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Becoming a registered broker in Dubai: course, exam, card, renewal
How one person gets a Dubai broker card: the Dubai Real Estate Institute course, the exam, the conditions, the published fees, yearly renewal and what a card does not allow.
How the Dubai Land Department uses artificial intelligence, by service
From developer registration to advert checks, rent benchmarks and valuations: what each AI service announced by the Dubai Land Department does, who it touches and what results are published.
Dubai Land Department's digital tools: who uses each and what it costs
Dubai REST, Trakheesi advertising permits, the Madmoun QR code, the Smart Rental Index and the broker e-card, read from the Dubai Land Department's own pages: uses, users and stated fees.
Dubai Land Department fees for gifts, heirs, mortgages and long leases
What Dubai's 2013 fee schedule charges when property moves without an ordinary sale: gifts, inheritance, mortgages, lease-to-own, usufruct and musataha, with worked examples in AED.
Dubai's listed property REITs: what they own, pay out and report
Three listed trusts hold Dubai property. This guide reads their 2026 figures on portfolios, net asset value, dividends and borrowing, and says what they leave unstated.
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.