Dubai Is the Fastest-Growing Real Estate Market in the World

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4:33It's just going up. Everything's going up. What's the percentage of growth? Now, every year, year on year, 30%, 40 %? There you go. Yearly. 25 % yearly. It's insane. Like I remember there was a villa, a family member was renting it I think four years ago for 100 ,000, now it's 350. How is the system here as far as, there's no mortgages, right? There's mortgages, yeah. There's mortgages, like America? Yeah, yeah. There's mortgages but there's also payment terms because if you buy in directly, if you buy in an off plan, that's good. Because now you have no interest, you can just pay directly with the developer.

5:15So they just pay Payment terms Until you receive The thing Otherwise you can pay cash Directly with crypto There's multiple ways But that's the best thing So we're from New York Right So I don't know If you follow Local geopolitical Politics But they got A new mayor Who's been elected You know about that He's a socialist The reason why He got elected Is because the city Has become so unaffordable Because the top 1 % Is doing extremely well But 90 % of the population barely surviving. So do you worry that a city like Dubai can reach that level of, it's not sustainable after a certain point when all the billionaires from all over the world come in, but people still need to work, right?

5:59So the workers are at the bottom level, and then you have people that's worth$100 billion at the top level. That gap is so wide that it leads to a not sustainable living system. situation? Dubai is like an onion and there's so many layers. And sometimes the layers don't touch each other. So yes, we have, I think this year we had almost 90 ,000 millionaires moved already to Dubai. And I think 20 or 17 millionaires moved to Dubai already. So that space is already packed. Good. I mean. What if mind control is real? If you could control the behavior of anybody around you, what kind of life would you have?

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11:26Now, I can go right now and have dinner for four of us and we can spend less than$50. Or we can have dinner together and spend at least$500. So both levels are there. There is affordable housing here. Definitely need more of that. But it's there. It exists. There is ecosystem that basically all exist together in that space. So there's levels. And again, it keeps it... Here's the thing about Dubai. Dubai will show what you are. Oh, I burned out in Dubai. Dubai doesn't burn you out. You, your true cars came out. If you're good, you're good. If you're bad, now we know how bad you are. So again, this city keeps you competitive, keeps you very strong.

12:0934 water parks. For now. For now. I mean, it already has the largest water park in the world. We'll have it again. It's not one big market. We're going to get bigger. 91 businesses? No. So now I have nine businesses. Nine. 91 investments. Investments, I'm sorry. 91 investments, nine businesses. In my head, I'm thinking, how are we running operations on a day-to-day? How involved are you in, or do you have CFOs, CMOs? Is the structure the same? Different structures. Some I'm very involved in daily things. Because again, most of my Zoom calls are under 20 minutes. Most of my Zoom calls with my teams.

12:50Intentionally. Yes. Why? It doesn't take that long to understand what you want. I know what I want. Explain to me points, one, two, three, four, give me point points, what's happening, what's going on, what situations do you have for these problems, and then I pick from them, quickly. I wake up early in the morning, I go to my gym, I do my workouts, done, then I go to my beach, and just go see everything in the beginning, make sure everything's done the way I want with you, then let's go, first office, second office, or Zoom calls. I try to keep things all in the same geographic space so I don't have to travel too much.

13:20that's what it was a big tactic but like usually I do over things in the same space so my businesses and offices in my penthouse all in the same space so I have to move too much because again time is a very big factor here so my day is always structured like in the tea so there's no bullshit and a few 10 minutes 15 minutes late in one meeting I can see meeting because I can't because you you overlap somebody else. Today I had like a seven hour shooting, so it was just hectic, it was before hours, it became seven hours, it's okay. Everything else had to be canceled. But it's very structured. Makes sense.

13:58But I don't have days off. I don't understand days off. Like I still, now I do 80 to 100 hours a week. I still. So talk about your branding, because you're obviously branding yourself, right? You call you Aquaman on your sleeve. you yeah yeah you have a necklace like a rapper you got a necklace on like you know so it's all mine it's about it it's like different so talking you're obviously intentional about how you want the world to see you the image that you're putting out there I think you're doing a show with Netflix so you're not like a behind-the-scenes guy it doesn't seem like all right talk about talk about that talk about your intentionality with your branding you need to be very purposeful and very intentional with every single thing you everything you say or do anything.

14:46Because there are three levels when you meet people. They will see you, they will smell you, and they will hear you. You need to look good. You need to smell good and you need to know what you're talking about. Those are very important things. I understand the power of personal balance very, very well. Because, again, it creates rapport. People know, oh, I've seen your video somewhere. I relate to what you said about this topic or that topic. So, it takes away that whole fluff of when you meet somebody. People know, oh, I've seen you, I like you. Especially if you're authentic and if you're real and you say the right things, people relate to it.

15:20When you're real, other people understand you and relate to you very fast. So that's very important. It brings a lot of brands together, collaborations very quickly. And again, why not look good? Why not look good? And it's like, you know, God blesses me with like, you know, I worked so hard. I got the money. Enjoy it. Then I keep it in a grave with me. Enjoy it now. One of the things I've been educated on since being here is this license plate situation. Oh, yeah, I know. It's humbling, isn't it? Can you explain to the virgin ear, the person that hasn't heard about this? I saw there's digits.

16:02Now, we come from a place where your license plate is your license plate, and you might transfer that from car to car. No, because there's a cap there. There's a totally different meaning here. Yeah, because when you say out of money, there's a purpose behind it. Because okay, having a G-Class, okay, cute. Having a Ferrari, cool. Having a Golf Ferrari, okay, cool. But then okay, how do you show more that I'm with you? Now comes in this new, it's only this part of the world thing, it's like plate numbers. So if it's one digit or two digits, it's more expensive. So sometimes a one digit plate number, or let's say A5, for example.

16:37That one went out for$15 million. 15 million? For one digit. So that's the whole thing. It becomes an asset. It's a new category of assets. To show who you are. Yeah, exactly. So when I move to Dubai, I need to have at least... Just move first and we'll talk about it. Baby steps. There we go. Move first and we'll talk about it. All right, no five digits. Well, thank you for your time. Thank you for having me, boys. Thank you for your time. I appreciate it. My success to you. Me too. This episode is brought to you by PNC Bank. A lot of people think podcasts about work are boring. And sure, they definitely can be.

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17:59Can you hypnotically persuade someone to buy a car? When you look at your car, you're going to become overwhelmed with such good feelings. Can you hypnotize someone into sleeping with you? I gave her some suggestions to be sexually aroused. Can you get someone to join your cult? NLP was used on me to access my subconscious. Mind Games, a new podcast exploring NLP, a.k.a. neurolinguistic programming. Is it a self-help miracle, a shady hypnosis scam, or both? Listen to Mind Games on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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20:11Hello, hello, all my people. What's up? It's Questlove. Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with the one and only A$AP Rocky. He reflects on his journey from Harlem roots to global icon status and discovering the hip-hop origin of his name. The ledge was on the TV. Rakim had the bucket hat Kangol join on. My pops was like, that's Rakim. That's who you named after. I just was like, damn, that f***ed, I swear. Listen to the Questlove show on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. This is an iHeart Podcast. Guaranteed human.