{"id":39869,"date":"2026-09-22T09:21:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T05:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/truhauz.com\/?p=39869"},"modified":"2026-09-22T23:14:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T19:14:36","slug":"off-plan-handover-delay-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/truhauz.com\/tr\/off-plan-handover-delay-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Off-Plan Handover Delay in Dubai: What the Law Actually Gives You"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- ============================================================\n  TRUHAUZ.COM \u2014 BUYER PROTECTION GUIDE\n  Title:  Off-Plan Handover Delay in Dubai: What the Law Actually Gives You\n  Slug:   off-plan-handover-delay-dubai\n  Prefix: hd\n  ============================================================ -->\n\n<style>\n@import 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.hd-area-grid{grid-template-columns:1fr}\n  .hd-forecast{grid-template-columns:1fr}\n  .hd-strip-in{grid-template-columns:repeat(2,1fr)}\n  .hd-si{padding:15px 8px}\n  .hd-title{font-size:clamp(1.4rem,6vw,1.9rem)}\n  .hd-contact{padding:48px 0}\n}\n@media(max-width:480px){.hdc{padding:0 14px}}\n<\/style>\n\n<div class=\"hd\">\n\n<!-- HERO -->\n<section class=\"hd-hero\">\n  <div class=\"hd-hero-bg\"><\/div>\n  <div class=\"hd-hero-pat\"><\/div>\n  <div class=\"hd-hero-ov\"><\/div>\n  <div class=\"hd-hero-content\">\n    <span class=\"hd-eyebrow\">Buyer Protection &middot; Off-Plan Law &middot; Updated September 2026<\/span>\n    <h1>Off-Plan Handover Delay in Dubai<br><span>What the Law Actually Gives You<\/span><\/h1>\n    <p class=\"hd-hero-sub\">The &ldquo;12-month grace period&rdquo; repeated across Dubai property blogs is not in any Dubai statute. It is a contract term. Here is what the emirate&rsquo;s legislation genuinely provides when a developer misses a handover date, where your remedy really comes from, and which figures we could not source at all.<\/p>\n    <div class=\"hd-hero-meta\">\n      <div class=\"hd-hm\">&#9878;&#65039; <strong>Law No. (8) of 2007 &middot; Law No. (13) of 2008<\/strong><\/div>\n      <div class=\"hd-hm\">&#128196; <strong>Sourced from the Dubai Legislation Portal<\/strong><\/div>\n      <div class=\"hd-hm\">&#128197; <strong>Retrieved 22 September 2026<\/strong><\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<!-- STRIP -->\n<div class=\"hd-strip\">\n  <div class=\"hdc\">\n    <div class=\"hd-strip-in\">\n      <div class=\"hd-si\"><span class=\"hd-sv\">None<\/span><span class=\"hd-sl\">Statutory Grace Period For Delay<\/span><\/div>\n      <div class=\"hd-si\"><span class=\"hd-sv\">5%<\/span><span class=\"hd-sl\">Escrow Retained At Completion Certificate<\/span><\/div>\n      <div class=\"hd-si\"><span class=\"hd-sv\">6 Months<\/span><span class=\"hd-sl\">To Commence Works After Sale Permit<\/span><\/div>\n      <div class=\"hd-si\"><span class=\"hd-sv\">1 Year<\/span><span class=\"hd-sl\">Until The Retention Is Released<\/span><\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<!-- OVERVIEW -->\n<section class=\"hds\">\n  <div class=\"hdc\">\n    <div class=\"hd-2col\">\n      <div class=\"hd-body\">\n        <span class=\"hdt\">The Gap In The Law<\/span>\n        <h2 class=\"hd-title\">Dubai Legislated Both Ends, and Left the Middle to Contract<\/h2>\n        <p>Dubai&rsquo;s off-plan legislation is unusually detailed by regional standards, and it is detailed in two specific places. It regulates, at length, the buyer who stops paying. And it regulates, through a separate law and a dedicated tribunal, the project that collapses entirely. Between those two poles sits the situation most off-plan buyers actually face: a project that is genuinely being built, and is genuinely late.<\/p>\n        <p>For that middle case the statute is close to silent, and understanding why matters more than memorising any single provision. Article 11 of Law No. (13) of 2008, as amended by Law No. (19) of 2017, is the article most often cited to delayed buyers. Read it and you find it does something else entirely: it sets out the procedure a developer may follow against a purchaser who has breached, including a thirty-day notice issued by the Department and a schedule of how much the developer may retain depending on how far construction has progressed. The Dubai Legislation Portal&rsquo;s own explanatory note on that article describes exactly that, and nothing about developer delay.<\/p>\n        <p>The consequence is practical rather than abstract. If your handover date has passed, the document that decides what you are owed is your own sale and purchase agreement, not a provision of Dubai property law that someone can quote at the developer. That is a weaker position than most buyers assume they are in, and it is the reason the delay clause deserves to be read before the brochure.