Buying a residential property directly in your own name keeps you at 0% UAE corporate tax on both rental income and capital gains, because real estate investment income earned directly by a natural person falls outside the scope of UAE corporate tax entirely. The moment that same property sits inside a Free Zone entity or a foreign offshore company, though, it typically becomes subject to a 9% corporate...
Golden Visa & Tax
A single UAE Golden Visa qualifying property, valued at AED 2,000,000 or more, lets the primary investor sponsor a spouse, unmarried children of any age, both parents, and domestic staff, all on 10-year renewable residency permits tied to the same investment. This is UAE golden visa family sponsorship at its simplest: one qualifying asset, one primary applicant, and an entire household brought onto...
No. Foreign owners pay no recurring annual property tax in Dubai, no capital gains tax when they sell, and no personal income tax on rental income. The property tax in Dubai that people expect from home markets like the UK or the US simply does not exist here. What foreign investors pay instead is a one-time transfer fee at the point of purchase, plus modest recurring service charges and a municipal...
The UAE Golden Visa asks for a straightforward AED 2,000,000 (about USD 544,000) freehold property and returns 10 years of renewable residency with no minimum stay, while Portugal's golden visa no longer accepts real estate at all and now requires a EUR 500,000 fund subscription, and Greece still accepts property but has pushed its prime thresholds up to EUR 800,000 and banned short-term rentals on...
The UAE Golden Visa gives ten years of renewable residency to buyers of AED 2,000,000 or more in qualifying property. Here is what the threshold really costs, where prime capital is going, and the conditions that quietly invalidate a visa.
The UK’s non-dom abolition and Europe’s wealth surcharges have turned Gulf property from a yield play into a capital-preservation strategy. A look at branded residence premiums, real net yields after service charges, Dubai versus Saadiyat pricing, and the five checks that matter before you sign.
