Villa ban for singles

The Municipality is taking stringent measures to ensure that 'bachelors' are evicted from villas.

'Bachelors' are defined by the Head of the Building Inspections Section of Dubai Municipality as "a single person whether married or unmarried, male or female" and includes "executive bachelors" - so if you're a highly paid unmarried CEO, or one whose wife isn't here with you, don't think this only applies to construction labourers - you're out of your home too.

Real estate companies renting villas to singles or companies lodging executive singles in villas are threatened with having their trade licence cancelled.

Singles can live in apartments anywhere in Dubai, but not in villas - bizarre when you consider that villas tend to have space around them while apartment dwellers live in very close proximity.

Another of those blanket laws that hasn't been thought through in a sophisticated enough way.