<\/p>\n        <div class=\"hd-hbox\">\n          <strong>The myth, stated plainly.<\/strong> There is no 12-month statutory tolerance for late handover in Dubai. Many developers&rsquo; agreements contain a grace period of roughly that length, which is almost certainly where the claim originated, but a clause in a contract and a rule in a law behave very differently when you are trying to enforce one. If a page tells you the law gives you twelve months, ask it which article.\n        <\/div>\n        <p>None of this makes the buyer unprotected. It means the protection is structural rather than procedural. The money you have paid does not sit with the developer; it sits in a project escrow account governed by <a href=\"https:\/\/truhauz.com\/dubai-escrow-account-off-plan\/\" style=\"color:#660033;font-weight:600;\">Law No. (8) of 2007<\/a>, and that law does impose obligations that bite when a project stops progressing. Your interest in the unit is recorded in the Interim Property Register through <a href=\"https:\/\/truhauz.com\/oqood-registration-dubai\/\" style=\"color:#660033;font-weight:600;\">Oqood registration<\/a>, without which the disposition is void. And where the regulator cancels the project outright, a separate machinery takes over, which we cover in detail in our guide to <a href=\"https:\/\/truhauz.com\/cancelled-off-plan-project-dubai\/\" style=\"color:#660033;font-weight:600;\">a cancelled Dubai off-plan project<\/a>.<\/p>\n        <p>Context matters too. Dubai is working through an exceptionally large completion programme, and the scale of what is scheduled to land is set out in our analysis of <a href=\"https:\/\/truhauz.com\/dubai-handover-wave-2026-2027\/\" style=\"color:#660033;font-weight:600;\">the 2026&ndash;27 handover wave<\/a>. A delivery pipeline of that size makes slippage a statistically ordinary event rather than a sign of developer failure, which is precisely why buyers need to be able to tell the two apart.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n      <div>\n        <div class=\"hd-ov\">\n          <div class=\"hd-ov-head\">\n            <h3>What Dubai Statute Does Say<\/h3>\n            <p>Verified against the Dubai Legislation Portal, 22 Sep 2026<\/p>\n          <\/div>\n          <div class=\"hd-ov-row\"><span class=\"hd-ov-l\">Grace period for late handover<\/span><span class=\"hd-ov-r burg\">Not in statute<\/span><\/div>\n          <div class=\"hd-ov-row\"><span class=\"hd-ov-l\">Commence works after sale permit<\/span><span class=\"hd-ov-r\">6 months<\/span><\/div>\n          <div class=\"hd-ov-row\"><span class=\"hd-ov-l\">Escrow retention at completion<\/span><span class=\"hd-ov-r burg\">5%<\/span><\/div>\n          <div class=\"hd-ov-row\"><span class=\"hd-ov-l\">Retention released after<\/span><span class=\"hd-ov-r\">1 year<\/span><\/div>\n          <div class=\"hd-ov-row\"><span class=\"hd-ov-l\">Notice on a defaulting purchaser<\/span><span class=\"hd-ov-r\">30 days<\/span><\/div>\n          <div class=\"hd-ov-row\"><span class=\"hd-ov-l\">Off-plan sale unregistered<\/span><span class=\"hd-ov-r\">Void<\/span><\/div>\n          <div class=\"hd-ov-row\"><span class=\"hd-ov-l\">Charge for area increase<\/span><span class=\"hd-ov-r\">Not permitted<\/span><\/div>\n          <div class=\"hd-ov-row\"><span class=\"hd-ov-l\">Project cancelled by regulator<\/span><span class=\"hd-ov-r burg\">Refund route<\/span><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"hd-hbox\" style=\"background:#f7f7f9;border-left-color:#999;font-size:.86rem;color:#555;margin-top:22px;\">\n          <strong>Not legal advice.<\/strong> This guide summarises published legislation and is written for general information. It is not legal advice and does not create a lawyer&ndash;client relationship. Off-plan delay outcomes turn on the wording of your specific agreement. Take advice from a lawyer licensed in the UAE before acting.\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<!-- TABLE -->\n<section class=\"hds hdg\">\n  <div class=\"hdc hdct\">\n    <span class=\"hdt\">Every Provision, With Its Source<\/span>\n    <h2 class=\"hd-title\">What the Legislation Says, Article by Article<\/h2>\n    <p class=\"hd-sub\">Each row below was read against the published text of the instrument named in the third column. Where a commonly repeated claim is not supported by any instrument we could find, the table says so rather than filling the gap.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"hdc\">\n    <div class=\"hd-table-wrap\">\n      <table class=\"hd-table\">\n        <thead>\n          <tr><th>Provision<\/th><th>What it says<\/th><th>Instrument<\/th><th>Source<\/th><\/tr>\n        <\/thead>\n        <tbody>\n          <tr><td>No statutory delay grace period<\/td><td>Nothing in the off-plan legislation sets a tolerance window for late handover. Article 11 governs purchaser breach, not developer delay.