Peter Considine
Dubai real estate broker & founder, Dubai Property Lab
Who I am
I'm an active Dubai real estate broker and the co-owner of Shosty Real Estate. I've been working in the Dubai market long enough to know which data sources are reliable, which are misleading, and which gaps nobody is filling. DPL is my attempt to fill one of those gaps.
I'm not an analyst who comments on markets from a distance. I work in this market every week — advising buyers, tracking communities, interpreting transaction data, explaining the difference between a headline number and what's actually happening. That practitioner perspective is what DPL is built on.
Why I built this
I built DPL because I needed it myself. Every time I was preparing for a client conversation, I was piecing together information from four different platforms — none of them built for the question I was actually trying to answer. I wanted one place that classified transactions correctly, showed handover timelines clearly, and didn't bury the data behind a sales process.
I also built it because no one else was. PropertyMonitor is a broker tool. Reidin is institutional. DXBinteract is FAM's free consumer product. None of them are investor-first intelligence platforms that explain what the data means.
Disclosure: I run Shosty Real Estate, a Dubai brokerage. DPL is an independent intelligence platform — it does not generate leads for Shosty, and Shosty's brokerage recommendations are never embedded in DPL analysis. If I'm advising a client, that relationship is separate from what DPL publishes.
What I'm building toward
Version 1 of DPL is a foundation — DLD data, community and project-level analysis, and the Insights section where I publish longer-form work. The goal is to build toward a platform where any investor who wants to understand the Dubai market can get a clearer picture in fifteen minutes than they'd get from a week of reading press coverage.
The product roadmap is driven by what investors actually need: better handover intelligence, developer track record analysis, scenario tools, and eventually a way to query the data directly. That's the direction.