Buyer guides
Buying off-plan in Dubai, from the law rather than from a brochure
Each guide is written from the Land Department's own pages and the numbered laws that govern a purchase, in Dubai and in Abu Dhabi, and, for the four country guides, from what HMRC, the German Federal Ministry of Finance and the Hungarian and Russian tax authorities publish. Each carries a sources list and a section naming the claims we could not verify and left out. Where the market repeats a figure the law does not contain, the guide says so.
Each guide states the date its facts were checked. Confirm the current schedule with the Land Department or with us before a transaction.
- 1DLD fees and Oqood: what you pay at registration
- 2Handover delayed: your legal rights
- 3Cancellation and refund rights
- 4Reselling off-plan before handover
- 5Mortgage on an off-plan property
- 6Snagging and handover checklist
- 7Buying Dubai property from the UK
- 8Buying Dubai property from Germany
- 9Buying Dubai property from Hungary
- 10Buying Dubai property from Russia
- 11Buying Dubai property from France
- 12Buying Dubai property from Italy
- 13Buying Dubai property from India
- 14Buying Dubai property from Switzerland
- 15Buying property in Abu Dhabi: ownership, fees and resale
- 16Dubai or Abu Dhabi: what changes for a buyer
- 17Buying a branded residence in Dubai
- 18Wills and inheritance for non-Muslim owners
- 19Owning Dubai property through a company or foundation
- 20Renting out your Dubai property
- 21Buying Dubai property remotely, by power of attorney
A question the guides do not answer?
Send the project name and the clause you are looking at, and we will tell you what the register holds on that developer and what the contract actually says.