22 things it checks, so you don't have to
You talk to Hala. Behind that, each of these does one job — and every one of them shows its working, so you can see why you were told something.
Finding you a home
5 checksYou describe it in your own words. The search reads the sentence, not a form.
- Property search
Turns a plain sentence into filters across all seven emirates
Open → - Ranking by value
Orders what matched by how the price compares to the area, not by who paid
- Saved homes
Keeps your shortlist, on any device you sign in from
Open → - Side by side
Puts up to three homes in one table
Open → - Getting around
Measured distances to schools, metro and the places you named
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Telling you if the price is right
7 checksEvery figure comes from registered transactions, and says how confident it is.
- Fair price
What the model thinks the home is worth, against what is being asked
- What the area is doing
Median price per sqft and how it has moved, per community
Open → - True cost
Everything you pay on the day: DLD transfer, agency, trustee, mortgage registration
- Mortgage and affordability
What a bank will lend under the CBUAE caps, and the monthly on it
Open → - Pre-approval
A real pre-approval from a UAE bank, not an estimate
Open → - Rent or buy
The two paths costed over the years you plan to stay
Open → - Rent increase
What the RERA index actually allows on a renewal
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Checking it is real and legal
5 checksThe checks that decide whether a listing is genuine, before you spend a day on it.
- Permit check
The listing's Trakheesi or emirate permit, live rather than claimed
Open → - Title at transfer
The title chain checked at registration, with the land department
Open → - KYC and AML
Your own verification, and the source-of-funds file when the deal needs one
Open → - Escrow on off-plan
That the developer holds an escrow account, and what each milestone releases
Open → - Rules by emirate
The seven emirates answered separately, and marked where we have not confirmed
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Getting it done
5 checksThe paperwork, the money and the people — the part that usually goes quiet.
- Offers and negotiation
What to open at, and what the other side has actually done before
- Your agent
Who is acting for you, their RERA broker number, and how to reach them
Open → - Tenancy and Ejari
The contract drafted and registered, Ejari in Dubai or Tawtheeq in Abu Dhabi
Open → - Residency by property
Whether the purchase qualifies for the 10-year visa, and what it needs
Open → - Buying from abroad
FEMA, LRS and DTAA for an NRI buyer, in one place
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What it will not do
- Invent a number. No valuation, permit number or fee total is produced by the model itself. If a figure is not measured, you get the tool that measures it instead.
- Guess at a missing score. A blank yield or grade means unknown, not poor — absent is never read as bad.
- Apply Dubai's rules to seven emirates. Each emirate is answered separately, and where we have not confirmed an answer the page says so.
- Pretend to be a person. Hala is a system, says so, and hands you to a named RERA-registered agent for the parts that need one.