Real Estate & Financial Advisory — United Arab Emirates
Property built your business. Numbers keep it standing.
Corporate Tax, VAT, e-invoicing and CFO-level advisory for UAE property businesses and SMEs — led by a former Head of Finance who ran a $250m+ real-estate portfolio, not by a junior you never met.
No obligation. You'll leave the call knowing your e-invoicing phase, your Corporate Tax exposure, and what fixing both costs.
If any of this sounds familiar
You're not behind because you're careless. The rules changed fast.
Corporate Tax arrived, VAT tightened, e-invoicing is landing — and most UAE businesses are running finance functions built for a pre-tax era. These are the three conversations we have most often.
"I don't actually know if we're compliant."
Filings went in, but nobody has tested whether the free-zone position holds, whether registrations were complete, or what happens if the FTA asks a question.
"My books tell me nothing useful."
The accounts close eventually, but you still can't answer which unit, project or client is actually making money — so decisions get made on instinct.
"My accountant does what I ask. That's the problem."
You need someone who tells you what you haven't thought to ask — deadlines coming, exposures building, decisions that need numbers behind them.
What we do
Two practices, one accountable professional
Most firms give you either tax technicians who don't understand property, or property people who don't understand tax. We do both, because the portfolio and the filings are the same problem seen from two ends.
Practice 01
Real Estate Advisory
For developers, holiday-homes operators, brokerages, property managers and investors.
- Feasibility & investment appraisal models
- OTA reconciliations and owner statements that tie out
- Unit-level P&L and portfolio reporting
- Brokerage & property-management setup, transaction support
Practice 02
Financial Services
For SMEs and groups across the Emirates that need their finance function handled properly.
- Accounting, bookkeeping & IFRS financial statements
- Corporate Tax & VAT — registration through filing
- E-invoicing readiness & implementation oversight
- Fractional CFO, models & company setup advisory
What you actually get
Four outcomes, not a list of services
Sleep at night
Registrations complete, positions tested, deadlines tracked. No unpleasant letters.
Numbers you can decide on
Unit, project and client-level profit — so you stop guessing which parts of the business work.
Your time back
Filings, reconciliations and FTA correspondence handled — you run the business instead.
Documents that hold up
Statements your bank, auditor, escrow agent and the FTA all accept without argument.
The deadlines are already set
UAE e-invoicing — where you stand today
Which deadline applies to you?
Select your annual revenue — we'll show your phase and what to do next.
Missing your phase carries a penalty of AED 5,000 per month until you comply. The risk is rarely the software — it's the invoice data underneath it.
How it works
Three steps to a clean position
No long onboarding, no discovery theatre. Most clients go from first call to a written position within two weeks.
Consultation — free, 20 minutes
Tell us your structure and what's worrying you. You leave with your e-invoicing phase, an initial read on your Corporate Tax exposure, and an honest view of whether you need us at all.
Readiness check — fixed fee
A written review of your Corporate Tax, VAT and e-invoicing position: what's exposed, what it costs to fix, and in what order. Yours to keep whether or not you continue.
Fix, file, then run monthly
We clear the backlog at fees quoted before work starts, then a retainer keeps books, filings and deadlines handled — with management numbers you can actually act on.
Honest comparison
Where we fit — and where we don't
There are three ways to solve this problem. We're the right answer for one kind of business, and we'd rather tell you that up front.
| Cheapest bookkeeper | Nexora Prime | Big-four / large firm | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who does your work | A junior, remotely | The senior professional you meet — every time | A partner sells, associates deliver |
| Understands property operations | Rarely | Nine years running it from the inside | Yes, in the real-estate team — at that price |
| Tells you what you didn't ask | No — processes instructions | Yes, that's the job | Yes, within scope |
| Typical response time | Days | Same or next business day | Through account channels |
| Pricing | Lowest — until something breaks | Fixed fees quoted before work starts | Premium, often hourly |
| Best for | Dormant or very simple entities | SMEs and property businesses that need senior judgement without a full-time CFO | Large groups, statutory audit, complex cross-border |
If you're a dormant entity that needs a filing and nothing more, hire the bookkeeper — we'll tell you so on the call.
Selected work
Problems we've actually solved
Client names withheld for confidentiality; the situations, decisions and outcomes are real.
