Ownership insights
Buying guide
Written for investors, with the source and review date on every guide. Where a rule is unclear or recently changed, we say so.
Ownership insights
Can foreigners buy property in Oman?
Where non-Omanis can own, what "freehold" and "usufruct" mean in practice, and the rules that catch buyers out.
Reviewed 25 September 2026
Ownership insights
Oman’s 10-year Golden Residency through property
The OMR 200,000 route through Integrated Tourism Complexes, what it does and does not give you, and how to structure a purchase around it.
Reviewed 25 September 2026
Deal analysis
The total cost of buying property in Oman
Registration fees, developer charges, service charges and the taxes that apply now and from 2028, line by line.
Reviewed 25 September 2026
Market signals
Rental yields in Muscat: what the data can and can’t tell you
Why nobody can publish an official Muscat yield today, what the official data does show, and how to judge a yield claim.
Reviewed 25 September 2026
In preparation
- Buying off-plan in Oman: protections, risks and due diligence
- Mortgages for non-residents in Oman
- Step by step: from reservation to title deed
- Service charges and owners’ associations in ITCs
- Selling and exit: resale in Oman’s ITCs
- Oman or Dubai: a property investor’s comparison
- UK tax on overseas property: what Oman buyers should ask
- Al Mouj, Muscat Bay or AIDA: which suits which investor