Dubai property glossary

Ready property

Also called: secondary market, completed property

Ready property is a completed home that exists and can be occupied immediately, bought from its current owner rather than from a developer.

It is often called the secondary market. The buyer sees the actual unit, the actual view and the actual building condition, and can begin letting it at once.

Against off-plan, ready property usually trades at a different price per square foot in the same community, and the gap is effectively the price of a handover date.

The figures behind this

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.

Register your interest

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.

Chat DLD