When I bought my apartment in Dubai, in the second half of 2024, everyone back in India said it was the smartest thing I’d done in my life. “The UAE is the future,” was the common consensus. Eighteen months later, barely 48 hours after the UAE skies boomed with the interceptions of Iran’s missiles, I started getting a slew of earnest calls from brokers who wanted to know if I wanted to “distress sell” my apartment.