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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Lauren Almeida

Dubai property sales have fallen ‘off a cliff’ since start of Middle East war

A taxi drives along a palm-lined Dubai street with modern skyscrapers and office buildings in the background
One buying agent said that every one of the ‘super-high-net-worth guys’ he had sold to in the past 18 months has now left Dubai. Photograph: Fadel Senna/AFP/Getty

Property sales in Dubai have fallen “off a cliff”, a leading market watcher has said, after war in the Middle East forced a dramatic slowdown in one of the world’s most expensive real estate markets.

Sales in the city dropped 19% in May compared with the previous month, accelerating from a 4% drop in April, the researcher ValuStrat found.

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