DLD

Also called: Dubai Land Department

The Dubai Land Department is the government body that registers property ownership and transactions in Dubai and maintains the official record of the market.

Every sale, mortgage and registered tenancy ends up in its records. That register, rather than any portal or agency, is the authoritative account of what property in Dubai has actually changed hands for.

Dubai is unusual internationally in how much of this record is made publicly available, which is the reason a site like this one can exist.

The figures behind this

The whole market, from the register

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Dubai Diligence is an independent property-data service built on official Dubai Land Department records. We are not a brokerage and no developer pays us. This is general information, not legal, financial or tax advice.

Tell us what you are looking for, and we will do the diligence around it.

Registered Dubai Land Department figures for the areas you are watching, sent weekly. An honest read on any property you are weighing, before you talk to whoever is selling it. And if you eventually want to meet someone, an introduction to an agent whose transaction record we can show you.

Everything on this site stays free and open whether you register or not. This is for people who want it pointed at their own shortlist.