About

I've lived in Jumeirah Golf Estates for five years. I'm a licensed real estate agent at based at the JGE branch. I started this because residents and owners kept asking me the same questions. What's my property worth. What's happening with The Next Chapter. How does the RERA rental calculator actually work. Whether the Redwood Avenue repricing is real. What a landlord can and can't do when rent's due for review. Whether a new buyer can get a mortgage from a UK bank, or only a UAE one. I had the answers. I just didn't have anywhere to put them. Now I do. Once a month, I send one email. It tells you what's happened in JGE, what it means, and what I think is coming next. You read it in ten minutes. Alongside the newsletter, I'm building a handbook. Evergreen guides to buying, owning, letting, and renting in JGE. Updated as rules change. Free to read. Both the newsletter and the handbook are for four audiences. Buyers. Owners. Landlords. Renters. Everyone with a stake in JGE property.

The authority stack.

I hold two of the highest sales ever recorded here, including a villa at AED 58 million. I'm SuperAgent verified on PropertyFinder with a 5.0 client rating. I currently represent the top end of Dubai's villa market. I've been at for several years and have done enough secondary-market transactions in JGE to know how this community actually moves, beyond the brochure version. None of this would matter if the writing weren't useful. The work is in the issues and the guides. Subscribe, read two, decide.

What this isn't.

It isn't a sales channel for my listings. I have a standing rule (on the homepage and every issue footer) that I don't promote my own listings here. Specific properties may be cited as market data, with disclosure. That's the limit. It isn't a press-release aggregator. Every developer in Dubai has press releases. You don't need mine to summarise them. It isn't investment advice. I'm an agent, not a financial advisor. I tell you what I see. You decide what to do.

Where the data comes from.

Property transaction figures and market metrics in this publication are drawn from Dubai Land Department public records, the official register of every recorded Dubai property transaction. Figures are directional and may shift as late filings settle; material revisions are flagged in the following issue. Future issues may incorporate DLD's public API directly. RERA rules, rental calculator mechanics, and regulatory guidance come from RERA's own published materials and Benjamin's professional access to industry tools as a licensed agent. When I reference a specific transaction, listing, or rule, I attribute it. When I'm expressing an opinion, I make that clear.

Cross-promo to The Dubai Desk.

If you want weekly Dubai-wide intelligence and deeper monthly JGE analysis than the free brief here, I publish The Dubai Desk. Free tier available; paid tiers for subscribers who want data, off-market context, and direct introductions. [The Dubai Desk →]

Contact.

For anything about this site: reply to any issue and I'll see it. For direct property enquiries: my PropertyFinder agent page has my direct line. [Benjamin Baker on PropertyFinder →]