How a listing goes live

Yours · 0 of 16

Every step in this flow belongs to somebody else — the buyer, the developer, your agent and the authority. That is the flow we hold for this kind, not a statement that you have nothing to do: listing it is yours, and it starts on the page you came from.

Somebody else’s clock · 16 of 16

These move when the person or office named beside them moves. They are on the page so you can see what is happening, not so you can chase them.

• Developer and project on the register — The project is registered and its escrow account exists. Buyer money goes into the DEVELOPER's project escrow under Abu Dhabi Law No. 3 of 2015 — PropDirect never holds it.Your agent · DMT · ADREC
• Madhmoun permit issued — Advertising without it is the fine, and it falls on whoever placed the advert. Filed through the ADREC Madhmoun system. In Abu Dhabi it is issued to a licensed brokerage, so an owner listing directly cannot hold one - this is the step where an agent is required.Your agent · DMT · ADREC
• Mortgage pre-approval — Only where there is finance. Off-plan lending is usually arranged near handover rather than at booking, so confirm early what the bank will lend and on what date — the payment plan does not wait for it.The buyer · CBUAE
• Listing live — The unit published with its permit number and the developer's payment plan shown. Off-plan is sold on the plan as much as on the unit, so a listing without it invites the questions the EOI is supposed to settle.Your agent
• Reservation agreed with the developer — The buyer registers interest with a booking amount, before any contract exists. Get the developer's receipt for it in writing — Abu Dhabi publishes no standard form, so their receipt is the record.We have not confirmed this step for this emirate. It is shown because it is part of the flow, not because it has been checked.The buyer · DMT · ADREC
• SPA — Sale & Purchase Agreement — The developer's contract, carrying the payment plan and the handover date. Everything after this hangs off its dates.The developer · DMT · ADREC
• Payment plan registered — The instalment schedule the SPA hangs on: how many payments, what each is worth, and what construction milestone each falls due against. Ask for it in writing before the down payment, not after.The developer · DMT · ADREC
• Down payment — The first payment, into the developer's project account — never to us. It is what actually secures the unit; ask the developer what proportion they require.The buyer
• Buyer identity and AML check — Emirates ID or passport, source of funds, and screening. Federal, so it is the same in every emirate — and it is what stops a transfer on the day if it is left late.The buyer
• Interim registration before handover — The developer registers the unit on the interim register through DARI, within 21 days of the contract. Late registration adds AED 10,000, and it is the developer's move rather than the buyer's.The developer · DMT · ADREC
• Construction instalments — Payments falling due against build progress rather than against dates. THIS STEP REPEATS — eight to twelve times over two to three years — and the journey shows the run of them as one step rather than pretending a purchase has twenty.The buyer
• Completion notice — The developer's formal notice that the unit is complete. It starts the clock on the final instalment and on handover, so it is the document to chase rather than wait on.The developer · DMT · ADREC
• Final instalment — The last payment, into the project escrow — never to us. Instalments before it fall due against construction progress.The buyer · DMT · ADREC
• Snagging inspection — The buyer's defects list, submitted before accepting keys. Raised after handover it is a goodwill request; raised before, it is a condition of acceptance.The buyer · DMT · ADREC
• Keys — Keys, once the plan is paid and the snagging is settled.The developer · DMT · ADREC
• Registration converts to a title deed — The interim registration converts into a title deed in the buyer's name. Not a new document being issued — the existing entry changing character.The authority · DMT · ADREC