Dubai Land Department
Dubai Land Department receives two major awards at Ideas Arabia
The Dubai Land Department (DLD) has scooped two prestigious awards at Ideas Arabia–Idea of the Year Competition, a major competition held under the patronage...
Dubai property investments surge 57% the first quarter of 2014
Investment in Dubai’s real estate market totaled Dh35 billion ($9.54 billion) in the first quarter of 2014, up 57 per cent from the same...
UAE property now 36% costlier than it was in first quarter of 2013: Bayut.com
Statistics released by Bayut.com, the leading UAE property portal, show that with every passing quarter, UAE is becoming more expensive. Property prices, which rose...
Dubai real estate deals top $16.6b in first quarter of 2014
The Dubai Land Department (DLD) has announced that the real estate transactions recorded in the emirate during the first quarter of this year exceeded...
Dubai to get mandatory real estate contracts
Property contracts in Dubai will become mandatory from May 1, 2014, in a bid to clarify the roles of buyers, sellers and brokers, the...
Qatar tops per capita investment in Dubai property
Qatar has the highest per capita investment in Dubai realty in 2013 (Dh6.71 million), followed by Oman (Dh5.77 million), the UAE (Dh4.56 million), Saudi...
More than 2,200 brokers work in Dubai property sector
A new survey by the Dubai Land Department (DLD) shows that the total number of real estate brokers in the emirate stood at 2,238,...
Dubai Land Department promotes real estate courses for nationals
The Dubai Real Estate institute, (DREI), the educational arm of the Dubai Land Department (DLD), has announced that it is providing 50 scholarships for...
Dubai Land Department ranked 4th globally for transaction speed
The Dubai Land Department's (DLD) ability to complete real estate deed transfers within 30 minutes has earned it a fourth place position on a...
Saudis spent Dh4.6 billion on Dubai properties in 2013
Saudi citizens made transactions worth 4.6 billion dirhams in 2013 to invest in Dubai property, data from the Dubai Land Department (DLD) show. This...
Developers in the UAE must decide on stalled projects
Real estate analysts are urging the Dubai government to decide how to address the problem of stalled development projects in the Dubai housing market. ...
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