Dubai or Marrakech: decision grid
Entry and exit costs, tax, residency, currency, liquidity, over five and ten years.
September 2026 edition · 6 pages · PDF, 188 Ko
What you will learn
- What each market does well
- The line-by-line comparison with sources
- The questions to ask at five and ten years
- How to combine the two
Contents
1Dubai or Marrakech: two markets, one reading grid
- What each market does well
- Item-by-item comparison
- Over five and ten years: the questions to ask
- Frequently asked questions
- 2Checklist before signing
What each market does well
Dubai is a deep, liquid market, with no tax on income or capital gains, a long-term residence visa linked to the investment and a currency pegged to the dollar. It moves in pronounced cycles and attracts worldwide demand.
Marrakech is a second-home and wealth-preservation market, in the immediate vicinity of Europe, in a stable currency pegged to the euro and the dollar, with lower entry prices per square metre for plot sizes that have no equivalent in Dubai. It is less liquid and taxation, though moderate, does exist.
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