The yield in the brochure is not the yield you'll get.
Here's the arithmetic nobody shows foreign buyers. Advertised yields quote the rent against the sticker price — before the transfer fee, the commission, the service charges, the empty months. The real number is what's left after all of it.
Representative Dubai Marina example. DLD 4% is statutory; 2% commission and trustee fees are market-standard. Run your own listing to get its real number.
2.9 percentage points exist only in the brochure.
That spread isn't fraud — it's convention. Every listing you'll be sent quotes the gross number, because everyone who sends you listings is paid when you buy. Terrava is built on the other number: what a property actually returns after every fee — underwritten to the standard a family office would demand — and scored 1–10, whether the verdict helps a sale or kills it.
The score says the same thing whether you buy or not. Here's exactly how we're paid.
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