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RULES BY EMIRATE

The rules are not the same in every emirate

Most UAE property advice is written about Dubai and quietly applied to all seven. These pages answer the same questions separately for each one — and say plainly where we have not confirmed the answer.

Dubai

Dubai Land Department · RERA

5 of 5 confirmed
Abu Dhabi

Department of Municipalities and Transport · ADREC

4 of 4 confirmed
Sharjah

Sharjah Real Estate Registration Department

4 of 4 confirmed
Ajman

Department of Land and Real Estate Regulation

4 of 4 confirmed
Ras Al Khaimah

RAK Municipality · Land Department

2 of 4 confirmed
Umm Al Quwain

UAQ Municipality

1 of 4 confirmed
Fujairah

Fujairah Municipality

2 of 4 confirmed

Where a fact is not marked confirmed, PropDirect has not verified it from a primary source and does not publish an answer. We would rather leave a question open than have it quoted back to us.