Dubai’s High-End Real Estate Market Is On Fire

Ajouté : 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]I think it's time that we slow things down a little bit because, you know, great properties don't necessarily make great returns. What I've found through 15-20 years of investing, it's the structure that actually make sure you get those incredible incredible results for your investors.

[00:00:18]>> Well, you're right. I mean, look, that's the reason why when we started Highgate, the first thing that we did was sit down with the top private equities and also the lawyers that are working within the IFC to create the perfect balance of structure to ensure that we give direct ownership to the investors to protect them. And the de-risking mechanism besides the financial structure is ensuring that we target projects that are in that 50, 60, 70% range.

[00:00:46]>> Yeah, cuz what I've found is that look, in all these perfect scenarios, you know, we can think about making 50, 60, 70, 80% returns. And you never know what's going to happen till you can really stress and stress test an investment. And that means you got to have the structure, you got to understand what happens when the market goes down, when schedules get delayed, when materials prices go up. And that's what I need to know before we commit capital. We've been doing this for 5 years now, deployed over 25 million dollars in capital for our investors.

[00:01:16]>> That's great.

[00:01:16]>> And the reason they trust us is because we go deep into the detail, deep into the bottom line. But, if it can't make it to the bottom line,