<\/td><td>Law No. (13) of 2008, Art. 11, as amended by Law No. (19) of 2017<\/td><td>Dubai Legislation Portal, explanatory note on Art. 11<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>Commencement of works<\/td><td>The developer must commence construction works after the lapse of six (6) months from the date on which he was granted permission to sell units off-plan.<\/td><td>Law No. (8) of 2007, Art. 17(2)<\/td><td>Dubai Legislation Portal<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>Escrow retention<\/td><td>The escrow agent must retain five per cent (5%) of the total value of each escrow account once the developer obtains the completion certificate.<\/td><td>Law No. (8) of 2007, Art. 14<\/td><td>Dubai Legislation Portal<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>Release of retention<\/td><td>The retained amount is released to the developer one (1) year from the registration of the units in the name of the purchasers.<\/td><td>Law No. (8) of 2007, Art. 14<\/td><td>Dubai Legislation Portal<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>Project not completed<\/td><td>In an emergency situation where the project is not completed, the escrow agent must, after consultation with the Department, preserve depositors&rsquo; rights and ensure completion or refund.<\/td><td>Law No. (8) of 2007, Art. 15<\/td><td>Dubai Legislation Portal<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>Registration or void<\/td><td>Off-plan dispositions must be entered in the Interim Property Register or they are void.<\/td><td>Law No. (13) of 2008, Art. 3<\/td><td>Dubai Legislation Portal<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>Selling before approvals<\/td><td>Developers may not commence projects or sell units off-plan before obtaining possession of the land and the approvals of the competent entities.<\/td><td>Law No. (13) of 2008, Art. 4<\/td><td>Dubai Legislation Portal<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>Area variance on handover<\/td><td>The developer may not charge for an increase in area and must compensate for a material decrease.<\/td><td>Law No. (13) of 2008, Art. 12<\/td><td>Dubai Legislation Portal<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>Notice on purchaser breach<\/td><td>On breach by the purchaser the developer notifies the Department, which serves thirty (30) days&rsquo; notice and attempts mediation.<\/td><td>Law No. (13) of 2008, Art. 11<\/td><td>Dubai Legislation Portal, explanatory note<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>Force majeure<\/td><td>Where a force majeure makes performance impossible the corresponding obligation is extinguished and the contract rescinded; partial impossibility extinguishes the consideration for that part.<\/td><td>UAE Civil Transactions Law, Federal Law No. (5) of 1985, Art. 273<\/td><td>UAE Ministry of Justice e-laws portal<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>Cancelled projects<\/td><td>Refunds where the regulator cancels a project; liquidation handled by a dedicated special tribunal.<\/td><td>Law No. (19) of 2017, Art. 11(b); Decree No. (33) of 2020<\/td><td>Dubai Legislation Portal<\/td><\/tr>\n        <\/tbody>\n      <\/table>\n    <\/div>\n    <p style=\"font-size:.78rem;color:#999;margin-top:10px;text-align:center\">Sources retrieved 22 September 2026: Law No. (8) of 2007 Concerning Escrow Accounts for Real Estate Development and Law No. (13) of 2008 Regulating the Interim Property Register, both from the Dubai Legislation Portal (dlp.dubai.gov.ae), together with the portal&rsquo;s Explanatory Notes on Article (11) of Law No. (19) of 2017; Article 273 of Federal Law No. (5) of 1985 from the UAE Ministry of Justice e-laws portal. We could not source a published figure for the proportion of Dubai projects currently running late, a standard tariff or formula for delay compensation, or any official grace period, so none appears above.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<!-- SIX CARDS -->\n<section class=\"hds\">\n  <div class=\"hdc hdct\">\n    <span class=\"hdt\">Practical Steps<\/span>\n    <h2 class=\"hd-title\">Six Moves When Your Handover Slips<\/h2>\n    <p class=\"hd-sub\">None of these are a substitute for advice on your own agreement. They are the things worth doing before, and while, you take it.