Update: Abu Dhabi Real Estate Law Implementation

This article provides a snap shot of the latest updates insofar as the Abu Dhabi Real Estate Law is concerned:

Merger of the Department of Municipal Affairs and Transport (DMAT) and the Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council (UPC) into a new authority named the Department of Urban Planning and Municipalities (DPM)

The Chairman of Abu Dhabi Executive Council issued Resolution No. 5 of 2018 merging the DMAT and UPC into a new authority named the Department of Urban Planning and Municipalities (DPM).

DPM's authority includes the regulation of the real estate market and urban planning in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. All references in the real estate laws, in particular Law No. 3 of 2015 on the Regulation of the Real Estate Sector in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi ("Law No. 3"), which defined the regulatory powers of DMAT, should now be considered as references to DPM.