About Belltrio

Belltrio is a Dubai brokerage with a narrow focus: off-plan allocations, and resales where the seller needs to move quickly. Those are the two situations where what a property is worth and what it is being advertised for can differ by a great deal.

Most of what is written about Dubai property quotes asking prices. An asking price tells you what somebody hopes to get. The Land Department register tells you what people actually paid, and what tenants actually pay in rent — which is the only sound basis for deciding whether a price is fair or a yield is real.

So before a property is put in front of you it is checked against registered transactions in the same building: what comparable units sold for, what they rent for, and what that makes the yield. If the numbers do not hold up, you are told so.

The same applies to cost. The 4% Land Department transfer fee, the agency commission and VAT on it, and the payment plan through to handover are set out before you commit, not discovered afterwards.