UAE-based sustainable and technology-driven house upkeep specialist Hitches & Glitches (H&G), a part of the Farnek Group, has witnessed an unprecedented improve in demand for house upkeep in Dubai’s luxurious residential property sector.
H&G has been appointed to take care of quite a few luxurious properties in prime residential communities equivalent to Emirates Hills, Palm Jumeirah and Dubai Hills Property. One notable contract H&G has acquired is for a luxurious villa in Jumeirah Bay Island, also known as ‘Billionaires Row’, which has a built-up space (BUA) of over 7,200 sq. metres, equal to the scale of Manchester Metropolis’s soccer pitch.
H&G supplies a fulltime housekeeper, maid, chef, driver, service butler, a technician and a watchman. H&G maintains health club tools, a jacuzzi, house automation, laundry and kitchen home equipment, a swimming pool and water options, in depth landscaping and manages pest management and 24-hour safety.
“Based on propertyfinder.ae, a 2,237 sq. metre plot of land in Jumeirah Bay Island is at present valued at AED 155 – 160 million. That clearly doesn’t even embody the price of constructing a villa! So, having made that degree of funding, these discerning homeowners recognise that they require common high-quality administration and deliberate preventative upkeep, notably if they’re away from their house for any prolonged interval,” commented Zohaib Azhar, director of operations at Hitches & Glitches.
As well as, H&G was just lately appointed to handle 900 premium branded residences and five-star resort residences in Dubai Downtown, Dubai Creek Harbor and Dubai Marina neighborhood. Presently H&G’s house upkeep division has greater than 1,500 lively Annual Upkeep Contracts (AMC), valued at over AED 22 million, serviced by 210 certified technicians.
Based on analysis by property marketing consultant Knight Frank, Dubai is at present one of many fastest-growing luxurious residential markets on this planet. As such, the worth of properties in Dubai’s prime residential developments proceed to develop exponentially.
Over 100 residential properties had been bought for greater than $10 million in the course of the first quarter of this yr alone, a 19 per cent improve in contrast with the identical interval in 2023. Greater than a 3rd of these transactions had been for houses on Palm Jumeirah, with traders from the UK, China and India, making up roughly 37% of complete transactions.
“We initially recognised this development over two years in the past when it grew to become obvious that growing numbers of rich abroad traders had been shopping for luxurious properties in Dubai. So, we shaped a specialist unit of extremely skilled technicians to compete on this area of interest market with a tailor-made providing, offering a handy one-stop store for MEP, civil, carpentry, good house automation, white items, particular renovation tasks and match out works,” stated Azhar.
H&G’s good expertise platform, which was developed in-house by Farnek’s good FM options firm HITEK, can be enhancing the corporate’s aggressive benefit, particularly for luxurious property homeowners primarily based abroad. It’s house upkeep app permits homeowners and property managers, to observe the progress of their deliberate upkeep and different service requests from preliminary reporting to completion and permits clients to approve and pay for any supplies that possibly required to finish the job.
“Demand can be hovering for good house devices, as improved expertise has made units simpler to make use of and more practical, notably these with distant choices for worldwide traders,” stated Ahzar.
To consolidate its safety providing, H&G teamed up with good house safety firm Ring, which has a variety of award-winning merchandise, together with motion-activated safety cameras with two-way discuss, inbuilt floodlights with alarms, in addition to their famend Video Doorbell. This permits homeowners or managers to reply the door from anyplace on this planet, by way of a two-way voice name and one-way dwell streaming of any customer, via their smartphone app or laptop computer.
“Prospects can purchase good product bundles direct from the H&G on-line retailer with the added comfort of set up, ongoing upkeep, relocation and add-ons, offering a seamless expertise,” added Azhar.
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