With world traders more and more seeking to Abu Dhabi for high-yield property and second-home alternatives, IREIS 2025 arrives at a second of sharp market development, regulatory reform, and rising demand for off-plan and luxurious property, stories John E. Kaye
Abu Dhabi is about to host greater than 3,000 traders subsequent month because the Worldwide Actual Property & Funding Present (IREIS) returns for its 14th version towards the backdrop of a surging UAE property market valued at AED 893 billion.
Scheduled to happen on the Abu Dhabi Nationwide Exhibition Centre (ADNEC) from 12–14 September 2025, the occasion is positioning the capital as a focus for cross-border actual property capital and large-scale growth.
Billed because the UAE’s premier actual property platform since 2005, IREIS 2025 will span greater than 3,500 sq. metres of exhibition house and has confirmed participation from over 40 exhibitors. Nation pavilions from Turkey, Egypt and others will promote funding inflows and bilateral market entry, reinforcing the present’s standing as a gateway for worldwide builders.
The occasion’s organiser, Dome Exhibitions, advised The European that the present is designed to help dwell funding discussions, platform launches, and insight-sharing round city growth, migration-linked property funding, and sector regulation.
It can embody initiatives throughout the residential, industrial, and mixed-use segments.
The present can even characteristic thematic zones together with second-home funding, immigration-linked residency schemes, and property innovation. Builders will use the platform to promote pre-launch initiatives, digital viewing experiences, and funding packages tailor-made to worldwide patrons.
This 12 months’s format additionally features a new space devoted to Citizenship by Funding consultants, addressing rising demand for world residency, life-style migration and dual-home methods.
Further convention tracks will cowl fractional possession fashions, golden visa reforms, digital cross-border property transactions and regulatory updates. Digital showcase instruments and immersive tech will enable attendees to interact with digital property portfolios.
Dome Exhibitions has operated in the true property and funding occasion house for over 30 years, producing property exhibitions in each the UAE and the UK. It has additionally labored to facilitate entry for Center Japanese traders to British property markets, significantly within the residential and mixed-use segments.
Talking yesterday, its Exhibition & Convention Director, Arun Bose, mentioned: “We’re witnessing sturdy momentum heading into IREIS 2025.
“Builders from the UAE, GCC, Europe, North America, and past are confirming participation, wanting to showcase their most bold residential, industrial, and mixed-use initiatives.”
The present comes as Abu Dhabi’s actual property sector stories double-digit annual development. Complete transaction worth in Q1 2025 reportedly rose to AED 25.3 billion, up 34.5% from AED 18.82 billion in the identical interval of 2024, in keeping with the Abu Dhabi Actual Property Centre (ADREC).
Unit gross sales elevated 11% in quantity and 26.7% in worth. Mortgage transactions additionally climbed, reaching AED 9.8 billion—up 49% year-on-year.
This follows a 12 months of broad-based growth in 2024, which noticed AED 96.2 billion in complete transaction worth throughout 28,249 offers in Abu Dhabi alone. Unit gross sales for the 12 months have been up 4%, totalling AED 47.9 billion.
Abu Dhabi’s luxurious and branded residences section has additionally posted document development in 2025.
Branded residence launches are up fourfold year-on-year, whereas transactions valued at AED 7 million and above have reached AED 6.3 billion in simply the primary 4 months of the 12 months. Over half of these concerned properties above AED 10 million.
Bose added: “IREIS is more and more seen as a high-impact venue for world actual property engagement, and Abu Dhabi stays a key strategic platform for severe traders.”
Most important picture: Abu Dhabi Nationwide Exhibition Centre, courtesy ADNEC
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