About ACRE
About ACRE — Al Casa Real Estate
ACRE is a UAE property investment advisory and brokerage firm helping global investors access curated opportunities across Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Ras Al Khaimah and Al Marjan Island.

Vatsal Thakkar
Founder & CEO, Al Casa Real Estate
Founders & Team
Founder & CEO, Al Casa Real Estate
Buy-side advisors, always.
I founded Al Casa Real Estate on a simple observation: overseas buyers of UAE property deserved the same standard of impartial, evidence-led advice they would expect when investing at home. Too many were being sold to, when what they needed was to be properly advised. From our office at Ubora Towers in Business Bay, that conviction still shapes everything ACRE does.
My work bridges the two markets I know best — the UK and the Middle East. I split my time between them, guiding second-home families, Golden Visa buyers, investors and family offices from London to Mumbai to New Jersey into curated opportunities across Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Ras Al Khaimah and Al Marjan Island. The brief always starts with the life — or the portfolio — the client is actually trying to build.
Off-plan launches, rental strategies, Golden Visa facilitation, development partnerships — each demands a different kind of counsel, and I have built ACRE to offer all of it under one roof. That is only possible because of close working relationships with the region's leading developers — BNW Developments, Emaar, Nakheel, OMNIYAT, Binghatti, Sobha Realty, Aldar, DAMAC and Select Group — giving our clients launch allocations and off-market access across the three emirates we cover.
Whether you are buying your first overseas apartment or structuring a land joint venture, every conversation with me begins the same way: privately, honestly, and with the numbers on the table. If the right advice is to wait, that is what you will hear.
How we think
Three principles
Curation over catalogue
We would rather show three right options than thirty available ones. Every opportunity on this site has been selected for lifestyle appeal, location strength and long-term ownership potential.
Evidence over adjectives
Net yields, developer track records and district comparables — our recommendations are built on numbers a sceptic can interrogate.
Discretion as standard
Many of our clients are private individuals, family offices and developers. Their business remains their own.
Private Consultation
Meet the team behind the curation.
Every ACRE engagement begins with a private consultation. We would be glad to hear what you are planning.
