There are actually large builders developing entire complexes geared to shared common areas, but private rooms, and of course just shared homes like the Golden Girls. 

Then once you have your golden ticket (pre approval letter) from the lender then you can begin looking for homes with a realtor and go shopping.

Palm Beach Real Estate: Your Golden Opportunity Awaits!

Quote from @Yenusu Shaheed: I work in Real Estate in Dubai and right now Dubai is becoming one of the cities in the world with high return on investment because if you buy property in Dubai starting from 700,00aed you have 2 years visa 1M you have 5years golden visa with your family members , 2M and above 10 years golden visa and the safety of the country when it comes to investors , there Escrow account monitored by the government on behalf of the investors and the developers , cities now am becoming expensive due to high demand. 

It's like they got their golden ticket so now it is time to go live and relax in a small vacation town. 

Now, if you have other golden nuggets overturning the common misconceptions, please don't hold back.

This is a golden nugget!

If you didn't you couldn't place the 'golden arches' on property. 

@Steve Vaughan This is golden, appreciate the knowledge sharing here.

I'm nervous because I've never had a business before and I still have a full-time job as a cloud solutions architect, which I'm really passionate about - so hopefully it won't be my golden handcuffs that may prevent me to thrive as an investor and  I'm excited because of all the benefits and freedoms being a business owner offers, one of which is to connect and collaborate with forums like this and people like all of you, where I can both learn from and hopefully share later as I develop more experience. :-)