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What a rent rise is allowed to be

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The rule in Dubai

A landlord must give 90 days before the contract ends, in writing to change the rent at renewal. Increases are set by the rental index rather than by agreement: none is permitted while your rent is within 10% of the market rate for comparable homes, rising on a fixed scale to a maximum of 20% only where your rent is far below market.

  • Decree 43 of 2013 · Law 26 of 2007 as amended by Law 33 of 2008read 2026-09-07
  • Ask above and the answer is quoted from Decree 43 of 2013 and Law 26 of 2007, with the article and a link.yours
  • Your own rent against the bands: open your tenancy and it is placed there from registered contracts.yours
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The bands, as the decree sets them

Within 10% of the index · no increase
11–20% under · up to 5%
21–30% under · up to 10%
31–40% under · up to 15%
More than 40% under · up to 20%
Notice of any increase: 90 days before the contract ends, in writing. Decree 43 of 2013, read 2026-09-07.
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This is the rule and your position in it, not legal advice. Hala does not tell you whether to go to the Rental Dispute Centre, and it does not file anything for you.

What the specialists did on this page

1 ran · 1 stopped to ask · 0 did not run · each row opens its sources

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Regulatory IntelligenceDecree 43 of 2013 and Law 26 of 2007 as amended, retrieved passage by passageWaits for your question: the answer is the retrieved law, quoted with its article, and nothing it does not cite—

The rules of each emirate, retrieved and cited: tenancy law, short-stay rules, cross-border rules for NRI buyers - marked where we have not confirmed them.

  • Decree 43 of 2013 · Law 26 of 2007 as amended by Law 33 of 2008
Tenant IntelligenceThe tenancy rules of Dubai, Abu Dhabi and SharjahPlaced each emirate's rent-rise rule and notice period beside the ask, with how sure it is2026-09-07

The tenant's side: their rights under the emirate's tenancy law, and coordinating the let.

  • Dubai: checked against published sources
  • Abu Dhabi: checked against published sources
  • Sharjah: indicative, a single secondary source
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