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HOW REAL ESTATE BROKERS ARE BECOMING TRUSTED ADVISORS IN 2025
Attributed by Olga Pankina, Chief Operating Officer, Whitewill Dubai
Dubai’s real estate market crossed AED 522.5 billion ($143 billion) in transactions during 2024, a 27% jump on the previous year, according to the Dubai Land Department. This surge highlights not just rising volumes but growing complexity. Knight Frank reports that more than 40% of ultra-high-net-worth individuals in the GCC now view real estate as a key component of diversified wealth portfolios rather than simply lifestyle purchases. In response, brokers are evolving from dealmakers into strategic advisors who help clients structure long-term wealth strategies.
How brokers are adapting
Market complexitySavills data shows Dubai launched more than 70 projects in 2024, ranging from branded residences to creative payment schemes and mixed-use formats. Brokers are responding by building specialist teams that analyse developer track records, payment plan risks, and brand value premiums. They are no longer just introducing projects—they are running scenario models on potential delays, interest rate movements, and projected resale values to advise clients which launches fit their investment strategy.
Global benchmarkingWith Dubai’s rental yields averaging 6.8–7.5%, far stronger than the 3–4% seen in London or Paris, brokers are positioning themselves as comparative analysts. They present clients with side-by-side yield scenarios, factoring in currency exposure and financing costs across markets, so investors can decide whether Dubai should serve as a core yield play or be complemented with international assets for balance.
Policy and regulatory shiftsBy the end of 2024, the UAE had issued more than 158,000 Golden Visas, creating new investment dynamics. Brokers now advise clients on selecting properties that can qualify for residency, structuring ownership to maximise visa eligibility, and aligning investments with long-term family relocation plans. As new sectors like gaming expand in Ras Al Khaimah—anchored by Wynn Resorts’ 2025 opening—brokers are also flagging secondary growth corridors to investors, integrating policy insights into their advisory.
Trusted advisor model
Deloitte’s surveys show that 72% of GCC investors now expect brokers to advise on taxation, ownership structures, and exit strategies. Leading firms have broadened their offerings to include full lifecycle support: arranging financing, overseeing management and leasing, and planning exit timing. Some brokerages integrate concierge services, legal counsel, banking contacts, family office networks, so clients interact with a single advisor orchestrating the entire ecosystem.
Regional broker strategies
Dubai and Abu DhabiThe Dubai Land Department notes that 36% of all transactions in 2024 were for ready properties, signalling investor preference for immediate income-producing assets. Brokers are shifting accordingly, building ready-asset portfolios and negotiating rental agreements and management contracts alongside the sale. In Abu Dhabi, they are emphasising projects with infrastructure certainty, guiding clients toward assets that can deliver both lifestyle and reliable returns.
Saudi ArabiaVision 2030 has placed over a trillion dollars’ worth of projects into the pipeline, but execution quality varies. Brokers are acting as filters, vetting projects based on developer capability, financing security, and infrastructure backing before presenting them to clients. They frequently run due diligence with engineering consultants and local legal teams to protect investors from speculative risks while highlighting projects aligned with government priorities.
OmanCBRE recorded 8–10% price growth in Muscat and Muttrah in 2024, spurred by early foreign demand. Brokers here are counselling clients against pure speculation, instead positioning Omani assets as long-term diversification plays. They provide guidance on ownership regulations, residency eligibility, and exit options, ensuring foreign investors understand the timelines and obligations before entering the market.
Skills for modern brokers
Financial fluency is becoming a baseline skill. Brokers are expected to present internal rates of return, cash-flow projections, and exit models. In premium Dubai projects, IRRs of 12–14% are achievable under active management, but only if brokers can demonstrate scenarios clearly.
Additionally, JLL forecasts that by 2026, over half of MENA property transactions will rely on AI-driven dashboards. Many brokers are already using predictive analytics to assess submarket vacancies and rental trends. With more than 35% of Dubai’s buyers coming from abroad, cross-border fluency—tax treaties, cultural norms, legal frameworks—has become part of the broker’s toolkit. None of this is possible without network capital: relationships with developers, bankers, and regulators that give brokers the leverage to deliver better outcomes for clients.
Market insight
Knight Frank highlights a shift among GCC investors from single-unit acquisitions to multi-asset strategies. Brokers are helping clients pair prestige villas for lifestyle and residency benefits with mid-market rental units generating 6–9% yields. Others are designing “exit packages,” advising on resale timing, tenanting strategies, or even property repurposing if liquidity dries up, so portfolios remain resilient.
