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<\/p>\n\n\n\nTop property developers in Dubai have neither reduced prices nor changed payment plans, as they enjoy exceptional liquidity positions and strong asset bases<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is no huge drop in property prices due to the ongoing regional military conflict that could be termed \u201cdistressed assets,\u201d said industry executives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They suggest that there are enough buyers in the market \u2013 especially UAE and GCC nationals and long-time expat residents \u2013 who are ready to snap up any \u201cdistressed deals.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhat I would caution is the word \u2018distressed.\u2019 We\u2019re not seeing assets with significant price drops in any meaningful volume right now. Buyers looking for those opportunities are mostly finding a market that isn\u2019t cooperating with that expectation,\u201d said Firas Al Msaddi, CEO of f\u00e4m Properties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEven the major developers are showing exactly the discipline you\u2019d expect from institutions that have been through cycles before. No changes to pricing. No changes to payment plans. They set the tone for this market, and right now that tone is steady,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Firas Al Msaddi<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Due to the regional military conflict involving the US, Israel, and Iran, which broke out on February 28, there have been reports of distressed selling and a massive drop in Dubai property prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Firas noted that capital remains present and active.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSerious investors are still committing at the top end. Liquidity is not the question here\u2026 What I can say with confidence right now is: buyer demand is steady across most price ranges. Sellers are patient. Buyers are selective but committed. That equilibrium is holding.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Firas Al Msaddi believes that the market is holding because it has \u201cgenuinely matured.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe structural foundations are stronger than they\u2019ve ever been \u2013 better quality buyers, less speculative leverage, and a government that responds to uncertainty with speed and clarity. Dubai has earned its resilience. This moment is another test of it, and so far, the market is passing,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lewis Allsopp, chairman and co-founder of Allsopp & Allsopp, stressed that the Dubai property market has not dropped 30 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Lewis Allsopp<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhat has dropped is the share price of listed developers on the UAE financial markets. And those are two fundamentally different things. What you are seeing on the stock exchange is investor sentiment reacting to news. Forward-looking markets price in anticipated slowdowns in deals, transactions, and revenue, and in an environment of political uncertainty, that reaction is entirely understandable. But conflating a stock price correction with a property market crash is a misreading of the data,\u201d added Allsopp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He added that Emaar and Aldar are not distressed companies because their liquidity positions are exceptional, their asset bases are among the strongest in the region, and their fundamentals remain completely intact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFor investors with a medium-term view, this is a classic buying-on-the-dip moment. When confidence returns \u2013 and it will \u2013 these stocks will bounce, and they will bounce quickly,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Source: Khaleej Times<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Published: 22 March<\/strong> 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Top property developers in Dubai have neither reduced prices nor changed payment plans, as they enjoy exceptional liquidity positions and strong asset bases There is no huge drop in property prices due to the ongoing regional military conflict that could be termed \u201cdistressed assets,\u201d said industry executives. They suggest that there are enough buyers in […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":39068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1293,2406,898,562,3240],"class_list":["post-39045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dubai-housing-market","tag-dubai-property-prices","tag-dubai-real-estate-market","tag-property-investment-dubai","tag-real-estate-trends-uae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elite-bricks.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elite-bricks.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elite-bricks.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elite-bricks.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elite-bricks.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elite-bricks.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39069,"href":"https:\/\/elite-bricks.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39045\/revisions\/39069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elite-bricks.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elite-bricks.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elite-bricks.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elite-bricks.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}