Life is good for real estate professionals in the UAE, with the Real Estate boom currently underway and showing no signs of stopping!

While this is always a good thing, to be called a true real estate professional, it would be wise to look at how real estate listings and business is conducted in mature markets.
Agents in the UAE are blessed with abundance of properties thanks to the steady supply of projects being announced, nearing completion and already completed.

In no other world wide market is it possible to get away with listing a property, without basics such as location map, photographs and a well put together presentation.
However, everyone knows that life for a real estate professional in the UAE is also hectic, and there are just too many deals to be done to bother with the way a property is presented.

To help address this situation, RealVisionHomes.com leverages technology to assist a real estate agent.
Free services such as the SMS a property service, allow an agent or investor anywhere in the world to list a UAE property by simply sending in the details by SMS!

Realvisionhomes’ back end software even looks for keywords of projects in the sms, and attaches the projects website address and photographs to the listing. The new mapping feature of the Online Property Posting on realvisionhomes.com will even allow an agent to simply pick a project that the property belong to and have a ready map attached to the listing.

Helping International Investors

Why is a property location map so important? There seems to be a unique phenomenon in the UAE as far as buying and selling real estate goes. It seems that real estate agents are dealing more with each other than catering to end buyers. Read the rest of this entry »

This posting does not fit into the category of Tools for Real Estate Agents, nor in the Investor Zone section of this site, yet it is of importance to both, real estate agents and buyers/sellers. So we will place this in the Uncategorized section of this blog till a suitable zone is formed (your suggestions are welcome!)

The team @ Realvisionhomes.com was invited last week to share in some informal chatter over coffee with some real estate agents in Dubai. Discussions were the usual, on where the market is heading… would regulations that are being put in place really straighten out and ‘professionalize’ the way the market functions etc…

Amongst this chatter, the only small discussion that lingered with us was a brief complaint from one real estate agent who was (obviously) new to the market here, but she was a professional. Why did we think so?

The reason was because according to her, people didn’t seem to respect time and punctuality in the industry. Her story was that on numerous times, she was called for viewings, but given the run-around by the buyer, who never intended to make it to the site on time or even show up.

Everyone knows that venerated excuse in Dubai, - The Traffic. But now it comes down to the art in how you use that excuse effectively.

This post is not about the art of the excuse, it’s about whether indeed this phenomenon exists or are these just a few stray incidents.

We have on several occasions faced similar situations, where clients(and sometimes even the ones who need you more than you do them) simply do not think that being punctual or, respecting such a thing as a person’s time is important. It seems to be the rule of thumb that if you are the one paying out the money, you win and can call all the shots! Time and knowledge is a cheap commodity for these people. Read the rest of this entry »

Lets face it, how many times have you picked up the newspaper in the UAE or been spammed by an SMS realted to property and real estate for sale ads and not understood most of the language used?

Ready for some more…

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