About this site

These are my notes from researching property in the Gulf, tidied up so they might be useful to someone else asking the same questions.

What this is

A small personal project. I started writing things down while trying to understand how buying and renting work in the UAE and Oman, because the information I found was either selling something or scattered across official websites in different formats. This site is my attempt to put the questions in one place and to point to the official source for each answer.

What this is not

• Not an estate agency, broker, developer or advisory firm, and not connected to one.
• Not a listings site. There are no properties for sale or rent here, and no prices.
• Not advice. I am not a lawyer, financial adviser or licensed agent. Please read the disclaimer at the bottom of every page.

How I write it

• I prefer questions to answers, and official sources to opinions, including my own.
• I leave out fees, thresholds and prices that change often, and say where to check them instead.
• Each guide shows when it was last reviewed. If a page is old, assume parts of it are out of date.

Privacy

This site has no cookies, no analytics, no comments, no forms and no third-party scripts or fonts. Pages are plain HTML and one stylesheet. The web server keeps standard technical logs, as almost every web server does.

Corrections

Rules in the region change, and I will get things wrong. If something here is out of date, the official body named in the guide is the authority, not this page.