The short answer
Plainly Property publishes what Dubai property actually costs an owner: valuation, snagging, handover and short-let economics, with every figure traced to a named authority and dated on the page. It is an independent information service, not a brokerage, it holds no licence, and it never advertises individual properties.
Four questions owners actually arrive with
Each one opens onto the figures behind it. Nothing here needs an email address to read.
- Valuation
What is my property worth?
The three valuation methods used in Dubai, what each costs, and which one a lender, a court or a golden visa application will actually accept.
- Snagging
What should snagging cost?
Published snagging rates by unit size, the full handover defect checklist, and the liability window you have to claim inside before it closes.
- Short-let
Does short-letting beat a tenant?
Operator fees run 15–25% of gross. Occupancy, the DET permit, tourism dirham and cleaning modelled against a standard Ejari tenancy.
- Handover & finance
What happens at handover?
Developer NOC, snagging, DEWA, Ejari, title deed — in order, with the steps people get stuck on, plus how mortgage broking is actually paid for.
Why is a figure here different from a figure on an agency site?
Six rules, applied to every page. They are why a table here can be quoted without checking it first.
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Every table names its authority and its date
Not one competitor in this market dates a figure, and an undated price is a price from an unknown year. Every table here carries the body it came from and the day it was last checked against them.
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An unsourced figure is marked, not estimated
Where a number has not been traced to a primary source, the page says so in place of the number rather than guessing — and the production build refuses to ship a page that still carries one.
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Regulation is quoted verbatim, with its article number
Paraphrasing a rule is how the meaning of a rule gets lost, and a reader taking it to a developer needs the provision itself. The wording is reproduced, and the article is named beside it.
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Nothing sits behind a form
The checklists, the cost tables and every figure on this site are on the page itself. Contact details are asked for once, for a written report that has to be delivered somewhere to exist at all.
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The licensed party is named, never implied
Plainly Property holds no RERA licence, no BRN and no ORN, and says so. Every valuation is carried out by a named licensed partner, whose registration number is published attributed to them.
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No property is advertised anywhere on this site
There are no listings, no asking prices and no projected returns, because a page that is selling you a unit cannot also be the page that tells you what that unit is worth.
The most-read guides
Ordered by how often owners search for them.
- Holiday home management
Short-Let vs Long-Term Rental Dubai
Short-let grosses more and nets less. Occupancy, DET permit, tourism dirham, cleaning and management fees modelled side by side against a standard Ejari tenancy.
- Snagging
Snagging Company Dubai
Snagging in Dubai costs AED 666–999 for a typical apartment. The full defect checklist, the developer liability window, and what to do with the report you get.
- Mortgage brokers
Dubai Mortgage Brokers
Mortgage brokers in Dubai are paid 0.5–1% by the lender, not by you. When that is worth it, when going direct is cheaper, and what expats are quoted.
- Property valuation
Dubai Property Valuation
Get a written valuation of your Dubai property in 24 hours, based on Land Department transaction data for your building. Prepared with a RERA-licensed partner.
- Property valuation
Golden Visa Property Valuation Dubai
The golden visa route needs a DLD-certified valuation at AED 2 million or more. What counts, what does not, and how the certificate is issued.
- Snagging
Dubai Snagging Checklist
The full room-by-room snagging checklist used at Dubai handovers, free to download. Covers MEP, joinery, waterproofing and the defects developers dispute most.
A written valuation, prepared from Land Department records
Six specific things: comparable transactions from the last six months in your own building, an indicative range with its assumptions written out, price per square foot against the community median, the floor and view adjustments applied, current comparable supply, and the name and ORN of the licensed party who prepared it.
Free to the owner, delivered by email within 24 hours, and it does not put your property on the market.
Plainly Property is not a brokerage, and does not want to be mistaken for one
Most sites covering this ground are agencies, and the advice on them is shaped by what the agency is trying to sell. Plainly Property publishes what things cost and what the rules are, and it earns by introducing readers to firms that are licensed to act.
That referral fee is stated here rather than buried in a footer, because a reader deciding whether to trust a figure is entitled to know how the site is paid.
- No licence, and none claimed No RERA licence, no BRN, no ORN. Where work requires one it is carried out by a named partner whose registration number is published attributed to them.
- No property listings, permanently Advertising an individual property in Dubai requires a Trakheesi permit held by a licensed advertiser. Staying outside that category is a permanent choice, not a stage this site is passing through.
- Paid by referral, not by commission Plainly Property does not introduce buyers to sellers for a commission — that is brokerage, and it is not what this is. It is paid a lead fee by licensed firms.
Questions about this site
Answer first, then the detail. Every figure quoted here is the same figure the page above it publishes, with the same source.
Is Plainly Property a licensed property brokerage?
No. Plainly Property is an independent information resource and holds no RERA licence, no BRN and no ORN. Where a service requires a licence — a valuation for a transaction, or a sale — it is carried out by a named licensed partner whose registration number is published attributed to them.
Does Plainly Property list properties for sale?
No, and it never will. Advertising an individual property in Dubai requires a Trakheesi permit held by a licensed advertiser. This site publishes advice, data and tools only.
Where do the figures on this site come from?
Primary sources: Dubai Land Department records, RERA and DET published rules and fees, and published price lists from the firms concerned. Every table carries the authority it came from and the date it was last checked, directly beneath it. Where a figure has not yet been sourced, the page says so rather than estimating.
What does Plainly Property charge?
Nothing to the reader. Plainly Property is paid a referral fee by licensed partners when a reader asks to be introduced to one. That is the entire business model, and it is stated here rather than buried.
Ask for the written valuation
Call or email and the report is prepared from Land Department transactions for your building. It arrives by email within 24 hours, and we call to talk it through — within 15 minutes during working hours.
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Email
info@plainlyproperty.comThe written report is delivered here within 24 hours of the request.
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What this is not
No listing, no marketingAsking for a report does not put your property on the market. Plainly Property publishes no listings and holds no licence.