Leading real estate agent Jeremy Wiesner hopes he might enjoy first mover advantage in what has become a wave of big name rival agents setting up in Dubai.
Since mid-2025, the Wiesner Property founder, who’s coming back and forth, has had 25 clients secure property, based on the allure of up to 12 per cent investment returns.
“Bondi Beach on steroids,” he has dubbed Dubai.
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Dubai is offering increasing appeal. Picture: Instagram
Wiesner has been joined in the shifting desert sand dunes by Gavin Rubinstein, Monika Tu and Marty Fox, who have now all set up in the emirates, and sparked speculation of a global real estate series.
Industry veterans suggest there is a strong prospect of some of the new office ventures having all the futile hallmarks of the egotistical Hong Kong expansions of past decades, starting with Andrew Gibbons in the late 1980s.
“The Middle East Black Diamondz is now officially registered in the UAE,” Double Bay agent Monica Tu posted recently on social media.
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Monika Tu, Founder and Director of Black Diamondz Group, boutique residential property agency in Double Bay. Picture: Britta Campion / The Australian
Gavin Rubinstein sets up in Dubai. Picture: Instagram
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Dubai was “the world’s new energy centre, no longer just a transit region on our way to Europe,” she advised.
The Rose Bay-based Rubinstein, and cast member of the shuttered series, Luxe Listings Sydney, has relocated Matt Kemeny to lead TRG’s Dubai expansion.
Meanwhile, the Melbourne based Marty Fox has opened his Dubai serviced office space, anticipating $500m in first-year sales.
“I have the ability to unlock a country in under four days,” he said.
The Block judge has been quite poetic on his Dubai social media.
The off the plan offering Bugatti Residences. Picture: Instagram
The Dubai lifestyle.
“The Arabian sun sets in the background, and the Arabian dream begins,” he said.
Fox has also finally expanded into Sydney’s east.
He’d been seeking a Double Bay dynamo, but hired Clay Brodie from BresicWhitney Eastern Beaches.
Dubai has also become a new home of choice for Australians seeking a new opportunities and a tax-free lifestyle.
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