About
Open since 2005. Through all of it.
Ivory Crest has been trading in Dubai since 2005 — two decades of buying, selling, leasing and advising, through a crash, a slowdown and the run since 2021.
We are not trying to be the biggest brokerage in Dubai.
There are firms here with more listings and larger floors. What we have instead is a client book that keeps coming back, and advisors who have seen a Dubai downturn first-hand and know what one looks like on the way in.
That shapes the advice. We would rather lose a commission than put a client into a building we would not buy ourselves, and we will say so plainly when a launch is priced for the developer rather than for you.
Vision
To be the brokerage Dubai buyers call before they decide, not after.
The market does not need another agency listing the same units. It needs advisors whose first answer is sometimes no. We want the call that comes before the decision — when the advice still changes the outcome.
Mission
Give every client the information we would want if it were our own money.
Transacted comparables rather than asking prices. Net yields rather than gross. The service charge before the offer, not after the handover. If a deal does not stand up under that, we say so and we move on.
2005 — present
2008
2014
2021
One tick per year we have been open. We stayed through the ones nobody puts in a brochure.
“We have sold through a crash, a slowdown and a boom. The advice does not change with the market — only the answer does.”
Track record
The numbers behind that.
Figures are cumulative since opening and are reviewed each January.
- 20+
- Years in the UAE market
- 2.4B
- AED transacted
- 60+
- Advisors on the team
- 38
- Nationalities advised
Trading through three full market cycles.
Across sales, off-plan and leasing.
Speaking 14 languages.
Resident, GCC and overseas buyers.
History
Five moments that shaped the firm.
2005
Opened in Dubai
Started as a three-person sales desk letting and selling in the first freehold releases.
2009
Traded through the correction
Stayed open and kept the team when much of the market did not. The client book from those years still transacts with us.
2014
Leasing and management added
Built the landlord side of the business so clients had somewhere to go after the purchase.
2019
Off-plan desk formed
Began holding direct allocation with developers rather than working through sub-agents.
2024
Advisory practice launched
A dedicated desk for clients holding three or more UAE assets.
Talk to us
Come in, or we'll come to you.
Twenty minutes on the phone is usually enough to work out whether we're the right firm for what you're doing.
- Call
- +971 54 506 4992
Sunday – Thursday, 9:00 – 18:00 GST
- Visit
- Office 000, Level 00, Business Bay
Dubai, United Arab Emirates