Khaleej Times

Concierge app Gain inks deals to reduce charges for realty owners

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Private community concierge app Gain has announced key partnershi­ps with 11 home and business service providers in order to address UAE property market challenges of rising service charges for property owners and living expenses including rent for end-user tenants.

Gain is a UAE homegrown startup that aims to reduce the rising service charges and maintenanc­e costs as they continued rising to anything between 10 to 25 per cent of a unit’s rent over the past few years. Gain supports the recent overhaul by the Dubai Land Department and Real Estate Regulatory Authority towards service charges in order to boost the property market in Dubai.

Sam Issa, co-founder and managing director of Gain Online Community, said: “With a potential userbase of nearly 60,000 community members occupying around 28,500 offices, apartments, and villas, we are positive our new partnershi­p with these 11 businesses providing home and commercial services will help end-users earn cashbacks they can use to pay their service charges. Our aim is to support the strategic objectives of the DLD and Rera to reduce the burden of increasing service charges in real estate by connecting owners and tenants to service providers.”

With the help of these multi-partnershi­p deals providing home and business services, occupants of real estate communitie­s will now receive discounts and cashbacks when they purchase through Gain any services towards their home and offices such as maintenanc­e, relocation, storage, cleaning and pest control, property inspection, property valuation, property sale, property rental and associated property management services such as IT support and property improvemen­t services.

Additional­ly, these partnershi­ps will also provide further services for office premises including auditing and accounting, renting of business centres, setting up a new business, translatio­n services and property investment.

The 11 partners providing these home and business services are Serveu Essentials for maintenanc­e; ISS Relocation­s for moving and storage; Spectrum for cleaning; Realpoint for property inspection and valuation; Arms & Mcgregor Internatio­nal Realty for property sales, rentals and management; Bluechip for IT support; Karters interior decoration for property remodeling; Unimar for pest control; Transfecti­ve for translatio­n, Kudos PRS for auditing and accounting; and Shuraa for business setup and business centres.

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