Two holiday-homes operators, one finance function
Merging two businesses with different systems, owner structures and reporting into a single, defensible set of books.
READ THE CASE STUDY → Working capitalSupplier advances, brought under control
A proper accounts-payable advance function — approvals, settlement and a payment calendar aligned to receivables.
READ THE CASE STUDY → Corporate TaxA clean exit for a DIFC entity
Full IFRS statements built from scratch to support a Corporate Tax de-registration that would survive review.
READ THE CASE STUDY →In their words
What people we've worked with say
Umair led our finance digital transformation end to end — from shaping the requirements to rebuilding the chart of accounts and reporting around the new system. What stood out was how he translated between finance and technology: we finished with a team that actually uses the system, not one that works around it.
We build software; Umair made sure our accounting product made sense to accountants. His input on workflows, controls and reporting logic shaped what we shipped — and he explains complex finance requirements in a way a development team can actually build from.
A thorough, dependable professional. On UAE Corporate Tax and VAT matters his positions are well-researched and defensible, and he handles FTA processes with real care. I refer work to him with confidence.
Before you ask
Straight answers to the awkward questions
You're a small firm. What happens if you're unavailable?
How much does it cost?
We already have an accountant. Why would we switch?
Can you act as our tax agent with the FTA?
Do you do statutory audit?
We're outside the UAE. Can you still help?
What happens on the free consultation?
The UAE Compliance Checklist 2026–27
A one-page PDF covering every Corporate Tax, VAT and e-invoicing date that applies to UAE businesses, the five most common filing mistakes, and the eight questions to ask your accountant this quarter. No cost, no call required.
Sent by email, usually same day.
One conversation is enough to know where you stand.
Free, 20 minutes, no obligation — and useful even if you never hire us.
Practice 01 — Real Estate Advisory
Finance that speaks property.
Most accountants learn real estate from your invoices. We ran it — nine years inside a Dubai real-estate, holiday-homes and hospitality group, including the merger and integration of two holiday-homes operators. That operating history is what you're hiring.
The problem we're usually called about
Property businesses generate messy, high-volume, multi-party money: platform payouts arriving netted, owners expecting statements, service charges and utilities landing in the wrong place, and now a tax authority asking questions the old bookkeeping was never built to answer. The result is a portfolio that looks profitable in aggregate while individual units, projects or buildings quietly lose money — and nobody can prove otherwise.
- OTA & channel-manager reconciliations that tie out (Airbnb, Booking, direct)
- Owner statements & remittances, per unit and per owner
- Unit-level P&L with occupancy and ADR-linked reporting
- VAT treatment for short-stay income and mixed supplies
- Feasibility & investment appraisal models
- Furnishing & fit-out package modelling for new units
- Acquisition support, escrow & project accounting
- Portfolio dashboards for owners and boards
- Commission accounting, agent settlements & client-money discipline
- Brokerage & property-management company setup advisory
- Service-charge and community-management finance support
- Management accounts your regulator and bank will accept
- Project costing, WIP and stage-billing control
- Supplier & procurement accounting
- Margin reporting by project and by client
Why it matters now
Property income is exactly what the new tax era scrutinises.
Corporate Tax on real-estate income, VAT on short stays, e-invoicing on every B2B supply — the rules landed on property businesses harder than most. Unit-level books aren't hygiene anymore; they're what keeps assessments, penalties and bank facilities safe.
- Corporate Tax positions for holding, operating and free-zone structures
- VAT recovery on mixed residential / commercial supplies
- E-invoicing readiness for rent, service and management income
- Audit-ready records for banks, escrow and owner disputes
Common questions
We only have a handful of units. Is this overkill?
Our channel manager already produces reports. Isn't that enough?
Can you work with our existing system?
Bring us one building, one portfolio, or one problem unit.
We'll tell you what the numbers are really saying.
Practice 02 — Financial Services
Your finance function, without the headcount.
A full-time Head of Finance in Dubai costs upwards of AED 400,000 a year. Most growing SMEs don't need one full time — they need senior judgement a few days a month, and reliable execution in between. That's exactly what this is.
