This figure counts taxes, government fees and agent commissions only. It excludes operating costs: insurance, HOA or service charge, property management, maintenance and vacancy. Those are building-level commercial terms rather than public record, so they cannot carry a primary source, and this product does not print numbers it cannot cite.
| Item | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Land transfer / deed tax DLD registration fee on a property sale: 4% of the sale-contract value (ECR 30/2013, Schedule item 1). |
AED 40,000 | Executive Council Resolution No. (30) of 2013 Approving Fees of the Land Department (official English translation) (as of 2026-07-24); DLD — Property Sale Registration service page (as of 2026-07-24) |
| Stamp duty | Not applicable — Dubai has no stamp duty on property purchases — the DLD registration-fee regime (ECR 30/2013) is the only transfer-time government levy, and… | Executive Council Resolution No. (30) of 2013 — full fee schedule (official English translation) (as of 2026-07-24) |
| VAT on purchase | Not applicable — The buyer pays no VAT on the price of residential property: the FIRST supply of a residential building within 3 years of completion is ZERO-… | Federal Decree-Law No. 8 of 2017 on VAT (as amended), arts. 45(9) and 46(2) (FTA-published) (as of 2026-07-24) |
| Land registry fee Fixed DLD issuance fees for an apartment/villa sale, itemized from DLD's own pages: AED 250 title-deed issuance (ECR 30/2013 Schedule item 2… |
AED 520 | Executive Council Resolution No. (30) of 2013, Schedule item 22 (official English translation) (as of 2026-07-24); DLD — Property Sale Registration service page (fee itemization) (as of 2026-07-24) |
| Notary fee | Not applicable — Dubai property transfers are registered at DLD registration-trustee ('Service Partner') offices, not notarized — there is no notary fee in t… | DLD — Property Sale Registration service page (process and fee itemization) (as of 2026-07-24) |
| Foreign-buyer surcharge | Not applicable — No foreign-buyer surcharge exists in Dubai — the DLD fee schedule applies identically to foreign and local buyers. | Executive Council Resolution No. (30) of 2013 — full fee schedule (official English translation; no nationality-based fee item) (as of 2026-07-24) |
| Buyer's agent commission Bylaw 85/2006 arts. |
No statutory rate — broker remuneration is 'determined by agreement' (Bylaw 85/2006 art. 27). Around 2% of price is customary on residential purchases in Dubai, but that is unregulated market practice, not law; budget for it and negotiate it in the brokerage agreement. | Bylaw No. (85) of 2006 Regulating the Real Estate Brokers Register, arts. 27-28 (DLD legislation compendium, official English) (as of 2026-07-24) |
| Legal / closing costs Registration-trustee ('Service Partner') office fee for registering the sale: AED 4,000 + 5% VAT = AED 4,200 when the sale value is AED 500,… |
AED 4,200 | DLD — Property Sale Registration service page, Service Partner Fees (as of 2026-07-24); Federal Decree-Law No. 8 of 2017 on VAT (as amended), art. 3 — 5% standard rate on services (FTA-published) (as of 2026-07-24) |
| Item | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Annual property tax (foreign owner) | Not applicable — No UAE federal or Dubai instrument imposes a recurring tax on residential OWNERSHIP — the DLD fee schedule (ECR 30/2013) contains per-transa… | PwC Worldwide Tax Summaries — UAE Individual, Other taxes (corroboration of the ownership-tax negative) (as of 2026-07-24, secondary source) |
| Municipal tax | Not applicable — The Dubai Municipality housing fee (5% of annual rental value, added monthly to the DEWA utility bill) is charged to the OCCUPANT: the tenan… | PwC Worldwide Tax Summaries — UAE Individual, Other taxes (as of 2026-07-24, secondary source) |
| Item | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Rental income tax (federal) | Not applicable — The UAE levies no personal income tax, and Cabinet Decision 49/2023 art. | Cabinet Decision No. 49 of 2023, art. 2(2) (FTA-published translation) (as of 2026-07-24); FTA guide CTGREI1 — Real Estate Investment for Natural Persons (as of 2026-07-24) |
| Rental withholding tax | Not applicable — No withholding applies to an individual's UAE rental income: the income itself is outside Corporate Tax (Cabinet Decision 49/2023, see renta… | PwC Worldwide Tax Summaries — UAE Corporate, Withholding taxes (corroboration) (as of 2026-07-24, secondary source) |
| Item | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Capital gains tax (federal) | Not applicable — No capital gains tax for an individual seller: the UAE has no personal income tax statute, and Cabinet Decision 49/2023's 'Real Estate Inves… | Cabinet Decision No. 49 of 2023, art. 1 definition (FTA-published translation) (as of 2026-07-24); PwC Worldwide Tax Summaries — UAE Individual, Other taxes (corroboration) (as of 2026-07-24, secondary source) |
| Withholding at closing on the sale | Not applicable — No seller-side withholding or exit tax exists on an individual's property sale in the UAE; the only sale-time government charge is the DLD r… | PwC Worldwide Tax Summaries — UAE Corporate, Withholding taxes (corroboration) (as of 2026-07-24, secondary source) |
| VAT on sale | Not applicable — A resale of a residential building is an EXEMPT supply under art. | Federal Decree-Law No. 8 of 2017 on VAT (as amended), art. 46(2) (FTA-published) (as of 2026-07-24) |
| Seller's agent commission Same statutory basis as the buy-side line: remuneration is contractual under Bylaw 85/2006 arts. |
No statutory rate — seller-side broker remuneration is likewise 'determined by agreement' (Bylaw 85/2006 art. 27); unregulated market practice, negotiated in the brokerage agreement. | Bylaw No. (85) of 2006 Regulating the Real Estate Brokers Register, arts. 27-28 (DLD legislation compendium, official English) (as of 2026-07-24) |
No active registry watch covers this neighborhood yet — registry-level sale evidence (county recorder / land-department feeds) is shown only where a live watch exists, never estimated.
Fewer than 5 usable closed transactions on record for this neighborhood — no benchmark is computed from a thin sample.
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