Q: We are a group of owners, sharing the same concerns. The developer has handed over the properties to us with: - Unsafe roads, not marked, no signals, no proper speed controls - We found out also that no pest control, rats are entering homes - No landscaping and amenities completed /done as advertised and shown during the purchases. We have supportive documents - No safe security gates - No proper entrance to the community with very dangerous access, for the single point entry We raised complaints to the authority but we don't have yet Owners Association formed, and we want to do a case. Is it possible to do a combined case, since the concerns are the same for all owners?

Q: I have purchased a property developed by a developer. They told me verbally that the property is located in Downtown, and in the SPA they used the location Burj Khalifa community developed by another developer. As a first-time property buyer, I trusted them. Now, they are saying that the property is in Business Bay. How can Dubai laws support a customer for the disguised real estate marketing or cheating?

Q: I am in a situation where I have purchased a property and paid Oqood and DLD last year Feb 2017. The agreement was supposed to be ready by the 2nd quarter of 2018. However, without communicating the developer says it will be ready by the 2nd quarter of 2019. I found this is on his site. I have paid 30% of my payment by Feb 2018, and now a situation like job issues are going on. I need to cancel my unit. What are the options? please let me know. I think after December, my contract is not going to be renewed. So I'm in a big problem. Please help me

Q: Hello there, I want to understand if there is any form of consumer rights protection for customers under real estate projects. I have paid for 80% of an off-plan property which when we put a down payment 5 years ago was supposed to be a premier luxury community. Over the years, the community has dropped many of the features of what was marketed like a rain forest and greenery. Currently, it's not only the community that was marketed on their brochure but quality and finish are also extremely poor. Simple things like fire alarms or sprinklers which I thought to be mandatory for villas in the UAE aren't put. They have been harassing me to make the final hand over and final payment. Even though, we have told about the never-ending snags and even missing sqft and basic layout of the townhouse. I didn't expect this from a prime builder. We chose to take a sustainable green community even though far from the city assuming the luxury and finish would be there. Extremely disappointed and feel scam. Please advise!

This Law establishes interim property register in which sale contracts, off-plan sales, and other off-plan legal dispositions of real property are registered prior to inclusion in the property register maintained by Dubai Land Department.

The provisions of this Law supersede articles (2) and (11) of Law No. (13) of 2008 Regulating the Interim Property Register in the Emirate of Dubai.

This Resolution approves the Implementing Bylaw of Law No. (13) of 2008 Regulating the Interim Property Register in the Emirate of Dubai.