Forward outlook
PwC estimates that $2.5 trillion in UHNW capital will move across borders by 2030, and brokers will be positioned as the private bankers of real estate. Some firms are already experimenting with hybrid compensation models, retainers plus performance fees, to reflect this shift from transaction to long-term wealth management.
As yields in Dubai stabilise around 5–7% by 2026–27, investors will value strategy over opportunism. The brokers who thrive will be those who build trust as advisors, helping clients protect, grow, and align property with broader wealth ambitions. The industry is moving decisively away from transactions. Strategy is the new currency.
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WHY MOST AESTHETIC CLINIC OWNERS NEVER BUILD A TRUE BUSINESS

By Nurse SarahLouise, CEO & Founder of The Business Injection
People often ask me what the biggest lesson has been over fifteen years in this industry. They expect me to talk about marketing, or pricing, or scaling tactics and it isn’t any of those things.The biggest lesson I have learned is that you never build a business for the good days, in fact you build it for the days when life falls apart.
I started my own clinic from a back garden room, with a ten thousand pound personal loan, no investors, and no business background whatsoever. I was a single mother in the middle of a divorce at the time. I am telling you this because there have been moments in my own life where I could barely think straight, yet the business still had to serve patients, still had to support a team, and still had to generate revenue. Those moments taught me something that has shaped everything I have built since. The businesses that survive are not built by the most talented practitioners in the room, instead they are built by people who create something that does not depend on them being at one hundred percent every single day. That is the gap I see across this entire industry, and it is the real reason most aesthetic clinic owners never build a true business. They build a job instead, and they call it a business because it has a logo and a lease.
Clinical training teaches you to diagnose, treat, and deliver outstanding results. It teaches you nothing about cash flow, retention, team structure, or pricing that reflects actual value. I often describe this as an eighty-twenty problem. Clinical skill is roughly twenty percent of what a practitioner actually needs to succeed. The other eighty percent, the part nobody teaches in any training academy, is the operational backbone that determines whether a brilliant clinician ends up with a thriving brand or an exhausting job they built for themselves and cannot step away from. I see the same pattern constantly when practitioners attempt to scale, and it almost always comes down to three specific mistakes.
The first is confusing a full diary with a profitable business. I have sat across from clinic owners who are booked solid for months, exhausted, and barely breaking even, because nobody has ever taught them to look past revenue to what is actually left once costs, time, and their own labour are properly accounted for. Being fully booked feels like success. It is frequently the opposite, dressed up convincingly.
The second is scaling the treatment menu without ever scaling the experience. Practitioners add more services, more machines, more brands to their price list, believing variety is what grows a business. What actually grows a business is the experience a patient has from the moment they walk in to the moment they leave, and the relationship that experience builds. I have watched clinics with fewer treatments but a genuinely memorable patient journey consistently outperform clinics offering everything under the sun with no real identity behind any of it. Patients are no longer simply choosing a treatment. They are choosing the person and the brand behind it, and a clinic selling pure product with no experience attached to it is increasingly vulnerable to a competitor who understands that distinction.
The third, and the most damaging, is hiring and growing before any system exists for the practitioner to hire and grow into. I have seen owners bring on associates or expand into a second room with nothing documented, no consultation framework, no retention process, no consistent way of training a new team member, because everything that worked previously existed only in the owner’s head. The result is a business that cannot maintain its standards the moment the owner is not personally present, which means it has not actually scaled at all. It has simply multiplied the owner’s exhaustion.
The turning point, in my own business and in every clinic owner I have mentored since, comes down to one shift. It happens the moment an owner stops asking how to get busier and starts asking what would happen to this business if I disappeared for a month. That single question exposes everything a clinic has never built. No retention system. No documented process. No team capable of holding the standard without supervision. It is an uncomfortable question, and it is exactly the right one.
I built The Business Injection because I learned every one of these lessons the expensive way, with no mentor and no roadmap, and I do not believe any clinician should have to. The frameworks I now teach exist specifically to close that eighty percent gap, because clinical excellence alone was never going to be enough to build something that lasts.
The clinics that genuinely thrive over the next five years will not be the ones with the most treatments or the busiest diaries. They will be the ones who understood early that a business and a job are not the same thing, and who built accordingly. Anyone can build revenue for a while. Far fewer people build something resilient enough to survive the days when life asks for everything else.
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THE GUIDE THAT WILL MAKE EVERY FAMILY’S LIFE EASIER THIS SUMMER
From childcare and learning support to home cleaning, telehealth, and baby gear refreshes, Mumzworld’s new services category brings practical everyday support into one trusted platform for modern families. Expanding beyond the shopping basket, Mumzworld is bringing childcare, home support, health, learning and children’s lifestyle services into one trusted platform. Designed around the real needs of families, the new category offers practical services through the Mumzworld app, helping parents feel more supported through the moments that often pile up.
