DUBAI introduces new regulations to streamline realty sector

Dubai's Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA) has introduced a new regulation, wherein the property developers in Dubai would be ranked on the basis of their financial stability and market experience.

Developers registering off-plan projects will henceforth be required to completely own the land first, before registration of the properties, states the new regulation.

The regulation aims to reduce the number of developers and to give RERA a better hand in re-instilling investor confidence amidst falling prices, fraudulent and contractual disputes hitting the sector.

According to another new Regulation passed by RERA last week, aimed in streamlining the property sector, developers in Dubai are not allowed to collect more than 20 percent of the cost of property from the buyer prior to construction.

Head of Trust Accounts, Essa Saeed Ahmed Al Mansoori at RERA's Real Estate Development Trust Account Department said that an 11-member team will monitor the construction process and ensure that the escrow amounts are collected in accordance with the schedule.

RERA continuing to introduce new regulations aiming to streamline the real estate sector of the emirate and protecting all concerned parties involved in property transactions, other emirates where property sector is witnessing considerable growths, too, are following suit.

A Real Estate Regulatory Authority is likely to be established in Abu Dhabi within next couple of months. Ajman Government too, plans to introduce an agency similar to Dubai RERA.

The Federal National Council (FNC) is in the process of preparing draft legislation aiming to regulate the property sector in the country and protect UAE by restricting expatriates from automatically acquiring residency visas through freehold property ownership, so as to reduce dependency on foreign labour.

Dubai world’s most luxury hotel, The Burj al Arab.

Very soon another highest class hotel will be added: the amazing Atlantis The Palm Hotel. It is a hotel with 1729 rooms and 17 restaurants, and will be opened to the public on 24th September. The construction lasted 4 years and cost 1,5 billion dollars.

This hotel is dedicated to water: it has a huge water aquarium under the hotel ( more stocks, 11 billions of water ) and a huge water park near the hotel ( the biggest from Dubai and Middle East ).




The big aquarium under is easy accessible from the hotel, and you can take a walk through the aquarium without getting wet!

The hotel is also inside luxury decorated, and you are going to feel spoiled, like in 1001 Nights. The

inner architecture of Hotel Atlantis The Palm has also some marine elements.

And you have also the unique opportunity to swim with the dolphins, in the Hotel Delphinpark, just to feel closer to the sea and its living creatures.

The Pearl-Qatar signs a multi-million QR deal

The Pearl-QatarThe Pearl-Qatar has once again defied world trends by signing a QR550 million ($150 million) deal with a leading property company for the sale of a precinct in the Island's Qanat Quartier.

"It seems as if it is coming from a beautiful time and a different land to spread its romantic essence across the place. The Pearl-QatarThe Pearl-Qatar reflects the best of Venice with its beautiful buildings, canals and piazzas."

At the launching of the Qanat Quartier in January this year all of the properties on sale were snapped up within an hour - for a total value of QR1.5 billion.