Industry
Asset-level reporting, escrow discipline and tax positions that hold.
Development, investment and management businesses carry long cycles, entity-heavy structures and property-specific VAT treatment. Reporting has to work at asset level and at group level at the same time.
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Discuss your positionWhat we get asked
The questions we get from real estate.
Recognisable problems rather than a capability list. Each one has a route through it.
VAT treatment across residential, commercial and mixed-use
Entity structuring across mainland and free zone holdings
Project and asset-level management reporting
Valuation and due diligence on acquisitions
Market context
Development, investment and management businesses in the UAE run long cycles through entity-heavy structures, with property-specific VAT treatment varying by asset use. Reporting has to work at asset level for operators and at group level for lenders and shareholders at the same time.
How we help
What we are actually engaged to do.
- Asset and group reporting in one set of books
- A structure that reports per asset without a separate consolidation exercise every quarter.
- VAT treatment across mixed-use portfolios
- Residential, commercial and mixed-use supplies treated correctly and documented per asset.
- Acquisition and disposal support
- Diligence and valuation on the assets themselves, not just the holding entities.
Relevant services
Ranked for this sector, not alphabetically.
The order reflects where the work usually starts.
Accounting & Finance
A finance function that reports on time and holds up to scrutiny.
Tax
UAE Corporate Tax, VAT and transfer pricing, handled end to end.
Audit & Assurance
Independent assurance that stakeholders and regulators accept.
Transactions
Diligence, valuation and deal support from signing to integration.
Risk & Compliance
Controls and governance proportionate to the risk you carry.
Where we get the call
Situations we are brought into.
These describe work we are engaged to do. Named engagement notes publish only where a client has approved them.
A portfolio has grown to a point where consolidation takes longer than the reporting period it covers.
A mixed-use development needs its VAT position established before the first units are handed over.
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Next step
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What follows
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- A written scope and fee basis, or a straight answer that there is no work to do.
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