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The five numbers that decide a Dubai purchase, worked out properly: what the payment plan really costs month by month, what you pay on top of the price, what a bank will actually lend you, what the unit returns once the service charge is paid, and whether it reaches the Golden Visa threshold.

Official DLD and Central Bank rates, reviewed 26 July 2026

What a Dubai purchase actually costs

A Dubai property has no annual property tax and no capital gains tax, which is where most comparisons stop. The costs that do exist are front-loaded: the Dubai Land Department takes 4% of the price at registration, and once the trustee office, title deed, agency commission and, if you are financing, the mortgage registration and bank fees are added, a cash resale lands at about 6.5% on top of the price and a mortgaged purchase at roughly 8%. The 7 to 10% figure most guides quote is the ceiling, not the estimate.

After that the recurring cost is the service charge, set per community and charged per square foot. It is the number that separates a 7% gross yield from a 5% net one, and it is almost never in the listing.

Financing has its own ceiling, and it is regulatory rather than commercial: the Central Bank of the UAE caps the loan at 80% of the value for an expat buying a first home under AED 5 million, 70% above it, and 50% on anything off-plan, for everyone. A bank may lend less than that. None will lend more.