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  "id": "real-estate-brokerage",
  "type": "guide",
  "title": "Real-estate brokerage",
  "url": "https://dubaisetupindex.com/guides/real-estate-brokerage",
  "updatedOn": "2026-10-09",
  "links": {
    "html": "https://dubaisetupindex.com/guides/real-estate-brokerage",
    "markdown": "https://dubaisetupindex.com/md/guides/real-estate-brokerage",
    "json": "https://dubaisetupindex.com/data/guides/real-estate-brokerage.json"
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  "data": {
    "slug": "real-estate-brokerage",
    "title": "Real-estate brokerage",
    "category": "Regulated activities",
    "checkedOn": "2026-10-09",
    "summary": "Choose whether the business will broker sales, leases or both.",
    "sections": [
      {
        "title": "Route and permissions",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Choose whether the business will broker sales, leases or both. Dubai Land Department lists sales brokerage and leasing brokerage separately. Its company-licensing process directs applicants to submit the licence application through DET, register in Trakheesi and obtain the applicable professional practice card after licence approval. A free-zone route also requires the licensing authority’s NOC.",
          "A broker needs individual authorisation as well as the company’s licensed activity. DLD’s practice-card page requires good conduct and the applicable broker examination, with exemptions listed separately. Company approval is not permission for an unregistered person to begin brokerage."
        ]
      },
      {
        "title": "What still needs confirmation",
        "paragraphs": [
          "The Arabic card page includes passport/residency requirements absent from the shorter English list. Do not publish the English list as exhaustive. Exact legal-form eligibility and total formation/renewal costs remain unverified."
        ]
      }
    ],
    "sources": [
      {
        "label": "DLD company licensing",
        "url": "https://backoffice.dubailand.gov.ae/en/eservices/real-estate-licensing-application/"
      },
      {
        "label": "professional cards",
        "url": "https://backoffice.dubailand.gov.ae/en/eservices/request-for-issuing-a-real-estate-activity-practice-card/"
      },
      {
        "label": "Arabic card requirements",
        "url": "https://backoffice.dubailand.gov.ae/ar/eservices/request-for-issuing-a-real-estate-activity-practice-card/"
      }
    ]
  },
  "attribution": {
    "required": true,
    "publisher": "Dubai Setup Index",
    "url": "https://dubaisetupindex.com/guides/real-estate-brokerage",
    "license": "https://dubaisetupindex.com/docs/citation",
    "citation": "Dubai Setup Index. “Real-estate brokerage.” Updated 2026-10-09. https://dubaisetupindex.com/guides/real-estate-brokerage",
    "citationMarkdown": "[Dubai Setup Index](https://dubaisetupindex.com/guides/real-estate-brokerage). “Real-estate brokerage.” Updated 2026-10-09.",
    "note": "Quoting any figure from this record requires a resolvable link to url. Keep the figure's unit, what it covers (licence only, package, government fee) and the updated date with it. A starting price is not a total setup cost, and an unknown amount stays unknown."
  }
}