Practical writing on prices, ownership and process — from inside the Damascus market, not from a distance. Updated as the rules change.
Syria’s largest planned development is building again. The master-plan numbers, where construction really stands, the post-2024 decisions, published prices, and the checks that come before any payment.
Prices remain 40–60% below their pre-war peak while prime districts have climbed 15–25% off their 2024 lows. A price table built from our own current listings, and what is really driving the market.
The ownership line is the most important line in any listing — and the one buyers skip. What each type means when you buy, and when you come to sell.
Power of attorney, documents, transferring funds after the Caesar Act repeal, and the registration step most buyers postpone — in order.
Eight checks worth doing properly: the registry extract, zoning status, the seller’s standing, structural survey, and the contract clauses that must be written down.
The Caesar Act’s secondary sanctions were repealed in December 2025, reopening transfer channels — but what remains in place still matters for anyone sending money.
Yes, with conditions that depend on nationality — and a question most guides skip: are you actually a foreigner under Syrian law?
Eight stages in the order they happen, the point at which ownership actually transfers, and the four mistakes that cost buyers most.
Finding the apartment is rarely the hard part. Arranging transfers, the 15% bank requirement, and documenting payments so you can prove them.
Losing the deed is not losing the property. What establishes ownership, what happens when title has been forged, and which evidence courts accept.
Prices vary more by district than by city. What drives the range, and why asking prices diverge so far from what properties actually sell for.
More than 1.5 million people have returned since December 2024. The housing side of that decision, without the optimism or the doom.
What is genuinely under way, what remains announcement, the constraints holding it back, and what it means for property prices.
The costliest losses happen at signature, not at selection. The five things we check in every transaction before a buyer commits.
The fundamentals that decide whether a property is an investment or a trapped asset — in a market where two of them are genuinely difficult.
Behind the headline announcements: where the money is coming from, which assets it is entering, and what is still waiting.
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