Stake, a leading digital real estate investment platform in the region, has announced a strategic partnership with Ace & Company, a Swiss-headquartered global investment group focused on private markets with more than $2 billion in assets under management, to support the development of liquidity solutions for investors in its products.
The agreement will focus initially on the platform’s real estate portfolio in the UAE, held through Prescribed Companies, the equivalent of Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) in DIFC.
The initiative is intended to create a more liquid, transparent, and efficient marketplace for investors seeking exposure to fractional real estate opportunities through Stake’s platform.
By combining Stake’s innovative access model with Ace & Company’s longstanding experience in private market investing and secondary transactions, the partnership aims to strengthen the investment ecosystem around fractional ownership structures in the UAE, it stated.
According to Stake, the joint venture reflects both firms’ confidence in the long-term fundamentals of UAE. At a time of heightened regional uncertainty, the UAE continues to distinguish itself through economic resilience, political stability, high-quality infrastructure, and sustained global investor interest.
These attributes have helped position the country as one of the region’s most compelling destinations for long-term real estate capital.
Through the planned secondary infrastructure framework, investors in Stake products are expected to benefit from greater flexibility in managing their holdings, improved visibility around market pricing, and clearer pathways to liquidity. In turn, the broader market stands to benefit from enhanced stability, stronger price discovery, and increased participation and confidence in fractional real estate as an investable asset class.
Manar Mahmassani, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Stake said: "The UAE has always rewarded those who invest in it with conviction, and that's exactly what this partnership represents. Stake was born in crisis. We launched it during Covid, when global real estate markets were struggling and Dubai’s property industry was at its low point. What we saw was a market that is far from broken, but fundamentally sound, going through a temporary challenge. That conviction has never left us."
Sherif El Halwagy, Partner and Co-Founder at ACE & Company said: "Drawing on almost two decades of experience in offering liquidity to investors across private markets ecosystems via secondaries, we see a tremendous opportunity in real estate secondaries in the UAE."
"This partnership reflects our conviction in the country’s long-term fundamentals and our disciplined approach to capital deployment in high-quality assets. We look forward to further strengthening our relationships with investors and partners across the region," stated El Halwagy.
According to Stake, the framework operates within its existing DFSA-approved regulatory permissions, providing investors with established oversight and regulatory clarity. Stake is regulated by the DFSA, the independent regulator for business conducted from or within DIFC.
The partnership is designed to benefit all stakeholders across the ecosystem. Existing investors gain added optionality and transparency, prospective investors gain greater confidence in the structure, and the market benefits from stronger liquidity mechanisms, a scalable source of permanent/long-term capital and a more institutionalised framework for participation, said the company in its statement.
As fractional ownership continues to gain traction globally, Stake and ACE & Company believe that robust secondary infrastructure will play a critical role in supporting the sector’s long-term growth.
The joint venture represents a shared commitment not only to product innovation, but also to building the underlying market architecture needed to support sustainable expansion in the UAE and beyond, it added.-TradeArabia News Service
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