With all of that said, Dubai has been on the vanguard of creating foreign-friendly real estate laws that encourage the investment in real estate by foreign nationals. First and foremost, the laws in Dubai have been reformed to make it abundantly clear that a foreign national can purchase and own outright real estate within that country. A foreign national can obtain a freehold interest (as has been discussed previously) in real estate in Dubai.
In Dubai, the first step in buying real estate is an oral offer to a seller. In Dubai, a foreign national needs no special permission to make the purchase of real estate in that country. In addition, unlike some countries (including some in the Middle East region of the world), a foreign national can own real estate directly and does not have to bounce through an extra set of hoops towards the goal of buying and holding real property.
