An objection from a Dubai buyer is almost never what they said out loud. Price is rarely price. Timing is rarely timing. The job of an agent is to hear the actual objection underneath the stated one.
An objection is a concern or reason a prospect gives for not proceeding with a purchase. In Dubai property the common surface objections are: price is too high, I need to think about it, my partner has not seen it yet, I want to wait for the next launch, and the service charge is too high. Each of these masks something else about a third of the time: fear of a bad decision, lack of trust in the agent, discomfort with a specific clause in the SPA, a competing project they did not mention, or uncertainty about their own financing.
On a Dubai Marina resale in 2024 a buyer told me three times over two weeks that the price was too high. After a careful conversation the real objection was a concern about the building’s service charge trajectory. We pulled the RERA index. His doubt was wrong. Deal closed.
Respond to the real objection, not the stated one.
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