Reader comments: Reason for buying in the UAE

- Because there's no point paying increased rent. Better to create equity and sell it off when leaving the country.

- Even rents are too high, so pay bit more and own
- As an investment and at the end I will have a valuable apartment for my children

- Bought up in Sharjah so can't survive any where else

- Long term investment plus may use it as main property one day when we retire.

- Rent hikes forced us to buy!

- The need for extra accommodation is evident in the number of expats working in this part of the world - hence the demand for accommodation would be greater short term

- Safe place for investment; had a good trend of capital gains at the time when I started investing in 2005; now I realise that it has a good rental return as well

- Better return - assumed

- Looking for a better return than everywhere else.

- Security and prosperity

- It is better to buy than live in a rented house

- To let it out for a couple of years and then sell at a decent premium

- Buy to live and to let and ultimately to make an investment

- With view to live in next few years.

- Good rental yields !

- I expect that the price will be going up. So it will be a good opportunity for buying now

- I wish to buy a property for long term investment and secure some funds for future. In addition I wish to buy to secure a residency permit for myself and my family.

- Need a stable investment in safe area

- Cost benefit analysis...payment of instalment should be around the rent being paid in bur Dubai/Karama. Better buy and make an asset!!!

- Believe returns in UK market in near future may decline

- Mixed reasons. Rent is too high in Dubai, and I prefer to use the money investing in real state in a good property, to be used by my family while I am in Dubai, and to rent/sell in the future.

- Buy to live as we are planning to stay in Dubai long term

- We are an Australian Real Estate Agency, licensed to sell Dubai Properties. Our clients are attracted to Dubai due to its safe, secure cosmopolitan lifestyle and excellent capital growth and returns.

- I feel so far it's good for investment and may be at a later stage we might even go and live there for a while.

- Secure, return expectedly better

- Escalating rents make it attractive

- Offset rent if the price is right.

- Currently investment, later holiday home

- Wasting rent anyway. Might as well buy. Rent=Mortgage.

- Have bought a home to live in plus investment properties which I may rent or sell on.

- The Accommodation rents are very high, it is better to own a place if it is within the rent we are paying.

- First to live, but obviously for investment as well.

- I want to buy a house to live

- Also use as a holiday home or settle down in Dubai later in life.

- Short Term Let & Own Use

- Investment now and to live in the future

- Holiday home

- Don't want to rent

- Initially to live, but considered an investment property as well.

- Rent is getting too high

- Rents are getting too expensive