RETINA PROPERTIES Elevating Your Status, One Dubai Address at a Time UK Landlords

For UK landlords · seven rounds · about 3 minutes

The UK landlord’s
Dubai test.

You already know how to run a buy-to-let. The question is whether the rules you know carry over. Seven decisions, in the order you would really make them — tax band, funding, budget, off-plan or ready, developer, ownership, tenant. Two of the options are traps we see experienced UK landlords walk into. Pick one and we will show you what it costs before HMRC does.

Compare UK and Dubai first
Contemporary UAE villa, street elevation
Ready stock · UAE
  • S.24Mortgage interest relieved only as a basic-rate credit
  • 22·42·47%Property income tax rates from April 2027
  • 1 May 2026Section 21 no-fault possession ended in England
  • EPC CRequired on every let by 1 October 2030
Round 1 of 7

Seven of seven · your brief is ready

Where should
we send it?

Your choices have been worked into a landlord’s brief. Tell us where to send it and it opens straight away — the illustrative Dubai yield on what you built, what is left after UK tax at your band, which residency route it reaches, and an honest read on whether the plan holds together.

  • Gross yield in pounds a year, and what HMRC takes from it
  • The UAE visa your budget actually reaches
  • Where your plan is sound, and where it is not

Open my brief

A UK-based advisor will also come back with three or four real units that fit it, with service charges and achieved rents for each building. No obligation — and we will say so if your capital is better left where it is.

Your brief is attached automatically. We use your details only to reply to this enquiry and do not pass them to anyone else.

Your landlord’s brief

Here is what you built.

Everything above is illustrative, built from the choices you made, published market averages and an indicative rate of AED 4.90 to the pound. It is not a forecast, a valuation, or tax, legal or investment advice. UK tax figures use the property income rates announced for April 2027 and assume you are UK resident; your own position depends on your other income, allowances and reliefs — take advice from a UK chartered tax adviser before you act. Yields vary by building and year, capital values can fall as well as rise, and no capital growth is assumed anywhere in this exercise.

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