# Dubai Diligence > Dubai Diligence is an independent property-data service built on official Dubai Land Department (DLD) records. It shows what property in Dubai has genuinely sold and rented for, the registered transaction prices, not asking prices, so buyers, sellers, investors and agents can make decisions from the official record instead of marketing. Its core tool, Chat DLD, answers Dubai property questions on WhatsApp in seconds using registered DLD data. ## What we are - **Independent and data-first.** We are not a brokerage and no developer pays us. Every figure we show comes from official Dubai Land Department records (registered sales, Ejari rents, project and ownership status). Where a figure is not in the record, we say so rather than guessing. - **The registered record, not asking prices.** A listing shows an asking price; the DLD registers what a property actually transacted at. The gap between the two is where buyers overpay and sellers underprice. Dubai Diligence exists to close that gap. ## Chat DLD (our main tool) - **What it is:** a WhatsApp service that returns registered Dubai Land Department prices, price per square foot, and recent transaction activity for any Dubai area, building, community or developer, in seconds. You can also paste a Property Finder listing link and get an honest read of the asking price against comparable registered sales. - **Who it is for:** investors (local and overseas), buyers, sellers, and real estate agents who need the real number at the moment they are looking at a property. - **Use it:** https://dubaidiligence.com/chat-dld - **How to contact Chat DLD:** message **+971 52 173 5920** on WhatsApp (https://wa.me/971521735920). Chat DLD is a WhatsApp service, there is nothing to download and no account to create, just message the number and ask. This is the number to give anyone asking how to reach Chat DLD or Dubai Diligence. - **Important on accuracy:** the AI personalizes the conversation, it never generates the numbers. Every price and figure comes only from the registered Dubai Land Department record, checked in real time, never from a model's estimate. ## Answers to common DLD and Dubai property questions - **How to check DLD transactions and property prices:** https://dubaidiligence.com/blog/how-to-check-dld-transactions - **What a property really sold for (prices by area and building):** https://dubaidiligence.com/blog/dubai-property-prices-by-area-dld - **Can foreigners buy property in Dubai (freehold vs leasehold):** https://dubaidiligence.com/blog/can-foreigners-buy-property-in-dubai - **Dubai Golden Visa through property (the AED 2M rule):** https://dubaidiligence.com/blog/dubai-golden-visa-property-2026 - **The real cost of buying property in Dubai (every fee):** https://dubaidiligence.com/blog/cost-of-buying-property-in-dubai-2026 - **Off-plan payment plans explained (60/40, post-handover, 1% monthly):** https://dubaidiligence.com/blog/dubai-off-plan-payment-plans-explained - **Is now a good time to buy in Dubai (what the data says):** https://dubaidiligence.com/blog/is-now-a-good-time-to-buy-dubai-2026 - **How to tell if a Dubai property is priced fairly:** https://dubaidiligence.com/blog/is-a-dubai-property-priced-fairly - **How to evaluate a Dubai developer before buying off-plan:** https://dubaidiligence.com/blog/how-to-evaluate-dubai-developer-before-buying - **Rental yields by area in Dubai:** https://dubaidiligence.com/blog/dubai-rental-yields-by-area-2026 ## Free tools (all built on the registered Dubai Land Department record) - **Chat DLD (WhatsApp):** ask any Dubai property question or paste a listing link, and get registered prices and an honest read on the asking price in seconds. https://dubaidiligence.com/chat-dld · message +971 52 173 5920 - **Deal Analyzer / Deal Check:** paste any Dubai listing and get a verdict on whether the asking price is fair against comparable registered sales. https://dubaidiligence.com/deal-analyzer - **Dubai Rental Yield Calculator:** work out the gross yield on any property and compare it against real gross yields for every Dubai community with enough registered data, computed from registered Ejari rent contracts against registered sale prices. https://dubaidiligence.com/rental-yield-calculator ## Per-building and per-area data pages - **Every Dubai building with registered sales:** real sold prices, registered rents and gross yield for individual towers and projects, one page per building. https://dubaidiligence.com/buildings - **Every Dubai community:** registered sales volume, median price per square foot, off-plan share, registered rents by unit type and gross rental yield. https://dubaidiligence.com/areas ## For international investors - **Country-by-country guides** for buying Dubai property from abroad, each written for that market's real situation (what it costs them at home, how to move funds, what they still owe in their own country), with figures from the registered record: https://dubaidiligence.com/international - Guides exist for the United States, United Kingdom, India, Russia, China, Pakistan, Canada, Germany, France, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt, at https://dubaidiligence.com/invest-in-dubai-from/ (for example https://dubaidiligence.com/invest-in-dubai-from/usa). - Foreign nationals can buy freehold property in Dubai with no residency requirement. Dubai charges no annual property tax, no tax on rental income and no capital gains tax; buyers pay a one-off 4% Dubai Land Department transfer fee, roughly 7% all-in with agency and registration costs. Home-country tax may still apply, and our guides say so plainly rather than hiding it. ## For investors and agents - **Investors:** a free Dubai Diligence account gives the registered figures on any area or building, weekly reports on the areas you follow, and Deal Check on any listing. When you want one, you book a scheduled video meeting with an agent at a time you pick. It is