM 

In fact smart investors know very well that the worse oversupply will be beyond 2020 when all this hype of Expo 2020 will be over and temporary residents will leave all this huge supply behind. This is why this leg of decline in Dubai property started few months after announcement of Expo 2020, still continues, and will continue for many many years to come.

Bilal® replied on Thursday, September 8, 2016 09:17 AM 

Dubai South a huge project (7 sq km) was launched a couple of days ago. Sold at the same day.


Slight ups and downs are everywhere. Dubai is a different story... Less or no capital appreciation but great rental income.

I wonder why un-registered people are still allowed to post?

Khawaja Qasim® replied on Thursday, September 8, 2016 10:41 AM 

Just a random search on internet Studio apartment at Al Mamzar 536 sq. ft. for sale at 280K AED (arnd 80 lac) and currently on rent at 38K AED (arnd 10.8 lac).
Such a high rental yield! Can anyone verify that?
https://dubai.dubizzle.com/
Can someone please share top places to invest in Dubai and charges associated with maintenance of property

Nabeel® replied on Thursday, September 8, 2016 11:02 AM 

Khwaja Sb. the property you are talking about is The Square, Mamzar.

Buyers are not interested in the property as there are prohibitive terms by the developer for selling and rental.

You are missing the key element of Rental yield, which is the service charges per square foot.After deducting those, the rental yield doesn't look so nice. These are high in The Square.

User_9325® replied on Thursday, September 8, 2016 11:06 AM 

7-8 percent rental yield is peanuts in my eyes(after deducting maintainance etc). I think Pak real estate has potential to return lot more then that in long term if invested intelligently. even some mutual funds in Pakistan offer much higher yield with option to cash out anytime yu like

ayla replied on Thursday, September 8, 2016 01:28 PM 

User 9325 please recommend some good options for mutual fund investments with the option of cashing any time thanks

Khawaja Qasim® replied on Thursday, September 8, 2016 01:31 PM 

@Nabeel @User_9325
Thank you for your replies! I also believe Pakistan real estate market has lot of potential, I am not interested in Dubai market! But those who decided to invest in Dubai should invest in projecs which would give them high yield and capital gain.
The benefit of Pakistani is a benefit of Pakistan! Please help listing top 10 properties to invest in Dubai so that our countrymen invest get 50-100% gain in 3-5 years and then reinvest in Pakistan later maybe!
Dubai is global market, people spend millions in shopping, the current prices are peanut at bottom low , good time to invest condition is if invest in potential areas!

Aseem replied on Thursday, September 8, 2016 01:38 PM 

Dear user 9325...reference your post, kindly update about the mutual funds you consider the best...I have researched on Mufap but none of the funds appears to be paying higher than 7% inn view of extremely shaky stock market...thanks and regards...

User_9325® replied on Thursday, September 8, 2016 03:01 PM 

I recommend UBL islamic funds. please dont go for pure equity based funds as Stock Market can fall anytime. Instead opt for Islamic Asset Allocation fund which goes into different sectors of economy thus hedging from any loss from a particular sector. ABL also is good I have heard. yu can find recent performances of these funds on their websites. please forgive me for any wrong financial terminologies as I actually belong to Medical line and havent studied finance after matric :)

ShahzadQamar® replied on Friday, September 9, 2016 06:39 PM 

UBL Islamic funds? Come on my friend don't throw the visitors of this site in some huge black hole. It is much better to take a risk on your own shoulders by investing somewhere rather than putting this risk on a Bank's shoulders.

User_9325® replied on Friday, September 9, 2016 08:17 PM 

@shahzad... few people asked me above to recommend. thats why I did. plus I think jumping into dubai property at this time iis even a bigger risk. trust me, I am not the owner of UBL and hence wont get any advantage by promoting.
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