DST Index
Every page on the sites DST runs from Dubai
Each of the group's sites has an address and a feed of its own, and most of what they publish is read on that site and nowhere else. This page lists all of it: the guides, the news and the events of all six, so that anything published anywhere in the network is one click from here. The list is drawn from the sites themselves and grows with them.
165 pages across 6 sites.
Company formation
llc.dst.llc · 28 pages
Setting a company up in Dubai: where to register it, what it costs, and what it owes afterwards.
News
- Tourist VAT refunds now take one business day
- DMCC now has foundations, and one can start with USD 100 of assets
- E-invoicing: tax groups get two years, and the storage-in-the-UAE rule goes
- E-invoicing providers are accredited under a new decision, without a pre-approval stage
- The federal budget for 2027 is Dh90.1 billion, and 38 per cent of it is social
- Abu Dhabi will host the IMF and World Bank annual meetings in 2029
- The FTA's top-up tax guide says who registers: groups over EUR 750 million, and nobody else
- Exempt from the tax still means a filing on 30 September
- Free zone distributors will need a second auditor’s report to keep the 0%
- The 15% global minimum tax now has a side door, and it opened this January
- Relief from the tax is not relief from the return
- The e-invoicing provider deadline moved, the go-live date did not
- Apple published its succession 134 days before it happened
- DIFC passes 10,000 companies for the first time
- Free zones get mainland access
Residency and visas
visas.dst.llc · 24 pages
UAE residency routes, from a standard employment visa to the ten-year Golden Visa.
News
- Residence for the wives and children of GCC nationals
- Golden visa help now comes with a Nakheel or Meraas home
- Dubai gave golden visas to private-school teachers on World Teachers' Day, and 835 have applied
- The UK's travel permit costs £20 now, and a UAE resident needs one for every trip
- Europe's Entry/Exit System is fully live: fingerprints on the first trip, no more stamps
- Dubai's five-year tourist visa: the $4,000 balance and the Dh3,713 in fees
- Visa on arrival for residents of other countries: Dh172.50 for 14 days, Dh422.50 for 60
- What a Dubai visit visa asks of the person sponsoring it
- Dubai issued 66,078 golden visas in the first half of 2026
- Europe’s €20 travel permit slips to 2027 while the border queues stay
- Dubai's single-entry tourist visa now clears in 48 hours
- Dubai's immigration and health authorities are wiring their systems together
- Six more nationalities can now get a visa on arrival
- 2-year visa minimum dropped
Palm Central
palmcentral.dst.llc · 26 pages
Nakheel's Palm Central on Palm Jebel Ali — prices, payment plan and what is actually released.
News
- Nakheel rebuilds three kilometres of Dubai Islands shoreline, with a new 320-metre beach
- Bay Estate is Nakheel's new gated community on Dubai Islands: 360 homes, 2.4 km of beach
- Bay Grove Residences gets its main contractor: 537 homes in seven buildings by late 2028
- A mortgage at fifty per cent paid: Dubai Holding and ADCB's off-plan financing covers Palm Jebel Ali
- 350,000 homes by 2030 is the number the Palm will be priced against
- August's biggest Dubai deal was a Palm Jumeirah flat at Dh79 million
- The airport next door will award Dh55 billion of contracts before the year ends
- The best half-year in prime property belonged to the cities that could not build
- Jebel Ali Village starts handing over 892 homes
- Palm Jebel Ali is about a quarter built, by its developer's own board
- Nakheel releases 44 villas on Frond F
- Nakheel releases 222 homes
Azizi Riviera
riviera.dst.llc · 35 pages
Day-to-day life in Azizi Riviera: what has been handed over, what it costs to rent, where to eat.
News
- Al Asayel Street goes to 80 km/h from 1 November, and Al Mustaqbal to 70
- Four bus routes and an electric abra run to Global Village this season
- From 30 September there is a train to Abu Dhabi, and it does not leave from here
- A 500-metre bridge opens at the Trade Centre, and the last one comes in October
- In thirty world cities, prime rents have beaten prices for four years running
- The junction most of Riviera leaves by is being rebuilt
- A Waitrose opens on the other side of Meydan
- The flamingo hide four kilometres away changes its hours on 1 October
- 104 projects finished in six months
- Riviera's final handover phase
Events
- Dubai Marathon 2027
- Sole DXB 2026 at The Square, Nad Al Sheba
- Dubai Shopping Festival 2026–27
- Dubai Run 2026
- Icons of Porsche 2026 at The Square, Nad Al Sheba
- Noor Festival of Lights 2026 at Al Seef
- Meydan racing season 2026–27
- Dubai Design Week 2026
- Dubai Ride 2026
- Dubai Fitness Challenge 2026
- Halloween Run 2026 at West Beach
- After Dark: Halloween Community Night Run at Kite Beach
- Global Village, Season 31
- Ripe Market, 15th season
MBR City
mbr.dst.llc · 27 pages
What Mohammed Bin Rashid City is, district by district, and what living there is like.
News
- Ras Al Khor Road and Al Khail Road each gain a lane on the way past MBR City
- Dh2.1 trillion of projects are under way in Dubai, and Dh1.1 trillion of it is housing
- Glydways pods are on trial at Bluewaters, and MBR City is on the route list
- Al Asayel and Al Mustaqbal, the roads into MBR City, get higher limits on 1 November
- The Blue Line is a quarter built, three years before it carries anyone
- The Blue Line’s first tunnel was finished in two months, at 30 metres a day
- Savills forecasts a 10% fall in Dubai prime values, against a flat world
- The road the district is built along is being rebuilt around it
- A community mall opens on the district's eastern edge, with Waitrose in it
- The Gold Line is approved: 42 km, entirely underground
- Metro Blue Line reaches 10%
Eco portfolio
eco.dst.llc · 25 pages
A running record of the environmental initiatives DST funds, added as they happen.
News
- Amman's bus rapid transit takes the top Dubai award for sustainable transport
- Half of every land mammal species in the UAE lives in one Fujairah wadi, and UNESCO has just said so in writing
- The last 800MW of the solar park's sixth phase is due this quarter
- Dubai holds its first environment conference on 7 and 8 September
- Solar passed 600 GW in a single year and is now the largest installed technology on earth
- DP World names its first ship that can run on methanol
- A 60% carbon cut just changed hands
- The UAE is halfway to 100 million mangroves
- DST opens a non-commercial environmental direction
Events
- Middle East Energy 2027
- World Future Energy Summit 2027
- Zayed Sustainability Prize awards ceremony 2027
- Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week 2027
- UN 2026 Water Conference in Abu Dhabi
- EV World 2026, Dubai's first electric vehicle exhibition
- COP31 in Antalya
- ADIPEC 2026
- Spooktacular Al Barari 2026
- World Green Economy Summit 2026
- WETEX 2026