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"hdc\">\n    <div class=\"hd-area-grid\">\n      <div class=\"hd-area-card\">\n        <div class=\"hd-area-head\">\n          <div class=\"hd-area-name\">Read the delay clause first<\/div>\n          <div class=\"hd-area-type\">Contract<\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"hd-area-body\"><p>Before anything else, find the clause that names the anticipated completion date and the tolerance attached to it. That clause, not a statute, is what sets your position. Note whether the tolerance runs from a stated date or from a permit milestone, and whether it is extendable.<\/p><\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"hd-area-card\">\n        <div class=\"hd-area-head\">\n          <div class=\"hd-area-name\">Check the registered project status<\/div>\n          <div class=\"hd-area-type\">DLD<\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"hd-area-body\"><p>A project that is progressing and a project that has stalled are different problems with different answers. Your interest sits in the Interim Property Register via <a href=\"https:\/\/truhauz.com\/oqood-registration-dubai\/\" style=\"color:#660033;font-weight:600;\">Oqood<\/a>, and registered project information sits with the Land Department.<\/p><\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"hd-area-card\">\n        <div class=\"hd-area-head\">\n          <div class=\"hd-area-name\">Put it in writing, early<\/div>\n          <div class=\"hd-area-type\">Evidence<\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"hd-area-body\"><p>Correspondence that establishes when you raised the delay, what the developer said, and what was promised in reply is the material any later claim is built from. Verbal reassurance from a sales office is worth very little afterwards.<\/p><\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"hd-area-card\">\n        <div class=\"hd-area-head\">\n          <div class=\"hd-area-name\">Understand the escrow position<\/div>\n          <div class=\"hd-area-type\">Law 8\/2007<\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"hd-area-body\"><p>Your payments sit in a project escrow account. Article 15 obliges the escrow agent, in an emergency situation where the project is not completed, to act after consulting the Department to preserve depositors&rsquo; rights. See our guide to <a href=\"https:\/\/truhauz.com\/dubai-escrow-account-off-plan\/\" style=\"color:#660033;font-weight:600;\">Dubai escrow accounts<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"hd-area-card\">\n        <div class=\"hd-area-head\">\n          <div class=\"hd-area-name\">Separate delay from cancellation<\/div>\n          <div class=\"hd-area-type\">Two regimes<\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"hd-area-body\"><p>If the regulator cancels the project, a different and considerably more defined machinery applies under Law No. (19) of 2017 and Decree No. (33) of 2020. That route is set out in <a href=\"https:\/\/truhauz.com\/cancelled-off-plan-project-dubai\/\" style=\"color:#660033;font-weight:600;\">our guide to cancelled projects<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"hd-area-card\">\n        <div class=\"hd-area-head\">\n          <div class=\"hd-area-name\">Plan for the handover you do get<\/div>\n          <div class=\"hd-area-type\">Snagging<\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"hd-area-body\"><p>A delayed unit still has to be inspected properly, and the five per cent escrow retention sits behind that first year. Our guide to <a href=\"https:\/\/truhauz.com\/dubai-snagging-handover-rights\/\" style=\"color:#660033;font-weight:600;\">snagging and handover rights<\/a> covers what to do on the day the keys finally appear.<\/p><\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<!-- CTA -->\n<div class=\"hd-cta-strip\">\n  <div class=\"hdc\">\n    <div class=\"hd-cta-in\">\n      <h3>Holding a unit that has missed its date?<\/h3>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/truhauz.com\/contact\/\" class=\"hdbtn\">Talk to TruHauz &rarr;<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<!-- ANALYSIS -->\n<section class=\"hds hddk\">\n  <div class=\"hdc hdct\">\n    <span class=\"hdt\">Analysis<\/span>\n    <h2 class=\"hd-title white\">Why the Silence Is Probably Deliberate<\/h2>\n    <p class=\"hd-sub white\">Three observations that follow from reading the instruments rather than the commentary around them.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"hdc\">\n    <div class=\"hd-forecast\">\n      <div class=\"hd-fc\">\n        <h4>The protection was built upstream, not downstream<\/h4>\n        <p>Rather than legislate a remedy for lateness, Dubai legislated to make lateness less catastrophic. Money goes into escrow instead of to the developer. Sales cannot begin before land possession and approvals. An unregistered disposition is void. Works must start within six months of the sale permit. Each of those is a control applied before the delay happens, and together they explain why a specific delay remedy may have been judged unnecessary.