Who This is for
A sale and purchase agreement, a reservation form and a payment plan, with a deadline attached to the deposit.
A handover date has moved, a specification has changed, an area measurement differs from what was sold, or a project’s status is unclear.
Or buying a property that has one, and the sequence of settlement, release and transfer needs to hold together.
Bought personally when it should have sat in a holding entity, held jointly without documentation of the shares, or held for someone else with nothing recording it.
Unpaid rent, refused vacating, a disputed increase, a deposit withheld, or a property returned in a condition nobody agreed.
Support a residence application, or form part of a succession or restructuring plan.
What's Included
How it Works
Read before you sign
The most valuable stage, and the one clients most often skip. We review the documents, tell you what they oblige you to do, what they oblige the other side to do, and what they say happens when either fails.
Verify the property, not the description
Registration status, ownership, encumbrances, service charge arrears, and for off-plan the project’s own status. What the brochure says and what the register says are different sources.
Negotiate what is negotiable
Standard-form documents are more negotiable than buyers are told, particularly on payment timing, delay consequences and handover conditions. We tell you honestly which requests are worth making.
Decide the holding structure before transfer, not after
Changing the name on a title later is a second transaction with its own approvals and costs. Deciding at the outset is free.
Manage the transfer
Clearance certificates, mortgage settlement and release, the developer’s or authority’s requirements, the transfer appointment itself and payment mechanics.
Confirm registration
Title issued, details checked against the contract, and the record retained. Errors in a registered name, area or unit number are far cheaper to correct immediately.
If it becomes contentious
Notice, forum, filing and representation, coordinated with our litigation work.
What We Need from You
Most of this is a scan and an email — none of it needs to be perfect before we talk, and we tell you exactly what is missing after the first review.
Timeline and Cost
A document review is quick. A transaction runs to the schedule set by the developer or the land department, the release of any mortgage, and the availability of clearance documents — not to ours. Contentious matters run to the timetable of the forum hearing them, and we do not forecast those.
Our fee is fixed and agreed in writing against a defined scope — a review, a transaction managed to registration, a tenancy matter, or a dispute stage by stage. It is anchored to the work, never to the price of the property or to a percentage of any sum recovered.
Registration, transfer, no objection certificate, agency, translation and court fees are payable to the relevant party and shown to you separately, at cost.
Get a Fixed QuoteWhere it Goes Wrong
A reservation is signed and a payment made at the point of decision, and the review is commissioned afterwards. By then the terms that would have been negotiable are terms you are bound by, and the money is committed.
The specification, the area, the layout, the completion date and the consequences of a delay are in the contract, not in the presentation. Where the delivered unit differs from what was marketed, the remedy — if there is one — is whatever the signed document provides for.
Payment schedules and construction progress are not always aligned in the way a buyer assumes. Understanding what each instalment is actually triggered by is the difference between a manageable position and an uncomfortable one if a project slows.
Bought personally when it should have been held by a company or a foundation; held jointly with no documentation of the respective shares; or registered to one party while another paid. Correcting it later means a second transfer, with its own approvals, costs and consequences.
A sale involving an outstanding mortgage depends on settlement, release and clearance happening in the right order with funds available at the right moment. When one element slips, the transfer appointment does not happen and the parties start arguing about who caused it.
Landlord and tenant matters turn on notice requirements, the form used, the method of service and the date. A notice that was clear in substance can still fail on procedure, and it is generally too late to serve it again.
Outstanding charges attached to a unit surface when clearance is sought, and the argument about who pays them happens under time pressure, with a transfer appointment booked.
Where a purchase is intended to support a visa route, the property, its value and its documentation must satisfy that route’s requirements — established before purchase, not after.
Questions
I have already signed. Is a review still worth it?
Yes, though the options narrow. A review after signature tells you what you are actually bound to, what the counterparty is obliged to do, what your notice and termination rights are, and what leverage remains. That is a materially better position than discovering it during a dispute.
Can you stop a developer changing the handover date?
That depends entirely on what the contract provides. We tell you what the document says about delay, what it entitles you to, and what it does not — before you build expectations around it.
Should I buy in my own name or through a company?
It depends on your reason for holding the asset, your succession plan, whether the property is intended to support a visa, and whether you need separation from operating risk. The decision is cheap to take before purchase and expensive to change afterwards.
Do you handle landlord and tenant disputes?
Yes — drafting and registration, notices in the correct form and period, and representation before the relevant rental dispute body in the emirate concerned.
Can I buy without being in the UAE?
Often, through a properly drafted power of attorney, notarised and attested where it is executed abroad. We confirm what the transaction requires before you rely on it.
What happens to my property if I die?
It forms part of your estate, and until authority is established the position — including the mortgage, the tenancy and the service charges — can be left with nobody able to deal with it. That is what a registered will addresses.
Will you tell me not to buy?
Where the documents or the due diligence show a risk we would not accept ourselves, yes, and in plain terms. The decision remains yours.
Do you act on the sale side as well?
Yes — sale documentation, mortgage settlement and release, clearance, and management of the transfer through to deregistration.