Dealzbook

Money and home decisions in the Gulf

Editorial Policy

Last updated: 6 November 2026

Readers use Dealzbook when they are making decisions about money and their homes, so accuracy matters more to us than speed. This page explains how our content is made.

What we publish

We publish two kinds of content. Gulf guides explain rules and costs that affect people living in the region, usually comparing countries. Our other articles offer practical help with personal finance, insurance, property and running a home.

How guides are researched

  • We start with primary sources: laws, ministries, regulators, central banks, tax authorities and official service portals.
  • Where an official source is hard to reach, we use reputable secondary sources such as major law firms and professional advisers, and we look for agreement between them.
  • If sources conflict or we can’t confirm a detail, we leave it out or tell you to check with the authority.
  • Gulf guides list their main sources at the end, so you can check them yourself.

Review

A person reviews every new guide before it is published. Worked examples use hypothetical numbers and are labelled as examples. We don’t publish invented statistics, quotes, reviews or testimonials.

Use of AI tools

We use software, including AI writing tools, to help research and draft content. These tools make mistakes, so they don’t decide what we publish: a person is responsible for checking each guide before it goes live.

Keeping content up to date

Each article shows when it was published or last updated. We revise guides when we learn that the rules have changed. Many older articles on this site were rewritten in 2026 and show the date of that update.

Corrections

If we get something wrong, we want to fix it. Send us the page and what you found, with a source if you have one. Where a correction changes the meaning of an article, we update the text and its date.

Independence

We don’t accept payment to include, rank or praise any company or product in our articles. If we show advertising in future, it will be kept separate from editorial content and will not affect what we write.