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"hd-fc\">\n        <h4>Force majeure is narrower than it is used<\/h4>\n        <p>Article 273 of the Civil Transactions Law addresses impossibility, not difficulty. Its text extinguishes the obligation and rescinds the contract where force majeure makes performance impossible, and deals with partial impossibility by extinguishing the consideration for that part. A contractor shortage or a funding squeeze is not obviously impossibility. Where a developer invokes force majeure for a delay, the question is whether the event meets that threshold or merely makes delivery harder.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"hd-fc\">\n        <h4>Nobody publishes what a delay is worth<\/h4>\n        <p>We looked for a published tariff, formula or average award for handover-delay compensation in Dubai and could not find one from a source we would be willing to name. Outcomes appear to turn on the individual agreement and the individual facts. Any page quoting you a standard percentage of the purchase price for delay should be treated with suspicion until it shows you where the number comes from.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"hd-hbox\" style=\"max-width:1100px;margin:34px auto 0;background:rgba(255,255,255,.07);border-left-color:#fff;color:rgba(255,255,255,.85);\">\n      <strong style=\"color:#fff;\">The bottom line.<\/strong> Dubai gives an off-plan buyer strong structural protection and a weak procedural one. The escrow account, the registration requirement and the approval gates are real and enforceable. A right to compensation simply because a date has passed is not something the off-plan legislation grants you; it has to come from your agreement. Read that clause before you sign, because afterwards it is the only clause that matters. For the wider decision about whether to take that risk at all, see <a href=\"https:\/\/truhauz.com\/off-plan-vs-ready-property-dubai\/\" style=\"color:#660033;font-weight:600;\">off-plan versus ready property<\/a>, and if you are considering exiting rather than waiting, <a href=\"https:\/\/truhauz.com\/sell-off-plan-property-dubai\/\" style=\"color:#660033;font-weight:600;\">selling an off-plan unit before handover<\/a> sets out that route. Buyers restructuring their cashflow around a moved date should also look at how <a href=\"https:\/\/truhauz.com\/post-handover-payment-plan-dubai\/\" style=\"color:#660033;font-weight:600;\">post-handover payment plans<\/a> behave when the handover itself shifts.\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<!-- FAQ -->\n<section class=\"hds hdg\">\n  <div class=\"hdc hdct\">\n    <span class=\"hdt\">Questions<\/span>\n    <h2 class=\"hd-title\">Off-Plan Handover Delay: Common Questions<\/h2>\n    <p class=\"hd-sub\">Answers below are drawn from the published instruments named in the table above. They are general information, not legal advice.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"hdc\">\n    <div class=\"hd-faq-list\">\n      <div class=\"hd-faq-item\">\n        <div class=\"hd-faq-q\" onclick=\"hdFaq(this)\">Is there a 12-month grace period for handover delay in Dubai?<span class=\"hd-faq-icon\">+<\/span><\/div>\n        <div class=\"hd-faq-a\">Not in statute. The 12-month tolerance widely repeated online is a contractual term found in many developers\u2019 sale and purchase agreements, not a rule imposed by Dubai law. The provision most often cited in that context, Article 11 of Law No. (13) of 2008 as amended by Law No. (19) of 2017, deals with a purchaser who fails to pay \u2014 not with a developer who is late. The Dubai Legislation Portal\u2019s own explanatory note on that article describes only the procedure a developer may take against a defaulting purchaser. So the length of any grace period you have is whatever your own agreement says it is, which is why the delay clause is the first thing to read.<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"hd-faq-item\">\n        <div class=\"hd-faq-q\" onclick=\"hdFaq(this)\">What does Dubai law actually say if my developer misses the handover date?<span class=\"hd-faq-icon\">+<\/span><\/div>\n        <div class=\"hd-faq-a\">Dubai\u2019s off-plan legislation regulates two situations in detail and leaves the middle ground to contract. It regulates the purchaser who stops paying, through Article 11 of Law No. (13) of 2008, and it regulates the project that is cancelled outright, through Law No. (19) of 2017 and the special tribunal created by Decree No. (33) of 2020. A project that is simply running late but still being built sits between those two poles. There, your remedy comes from the sale and purchase agreement itself and from the general rules of the UAE Civil Transactions Law, rather than from a dedicated real-estate delay provision.