Dubai
Dubai and the Emirates: the market, the rules, the brokers and how their deals get paid.
From mortgage default to public auction in Dubai: the bidder's view
Dubai's mortgage law takes a home from a notary's notice to a public auction in a few fixed steps. What the law sets, what it leaves out, and what the Land Department's e-auction asks.
When a buyer stops paying in Dubai: what the developer may keep
Article 11 of Dubai's interim register law, rewritten in 2017 and 2020, sets the notice, the 30 days and the share a developer may keep at each stage of construction.
From completion to title deed: finishing an off-plan purchase in Dubai
What happens in Dubai between a project's completion certificate and the buyer's title deed: the register change, the fees, handover and the developer's defects liability.
Is a Dubai off-plan launch authorised? What a broker can verify
Before a Dubai developer sells off-plan it needs a place on the register, the land, an approved project, an escrow account and an advertising permit. The rules, from the broker's side.
Off-plan purchase in Dubai, step by step: registration, fees, resale
From the first look at a project to a resale before completion: what a Dubai off-plan buyer signs, pays and receives at each step, as official pages and laws describe it.
How to read Dubai's official property data, from sales to rent indices
What the Dubai Land Department's open data, its Mo'asher sales price index and its rental indices each count, how they are built, and the dates they carry. Index examples are from 2022 and 2023.
Selling or buying Dubai property through a power of attorney
How long a power of attorney is valid for a Dubai property deal, how one signed abroad is ratified, what a notary charges and what a 2025 circular is reported to require.
Dubai property auctions: what the published record shows, 2012 to 2025
Who brings property to auction in Dubai, the dated totals of 2012, 2014 and 2017, the single results reported up to 2025, and one company's bidder terms. No current volume is published.
Putting a Dubai property up for auction: organisers, files and payout
How an owner or a creditor gets a Dubai property into an auction: who the organisers say they are, the seller's file, the listing period, the fees taken from the price and the payout.
What happens to a Dubai property when a foreign owner dies?
The default shares for non-Muslims, Dubai's two wills registers, what the DIFC Courts charge, and how the Dubai Land Department moves a title to the heirs.
Property management companies in Dubai: licences, Ejari and Mollak
Which licence a Dubai property manager needs, how management and tenancy contracts are registered in Ejari, and what the jointly owned property law asks of a management company.
Paying for a Dubai property: cheques, transfer limits and escrow
What Dubai's Land Department lists as payment methods, how the UAE's cheque clearing and instant payment systems treat a large sum, and what the reporting rules say about cash.
Dubai's property portals: owners, listing rules and broker costs
Who owns Property Finder, Bayut and Dubizzle, what the Dubai Land Department requires of every online listing, and what brokers have said in the press about the price of advertising there.
Dubai's programme for Emirati brokers: targets, partners and results
What the Dubai Real Estate Brokers Programme offers UAE nationals: the 15 per cent target, the developer quota, training, the figures published since 2024 and what is still unknown.
Dubai real estate rules, 2024 to October 2026: a broker's timeline
A dated overview of what changed around Dubai property between 2024 and October 2026: each instrument, who it affects, its status and what is already set for 2027.
Dubai's property registration law: Law No. 7 of 2006, article by article
Dubai's Law No. (7) of 2006 makes the Land Department's register the proof of who owns what. What its 29 articles say, how Article 9 changed in 2019 and what later laws added.
Dubai's REES initiative and PropTech Hub: targets, entry routes, delivery
What the Dubai Land Department, the Dubai Media Office and the DIFC have announced for property technology firms since May 2024: targets, named partners, entry routes and delivery.
Dubai rent settlements reach 2,350 in nine months, worth AED 401 million
Dubai's Rental Disputes Center says 2,350 landlord and tenant disputes ended in an agreed settlement between January and September 2026, in six days each on average.
How a rent dispute is heard at Dubai's Rental Disputes Center
Dubai sends landlord and tenant disputes to one specialised body. What it hears, the documents and the 3.5% fee, conciliation, the AED 100,000 appeal threshold and how a judgment is enforced.
Dubai property fraud: official checks, Ejari and where to complain
What a press report of a Dubai Police warning says about fake rental adverts, what the Land Department's registers let a tenant or buyer confirm before paying, and which body hears which complaint.