All emiratesThe whole UAEDubaiRules checkedAbu DhabiRules checkedSharjahRules checkedAjmanRules checkedRas Al KhaimahNo ad permitUmm Al QuwainNo ad permitFujairahNo ad permit
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How a listing goes live

14 steps for a rent listing in Dubai, two lanes, and one that cannot be skipped

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List a rent
14steps for a rent in Dubai — counted from the same flow your listing runs
3are yours to do — the rest are on somebody else’s clock
11end in a record we can check, so the step can be shown as done rather than assumed
0confirmed for Dubai, step by step
  1. 1Finding it4 steps
  2. 2Checks2 steps
  3. 3Agreeing4 steps
  4. 4Transferring3 steps
  5. 5After1 step

Yours · 3 of 14

Everything on this side you can do today. Nothing here waits on a regulator, a bank or the other side.

  • Form A — Landlord's authority to market for lease — The owner's written authority for the brokerage to act and to advertise. Filed with Trakheesi. Without it the listing has no basis.Yours · RERA · DLD
  • Ejari registration — Registering the lease is what unlocks DEWA/utilities, parking and school admission. Not a listing permit — a different thing entirely.Yours · RERA · DLD
  • Renewal notice — Ninety days' notice before the term ends to change rent or terms — miss it and the existing terms roll on.Yours · RERA · DLD

Somebody else’s clock · 11 of 14

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.

  • Trakheesi permit issued — Advertising without it is the fine, and it falls on whoever placed the advert. Filed through the RERA Trakheesi system. In Dubai an owner may hold it in their own name; a brokerage files it when one is acting for them.Your agent · RERA · DLD
  • Listing live — With the permit number displayed.Your agent
  • Viewings — Recorded against the listing.The tenant
  • Form I — Broker-to-broker commission split — Only when a second brokerage brings the tenant. Agree the split before terms are agreed, not after.Your agent · RERA · DLD
  • Offer and terms agreed — Rent, the number of cheques, and the term.The tenant
  • Tenancy contract signed — Signed by both parties, in the unified tenancy contract form. What is signed here is what gets registered.Your agent
  • Deposit and cheques — The security deposit plus the rent cheques. Five per cent of the annual rent unfurnished and ten furnished is the usual figure — market convention, not a rate fixed in law, so it is whatever the contract says. The deposit is held by the landlord until hand-back and is not rent; get the condition of the unit recorded before it changes hands.The tenant
  • Tenant identity check — Emirates ID or passport and visa status. The registry asks for it, so it gates the step after this one rather than this one.The tenant
  • Utilities connected — The lease registration is what the utility provider asks for.The tenant
  • Move-in permit — Most managed buildings require the owners association's move-in permit before keys — the registered lease, a refundable move-in deposit and a booked lift slot. Ask the community management for theirs; it is the step that most often delays a move by a week.Your agent
  • Handover and inventory — Keys, access cards and parking, against a written condition report with photographs. The report is what the deposit is judged against at the end, so it is worth the twenty minutes.Your agent
The permit is the one that cannot be skipped

Trakheesi permit issued — Advertising without it is the fine, and it falls on whoever placed the advert. Filed through the RERA Trakheesi system. In Dubai an owner may hold it in their own name; a brokerage files it when one is acting for them. Marketing can be finished, approved and beautiful; nothing publishes until the number is on file, and it is RERA · DLD who issues it. A submitted application is not an issued permit, and PropDirect will not show a listing on one.

Steps by listing kind, in Dubai

KindStepsYoursNot confirmedStart
Sale182—List a sale
Rent143—List a rent
Off-plan160—List a off-plan
Hotel1181List a hotel
Short-term13101List a short-term

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