Villas and townhouses in Dubai

Distressed property in Dubai: how a deal is defined, a townhouse resold 26% up in six weeks, a AED 57m villa sold at AED 48m, and why an urgent sale takes about 2 weeks.

Interior design in Dubai: neuroarchitecture, longevity rooms for villas, a 600 sq m study in a Dubai Marina penthouse and a 2-3 month turnkey project.

Villa restoration in Dubai: a 1 cm scratch for AED 3,500, a Palm Jumeirah marble job for AED 200,000 instead of 800,000, and what cannot be restored.

Home staging in Dubai adds 10-30% to rent and 5-10% to a sale price. A Damac Hills case: USD 10,000 of furniture lifted rent from 19,000 to 25,000.

A branded golf community above Muscat with beach access, an 18-hole championship course and villas from AED 8.5m. What the numbers mean, who Oman actually suits, and the question nobody asks until they want to sell.

Thirty five-bedroom villas in Meydan D11, 682 m² each, from AED 13.2 million. A 100-metre lagoon, a lazy river, four-metre ceilings and twelve corner plots — ten minutes from Downtown.

Better quality than the standard Dubai Hills townhouse clusters, further from the centre, with more varied infrastructure — cafés, restaurants, two schools, nurseries, wake surfing and a huge central park.

Three rows of villas — Sapphire, Ruby, Emerald — on 219 metres of private coastline, with plots to 2 415 m². How they compare with The Raffles and Zabeel Saray, and which row is actually worth the premium.