UAE,” the first adaptation outside the U.S. of Bravo’s long-running luxury real estate reality franchise, is going through the roof in the Middle East.
Until recently, Bandari’s claim to fame was achieving property sales exceeding 20 billion Dirhams . He now stars on “” along with agents Zay Brown, who is from the U.K. and is the show’s youngest broker; Nassira Sekkay, who drives a yellow Ferrari – she is known as “The Shark”; Rami Wahood, who sells units in Dubai’s Burji Khalifa, the world’s tallest sky scraper; and the perpetually smiling Riad Gohar, co-founder of Dubai’s BlackOak Real Estate whose moniker is “The Charmer.
Sheikh noted that 20 years ago the UAE became the first country in the Gulf region to open up to allowing foreigners to own real estate. Now Dubai is the world’s top market for prime real estate thanks to a rush of new buyers, including from Russia, that prompted prices to skyrocket 225% in the last quarter after hitting a pandemic low during the third quarter of 2020, according to real estate consultancy Knight Frank. By contrast, the U.S.