This page explains how the material on this site is prepared: where the data comes from, how it is checked, and what rules apply to figures. It matters here more than it would elsewhere, because this site is published by someone who works in commercial real estate and writes about that same field. The analysis promotes her expertise. That is a reason to state the sources more carefully, not less — a reader who knows the writer has a stake needs to be able to check the numbers themselves.
Primary sources by topic
Every market figure cited on this site traces back to an identifiable primary source. By topic:
- Transactions and prices: Dubai Land Department (DLD) and its DXBinteract data portal, for transaction volumes, prices and off-plan versus ready splits.
- Regulation and licensing: RERA (Real Estate Regulatory Agency), Dubai Municipality, and the federal government portal u.ae for laws, decrees and procedure.
- Utilities and delivery: DEWA (Dubai Electricity and Water Authority) for connection, capacity and infrastructure indicators relevant to commercial and logistics assets.
- Economy and trade: Dubai Economy and Tourism (DET) and WAM (Emirates News Agency) for official economic, licensing and visitor data.
- Real estate consultancies: JLL, Knight Frank, CBRE, Savills and Cushman & Wakefield, for vacancy, absorption, prime rents and yield data by segment.
Third-party statistics and reports are not cited without checking the original source. When a figure circulates only in secondary media without backing from a primary source, that limitation is stated explicitly or the figure is not published.
Revision date
Every article carries a fact-revision date, shown in the text itself where relevant. The most volatile figures — prime yields, asking rents, quarterly vacancy, transaction volumes — are re-checked at each relevant market update, not only at initial publication. The general revision date for this page is July 2026.
Where judgment enters
Two different things appear on this site, and they are kept visibly apart. One is a verifiable data point: an official figure, a regulatory change, a published quarterly number. The other is an interpretation of what those figures mean for a tenant, an investor or a developer — and that interpretation is the publisher’s own professional judgment, formed by operating retail assets over fifteen years. Readers should treat the first as checkable and the second as an argument made by an interested party, to be weighed against their own advisers.
If commercial or sponsored material is ever published here, it will be labelled as such on the page itself.
A note on AI-assisted images
Where an illustrative image is generated with AI assistance rather than being a documentary photograph, it is treated as an illustration and never presented as evidence of a specific property, transaction or event. Figures and factual claims are never sourced from generated imagery.
What is never done here
Figures are not invented. Quotes are not attributed to people or institutions that never said them. Estimates made on this site are not presented as official data. When no reliable primary source exists for a relevant figure, the article says so or omits the figure entirely. The absence of a verifiable source is sufficient reason not to publish a figure, however useful it would be to the argument being made.
Why this page exists
A reader arriving from a search engine or an AI assistant has no way to judge a market figure unless the source and its date are on the page. Publishing this method is how the analysis here can be checked rather than merely believed — which is the only basis on which analysis from an interested party is worth anything at all.