A Dubai transfer completes in person at a Trustee centre. If you cannot attend, a power of attorney lets someone act for you. What it must say, how to legalise one signed abroad, and how to keep it narrow.
Dubai Real Estate News
Dubai's RSB publishes a closed list of the charges a district cooling provider may apply, and caps several of them. Here is every permitted charge, the caps, and what your provider can never bill you.
A large share of Dubai resale stock still carries a loan. The Dubai Land Department has a dedicated six-step service for it — here is the process, the document pack, and every published fee.
The Dubai Land Department's published fee schedule, line by line: the 4% transfer fee, the tiered trustee fee, title deed and map charges, and the extra layer that applies to mortgaged property.
Before handover you hold an interim registration, not a title deed. Here are the Dubai Land Department fees you can verify, the developer consent you cannot skip, and the contract terms that decide whether you can sell at all.
Dubai law obliges your building to insure the structure and bills you for it through the service charge. Here is exactly where that master policy stops, and what owners, landlords and tenants must insure themselves.
Transferring a Dubai property to a spouse, parent or child is registered as a gift at 0.125% of valuation — not the 4% sale fee. Who qualifies, every DLD fee, and the paperwork that decides whether it works.
Freehold has no time limit. Leasehold cannot exceed 99 years. Article 4 of Dubai Law No. 7 of 2006 sets the line — here is what it means for your resale value, financing and heirs.
How property auctions work in Dubai — court and voluntary eMart sales, the deposit you need to bid, the DLD fees to register, and the risks to price in before you commit.
How owners' associations, the Mollak platform and Law No. (6) of 2019 govern Dubai communities — who runs the building, who approves the service charge, and what to check before you buy.