- Monthly bookkeeping & management accounts
- IFRS financial statements & audit-readiness support
- Payroll & WPS support
- Backlog clean-ups and system migrations (Zoho, QuickBooks, Xero)
- Corporate Tax registration, computation & filing
- VAT registration, returns & refund support
- De-registrations and FTA correspondence handled end-to-end
- Tax health checks & free-zone qualifying-income reviews
- Phase mapping — which deadline applies to you
- Invoice, VAT-position and systems gap assessment
- Accredited Service Provider selection support
- Implementation oversight through go-live
- Fractional CFO & board reporting
- Cash-flow, feasibility & investment models
- Company setup advisory — free zone vs mainland, banking support
- Transaction and cross-border structuring guidance
How we price
You'll know the number before you commit
Three principles, applied to every engagement.
Fixed fees for defined work
Registrations, filings, statements, readiness checks and models are quoted as a fixed fee in writing. If the scope genuinely changes, we tell you before doing the work — never after.
Retainers tiered by reality
Monthly fees are set by transaction volume and entity count, reviewed every six months. If your volumes fall, so does the fee.
Advisory by the day, not the hour
No six-minute increments and no surprise invoices for a phone call. Strategic work is bought in days or as a monthly advisory retainer.
Common questions
How quickly can you take over a messy set of books?
What if the FTA raises a query on work you did?
Do you lock clients into long contracts?
Know exactly what you're exposed to — this month, not next year.
Fixed-fee readiness check, written and yours to keep.
Selected work
Four problems, four decisions.
Real engagements from nine years leading finance in UAE real estate, hospitality and financial services. Client and employer names are withheld for confidentiality; situations, actions and outcomes are as they happened.
M&A Integration · Holiday homes
Two holiday-homes operators, one finance function
Challenge
A Dubai group acquired a second holiday-homes operator. Two finance teams, two charts of accounts, two sets of owner agreements and two reporting rhythms now had to answer to one board — while daily operations across hundreds of units carried on uninterrupted.
Strategy
Rather than force one system onto the other, we designed a single target operating model first: one chart of accounts built for group consolidation and unit-level profitability, one owner-statement format, a common reconciliation standard for platform payouts, and a unified budgeting and FP&A cycle — with compliance (including AML controls), transfer pricing for intra-group charges and e-invoicing readiness built into the model rather than bolted on later.
Execution
Led the finance workstream end to end — mapping legacy ledgers, harmonising revenue recognition across differing owner contracts, rebuilding OTA and direct-booking reconciliations, digitising core finance processes as part of the group's wider digital transformation, documenting intra-group service charges for transfer pricing, embedding AML and compliance checks into onboarding and payments, and retraining both teams onto the shared processes.
Result
One consolidated finance function reporting on a unified basis — group consolidation, a single budgeting and FP&A rhythm, unit-level visibility across the merged portfolio for the first time, and a compliance posture (AML, transfer pricing, e-invoicing) the board could stand behind.
- Group consolidation on a single reporting basis — no missed month-end
- Unified budgeting & FP&A cycle across the merged group
- Unit-level P&L visibility across the combined portfolio
- Owner reporting standardised on one format
- AML & compliance controls embedded in day-to-day finance
- Digital transformation of core finance processes
- Transfer pricing documented for intra-group charges
- E-invoicing readiness built into the target model
Working capital · Accounts payable & receivable
Supplier advances, brought under control
Challenge
Supplier and contractor advances were being issued ad hoc — approved informally, tracked in scattered spreadsheets, and rarely settled against final invoices on time. Cash was leaving the business ahead of schedule while customer receivables were still outstanding, straining working capital and leaving the advance balances unreconciled at every close.
Strategy
Design a proper accounts-payable advance function instead of policing individual payments: a written advance policy with an approval matrix, a dedicated advance ledger, mandatory settlement against invoices — and, critically, a payment calendar linked to the accounts-receivable ageing, so money committed out always took expected money in into account.
Execution
Implemented the advance request and approval workflow, built the advance sub-ledger with ageing by supplier, set settlement rules that netted every advance against its final invoice, and introduced a weekly payment run scheduled against AR collections rather than against whoever asked loudest.
Result
Every advance approved, recorded, aged and settled through one controlled process — with payables timing consciously matched to receivables, month-end advance balances that reconcile, and a clean audit trail from request to settlement.