<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"hd-faq-item\">\n        <div class=\"hd-faq-q\" onclick=\"hdFaq(this)\">Can I cancel my off-plan purchase because of a delay?<span class=\"hd-faq-icon\">+<\/span><\/div>\n        <div class=\"hd-faq-a\">Not automatically, and not merely because a date has passed. Where the project has been cancelled by the regulator, Law No. (19) of 2017 provides for refunds and Decree No. (33) of 2020 routes the liquidation through a special tribunal. Where the project is merely late, cancellation depends on the terms of your agreement and on general civil-law principles of termination. Article 273 of the UAE Civil Transactions Law addresses the narrower case of force majeure, providing that where a force majeure makes performance impossible the corresponding obligation is extinguished and the contract rescinded. A delay that falls short of impossibility is a contractual question, and it is one to put to a qualified UAE lawyer rather than to resolve from a guide.<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"hd-faq-item\">\n        <div class=\"hd-faq-q\" onclick=\"hdFaq(this)\">Does the escrow account protect me if my project is late?<span class=\"hd-faq-icon\">+<\/span><\/div>\n        <div class=\"hd-faq-a\">It is the structural protection that matters most, and it operates independently of any delay clause. Under Law No. (8) of 2007, buyer payments go into a project escrow account rather than to the developer directly. Article 15 of that law provides that in the event of an emergency situation where the project is not completed, the escrow agent must, after consultation with the Department, take the required measures to preserve the rights of depositors and ensure that the project is completed or that depositors are refunded their payments. Article 14 additionally requires the escrow agent to retain five per cent of the total value of each escrow account once the developer obtains the completion certificate.<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"hd-faq-item\">\n        <div class=\"hd-faq-q\" onclick=\"hdFaq(this)\">How long does a developer have to start construction after being allowed to sell?<span class=\"hd-faq-icon\">+<\/span><\/div>\n        <div class=\"hd-faq-a\">Article 17(2) of Law No. (8) of 2007 requires the developer to commence construction works after the lapse of six months from the date on which he was granted permission to sell units off-plan. This is one of the few hard timing obligations placed on the developer side in the off-plan legislation, and it addresses the start of works rather than their completion. A project that has taken payments but has not broken ground well beyond that point is a materially different problem from one that is merely behind schedule, and it is worth checking the registered project status before assuming the two are the same.<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"hd-faq-item\">\n        <div class=\"hd-faq-q\" onclick=\"hdFaq(this)\">When is the 5% escrow retention released to the developer?<span class=\"hd-faq-icon\">+<\/span><\/div>\n        <div class=\"hd-faq-a\">Article 14 of Law No. (8) of 2007 provides that the escrow agent must retain five per cent of the total value of each escrow account once the developer obtains the completion certificate, and that the retained amount will be released to the developer one year from the registration of the units in the name of the purchasers. The retention functions as a guarantee sitting behind the handover period, which is the practical reason snagging and defect issues raised in that first year carry more weight than they otherwise would.<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<!-- CONTACT -->\n<section class=\"hd-contact\" id=\"hd-contact\">\n  <div class=\"hdc\">\n    <div class=\"hd-contact-inner\">\n      <div>\n        <span style=\"display:inline-block;background:rgba(255,255,255,.15);color:#fff!important;font-size:.68rem;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.14em;text-transform:uppercase;padding:5px 15px;border-radius:100px;margin-bottom:18px;\">Talk to TruHauz<\/span>\n        <h2 style=\"font-family:'Playfair Display',serif;font-size:clamp(1.5rem,4vw,2.1rem);color:#fff!important;margin-bottom:10px;line-height:1.2;\">Check the Delay Clause Before You Sign<\/h2>\n        <p style=\"color:rgba(255,255,255,.72)!important;font-size:.93rem;line-height:1.75;margin-bottom:24px;\">TruHauz reads the completion and tolerance provisions on every off-plan agreement we advise on, and checks the registered project position before a client commits. 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