Muhammad Rizwan Sheikh

Rizwan covers off-plan and new-build across the communities Inca works in, and the newer districts where most of the current launches are — Dubai Islands, Dubai South, Dubailand Residential Complex, Dubai Investment Park and Meydan.

Off-plan is a different purchase from a ready property, and he treats it that way. The questions that matter are not the ones in the brochure: what the developer’s last three handovers actually did against their promised dates, what the payment plan costs you if the timeline slips, what the escrow arrangement does and does not protect, and how the specification in the show unit compares with what tends to arrive.

He is a useful person to talk to before a launch weekend rather than during one.