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Compare the deal
Compare two projects without getting lost in the brochures
A practical scorecard for comparing the home, the payment timing, the evidence and the risks on equal terms.
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Buyer guides · Dubai off-plan
Understand the dealbefore you reserve.
Practical frameworks for comparing projects, mapping cash flow and knowing what to ask for in writing. No invented returns, brochure shorthand or one-size-fits-all answers.
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Decision guides
Written for the point where a glossy launch becomes a real financial decision.
Choose your question
Four guides. One clearer decision.
Read them in order for a complete pre-reservation workflow, or go straight to the question in front of you.
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Plan the cash
Read the payment plan beyond the headline split
Turn percentages into a dated cash-flow map, find the handover pressure point and record what still depends on the contract.
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Before you pay
Ask these 12 questions before you reserve
A written-answer checklist covering the unit, the project, the payment destination, the contract and your exit assumptions.
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Plan the cash
Build the budget around the purchase price
A category-by-category worksheet for the cash required to reserve, complete, furnish and hold a property — using your deal's actual quotes.
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The Mazidi method
Slow the sales pitch down.
A simple discipline for turning a launch into something you can examine.
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Document
Keep the exact unit, dated offer and source behind every important claim.
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Calculate
Turn percentages and estimates into cash amounts, dates and visible assumptions.
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Decide
Choose against your own brief — with unresolved questions and walk-away conditions written down.
Useful, sourced, and honest about uncertainty.
Rules, authority processes and fees can change. Where a guide touches a regulatory process, it links to the responsible authority and shows when the page was last reviewed. Project-specific terms still come from your current documents.
These guides provide general information, not legal, tax, mortgage, immigration or financial advice. Use qualified professional advice for your circumstances.
Library reviewed 2 September 2026
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