Majid Al Marri and the digital future of Dubai's property registry

How Dubai Land Department's tokenisation pilot and the Dubai REST platform are rewriting the rules for European investors.

Placing Gulf capital into European real estate

Alexander Morari, MRICS, CEO of Shelton Reed, on how Middle East capital is being placed into European off-market real estate.

Katralnada BinGhatti and the branded-residence machine

The engineer running Dubai's top-selling off-plan developer has turned luxury brand collaborations and Shariah-compliant capital into a template European markets are starting to study.

Amira Sajwani, the translator of Dubai's property market

How Dubai's Amira Sajwani moves the same property market between three public voices: institutional scale, fractional access, and civic narrative.

How Gulf Capital Actually Reaches Europe

Joe Morris of Newmark sits on the corridor that carries Gulf money into European real estate. Here is its mechanics: the sectors, the cities, the ticket sizes and the structures.

The Gulf-to-CEE Playbook: What Serbia Built, and Where Poland Could Go Further

Serbia turned Gulf capital into an airline, a waterfront and a trade deal; inside the EU, Poland and the rest of CEE face a harder, and potentially larger, version of the same game.

Dubai by the Numbers: Projection & Audit

IPS 2026 markets more than 40,000 visitors, but the audited show baseline and Dubai's record market tell the more precise story.

The Name on the Door

Dubai now leads the world in branded residences, and the model is exporting to London and Europe.

A Gulf Developer's European Machine

Reportage Group funds a measured European push with a UAE delivery engine of more than 48,000 units, running the corridor in the opposite direction to the capital.

IPS 2026 Partners to Watch

This year's IPS sponsor roster is a map of the Dubai market: a government regulator as partner, developers posting record numbers, and a PropTech platform that has sold billions in inventory through its technology.

Financing the bridge

Gulf capital is flowing into Central & Eastern Europe, but it is debt structure, not appetite alone, that decides which deals actually close.

The bridge figures: a European at the helm of a Gulf REIT

Thierry Delvaux, a Belgian who spent 25 years at JLL across Europe and the Americas, now runs Equitativa, the manager of Dubai's oldest listed REIT. He is the Europe & Gulf corridor compressed into one career.

Tokenised property ownership: what a European investor actually buys

Dubai's DLD & VARA model offers a registry-backed share from about EUR 500. Here is the regulatory architecture, the risks, and how it compares to Europe's routes.

Digital Dubai, green city: where property meets nature

Dubai is digitising who owns the city and rebuilding the physical city around greenery at the same time. A European read on the frontier where the two meet.