Explained: Dubai's New Off-Plan Property Purchase Law

Dubai Law 19 of 2017, amends Article 11 of Law 13 of 2008, (which was previously amended by Law No 9 of 2009), will affect those purchasers who, having purchased a unit off plan, breach the sale agreement. The new law has provided further requirements and more detail to the procedures which a developer is required to follow in order to enforce the sale agreement or cancel it, depending upon the circumstances.

What does the update to the off-plan property purchasing law mean for people who have bought off plan?

For a purchaser, who has bought off-plan and not complied with his contractual obligations to the developer, this new detailed procedure is as follows:

The developer shall notify the Land Department of the purchaser's non-compliance, using the standard template for such notice, which shall include the required information of the parties, the description of the real property unit ('the unit') and the details of the non-compliance committed by the purchaser.