
Why Harbor
Because we believe in harnessing our experience, utilizing our expertise, and applying our passion to develop and implement innovative tailor-made solutions that deliver exceptional results for our clients.
It’s as simple as that.
Here are 12 compelling reasons why choosing Harbor Real Estate could be one of the best financial decisions you will ever make.
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1. Solid Relevant Experience
With over 48 years of combined real estate experience in the UAE real estate market, Harbor Real Estate has sold, rented and managed thousands of mixed-use properties worth multi-billions of dirhams across the various districts of the UAE.
Harbor represents the new breed of passionate real estate professionals that develop innovative strategies derived from conclusions based on rigorous fact-based analyses tailored to deliver tangible results through the adoption and implementation of global best practices.
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2. Shaping Up the Industry
The Dubai Land Department has entrusted Harbor Real Estate to set the benchmark and elevate the standards of professionalism in the real estate industry through its appointment to author and teach, locally and regionally, a number of the Dubai Real Estate Institute’s certification courses including: Exceptional Customer Service, Best Practices in Real Estate Marketing & Sales, and the official Certification course for Property Management.
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3. One-Stop Shop
When it comes to servicing real estate projects, Harbor Real Estate is a full service agency offering: research, advisory, valuation, marketing, sales, leasing, property asset management, snagging & inspection, CRM, solid relevant experience, trusted analysis & face-based recommendations, project management and development management services across all asset types.
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5. Award-winning Agency
Harbor Real Estate has earned various prestigious industry awards and formal certificates of praise and appreciation for its innovative services. Featured as one of the top real estate service providers in the UAE by Forbes Middle East in 2017. Harbor is the only real estate agency to be awarded the DLD gold ranking 6 times in a row, and is also a recipient of tokens of appreciation from the Real Estate Registration Directorate of the Sharjah Government. Harbor also won the “Best Agency for Property Management” award in Property Times Online’s People’s Choice Real Estate Awards in 2015, and was awarded as the Property Management Firm of the year 2018 by GCC Enterprise Awards.
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6. 9001:2015 ISO Certified Customer Service
Being ISO 9001:2015 certified is a significant prerequisite to realizing our vision. ISO 9001:2015 is accepted worldwide as the standard that defines quality, sets the criteria for quality management systems, and provides the necessary framework to improve company efficiency, minimize risk, and maximize opportunities. Harbor Real Estate is also one of the Ten Founding / Steering Committee Members of the UN Global Compact - UAE Network. In keeping with the company’s goal to uphold global best practices, Harbor has made it a standard to apply the Ten Principles embodied in the UN Global Compact Initiative.
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7. Automation Through Technology
Harbor Real Estate has proudly implemented the best processes and practices into multiple software solutions while making sure that they are structured and tailor-made to our client’s requirements by working closely with the best IT service providers in the market
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8. Unmatched Industry Network
Harbor Real Estate has established strong relationships with key industry stakeholders including the Dubai Land Department, RERA, Rental Dispute Settlement Centre, TECOM, Dubai Municipality, DEWA, Dubai Economic Department, all major master developers and key facility management firms. We leverage these solid relationships to benefit our clients in optimizing the operations of their projects while generating value-added savings and extra revenues.
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9. In-depth Analyses & Fact-based Recommendations
Harbor Real Estate has gained the reputation of being the ultimate go-to expert for depicting the latest industry trends, and advising industry pundits, institutional investors, individuals, journalists and peers. Harbor Real Estate directors have been featured across all key local and regional print, online, TV and radio channels. The CEO of Harbor Real Estate currently hosts the region’s first and only property reality-TV show on MBC1 and has been lauded as “The Wolf of Real Estate” and, most recently as “The Godfather of Property Management” owning to his incisive analytical skills, and exceptional industry influence and experience.
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10. Proven Track Record Of Success
Harbor Real Estate is proud of its history of transactional and business success regardless of scale and economic situation. Harbor’s business agility is best exemplified through its experience of exceptional growth even at the height of the now-infamous Global Recession of 2009. We have an unprecedented record of sales, leasing and property management activities including selling and renting thousands of units within a few months, closing the largest plot sale transaction in the history of Dubai, and managing multi-billion portfolios for over 10 years with 99.2% average occupancy, 0.003% legal disputes and 97.1% customer satisfaction ratings.
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11. Recognized & Highly Respected Brand
Harbor Real Estate has been consistently featured in various publications whose aim is to recognize the UAE’s leading real estate service providers. Harbor has also been recently voted a Superbrand for 2018 by Superbrands MENA – a further testament to Harbor’s immense impact and influence on the industry and the public.
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12. Specialized In Managing Institutional Portfolios
Harbor Real Estate has developed the rare capability to tailor highly effective and innovative solutions for highly sophisticated institutional investment clientele whose main objective is to grow their property investment portfolio, and generate sustained superior profits in the most timely and cost efficient manner possible.