Shoreline Beach Club Dispute

As a Property Manager of many shoreline apartments you can imagine the problems we are facing these past 2 months at the 'shorelines'.

Since November 2011 Nakheel have been looking to implement a new scheme for accessing the beach and gym areas.

Since Novemebr 2011 The Shoreline owners have been locking horns with Nakheel.

They say that possession is 9/10ths of the Law and it certainly looks that way with Nakheel. They have the ability to assume possession and have ramped up security to turn people away. This has led to the police being involved on a number of occasions, which must be a complete waste of their time.The confusion of who is right or wrong is likely to rumble on and until someone higher up steps in then it is unlikely to be a problem that is solved any time soon.

Although RERA have now said Nakheel cannot deny access to 'communal' areas this is sufficiently ambiguous to allow Nakheel to carry on in the same manner and now claim that the beach and gyms are and never were 'communal' areas.

So we have what should have been a statement of clarity from RERA which has had no positive results in deciding the future.

This has recently culminated in a New Years Eve spat where residents have tried to access the beach to watch the city fireworks and have been threatened with the police.Another complete waste of police time.

It will be interesting to see what happens but in the meantime we have a situation which is upsetting innocent tenants and is in danger of affecting the rental market.

It is a dispute that no single landlord can influence and needs RERA to step in and make a clear statement and ensure that Nakheel's actions are legal and justified. If it comes from RERA the landlords will have to accept the ruling regardless of which way it goes. We need closure on this problem.