For portfolio owners and developers
Portfolio and build-to-rent management in Dubai
For owners of several units, whole floors or whole buildings, for developers at handover, and for investors building to rent. One operator, one agreement, one statement, and every unit licensed and run to the same standard.
fäm Living is the holiday homes company of fäm Properties, licensed by Dubai’s Department of Economy and Tourism.
Who this is for
Built for owners of more than one door
Bulk buyers
Several units bought together, in one tower or across the city, that you want run as one portfolio.
Whole floors and buildings
A floor or an entire building under single ownership, run as one asset rather than unit by unit.
Developers at handover
Unsold or retained stock, or a rental programme you offer your buyers, operated from day one.
Build to rent
Buildings held for income rather than sale, run across nightly, monthly and yearly lets.
Why portfolios need a different kind of operator
Running one apartment and running forty are different jobs. A portfolio needs the same standard in every unit, pricing that treats the units as one stock rather than as competitors, and reporting that rolls up to the building and the portfolio as well as down to each door.
It also needs relationships most single-unit operators never build: with the developer, the owners' association, the building management office and security. In a building where many units are let to guests, those relationships decide whether the operation runs smoothly or fights the building every week.
Dubai's largest landlords and developers have spent the last few years buying whole buildings to hold for rent rather than to sell. The same logic applies at a smaller scale to anyone who owns a block of units: run as one asset, they are worth more than the same units run separately.
Nightly, monthly and yearly, in one strategy
A portfolio does not have to choose between holiday homes and long lets. We run each unit on whatever earns best for it: nightly in the season and around events, monthly for corporate and long-stay guests, and yearly tenancies where that is the better answer.
Mixing tenures across a building smooths the calendar. Monthly guests fill the quiet months, nightly lets capture the peaks, and yearly tenants give a base of steady income. We review the mix with you rather than fixing it once and leaving it.
What we take on
Every unit is licensed as a holiday home with Dubai's Department of Economy and Tourism, or with Ajman's Department of Tourism Development, under our operator licence. We handle the registrations, renewals and guest registration for the whole portfolio.
We specify one furnishing and fit-out standard across the units, manage the inventory, photograph and list each one, and run pricing, guest screening, in-person check-in, housekeeping, linen and maintenance with our own team in Dubai.
You get one agreement, one point of contact and one statement covering every unit, broken down unit by unit, with each home visible in the owner portal.
Where we have done it
Sarai Villas, Palm Jumeirah. A villa compound on the Palm's Crescent, developed by Al Osaimi Group, with the sea on the doorstep. fäm Living ran the villas as a multi-unit holiday home programme: one standard of furnishing and service across every villa, one point of contact for the owner, and pricing that treated the villas as one stock rather than as competitors.
Mada Residences, Downtown Dubai. A residential tower by ARTAR in Downtown Dubai, completed in 2018, with a pool, gym and sauna. Here fäm Living ran a block of apartments within one building as a single programme, working with the building management on access, guest registration and the house rules that let short stays and long-term residents share a tower.
RP Heights, Downtown Dubai. A high-rise across from Dubai Mall, completed in 2020, with studios to three-bedroom apartments and penthouses. A multi-unit programme of the same shape: licensing each unit, one fit-out standard, and nightly and monthly lets run together so the units filled the quieter months as well as the peaks.
City Walk. A low-rise, walkable district between Downtown and the Jumeirah coast, where fäm Living runs one of its largest groups of homes. fäm Living has run homes in City Walk Residential Buildings 1A, 2A, 2B, 6A, 6B, 18A and 18B, and at Viridian at Central Park. Units here are run as one portfolio across several buildings, under one agreement and one statement.
Today our largest concentration of homes is in Business Bay. We are the holiday homes company of fäm Properties, so a portfolio owner deals with one group for buying, selling, leasing and running their units.
How it starts
We start with a review of the portfolio: the buildings, the unit mix, their condition, what each building allows, and what you want from the assets. From that we propose a letting strategy and a plan for onboarding.
Most portfolios start with a first group of units, so you can see the operation working before the rest follow. Larger buildings are onboarded floor by floor, with furnishing and licensing scheduled so units start earning as they are ready rather than all at once.
Portfolio review
Tell us what you own
Leave a WhatsApp number and the buildings you have in mind. Our team will come back to you to arrange a review of the portfolio. There is no obligation, and terms are set out in writing before anything is signed.
Prefer email? leads@famliving.com
Straight answers
What portfolio owners ask
- Can a whole building be run as holiday homes in Dubai?
- Yes. Each unit needs its own holiday home permit from the Department of Economy and Tourism, and a licensed operator can hold permits across a whole building. Some master developers and owners' associations set their own rules, so we check the building first. Hotel apartments are a separate licence category with different requirements.
- What is build to rent in Dubai?
- Build to rent means a building developed or bought to be held and let rather than sold unit by unit. In Dubai it has grown as large landlords and developers buy whole buildings for rental income. The operating question is the same at any size: how to keep every unit let, maintained and compliant.
- Who operates build to rent and serviced apartment buildings in Dubai?
- fäm Living, the holiday homes company of fäm Properties, operates multi-unit and whole-building programmes for developers, landlords and investors. We license, furnish, list, price and run the units by the night, by the month or a mix of both, with one agreement and one statement for the whole portfolio.
- Do you offer residential building management in Dubai?
- We manage the homes inside a residential building: letting the apartments by the night and by the month, guests, cleaning, maintenance inside the units and owner reporting, for one owner or many. Common areas, lifts and building systems stay with the building's facilities management company, and we work alongside it.
- Has fäm Living run whole buildings before?
- Yes. fäm Living, the holiday homes company of fäm Properties, has run multi-unit and whole-building programmes at Sarai Villas on Palm Jumeirah, at Mada Residence and RP Heights in Downtown Dubai, and in City Walk.
- Do you manage units across different buildings as one portfolio?
- Yes. Many portfolio owners hold units in several towers. We run them under one agreement, with one statement covering every unit, broken down unit by unit.
- Can you work with developers on a rental programme for buyers?
- Yes. We can operate retained or unsold stock from handover and run a rental programme that a developer offers its buyers, so units are licensed, furnished and earning from the start.
- How are portfolio terms set?
- Terms are agreed per portfolio rather than published, because they depend on the number of units, where they are, their condition and the letting mix. We set them out in writing after the portfolio review, before anything is signed.
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