Real estate in 2024 was about platforms, trust, capital discipline, and market timing. FAME Delivered’s Top 10 Real Estate Punters 2024 spotlights leaders who didn’t simply participate in the market, they influenced where it went next.
This list reflects the full stack of the industry: developers, brokerage powerhouses, PropTech leadership, investment direction, and large-scale portfolio strategy.
Amira Sajwani — Managing Director, DAMAC Properties
Amira Sajwani represents modern real estate leadership that blends luxury development with long-term market vision. Her work reflects scale, strategic oversight, and a forward approach to how premium real estate evolves across the UAE and beyond.
Dr. Raja Easa Al Gurg — Chairperson & MD, Easa Saleh Al Gurg Group
Dr. Raja Easa Al Gurg stands as one of the UAE’s most influential business leaders, steering a diversified group with deep roots and wide sector impact. Her leadership reflects institutional scale, long-term economic contribution, and sustained credibility.
Muhammad Binghatti — CEO, Binghatti Holding
Muhammad Binghatti is recognised for building a signature approach to architecture and branded luxury development. His work reflects skyline-scale ambition paired with a clear design identity and positioning Binghatti as a globally visible real estate name.
Firas Al Msaddi — CEO, Fäm Properties
Firas Al Msaddi has driven fäm Properties as a major brokerage force, with a strong emphasis on technology and transparency. His positioning reflects market execution backed by systems that help shape how buyers, sellers, and investors engage with Dubai real estate.
Haider Ali Khan — CEO, Bayut & Dubizzle Group MENA
Haider Ali Khan is a standout leader in PropTech and marketplace influence, shaping how property is discovered, evaluated, and transacted. His work sits at the intersection of tech adoption and real estate behaviour.
Michael Lahyani — CEO, Property Finder
Michael Lahyani’s leadership reflects the rise of platform-driven real estate across the region. Property Finder’s role in market visibility, search behaviour, and buyer decisioning makes his work central to how modern property transactions start.
Adel Sajan — Managing Director, Danube Group
Adel Sajan represents second-generation scale-building with strong expansion focus. His work reflects operational growth, brand strength, and the ability to turn a regional real estate name into a broader business footprint with repeatable execution.
Ankur Agarwal — CEO, Bricks N Woods Real Estate
Ankur Agarwal’s journey reflects entrepreneurial expansion through strategy and development direction. With Bricks N Woods Real Estate, his story is shaped by vision, scale ambition, and positioning in a market that rewards both speed and structure.
Kabir Mulchandani — Founder & Chairman, FIVE Holdings
Kabir Mulchandani is recognised for building FIVE Holdings into a luxury-driven hospitality and real estate powerhouse. His work reflects brand-led asset strategy, high-profile market presence, and a portfolio approach anchored in experience creation.
Rohit Desai — Founder & Managing Director, RD Associates
Rohit Desai’s profile reflects leadership rooted in infrastructure, execution, and delivery across real estate development and project management. His work highlights end-to-end responsibility from planning to completion.
2024 rewarded leaders who understood that real estate is now an ecosystem where development, brokerage, data platforms, and brand power are interlinked. This list reflects the people shaping that ecosystem, not just reacting to it.
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