- AP advance policy, approval matrix and sub-ledger implemented
- Advances settled against final invoices — no unreconciled balances at close
- Payment calendar linked to the AR ageing and collections
- Full audit trail from advance request to settlement
Corporate Tax · DIFC entity
A clean exit for a DIFC entity
Challenge
A DIFC financial-services entity needed to de-register for UAE Corporate Tax, but lacked a complete, defensible set of financial statements to support the application — and an incomplete file risked rejection and prolonged exposure.
Strategy
Build the supporting file to a standard that would survive scrutiny rather than merely satisfy the form: full IFRS statements from source records, with every balance traceable and every judgement documented.
Execution
Constructed a complete set of IFRS financial statements from scratch, supported by eleven explanatory notes and a liquidator's report, then ran iterative reviews until the file was internally consistent and every figure could be evidenced.
Result
A de-registration application submitted with a clean, audit-quality supporting file — the entity's tax affairs closed properly rather than left as a lingering exposure.
- Full IFRS statements built from source records
- Eleven supporting notes plus liquidator's report
- Every balance traceable and evidenced
- De-registration file submitted complete
Compliance · Real estate group
One group, five property businesses, full compliance
Challenge
A group operating across real estate brokerage, property management, facility management, interior design and construction development had grown entity by entity — and its compliance had grown the same way. Payroll ran differently in each business with gaps against WPS requirements, tax registrations and filings were fragmented across the entities, and nobody could say in one sentence whether the group as a whole was compliant.
Strategy
One assessment across the whole group rather than five separate clean-ups: map every entity's WPS payroll position, Corporate Tax and VAT registrations and filing status against a single standard, then fix by priority — payroll first, because salaries touch people, then tax registrations, then a group-wide compliance calendar so it never drifts again.
Execution
Standardised the payroll cycle and WPS submission files across all entities, closed the registration gaps and aligned Corporate Tax and VAT positions entity by entity, and built one group compliance calendar with named ownership for every recurring deadline — payroll, VAT returns, CT filings and licence renewals.
Result
WPS-compliant payroll running on one standard across the group, tax registrations complete and filings current in every entity, and a single compliance calendar the management team can actually read — the honest answer to “are we compliant?” became yes, in writing.
- WPS-compliant payroll standardised across five business lines
- Corporate Tax & VAT registrations completed and aligned group-wide
- One compliance calendar with named ownership per deadline
- Group-level compliance position documented for management
Your situation is probably in here somewhere.
Twenty minutes will tell us — and tell you.
Insights
Short reads. Real decisions.
Practical guidance on the rules reshaping UAE business — written for owners and boards, not for other accountants. New pieces publish on LinkedIn first.
The AED 5,000-a-month question: is your business ready for e-invoicing?
The system is live for voluntary use, the AED 50m+ tier goes mandatory on 1 January 2027, and everyone else follows by July 2027. The readiness gap is almost never software — it's the quality of the invoice data underneath. A two-hour review of your invoice fields, VAT positions and system exports tells you how exposed you really are.
Why most operators can't answer "which unit makes money?"
Payouts arrive netted, owner splits sit in side spreadsheets, and cleaning or maintenance rarely lands on the right unit. The result is portfolio-level profit that hides unit-level losses. Unit-level books change three decisions: which leases you renew, which owners you renegotiate, and where the next unit comes from.
Five Corporate Tax mistakes UAE SMEs are making in their first filings
Registration deadlines missed on dormant entities, free-zone 0% assumed without qualifying-income tests, related-party transactions undocumented, accounting profit filed without adjustments, and no records to defend any of it. Each has a fix — and a deadline.
Free zone doesn't mean nothing to do
The 0% rate applies only to qualifying income, and the tests are specific. Non-qualifying revenue, mainland dealings or thin substance can pull you to 9% — sometimes on everything. You still register, still file, still keep the evidence.
Supplier advances: the quiet hole in your working capital
Advances paid without a settlement process become balances nobody reconciles — cash out early, receivables still pending, and a month-end figure no one can explain. An advance policy with an approval matrix and AR-linked payment calendar closes the hole.
WPS compliance: the payroll check most groups fail quietly
Multi-entity groups often run payroll five different ways — and at least one of them has WPS gaps. Standardising the cycle and submission files across entities is usually a two-week fix that removes a standing regulatory risk.
Full articles publish on our LinkedIn page first — follow Nexora Prime Consulting to read them as they go out.
