About List My Properties
About UAE property information and owner support
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List My Properties is a Dubai-first property information and owner-support platform created to make property decisions clearer. We publish practical guides, area and building research, calculators and enquiry pathways for people buying, renting, selling or managing property in Dubai and the wider UAE.
Our Purpose
Property information is often fragmented across official services, market commentary, agent pages and outdated articles. Our purpose is to organise the most useful information around real user journeys, explain assumptions clearly and help readers identify the next step without hiding important limitations.
Our standards
- No invented team members, reviews, transactions, listings or performance statistics.
- No copied theme text, lorem ipsum, prompt remnants or SEO production notes.
- No claim of brokerage, agency, property management, valuation or legal expertise unless it is true and supported by the relevant licence or credential.
- Clear distinction between general information, estimates, third-party data and professional advice.
- Corrections and meaningful updates are recorded when the underlying information changes.
What we cover
- Buying, selling and renting processes in Dubai and the UAE.
- Owner and landlord journeys, including property preparation and management topics.
- Dubai area and building guides based on dated, locally relevant research.
- Transaction fees, documents, NOC, valuation and other decision-support topics.
- Calculators and tools with transparent inputs, formulas and limitations.
- Verified property opportunities and enquiry support, where operationally available.
How we research
Each page starts with a defined audience and question. We prefer primary sources such as Dubai Land Department and other UAE government services for legal, regulatory, fee and process information. Material claims are cited close to the relevant statement, and the page shows when it was published or last updated. Where a topic could materially affect a transaction or financial decision, we seek review from a suitably qualified UAE professional.
Frequently Asked Questions
You can use this guide to familiarize yourself with rules, laws and other important information relating to your property.
There is no single Dubai-wide service charge that is automatically “too high.” The more useful question is how much of your expected rental income will be consumed by service charges before vacancy, maintenance, management and leasing costs.
For example, if a property is expected to generate AED 80,000 in annual rent and the annual service charge is AED 16,000, service charges alone consume 20% of the gross rental income before other ownership expenses.
Before buying, investors can check approved service fees for jointly owned properties through the Dubai Land Department Service Charge Index. The amount should then be included in the property’s net-yield calculation rather than looking only at advertised gross ROI.
Service charges should not be treated as a permanently fixed number based only on a developer’s sales presentation.
The Dubai Land Department Service Charge Index allows property owners and buyers to check approved service fees by project and year, which means investors should compare the latest available approved figure rather than relying on an old brochure or verbal estimate.
For an off-plan property, the final operating costs may not yet be fully observable before the building is completed. A prudent investor should therefore model more than one service-charge scenario when estimating future net rental yield.
First determine whether the advertised percentage represents gross rental yield, net rental yield, cash-on-cash return or another calculation.
A headline rental yield based simply on annual rent divided by property price does not show the complete investment picture.
A more useful analysis should consider factors such as:
Expected annual rent − service charges − realistic vacancy − management costs − maintenance − leasing-related costs = estimated net operating income.
You can then compare that result with the purchase price or your actual cash invested, depending on the return metric being used.
Current Dubai investment research also distinguishes headline gross yield from the lower return remaining after ownership expenses.
Do not rely only on the brochure, salesperson or social-media advertisement.
Dubai Land Department provides a Project Status Enquiry, including access through Dubai REST, which allows users to check registered project information and project status. DLD also operates the regulatory framework through which real-estate development projects are registered and escrow accounts are established for off-plan sales.
Before paying, a buyer should independently check the project, developer information, relevant permit details and the payment instructions supplied for the transaction.
If important details cannot be independently verified, that is a reason to investigate further before transferring money.
No buyer should treat the existence of an escrow account as a guarantee of the project’s handover date.
Dubai’s escrow-account framework concerns the handling of funds associated with registered off-plan projects, while DLD separately provides a Project Status Enquiry for checking project progress/status.
In practical due diligence, these are therefore two different questions:
Is the project and its payment structure properly registered?
and
Is construction progressing as expected?
A buyer should also review the handover provisions and other relevant terms in the project’s Sales and Purchase Agreement before making assumptions about delays, refunds or compensation.
Dubai buyers have several official verification options.
Dubai Land Department provides a searchable service for real-estate brokers licensed by RERA, as well as a service for verifying real-estate licences and permits issued through the Trakheesi system.
Dubai also uses the Madmoun QR-code system for real-estate advertisement permits. DLD states that scanning the QR code enables users to verify information associated with an authorised property advertisement.
Before sending sensitive documents or transferring a booking amount, users should independently verify the relevant broker, permit and property information rather than relying only on a WhatsApp message or advertisement screenshot.
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