1. 🔊 What industry do you work in and what is your role?
2. 🔊 What are your responses in your role / position?
3. 🔊 Can you describe to the function of your workplace / company?
4. 🔊 How many departments, how many offices. National or International?
5. 🔊 What are the minimum requirements for employment ie Education or Experience?
6. 🔊 How many opportunities are there to ‘move up the ladder’?
7. 🔊 What is the process for changing job roles ie Interview? Test?

1. 🔊 Current projects? Deadlines? Opportunities?
2. 🔊 Anything of interest happening?

1.🔊 As vaccines roll out unevenly worldwide and new infections force countries to extend restrictions, wealthy foreign buyers have flooded Dubai’s high-end property market, one of the few places in the world where they can dine, shop and do business in person.

 

2.🔊 Sales of Dubai’s upscale properties soared 230% in the first quarter of 2021, compared to the same period last year. A record-breaking 90 properties worth over $2.7 million each were sold last month, on top of 84 in March, according to real estate consultancy Property Monitor. There were 54 such sales in all of 2020.

 

3.🔊 “Tons of people are coming in and buying multimillion dollar properties on the spot,” said Matthew Cooke, who manages penthouse sales on Dubai’s Palm Jumeirah, an artificial archipelago.

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🔊 If you could buy upscale property anywhere in the world, where would you choose?

 

4.🔊 Since first reopening to tourists last summer, Dubai has pitched itself as the world’s pandemic-friendly vacation spot with no quarantine requirements.

 

5.🔊 Arriving tourists helped drive a surge in coronavirus cases in January, but the United Arab Emirates has still fared relatively well during the pandemic. The country of over 9 million has administered 10.6 million vaccine doses, relying heavily on China’s Sinopharm vaccine.

 

6.🔊 Dubai offers other vaccine options, including Pfizer-BioNtech and Oxford-Astrazeneca. To get a vaccine, all one needs is a residence visa — which the city already gives to high-end property buyers.

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🔊 What are your thoughts on the high-end property boom in Dubai?

  7.🔊 New initiatives to lure wealthy foreigners include remote work visas, retirement visas and long-term “golden” visas. The UAE also has altered its strict Islamic legal code, allowing unmarried couples to live together and noncitizens to follow foreign laws for divorce and inheritance.

8.🔊 Dubai has long benefitted from capital flight. Homeowners on the Palm Jumeirah — which saw 43% of all April sales — include the political elite from countries like Nigeria, Syria and Lebanon, all searching for a safe place to park their savings. 

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🔊 Has the pandemic affected property prices in Japan?

Further Discussion

🔊 How many places have you lived in? Which did you like best?

🔊 Would you like to build a home someday?

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