Property Finder Backs Stake as Dubai’s PropTech Scene Evolves

Editorial Team

Last updated 24-10-2025

3 min

Property Finder backs startup Stake, letting users buy small shares in real estate from AED 500.

Stake quickly made waves with its accessible approach to property investment, especially in MENA.

This move aligns with Property Finder's vision for a more transparent, data-driven property market.

Such collaborations can blur lines between traditional real estate and tech, offering new opportunities.

The shift in property investment reflects younger generations seeing it more like app shares.

Property Finder has taken a bold step into the world of fractional real estate investment by backing Dubai-based startup Stake, a digital platform that lets users buy small shares of property and private real estate funds from as little as AED 500. The firm hasn’t revealed how much it’s putting in, but it’s clearly part of a bigger play to push innovation across the regional proptech scene.

Stake, founded in 2021 by Manar Mahmassani, Rami Tabbara and Ricardo Brizido, has quickly become one of those homegrown names that gets people talking about how real estate can be approached differently. The idea that you no longer need to have a fortune tucked away to own a piece of the market is quite refreshing—spot on for the MENA region’s growing appetite for fintech-style accessibility.

For Property Finder, this move fits neatly with its vision to build a more transparent, data-driven and efficient property market. The company already raised a hefty $250 million in debt financing from US-based Ares earlier this year, giving it the muscle to support high-growth ventures reshaping how people buy, rent and invest in property.

What’s interesting, at least to me, is how such collaborations are starting to blur the lines between traditional real estate players and new-age tech upstarts. It’s not always smooth sailing—integrating platforms, aligning interests, measuring new performance metrics—it can be a bit of a faff. But when done right, it opens up enormous possibilities for everyone from first-time investors to developers chasing smarter data insights.

At Arageek, we’ve seen plenty of startups across the region trying to shake up long-standing norms, and, honestly, I reckon this tie-up might just spark similar plays in Saudi or Egypt before long. The appetite’s there; you can almost feel it. And believe it or not, the younger generation is starting to see property investment as something closer to buying shares in an app than bricks and mortar. Well… I mean, that shift would’ve sounded outrageous a decade ago.

So while no one’s spilling the finer details just yet, the message is clear: Property Finder isn’t sitting still. It’s eyeing new partnerships that redefine how people find, live in and profit from homes. If you ask me, the regional proptech story’s only just getting started—and that’s something to be quietly chuffed about.

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