Dubai Giant

27/08/2026

You’re paying too much!

A buyer came to me through social media after following my content for months.

Yesterday, we spent time actually walking the buildings, comparing the views, layouts, locations and finishes — and suddenly everything I’d been saying online made sense.

Two apartments can look almost identical on Property Finder… but in reality, they can be completely different investments.

The building matters.
The contractor matters.
The floor matters.
The view matters.
The time of day matters.

Buying in Dubai isn’t about opening doors and hoping for the best.

It’s about understanding what you’re actually paying for.

Do your homework. Work with someone who knows the area. And most importantly — don’t overpay.

26/08/2026

Five Things You Get Free On Your Birthday In Dubai

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Your birthday in Dubai doesn’t have to cost you a single dirham. Register in advance, bring your Emirates ID, and the city picks up the tab.

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🎢 Aquaventure Waterpark at Atlantis, The Palm — free entry on your birthday

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🔥 Absolute Barbecues — the live grill buffet, on the house

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🎂 PAUL — a free birthday cake from the patisserie

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🎬 Cinema City — a free ticket, popcorn optional

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🌷 Dubai Miracle Garden — free entry to the biggest flower garden on earth

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Five things. Zero cost. Most people living here have no idea these exist.

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📲 DM me “BIRTHDAY” and I’ll send you the links

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📞 +971 58 568 6890

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26/08/2026

10 Places In Dubai That Feel Like Europe
You don’t need a flight to Italy. You need a postcode.
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Tuscan hill streets at The Outlet Village. A French canal village at Riverland. Pastel harbour townhouses at Port De La Mer. A Venetian arcade inside Mercato. A Provençal courtyard, a Parisian arch, a Spanish plaza with a clock tower — all of it twenty minutes from the Burj.
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People move here thinking it’s all glass towers and eight-lane roads. Then they find the cobbles, the shutters, the little café squares, and they stop counting the days until their next holiday.
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This is the Dubai nobody puts in the brochure. Swipe through and tell me which one you’d move next to.
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📲 DM me “EUROPE” and I’ll send you the areas and what they cost
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📞 +971 58 568 6890
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25/08/2026

25/08/2026

Five Star Dubai For £100 A Night
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Everyone moans about Dubai in August. Too hot, can’t go outside, worst time of year. I’ve just checked into a five star resort on the Palm and paid less than a Travelodge.
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🏨 Raffles The Palm, AED 2,000 for three nights and four days
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🥐 Breakfast included, early check-in, late check-out
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🏊 Indoor pool, gym, sauna and spa thrown in
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💵 A $100 hotel credit on top of all of it
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☀️ That’s the bit nobody talks about. Because Dubai is so hot in the summer, the best hotels start putting out ridiculous offers. If you live here, don’t spend thousands flying somewhere else. Grab your partner, grab your kids, book a few nights and enjoy Dubai like a tourist.
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💬 Where’s the best summer deal you’ve found in Dubai? Tell me in the comments
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📲 If you want to buy or sell in Dubai, DM me “DUBAI”
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📞 +971 58 568 6890
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24/08/2026

Don’t Buy Emaar Beachfront For The Rental Yield

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If you’re buying on Emaar Beachfront purely for rental yield, I’ll save you some time. On a conventional long-term let you’re looking at around four to five per cent gross, and even before the war those numbers weren’t exciting. If squeezing an extra one or two per cent is your only objective, there are better areas in Dubai for that.

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That isn’t why you buy here. You buy Emaar Beachfront for the lifestyle and the location — limited coastline, in one of the fastest growing communities in Dubai, in one of the fastest growing cities in the world. The real return is long-term capital appreciation.

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Where the rental numbers do get interesting is short-term. A holiday apartment with two private beaches, views across the Palm Jumeirah and Dubai Marina, infinity pools, gyms and hotel-style amenities is exactly what a tourist coming to Dubai wants. The short-term units I look after have been effectively fully occupied since March.

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Buy the right asset for the capital appreciation, then use short-term rental to maximise the income while you hold it.

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📲 DM me “BEACHFRONT” and I’ll send you the details

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📞 +971 58 568 6890

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24/08/2026

I Called Dubai Police Over My iPhone

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I dropped my phone in the canal and had no idea what would happen next.
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Within minutes the Dubai Police maritime rescue team was in the water — full gear, straight in, no hesitation.
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They came back up with my iPhone in hand. Not procedure. Not obligation. Just genuinely caring.
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This is one of the reasons I love living here. Dubai Police don’t just enforce the law — they look after people.
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📲 DM me “SAFE” and I’ll send you the details
📞 +971 58 568 6890
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21/08/2026

The Sofitel Called Me After That Video
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Well, that escalated quickly. I went to the Sofitel spa on my day off, filmed a
little video for a laugh, and this week their management picked up the phone.
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📞 A call from the Sofitel management team
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📈 Their inquiries have gone up off the back of one video
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🤝 Invited in to meet their marketing team about a potential collaboration
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🗓️ Meeting is set for this weekend
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💬 Social media gets a lot of stick. Every so often it does this. Where has it
taken you? Tell me in the comments
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📲 If you want to buy or sell in Dubai, DM me “DUBAI”
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📞 +971 58 568 6890
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21/08/2026

A Two Bed In Grand Bleu For Under 5 Million Dirhams
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Grand Bleu by Elie Saab on Emaar Beachfront, and this is one of my own two bed units. Fully furnished, ready to walk into.
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🌴 Palm view, pool view, and the park view that’s coming soon
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🛥️ The marina sitting right there as well
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🛏️ Both bedrooms lead straight out onto the balcony
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💰 One of these already sold for 6 million dirhams. This one is under 5
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💬 Would you take the palm view or the marina view? Tell me in the comments
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📲 For the floor plan and the full price breakdown, DM me “BLEU”
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📞 +971 58 568 6890
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20/08/2026

A ceasefire collapsed, the blockade came back, there were live attacks on shipping. A black swan event nobody models for. So what actually happened to prices on Emaar Beachfront?
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📊 In January the guidance range was 3,900 to 4,200 dirhams a square foot. Today it’s 3,800 to just 4,000
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📉 A hundred to 200 dirhams a foot. That’s it. That’s the damage
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🏝️ It didn’t buckle. No panic, no fire sales, with a war on the doorstep
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🌊 Anyone can show you a community that performs when everything’s going brilliantly. I want to know what an asset does when it gets hit by something nobody saw coming. Beachfront just got hit by exactly that and it barely moved
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💬 Does that give you more confidence in waterfront, or would you still wait it out? Tell me in the comments
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📲 For the listing data and transactions behind these numbers, DM me “BEACHFRONT”
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📞 +971 58 568 6890
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