Freezone DIFC - Dubai International Financial Center.

Initially, we wanted our office to be located in the DIFC - Dubai International Financial Center area. But it turned out that we can't open a real estate agency there because it is a freezone location.

Agency in Dubai are areas where companies can only engage in certain activities. DIFC is a place for financial and investment companies, banks and funds. British law applies there instead of local laws. Buildings and landscaping here, by the way, are even similar to London in mood.

In Dubai there are freezones for different areas: medicine, it-business, manufacturing, content, games, design, auto industry, education, jewelry - a total of more than thirty zones for different types of activities, giving special conditions that simplify the licensing and operation of companies of a certain type of activity.

But real estate agencies, according to the rules, must operate in the mainland, not in the freezone. That's why DIFC wasn't a good fit for us.