We read the fine print for a living.

Freehold Estates is an international brokerage working across nine markets in the Gulf, Europe and the United States. We handle three kinds of deals: off-plan purchases direct from developers, resales between private owners, and annual rentals. The mechanics differ — staged payment plans on off-plan, deposit-and-transfer on resale, cheques and security deposits on rentals — so we staff each desk with brokers licensed in that market who handle those structures daily. Since 2012 we have closed over 4,800 units and currently manage relationships with 60 developers. Our 42 brokers work in nine languages, and every inquiry reaches a named broker, not a queue. The average first response is under two working hours; no listing goes live without complete documentation.

4,800+Units delivered

9+Markets

9+Languages

< 2 hrsAvg. first response

The brokers

Licensed where they sell

A named broker on every inquiry — these four run the demo desks in this template.

Layla Haddad

Head of Gulf Sales — Dubai

Arabic, English, French

layla@freehold.demo

Tomás Ferreira

Iberia Sales Director — Madrid & Lisbon

Portuguese, Spanish, English, French

tomas@freehold.demo

Annika Weber

Senior Advisor, Central Europe — Berlin & Milan

German, Italian, English

annika@freehold.demo

Elena Volkova

Lettings & International Clients Director — London & Miami

Russian, English, Spanish

elena@freehold.demo

Testimonials

What clients say when the deal is done

The payment plan was on the page before I asked for it. That is not how the other four agencies worked.

Marcus Lindqvist

Bought off-plan · Business Bay

I signed a lease in a city I had never lived in and understood every line of it. The deposit terms were in writing from day one.

Aurélie Bassin

Rented · Eixample

They found the mortgage broker, then chased the bank harder than I would have.

Elena Marchetti

Bought resale · Porta Romana

The payment plan was on the page before I asked for it. That is not how the other four agencies worked.

Marcus Lindqvist

Bought off-plan · Business Bay

I signed a lease in a city I had never lived in and understood every line of it. The deposit terms were in writing from day one.

Aurélie Bassin

Rented · Eixample

They found the mortgage broker, then chased the bank harder than I would have.

Elena Marchetti

Bought resale · Porta Romana

They talked me out of a unit I liked because the service charge did not stack up. I bought the next one instead.

Priya Raghunathan

Bought resale · Islington

The unit schedule told me what I was actually paying per square metre. I compared three towers in an afternoon.

Daniel Okonkwo

Bought off-plan · Brickell

Two viewings, one offer, done in eleven days. The paperwork was ready before I was.

Jonas Berg

Bought resale · Prenzlauer Berg

They talked me out of a unit I liked because the service charge did not stack up. I bought the next one instead.

Priya Raghunathan

Bought resale · Islington

The unit schedule told me what I was actually paying per square metre. I compared three towers in an afternoon.

Daniel Okonkwo

Bought off-plan · Brickell

Two viewings, one offer, done in eleven days. The paperwork was ready before I was.

Jonas Berg

Bought resale · Prenzlauer Berg

Handover slipped by one quarter and I knew about it three months before completion. No surprises.

Tobias Reiner

Bought off-plan · Saadiyat

Everything came back in Arabic without me having to ask twice.

Hessa Al Mansoori

Bought resale · Salamanca

I asked for the escrow details and got the account reference the same afternoon.

Camila Duarte

Bought off-plan · Avenidas Novas

About us

Fair questions about an agency

Each off-plan listing states its plan in full: the booking percentage due on reservation, the instalments through construction, and the balance at handover, with the completion quarter named. Nothing is described as “flexible” without numbers behind it.

In every market shown here, yes — freehold ownership is open to non-residents, though registration costs and the paperwork differ. The tenure, service charge and registration cost for each property are listed under Registered particulars.

They are the current asking price in the property's own currency, converted live for you. Where a developer offers a payment plan, the plan is priced from the same figure.

Inquiries reach the listing agent directly and are answered within one working day, in the language you write in. Every listing names its agent and the languages they work in.

For resale purchases we work alongside your broker and set the timeline out week by week: offer, deposit at exchange, approval, completion. If you have no broker yet, we will introduce two.

On off-plan purchases, instalments are paid into the project's escrow account, not to the agency. The escrow arrangement for each project is stated on its page.