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End User
The end-user buyer is the most important client in the Dubai market to get right, because mistakes you make on an investment unit are financial, and mis…
From Our Desk
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Ejari
Skip your Ejari and you own a property that cannot legally be rented, cannot be used to renew a tenant’s visa, and cannot be defended in a RERA rent dis…
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Early Access
Early access is not a favour the developer is doing for your agent.
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Duplex
Duplex apartments in Dubai solve the “I want villa space in a tower” brief and create a second problem: stairs, which every family tenant notices on the…
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Down Payment
The Dubai down payment rule everyone quotes is 20%.
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DLD
Every property decision you make in Dubai eventually passes through one building on Baniyas Road, and understanding what it does is worth more than any…
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DLD Fee
The DLD fee is the line item that clients argue about more than any other, and nine times out of ten they are arguing with the wrong person.
COMMUNITIES · APR 28 · 8 MIN
Short-Term Rental Laws in Dubai: A Complete Guide for Property Owners
Dubai has 30,000+ licensed holiday homes — and a strict DET framework behind every one. Permit fees from AED 1,520, tourism dirham AED 10–20 per night, fines from AED 5,000 for unlicensed listings. Here’s what every owner needs to know before listing on Airbnb.
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Developer Incentive
If you only look at the headline price of a Dubai launch, you will lose to buyers who know how to read the incentive stack.
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Detached
Detached villas are the most expensive per-sqft residential product in Dubai, and the one least affected by broader market cycles.
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Depreciation
Dubai real estate talks about appreciation constantly and barely acknowledges depreciation, even though physical depreciation is a certainty and market…
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Cross-sell
Every Dubai property client who just closed a deal is the strongest lead in your entire book for the next 60 days, and most agents spend that window on…
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Corner Unit
Corner units trade at a 5-12% premium per sqft across most Dubai clusters, and the premium is usually worth paying when you can actually see the corner…
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Conveyancing
In Dubai, conveyancing is the stage where a deal either closes cleanly or reveals everything the agent missed during viewings.
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Conversion Rate
A 3% lead-to-close conversion rate sounds terrible until you realise the UAE median for portal leads is closer to 0.8%.
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Construction Progress
“Construction progress 40%” on a developer update does not mean 40% of the building exists yet.
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Construction-Linked Payment Plan
A construction-linked payment plan is the closest thing Dubai off-plan offers to risk alignment between developer and buyer, and it is slowly being repl…
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Completion Date
Every off-plan brochure in Dubai lists a completion date.
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Common Area
Common area is the part of the building you don’t own, don’t control, but absolutely pay for through service charge.
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Cold Lead
A cold lead is not a worthless lead.
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Closing
Closing in Dubai is not a moment, it is a sequence, and understanding the sequence is the difference between a clean transfer and a five-week nightmare.
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Cash Flow
Cash flow on a Dubai buy-to-let is almost always smaller than the agent’s model suggests, and the gap is almost always the service charge.
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Capital Appreciation
Capital appreciation is paper money until you sell.
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Cap Rate (Capitalization Rate)
The fastest way to lose money in Dubai property is to buy on the cap rate you saw in the listing.