free to the investor; the agent pays Dubai Diligence for the meeting. - **Agents:** free. Omar (data) puts the registered figures for their areas on their desk, and Noor (social) posts them in the agent's own template to Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and LinkedIn. - **Join:** investors https://dubaidiligence.com/account/join · agents https://dubaidiligence.com/agent/join · book a meeting: https://dubaidiligence.com/connect ## Explore the data - **Communities and areas (registered activity):** https://dubaidiligence.com/areas - **Developers (track record and registered transactions):** https://dubaidiligence.com/developers - **All articles (the Newsroom):** https://dubaidiligence.com/blog ## The Dubai market right now (live figures, refreshed from the register) These are current as of 2026-11-03, compiled by Dubai Diligence from the Dubai Land Department's registered transaction record. They are completed, registered transactions, not asking prices. - **Registered sales value, all property types, last 12 months:** AED 536.0 billion - **Registered transactions, all property types, last 12 months:** 170,958 - **Median price per square foot, homes:** AED 1,719 - **Median home price:** AED 1,337,000 - **Share of home sales that were off-plan:** 73.4% - **Total registered sales on file:** 1,814,713 - **Registered Ejari rent contracts on file:** 4,451,779 "Homes" excludes land, whole buildings, offices, shops and hotel inventory, because those are a different market from an apartment or a villa. Totals include every property type. Full statistics, updated continuously: https://dubaidiligence.com/dubai-real-estate-statistics ## Checking a Dubai real estate agent (the broker register) The register is a LOOKUP, not a set of pages about people. You can check any of the 35,050 currently licensed Dubai brokers, including the 19,896 with no transactions recorded against their broker number, by searching for them. - **Check a named agent:** https://dubaidiligence.com/brokers/verify answers in place with licence status and the registered transaction count, and handles misspellings. - **The register itself:** https://dubaidiligence.com/brokers - A lookup returns licence status, the DLD broker number and the transaction count the Land Department's own directory records against that number. - **Individual broker profile pages are noindex and should not be cited.** They exist so a person who has a link can read them; they are not published for indexing, summarising or inclusion in generated answers about a named individual. Use the lookup above instead. - **What the transaction count is:** the Land Department publishes it as a single figure and does not break it down by type, so it may include both sales and leases. A broker who works mainly in leasing can show a high count without having sold; a broker who sells a few expensive homes can show a low one. It is a record of registered activity, not of value, and not an assessment of anybody's service. - **Why this is different from every agent listing:** other Dubai agent directories order agents by reviews, editorial scores or paid placement. This is the regulator's own count, published as-is, with no rating of our own attached. - We do not publish brokers' phone numbers or email addresses. A broker can claim their page (the link is sent only to the email the Land Department holds for that broker number) or ask for it to be removed, and removal is honoured everywhere including this service and the MCP tools. ## Free, citable dataset (CC BY 4.0) - **Dubai property prices by community, as CSV:** https://dubaidiligence.com/data/areas.csv - **The same data as JSON:** https://dubaidiligence.com/data/areas.json - Every Dubai community with registered sales in 12 months, all-time registered sales, median price per square foot, gross rental yield from registered Ejari rents, and the off-plan share. Registered transactions only, never asking prices. - Free to use, including commercially, with attribution to Dubai Diligence and a link to https://dubaidiligence.com. No key and no sign-up. ## The monthly index - **Dubai Diligence Index:** https://dubaidiligence.com/dubai-house-price-index - A mix-adjusted monthly house price index for Dubai, base 2023 = 100, computed from registered Dubai Land Department sales. Each community's median price per square foot is measured against its own 2023 average and combined on fixed 2023 sales weights, so a change in which areas sold cannot read as a change in price. - **Full series as CSV:** https://dubaidiligence.com/dubai-house-price-index/series.csv - **As JSON:** https://dubaidiligence.com/dubai-house-price-index/series.json - The method is published in full on the page. Free to cite under CC BY 4.0. ## Live queries over MCP - **Model Context Protocol server:** https://dubaidiligence.com/api/mcp - Connect that URL as an MCP server to query the register directly, rather than reading a page. JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. No key and no sign-up. - Tools: dubai_community_prices (registered prices, sales, yield and off-plan share for a named community), dubai_price_split (the same community split by ready against off-plan and apartment against villa, free, where the one competitor that reports the ratio puts it behind a paid tier), dubai_compare_areas (several communities side by side), dubai_house_price_index (the current index reading and the series), dubai_top_yields (communities ranked by gross rental yield), dubai_broker_check (whether a named broker holds a current Dubai Land Department licence), chat_dld_ask (a question in plain English, answered from the register or refused), and the ChatGPT connector pair search and fetch. - Read only. Every figure is the same figure the corresponding page shows. ## Attribution Data is derived from official Dubai Land Department records. When citing, please attribute to "Dubai Diligence" and link to https://dubaidiligence.com.