Renting A Home

Rent in Dubai - the full story

The story in Dubai is rent - a place where the cost of putting a roof over your head has tripled in five years, and quadrupled in ten.

The rent nightmare

Paying up to a year's rent in advance goes against my principles, and can be financially crippling for tenants.

Buy-to-live or rent in Dubai?

Hani Zaitoun offers his views on the million dirham question - should I buy or rent in Dubai?

Can you afford it?

With the cost of living increasing all the time, how high a price are people paying to live in Dubai?

Caps off to rent watchdog in inflation battle

Dubai is slowly recognizing the problem of rising rents and its contribution to inflation.

Qatar considers lowering rent cap to 7%

Inflationary pressures could see 3% reduction in rate implemented by week's end.

Qatar rent cap to slash inflation 40%

Two-year rent freeze could help cut inflation in Gulf state, which hit 14% last year, NBAD says.