How to Check DLD Transactions, Property Status and Project Status in Dubai

Every property decision in Dubai gets easier once you can see the official record. The Dubai Land Department registers the real transactions. What a home actually sold for, what a unit is really rented at, who owns it, and how far an off-plan project has progressed. Learning to read that record is the single best habit a buyer, seller or agent can build. Here is how to check it, from the official tools to the fastest shortcut.

What the Dubai Land Department record actually holds

The registered record answers questions a brochure never will:

Registered sale prices. The price a property genuinely transacted at, not the asking price on a portal.
Registered rents. Real Ejari tenancy contracts, so you see what a unit truly earns.
Ownership and status. Who holds the title, whether there is a mortgage, and whether there is a dispute on a specific unit.
Project status. For off-plan, how construction is progressing and whether the escrow account is properly registered.

Asking prices and advertised rents are marketing. The registered record is what happened.

The official ways to check

The Dubai REST app. The Dubai Land Department's own app lets you look up a property status inquiry for a specific unit, manage Ejari tenancy contracts, check the rental index for a building, request a valuation, and verify a broker or developer licence. It is the authoritative first stop for anything tied to a single, already-registered property.

A property status inquiry. Use this when you are buying a ready home or taking over a resale. It confirms the owner, any mortgage, and any dispute on that exact unit before you commit.

A project status check. For off-plan, this looks at the development itself: construction progress, escrow registration, and the expected handover. If you are buying off-plan, this is the figure to trust over a sales-office promise.

Daily transaction reporting. The Dubai Land Department publishes registered sales and mortgages, which is how the market tracks prices and activity area by area.

How to check a DLD property status

A property status inquiry is the check to run on one specific, already registered home, and it is the one most buyers skip. It confirms who holds the title, whether a mortgage sits against the unit, and whether there is a dispute recorded on it. You raise it through the Dubai Land Department's own services, including the Dubai REST app, against a single unit rather than a building or a community.

Run it before money moves, not after. An agent's assurance that a property is clear is not the same as the register saying so. The register is the one of the two that settles a dispute later.

How to check a DLD project status for off-plan

A project status check asks about the development rather than the unit. It covers construction progress, whether the project is registered with an escrow account, and the handover the developer is working to. For an off-plan purchase this matters more than anything printed in a brochure, because it is the figure a regulator holds rather than a figure a sales office chose.

Two things are worth knowing before you look. A project that is registered and escrowed is following the process the law lays out, which is the normal case in Dubai and is what you want to see. And a handover date is a plan: compare it against what the same developer has actually delivered before. Our developer pages carry each developer's registered delivery record, and every project page shows what has genuinely registered in that project rather than what was advertised.

How to search DLD property by title deed

The title deed is the document that proves ownership, and its number is the cleanest way to identify one exact property. Sellers and agents will often share a redacted copy before a deal. Verify it rather than accept it. The Dubai Land Department publishes a validation service for documents and permits, and a deed that does not validate ends the conversation.

We wrote the step by step separately in how to verify a Dubai title deed, including what each field on the document means and what should match the listing.

How to verify a project's escrow account

Off-plan money in Dubai is paid into a project escrow account rather than to the developer directly, which is the protection the law builds in for buyers. The account is tied to the registered project, so the check is part of the project status inquiry above rather than a separate errand.

What to confirm: that the project is registered, that the escrow account exists against that project, and that the account on your payment instruction is the same one. A payment instruction that routes anywhere else is the single thing worth stopping over.

How to get a DLD property valuation

The Dubai Land Department offers an official valuation service, which is the figure to request when you need something formal, for a bank, a court or a settlement. It is a paid, documented service and it takes time.

For the everyday question, whether an asking price is sensible, the registered record answers faster. Paste any listing into our free deal analyzer. It compares the asking price against comparable registered sales in the same building or community, and the asking rent against registered Ejari contracts. It is not a valuation and does not pretend to be one. It tells you where the price sits against what has actually been paid.

Checking one property tells you about that property. For the market-wide direction, the Dubai house price index is built from the same registered sales, published monthly with the mix of communities held fixed so a change in what sold cannot read as a change in price. The whole series is free to download.

How to read a transaction once you find it

A registered transaction is only useful if you read it correctly. Three things matter most:

Price per square foot, not just the headline price, so you can compare unlike units fairly.
Off-plan versus ready, because off-plan and ready prices in the same area can be very different markets.
How recent and how many. One sale is an anecdote. A cluster of recent, comparable sales is a real benchmark.

Compare the unit you are looking at against several recent, comparable registered sales in the same building or community. If the asking price sits well above that cluster, you have a negotiation. If it sits below, you may have found genuine value.

The honest part: registered is not the same as asking

This is where most guides mislead people. A yield quoted from an asking price and an advertised rent is a marketing figure. A yield built from a registered sale price and a registered Ejari rent is the return an owner actually banks. Always anchor to the registered record, and where a figure is not in the record, treat it as unknown rather than filling the gap with a guess.

The fastest way: just ask

The official tools are thorough, but they take time, and most people want an answer at the exact moment they are looking at a listing. That is why we built Chat DLD. Message it on WhatsApp and get registered Dubai Land Department prices, rents and transaction activity for any community, building or developer in seconds. You can even paste a listing link and get an honest read of the asking price against the comparable registered record.

It reports only what the record shows, and it says so plainly when a figure is not there. That is the whole point: the official record, in the app you already use, the moment you need it.

Ask your first question free at Chat DLD, or explore any community's real numbers across Dubai Diligence.