Dubai’s Damac Properties PJSC plans to take advantage of the weak pound to invest as much as 1 billion pounds ($1.3 billion) in London’s real estate market.

Chairman Hussain Sajwani said the Dubai-based property developer is looking at deals with values from 500 million pounds to 1 billion pounds in central London. Even if the U.K. left the European Union without a trade deal, which some analysts predict would result in sharp drops in the pound and asset values, Sajwani said he would still invest. Damac has more than $1.6 billion in cash, he added.

“If it was a hard Brexit there will be more opportunities and we would be looking to take advantage of that,” Sajwani said in a Bloomberg TV interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday. “London is London and you buy when there is blood on the street.”

Damac, facing a tough real estate market in Dubai, is looking to trim costs and pay down debt of around $500 million by the end of this year, Sajwani said. The developer is also focusing on international acquisitions as a recovery in Dubai may not materialize before the end of 2020, he said.

Dubai residential property prices dropped 6.9 percent on average in 2018 while rental values fell 7.9 percent, according to property advisory firm Cavendish Maxwell. The city is suffering from a glut of properties being completed at a time when the weak jobs market is curbing demand.

“I hope by the end of 2020, after the Expo, the market starts recovering,” Sajwani said. “Naturally prices have come down and sales have come down” but a total of about 20 billion dirhams ($5.4 billion) of property sales in Dubai last year is encouraging, he said.

Damac’s stocks slumped 54 percent last year along with other developers such as Emaar Properties PJSC, which dropped 40.5 percent during the same period. Both fared far worse than Dubai’s main benchmark.