# Real-estate brokerage

Regulated activities · Dubai Setup Index

> Choose whether the business will broker sales, leases or both.

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- Updated: 2026-10-09
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## Route and permissions

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.

## What still needs confirmation

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 Do not publish the English list as exhaustive.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

- [DLD company licensing](https://backoffice.dubailand.gov.ae/en/eservices/real-estate-licensing-application/)
- [professional cards](https://backoffice.dubailand.gov.ae/en/eservices/request-for-issuing-a-real-estate-activity-practice-card/)
- [Arabic card requirements](https://backoffice.dubailand.gov.ae/ar/eservices/request-for-issuing-a-real-estate-activity-practice-card/)

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