Summer can quickly become one of the busiest times of year for families, with routines shifting and parents managing childcare, home organisation, learning, health and everyday needs all at once. For modern parents, the challenge is not always finding more things to buy, but finding reliable support that saves time, eases pressure and fits into daily life, which is where Mumzworld’s new services category comes in.
Here is how parents can build their summer survival toolkit with Mumzworld’s latest services.

Keep childcare support within reach
Summer often means parents need more flexibility, especially when regular routines change. Through the Mumzworld app, families can now access trusted babysitting services, with caregivers carefully selected, trained, and equipped with essential childcare and CPR knowledge.
For parents, this is not just about convenience. It is about feeling confident in the support they are bringing into their homes and their children’s routines.
Help kids make the most of summer with fun education
Summer does not have to mean pressing pause on learning. It can be a time for children to stay curious, build confidence and enjoy learning in a more relaxed way at home. Through Mumzworld’s educational support with Educators at Home, parents can access KHDA-approved educators who support children’s learning at home, helping families keep children engaged while still allowing summer to feel enjoyable and balanced.
Refresh the baby gear before your next holiday
Car seats, strollers and everyday baby essentials often need deeper care, especially when families are constantly on the move. Mumzworld’s baby gear cleaning service is designed for items such as car seats and strollers, helping parents keep important family essentials refreshed and ready to use.
For parents, it is one less task to manage and one more way to feel organised during the holiday season

Bring the home back under control
When family routines become fuller, keeping the home running smoothly can feel like a task on its own. Mumzworld’s home cleaning services give parents practical support with everyday home needs, helping families manage routines more easily.
It is the kind of service that supports parents in the background, creating more room in the day for everything else that matters.
Give children’s spaces a simple update
A change in season can also be a good moment to refresh children’s spaces. Through Mumzworld, families can access wallpaper design and installation services, helping bring children’s rooms to life with less pressure on parents’ time.
Whether it is a small refresh or a more thoughtful update, the service supports parents who want to improve children’s spaces without having to manage every detail alone.
Plan celebrations without the extra stress
Summer is often filled with family moments, including birthdays and at-home celebrations. Mumzworld’s birthday party planning service helps parents create memorable celebrations at home with less stress.
From planning to execution, the service gives families support in making special occasions feel easier, more organised and more enjoyable.
Keep health and wellbeing support close to home
Family wellbeing is also part of the new offering. Through Mumzworld’s telehealth services, families can connect with doctors, mental health professionals, and nutrition specialists from the comfort of home.
For parents, this brings another layer of reassurance, offering access to support without adding more pressure to already busy routines.
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THE EVENT BRINGS TOGETHER SUMMER SHOPPING AND EXCLUSIVE OFFERS UNDER ONE ROOF

As the summer holiday season begins, Jashanmal Group is set to bring its highly anticipated Warehouse Sale: Summer Edition to Cityland Mall Dubai. Following the overwhelming response to its recent Warehouse Sales in the region, the legacy retailer aims to create a family-focused sale for all ages.
The five-day shopping extravaganza taking place from June 24th to 28th is thoughtfully designed to offer a vibrant mix of shopping experiences. Adding to the experience, the Warehouse Sale: Summer Edition will feature a curated selection of premium international brands such as Kenwood, Clarks, Kipling, De’Longhi, BALLY, Hoover, Delsey Paris, Russell Hobbs and many more.
Commenting on the initiative Mr. Anurag Verma, Chief Distribution Officer, Jashanmal Group said, “Given the overwhelming popularity and enthusiastic response to our warehouse sales this year, truly a favorite among shoppers, we are thrilled to bring the highly anticipated Warehouse Sale Summer Edition to Dubai. Summer is a time when families come together, planning their travels and preparing for the season ahead, and it is truly the perfect time to shop. At Jashanmal, we bring together everything you need, offering a complete destination for all your summer shopping needs across multiple lifestyle categories.”
As the retail shopping experience continues to evolve in line with the changing consumer lifestyles and expectations, Jashanmal Group remains at the forefront of delivering immersive, experience-led engagements whether through unique retail concepts, seasonal campaigns and enhanced shopping experiences.
Aligned with the UAE Year of the Family, The Warehouse Sale: Summer Edition underscores the Group’s commitment to community focused initiatives, while celebrating the importance of family at the heart of life in the UAE.
Mr. Verma further added, “We are proud to offer an experience that reflects community spirit, togetherness and joy of shared moments. Through our upcoming sale, we are bringing together trusted brands, exciting experiences and attractive offers in one destination, creating a shopping event that the whole family can enjoy.”
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