Is now a good time to buy in Dubai?

I get asked the same question, in slightly different accents, almost every week: is now a good time to buy in Dubai?

The honest answer is that it depends on which Dubai, which building, which quarter, and which version of you is asking — the one chasing yield, the one planning a second home, the one quietly moving capital out of somewhere louder. Sorting that out is most of my job.

I'm Mohamed Essawy. I'm thirty-seven, twenty-six of those years spent in Dubai, and I've watched three property cycles up close. Before real estate, I spent a decade in enterprise sales — LinkedIn, IDC, Crayon — which taught me to read the market before the brochure.

From May, I advise privately at Mint Real Estate, with a focus on off-plan: the segment that rewards homework and punishes hurry. I keep a small book of clients on purpose.

The work itself is unglamorous — market data read every morning, project deep-dives written before a launch rather than after, and slow conversations about what a building will actually be worth in five years.

What you''ll get from me is a straight answer: when a yield looks generous, when a project isn''t for you, when the better move is to wait one quarter.

If that''s the conversation you''ve been looking for, my door is open. Start with a question.