Someone on your side of the table.
Ben Barsoum
Founder · buyer’s advocate · mortgage advisor
I have spent more than twenty years buying, developing and selling property, and fifteen years in finance in Australia. Put those together and you get a fairly specific education: what a property is actually worth once the marketing is stripped away, what a lender is really assessing when a file lands on their desk, and how to get a deal over the line when the two sides are a long way apart.
Then I moved to the UAE and did it all the hard way first. The wrong questions to the wrong people. The costs nobody mentions until the transfer appointment. The distance between a rendering and a handover. Every one of those lessons is now something a client of mine does not have to pay for.
What Olive Wealth is for
Most of what an Australian reads about buying in Dubai was written by someone with a unit to move. Olive Wealth exists so that you have someone on your side of the table instead.
As your buyer’s advocate I find the deals, assess them against comparable sales and real service-charge figures, and negotiate on your behalf. As your mortgage advisor I compare the UAE lenders, prepare the application and guide it through to approval, whether you are a resident or applying from Australia. Then I run the purchase on the ground, from viewings to the Land Department transfer to handover and letting, while you are eleven thousand kilometres away.
How I work
Fixed fees, agreed in a written brief before anything starts, so you always know what you are paying and what you get for it. I work in Arabic and English, which matters more than people expect: a negotiation in someone’s first language goes differently, and so does the paperwork behind it. I am based in the United Arab Emirates and work across the Emirates and back into Australia.
Commerce degree. Straight answers. If the UAE is not the right market for what you are trying to do, I will say so on the first call.
What you get
- Experience
- 20+ years in property, as investor, developer and seller
- Property deals
- Found, assessed and negotiated for you, as your buyer’s advocate
- Mortgage
- Lenders compared, application prepared, guided to approval
- Purchase
- Managed end to end, on the ground
- Fees
- Fixed, agreed up front
- Languages
- English · Arabic
- First call
- 30 minutes, free
Or read the questions Australians ask first.