https://virmaniviews.com/ Views from Ansh Virmani on UAE real estate, Dubai, and building things worth keeping. en Mon, 14 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0400 https://virmaniviews.com/views/offices-are-the-scarce-asset.html https://virmaniviews.com/views/offices-are-the-scarce-asset.html Mon, 14 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0400 Dubai is building homes by the hundred thousand and offices by the hectare. Prime vacancy is under one percent. The quiet side of the market, in four charts. https://virmaniviews.com/views/how-a-key-actually-arrives.html https://virmaniviews.com/views/how-a-key-actually-arrives.html Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0400 Between your deposit and your front door sit an escrow bank, an independent engineer, a regulator and a snagging list. The handover machine, drawn out. https://virmaniviews.com/views/two-palms.html https://virmaniviews.com/views/two-palms.html Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0400 Palm Jebel Ali is twice the size of the original, 60 percent cheaper per square foot, and eighteen months from its first keys. What the first Palm’s twenty years say about buying into the second. https://virmaniviews.com/views/thirty-two-trillion.html https://virmaniviews.com/views/thirty-two-trillion.html Sat, 05 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0400 D33 is Dubai’s ten-year economic plan. Strip the announcement, and it is a forecast of how many people will need a desk and a bed. Read it that way. https://virmaniviews.com/views/aed-286-billion-in-six-months.html https://virmaniviews.com/views/aed-286-billion-in-six-months.html Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0400 AED 286 billion of property changed hands in six months. The number is huge. The shape of it matters more. https://virmaniviews.com/views/dubai-is-moving-its-front-door.html https://virmaniviews.com/views/dubai-is-moving-its-front-door.html Wed, 02 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0400 A $35 billion airport, a million-resident city around it, and what that does to a property map. The corridor matters more than the runway. https://virmaniviews.com/views/760-new-neighbours-a-day.html https://virmaniviews.com/views/760-new-neighbours-a-day.html Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0400 Dubai passed 4.74 million people this summer. Where they sleep is the whole rental market, explained in one arithmetic. https://virmaniviews.com/views/the-2027-wave.html https://virmaniviews.com/views/the-2027-wave.html Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0400 More homes are scheduled for handover in 2027 than in any year in Dubai’s history. Glut or opportunity depends on one habit the market has never broken. https://virmaniviews.com/views/seven-percent-is-gross.html https://virmaniviews.com/views/seven-percent-is-gross.html Fri, 07 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0400 Dubai yields are double London’s. That is true, and it is not the number you will actually earn. Here is the walk from gross to net. https://virmaniviews.com/views/five-hundred-ten-million-dollar-homes.html https://virmaniviews.com/views/five-hundred-ten-million-dollar-homes.html Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0400 Dubai sold more homes above $10 million last year than any city on earth, and is on pace to beat it. Why the top of the market is now the story. https://virmaniviews.com/views/one-in-seven.html https://virmaniviews.com/views/one-in-seven.html Fri, 24 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0400 One in every seven branded residences in the world is in Dubai. What the badge on the door is worth, and when it is not. https://virmaniviews.com/views/the-aed-2-million-line.html https://virmaniviews.com/views/the-aed-2-million-line.html Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0400 A ten-year visa sits behind one number. Here is how that number bends prices, and what changed in February. https://virmaniviews.com/views/19-59-million-guests.html https://virmaniviews.com/views/19-59-million-guests.html Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0400 A record year of visitors, four in five hotel beds full, and what that does to a spare bedroom in Marina. https://virmaniviews.com/views/the-holiday-home-test.html https://virmaniviews.com/views/the-holiday-home-test.html Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0400 Short lets can beat a lease by a third, or lose to it. One occupancy number decides which, and most owners never calculate it. https://virmaniviews.com/views/fourteen-stations.html https://virmaniviews.com/views/fourteen-stations.html Fri, 26 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0400 The Blue Line opens in 2029. What a metro station has done to prices everywhere else, and where it will do it here. https://virmaniviews.com/views/a-trillion-by-2033.html https://virmaniviews.com/views/a-trillion-by-2033.html Fri, 19 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0400 Dubai has published its property targets for the next seven years. Read them as a buyer, not a headline. https://virmaniviews.com/views/two-hundred-passports.html https://virmaniviews.com/views/two-hundred-passports.html Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0400 Buyers from more than 200 countries, and three of them set the tone. Who is buying, and why the mix protects you. https://virmaniviews.com/views/villas-up-apartments-down.html https://virmaniviews.com/views/villas-up-apartments-down.html Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0400 For the first time since 2021 the two halves of the market are moving in opposite directions. The index that shows it, and why. https://virmaniviews.com/views/twenty-minutes-north.html https://virmaniviews.com/views/twenty-minutes-north.html Fri, 29 May 2026 08:00:00 +0400 Sharjah sold AED 65 billion of property last year, up 64 percent. The commuter emirate is becoming a market of its own.