It's not just the dust storm. According to a survey of July property action by , this is the time when everybody "holds their breaths" and "walks on eggshells" as we head into the overlapping slow stretches of August and Ramadan. Marcello Sambartolo, the head of marketing at propertyfinder.ae, said the crash that many renters and buyers were hoping for has yet to materialise; instead everything has simply come to a "standstill." "In addition to the most popular locations, a majority of seekers are looking for 50k to 60k to 80k rent scales and 1.5M is a pinnacle price for a lot of buyers," he said. "Prices once again have taken a dip but not any lower than what may have been reasonably expected." Most popular locations in July in the graph above. "If someone wants to live in a particular area, they are more likely to wait rather than settle for another location for a 5% difference in price. The dreaded waiting game begins."