Why we work the way we do.
Summers is a boutique property advisory in Dubai. What follows is how the work runs and why it runs that way, including the parts that cost us business.
- Based
- Dubai
- Clients a year
- A few, by design
- Antonio speaks
- English, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Slovenian
- Also in house
- Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Russian, Romanian
Croatian South African, based in Dubai. He worked in the city's brokerages before founding Summers, to do the work a different way: advisory first, strategy ahead of volume. He carries every client file himself.
The market is not short of options. It is short of people who will tell you which ones are wrong.
New launches every week, each one presented as the one you cannot miss. Almost none of it is a comparison you can act on.
The same unit reaches you from several directions at once, pitched the same way each time. Nobody in that chain is comparing it to anything.
Most advice in this market comes from someone paid to sell one project. That does not make the advice wrong. It does mean you are hearing one side.
From another country you cannot walk the site, read the building, or know which tower two streets away is about to hand over. Local context is the part that does not travel.
Three answers to that. They decide what we take on and what we turn down.
Independence.
The first question is whether to buy at all.
We advise on whether to buy before we advise on what to buy. If the timing is wrong, or the building will not do what you need it to do, that is what you hear on the first call.
Selection.
You get a shortlist, not an inventory.
One person carries the whole file. The same advisor sees the units, runs the numbers and sits at the transfer. What reaches you is short, with the case for each option written down, including the one we recommend against.
Relationship.
You keep the same phone number after the keys.
Questions about service charges, tenants, or when to sell go to the person who wrote your brief, a year later or five. Handing you to an account manager after the transfer would break the only thing this model runs on.
Most briefs are one of three things.
Which one suits you comes down to your holding period and how much construction risk you want to carry. We argue both sides before you pick.
See how a purchase runsSometimes the answer is to re-let and hold another year. We run that comparison first, then take the sale to international buyers if selling wins.
How an exit runsWhat you buy sets what residency you get, so the two are decided together rather than in sequence. We run the DLD steps with you.
Residency and advisoryContracted with every developer in Dubai. Which one belongs on your shortlist is a question about you, and it changes with the brief.
That coverage spans new launches and the ready market.
None of it needs to be taken on trust. Our registrations are public record.
RERA licenses every brokerage permitted to operate in Dubai. Ours is registered under this number.
Every property advertised in Dubai must carry a permit number. This is the one behind this site.
Summers Edition Real Estate L.L.C · Trade Licence 1568016 · Dubai, United Arab Emirates