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How a listing goes live

13 steps for a short-term listing in Dubai, two lanes, and one that cannot be skipped

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List a short-term
13steps for a short-term in Dubai — counted from the same flow your listing runs
10are yours to do — the rest are on somebody else’s clock
5end in a record we can check, so the step can be shown as done rather than assumed
1not yet confirmed for Dubai — shown, and marked, rather than counted as settled
  1. 1Finding it7 steps
  2. 2Checks3 steps
  3. 3Agreeing1 step
  4. 4Transferringnot in this flow
  5. 5After2 steps

Yours · 10 of 13

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

  • Landlord's no-objection to sub-let — Only when the operator is not the owner — and it is the document most often missing. It goes IN the permit application, so it has to exist before the permit is applied for, not alongside it.Yours · DET
  • Holiday-home operator trade licence — Needed to operate units for OTHER owners, one or a hundred. An owner running their own units may self-apply on the DET portal without one, currently up to eight. Which side of that line the operator sits on decides whether this step exists at all.Yours · DET
  • DET holiday-home permit — The permit that makes the listing legal. It expires, the renewal window is set by the issuing authority and differs between emirates, and an expired permit is a live listing that has quietly become an offence — so the expiry is tracked rather than remembered.Yours · DET
  • Record the grade you were licensed at — The Tourism Dirham is charged per occupied unit per night at a rate set by your grade. Until it is recorded here we cannot show a guest what the stay totals - the listing shows a nightly rate and says the rest is settled at the property, which loses you the booking to whoever could show a total.Yours
  • Check whether you need a TRN — You charge the 5% and you issue the tax invoice for the stay, not us - so the registration is yours, not ours. We have not confirmed where the threshold sits or how short-stay income counts toward it, so ask the Federal Tax Authority before you assume you are under it. PropDirect charges VAT on its subscription only, never on your room.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.Yours
  • Set up payments with Stripe — Guests pay you directly through Stripe — PropDirect never holds the money, and you issue the tax invoice for the stay. Your bank details go to Stripe, not to us.Yours
  • Price the nights, weeks and months — A nightly rate alone prices a month at thirty times a night, which is not an offer anyone takes — hotel apartments here quote monthly. Set a weekly or monthly rate and long enquiries are quoted against it.Yours
  • Guest registration with the tourism authority — Each guest's details go into DET's system before they occupy the unit, on every booking (Administrative Resolution 2/2020, Art. 5).Yours · DET
  • Return the Tourism Dirham you collected — Collected per occupied unit per night from the guest, and remitted monthly - by the 15th, for the month before. Dubai issues payment orders on the 11th. We show what is outstanding and keep your reference; the return itself is filed with the authority by you.Yours
  • Checkout and turnaround — The stay ends, the unit is cleaned and the next booking begins. The permit and the guest registration are what carry forward — everything else resets.Yours

Somebody else’s clock · 3 of 13

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.

  • Listing live — Photographs, the nightly rate, and the permit number displayed on the listing itself.Your agent
  • Booking confirmed — The guest pays for the stay when they book, into your own Stripe account, and that payment confirms it. Dates, rate and the deposit. Tourism Dirham is charged per occupied unit per night and is collected from the guest, not absorbed.The tenant
  • Review the stay — Only the guest who stayed can write one, once, and only after checkout. That is what makes the rating on a listing worth reading.The tenant
The permit is the one that cannot be skipped

DET holiday-home permit — The permit that makes the listing legal. It expires, the renewal window is set by the issuing authority and differs between emirates, and an expired permit is a live listing that has quietly become an offence — so the expiry is tracked rather than remembered. Marketing can be finished, approved and beautiful; nothing publishes until the number is on file, and it is DET 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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What ran, when, and what it concluded — and you can ask for the record. Subject access requests are answered within 30 days, as UAE PDPL requires.