My feeling about property ownership in the UAE has changed the last couple of years. In a country where you are at the whim of an employment visa, where you can loose your job in a day because of the way that you scratched your ear / nose / forehead, is definitely not a place where I will invest my hard earned cash or salary.
DEWA will be increasing drastically as subsidies are phased out, and guess who will be paying for that.....