Brokering property in Dubai is a regulated profession, not a sales job with a nice view. You need a residence visa sponsored by a licensed office, a certification from the Dubai Land Department’s training institute, and a Broker Registration Number of your own before you can represent anybody. This page sets out that path, what we provide, how commission actually reaches you — and what we will not promise you.
Property brokerage in Dubai is regulated by RERA under the Dubai Land Department. The office holds an ORN; you hold a BRN. Here is the order it happens in.
A Broker Registration Number is issued to an individual working under a brokerage’s Office Registration Number. You cannot hold one freelance, and you cannot hold one on a visit visa. That means the employment comes first: a residence visa and Emirates ID sponsored by the office, then the registration. UAE and GCC nationals follow a different route into the same register.
Residency and employment requirements are set by the federal authorities and, for a mainland Dubai company, the Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation. Confirm your own position before you resign anything.
Before registration you complete the certified training programme for real estate brokers delivered through the Dubai Real Estate Institute, the training arm of the Dubai Land Department. It covers the legislation, the forms, the registration systems and the professional conduct rules — Form A, Form F, Ejari, Oqood, escrow, the rental index — which is exactly the material a client will assume you already know.
Course content, duration, delivery language and fees are published by the Dubai Real Estate Institute and are revised from time to time.
The programme ends in an examination. It is a real exam with a real pass mark, and a resit is a normal outcome rather than a disaster. Preparation is not optional: the questions are about the regulation, not about salesmanship.
Examination format, pass requirements and resit rules are set by RERA under the Dubai Land Department.
With the exam passed, the brokerage submits the registration through the Dubai Land Department, supported by your passport and visa, Emirates ID, photograph and a good conduct certificate. RERA then issues your Broker Registration Number and the broker card that carries it. From that point you may advertise, list and represent — and every advert you place carries a permit number tied to that registration.
The document list and the registration fee are published by the Dubai Land Department and change periodically.
Registration is renewed on a cycle, with continuing professional requirements attached. One thing worth understanding before you start: your BRN is tied to the office that sponsors it. If you move brokerage, the registration moves with a fresh application rather than travelling with you automatically.
Renewal cycles, continuing professional requirements and transfer procedure are set by RERA. Confirm the current position with the Dubai Land Department.
Property brokerage in Dubai is regulated by RERA under the Dubai Land Department. A brokerage holds an Office Registration Number (ORN) and every individual broker holds a Broker Registration Number (BRN). You can check a broker and an office through the Dubai Land Department and its Dubai REST channels before signing anything.
Dubai Land DepartmentEverything on this list is the office’s cost, written into the offer letter rather than described in an interview and forgotten afterwards.
The UAE weekend is Saturday and Sunday, and Friday is a half day in most Dubai offices. Because viewings happen when clients are free, we keep the office open on Saturday by appointment and close on Sunday instead. Government counters, including the Dubai Land Department trustee offices, follow their own published hours — we confirm an appointment slot before we ask you to travel.
We sponsor the employment visa, the medical, the Emirates ID and the health insurance the law requires us to provide, and we carry those costs. Your labour contract is registered, and you receive a copy of it in a language you read.
We pay the certified training programme and your first sitting of the examination, and we do not recover it against your commission. A resit fee is yours, which is a fair way of saying that we expect you to prepare.
New brokers are given a defined patch rather than the whole city, and are expected to know it building by building: service charge levels, chiller arrangements, which stacks face what, which towers have an unresolved dispute. Breadth comes later.
You sit with one of the seven brokers on this page. You attend their trustee appointments, watch a Form F drafted, chase a developer NOC, and register an Ejari contract, before you run any of it alone.
Advertising permits, portal subscriptions, photography, floor plans and video are the office’s cost. We do not sell leads to our own brokers and we do not deduct portal fees from commission.
Every listing goes out under our ORN with a permit number. Contracts, forms and registrations are checked before they are filed. A broker should be at risk of a slow month, not of a regulatory problem.
Four layers sit between a headline percentage and your bank account. Most recruitment conversations in this city skip the middle two.
On a sale, brokerage commission in Dubai is conventionally 2% of the price plus 5% VAT. On a residential letting it is conventionally 5% of the annual rent plus VAT. On an off-plan launch the developer usually pays the brokerage instead of the buyer. None of these are fixed rates — they are contractual, agreed in Form A or in writing before viewings.
The VAT is not income; it is collected and remitted. Where a deal is shared with another brokerage — common on a Form I co-brokerage — the commission is split before anyone here sees it. And commission is earned at the transfer or at the signing of the tenancy, not when the Form F is signed. A deal that collapses at the NOC stage pays nobody.
You are paid a percentage of the net commission the office receives on the deals you close, on a ladder that rises with your trailing twelve-month billings. The ladder is printed in the offer letter with the bands stated, so you can calculate any deal yourself before you work it. There is no cap at the top of the ladder.
New brokers are offered a monthly draw for an initial period, which is recoverable against commission you subsequently earn — meaning it is an advance, not a salary, and it is set against your future billings. Some brokers clear it quickly. Some do not clear it at all, and leave. We say this at the interview and we are saying it here.
We recruit continuously rather than in campaigns, and we hire when the right person appears rather than when a headcount opens. Applications are read for all four desks.
Marina, JBR, Downtown and Business Bay high-rise, or the villa communities, depending on where the desk needs depth.
Placing and renewing tenancies, benchmarking rents against the RERA rental index, registering every contract on Ejari.
Developer launches, payment plan analysis, escrow and Oqood mechanics, and clients buying a second or third unit.
Owners who are not in the country: cheque presentation, maintenance, service charge reconciliation, move-in and move-out records.
7 brokers, ORN 28417, trading since 2009 from Aurelia Tower, Business Bay. Every one of them is named, photographed and published with their BRN, which is a deliberate standard rather than a design decision — and one you would be held to as well.
Meet the deskThere is no application portal here and no form that disappears into a queue. Send an email to the careers address and one of the seven brokers reads it.
Name the desk from the four above. An application addressed to no desk in particular reads as an application sent to forty offices.
Give the number. If you do not hold one yet, say so plainly — we sponsor the certification, and a first-time broker is not a problem here.
Sponsored by an employer, on a spouse or family visa, a UAE or GCC national, or outside the country. It changes the sequence, not the answer.
Two communities you could talk about building by building beat a list of twelve you have driven through.
A PDF is fine. Tell us which languages you work in, not just which you have studied.
We reply to every application, including the ones we decline. Where there is a fit, the process is a conversation with the broker who runs the desk, a second with the managing director, and a written offer setting out the commission ladder, the draw arrangement and the sponsorship terms before you resign anything.
We never ask a candidate for payment of any kind, and we do not use recruiters who charge candidates. Your application is read only by this office and is not passed to third parties. If you receive an approach that claims to be from Dar Al Emarat Properties and asks for money, do not pay it — telephone +971 4 501 7788 and tell us.