From booking to books in Muscat
Property in Oman is overseen by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning, and a new Real Estate Registry Law is modernising how ownership is recorded. Expatriates may buy in Integrated Tourism Complexes and in more areas under recent rules, so buyer files in Muscat often hold passport details and registration steps. VAT is 5%, collected by the Oman Tax Authority, and RealMake applies it per unit type as your tax advisor sets. Under Decision 189/2026, electronic tax invoices are scheduled to become mandatory from 1 April 2027 for businesses with annual supplies above OMR 5 million and from 1 October 2027 for other VAT-registered businesses.