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Dubai home sales fall by nearly half in 3Q
Plus: Juspay wants to be the GCC’s unifying middleman
Thursday, 8 October 2026
Floor check
Residential sales in Dubai fell sharply in 3Q, with a similar slowdown showing up in construction, as UAE project awards dipped 25.8% y-o-y to USD 15.6 bn during the quarter
Today at a glance
Editor's choice
M&A Watch
FINANCE
Janus Henderson reaches second close on shariah-compliant MENA private credit fund
The fund added USD 65.5 mn in a year as…
A Mubadala + Taraf plot new development, Eurazeo is in Abu Dhabi, more re-export room, Mashreq moves on tokenized deposits and Agrobank
Gulf money is flowing out to Europe and Uzbekistan, while Mashreq tests round-the-clock cross-border payments
Newsmakers
Mashreq's CFO on how a regional war changed the bank’s capital playbook, not its growth ambitions
Norman Tambach speaks on Mashreq’s AT1 raises, its risk optimization strategy, and a CBUAE backstop Mashreq says it didn’t need —…
My morning routine
Emirati CEOs claim nearly a third of Forbes Middle East’s Top 100 CEOs list
The Emirati CEOs span sectors such as energy, finance, real estate, defense, utilities, and aviation
Moves
Regulation
Legislation Watch
New golf venues coming to the UAE + Dubai issues law governing gov’t outsourcing
The AED 1 bn golf push from XRange and Akcel…
Regulation Watch
Spotmix brings UAE’s first mobile concrete mixer — and a license Dubai didn’t have a year ago
The self-funded company wants to reach 20 trucks and eventually…
Cabinet Watch
The UAE’s next phase: Scaling space, reshaping healthcare, and tightening food policy
New national strategies set hard targets to scale space output,…
CBUAE
THIS MORNING: Wartime loan deferrals reach AED 15.9 bn + ADIB shareholders give thumbs up to rights issue
Plus: UAE-based school operator Alephya eyes KSA’s Ajialuna
Startup watch
Shorooq and Presight take a slice of US robotics startup Maven’s USD 100 mn round
Maven is a Santa Clara-based maker of warehouse robots that came out of stealth this month
MENA VC survives on bigger bets
Regional startup funding fell 22% y-o-y in 1H
Private debt in GCC hit USD 4.1 bn last year — overtaking venture capital for the first time
Fintech dominated, with the sector accounting for 95.5% of total private debt deployment across…