Nexora Global BETA
What does life actually cost, city to city?
Our clients live and work across borders — Dubai to Riyadh, Lahore to London. This is a preview of a platform we're building: honest, side-by-side monthly living costs for the cities that matter to Gulf-connected professionals and businesses.
Indicative monthly estimates in USD, rounded, for typical mid-range living (city-centre one-bedroom for singles; three-bedroom for families). Beta data for concept preview — verified, regularly updated figures are in development.
Relocating, expanding or hiring across these cities?
Cross-border structuring is exactly our lane.
Free tools
Answers in ten seconds.
Four calculators we built because clients kept asking the same questions. No sign-up, no email required — use them as often as you like. Indicative only: your actual position depends on your structure, and that's what a consultation is for.
UAE Corporate Tax calculator
0% on the first AED 375,000 of taxable income, 9% above it.
Estimated Corporate Tax
AED 56,250
Excludes Small Business Relief, free-zone qualifying-income rules and group adjustments — each can change this materially. Taxable income is not the same as accounting profit.
UAE VAT calculator
Standard rate 5%. Add VAT to a net figure, or strip it out of a gross one.
Gross (incl. VAT)
AED 10,500
Zero-rated and exempt supplies (certain exports, residential property, some financial services) follow different rules.
End-of-service gratuity calculator
Private-sector UAE: 21 days' basic pay per year for the first five years, 30 days per year after.
Estimated gratuity
AED 90,000
Indicative only. No gratuity accrues below one year of service, and total gratuity is capped at two years' wage. Unpaid leave, contract type and termination circumstances can affect the result.
Property rental yield calculator
What that unit actually returns — gross and net of running costs.
Net yield
6.00%
Costs should include service charges, management fees, maintenance, insurance and vacancy allowance. Short-term rental economics differ — that's a modelling conversation.
Numbers raising more questions than they answer?
That's usually the moment to talk.
About
Senior-led. By design.
Large firms sell you a partner and staff you with juniors. Nexora Prime is built the other way round: the senior professional you meet on day one is the one doing the work on day one hundred.
Why this practice exists
For nine years our founder sat on the other side of the table — Head of Finance for a Dubai real-estate and hospitality group, a $250m+ portfolio spanning development, holiday homes, brokerage and interior design. He signed the owner statements. He took the bank covenant calls. He answered the FTA letters. He merged two holiday-homes companies into one and made the numbers agree.
In that seat you learn something no advisory career teaches: what it feels like when the advice is wrong and your name is on the consequences. You learn that most business owners aren't looking for technical brilliance — they're looking for someone who will tell them the truth early, in language they can act on, and then handle it.
That is the whole premise of this firm. Not the biggest, not the cheapest — the one where a senior person is genuinely accountable for your numbers.
What we believe
- Tell people the truth early. Bad news delivered in month one is a problem. Delivered in month nine, it's a crisis.
- Plain English, always. If you can't explain a tax position to the person who has to live with it, you don't understand it well enough.
- Fixed fees, quoted first. Nobody should fear opening an invoice from their accountant.
- Say no when it's not a fit. Referring you elsewhere costs us one engagement and earns us a reputation.
- Numbers exist to drive decisions. A report nobody acts on is an expensive archive.
How we're different
Three things, concretely: the work is done by a former Head of Finance rather than delegated down; the practice sits at the junction of property operations and tax technicality, which almost nobody covers well; and pricing is fixed and stated before work begins. If those three things don't matter to your situation, a cheaper or bigger option is probably right — and we'll say so.
Credentials
- FTA Registered Tax AgentUAE
- Fellow Certified Public AccountantFCPA
- Financial Modeling & Valuation AnalystFMVA
- Master of Business AdministrationMBA
- BSc Accounting (Hons)BSC
- Nexora Prime FZ-LLC — licensed free zone entityRAKEZ
Sectors we know from the inside
Judge us on one engagement.
Start with a free consultation and decide from there.
Contact
Start with one conversation
Tell us whether it's the portfolio or the filings keeping you up. We reply within one business day with a clear next step — and a fixed quote wherever possible.
Phone / WhatsApp
+971 52 345 5797Office
Nexora Prime FZ-LLC
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Response time
Within one business day, Sunday to Thursday