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The number they gave you is not the number you will pay.
Renewing, or signing your first lease in Dubai. Either way there is money in it nobody has shown you. Ninety seconds, free, and sometimes the answer is nothing.
AED15,000typical renewal exposure
AED12,116typical first-lease exposure
AED299the kit · free to check first
Step 1 of 4 · Your situation
Which describes you?
Dubai residential tenancy only. Other emirates run on different rules.
The two rent figures
The two dates
This is the check almost nobody runs, and it is often the whole ballgame.
The property
The costs on top
Your number
On the figures you entered.
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Leverage Score
Calculating…
See where the rest of it is
The other findings, the figures behind each one, the dates that decide it, and the single thing worth doing today. We’ll email it as well, so you have it in writing when you need to quote it back at somebody.
Indicative only, based on what you entered. Not legal advice and not a review of your documents.
Tenqira is not a law firm. Nothing here is legal advice.
The Leverage Score checks the three things that actually decide your position — the date on your notice, the band your increase falls in, and what comparable units really transact at — then tells you what to do about it.
Works whether the notice has landed or you’re still viewing
Every dirham marked not owed or negotiable — never blurred together
Three finished documents published below in full. Read them first
Your risk, in full
Two ways to get your money back.
We find nothing — refunded without asking. Three tests run against your paperwork. If none turns up money, the refund is automatic.
You are simply not happy — that is enough. Any reason, fourteen days, one reply to the delivery email. No form, no questions. You keep every document either way.
What nobody can guarantee is what your landlord says. Anyone promising that is selling you something they cannot deliver.
AED 299, against AED 125,616
Nought point two four per cent of what you are about to hand over. Back within one business day, same day if you are close to signing.
“You just showed me that for free.”
Correct, and it is yours. What you still cannot see is what flats like yours actually let for — that sits in registered contracts and never appears in a listing. And you do not have the letters, on your figures, in the register that gets a reply. That is the AED 299.
The biggest lever, free
Most of what you owe up front is schedule, not cost.
One bedroom at AED 110,000, one cheque, five per cent commission. The same tenancy, paid differently.
Cash before keys
1×as offeredAED 125,616
2×AED 70,616
4×AED 43,116
12×lowestAED 24,782
AED 100,833 of difference on the same flat at the same rent. Landlords price the flexibility, so it is a negotiation rather than free money — but nothing else moves this much cash, and the free check runs it on your numbers.
No card, and no email needed for your headline number.
90 daysThe written notice they need before changing your rent. Served late and the old rent carries straight into the new year.
20%The absolute ceiling on a renewal increase, and only in the widest band. Most tenancies sit nowhere near it.
AED 5,000–25,000The range across four modelled rent levels. AED 15,000 is the midpoint; the conservative floor is AED 5,422, still eighteen times what the kit costs.
Where it hides
Three places, all checkable.
The dateA notice changing your terms must arrive ninety days before the lease ends. Not sixty. Counting takes fifteen seconds and almost nobody does it. Renewing
The bandHow far they can raise it depends on how far below the going rate you already are. Five steps, capped at twenty per cent, and most tenancies sit nowhere near the top. Renewing
The feesFive per cent commission is a habit, not a law. It settles at three or four often enough that asking is close to free, and on a renewal there is no basis for it at all. Both
The part most people leave out. There is no route to a rent reduction. None. The rules cap what they can add and say nothing about taking any away. Anyone promising to get your rent lowered is confused or selling — and claiming a right you do not have is the fastest way to lose the ones you do.
Pricing
Eighteen things you can actually send. AED 299.
Not a guide explaining what a good letter contains. The letter itself, your figures already typed into it, ready to send this afternoon. Run the free check first — plenty of people find nothing, and we would rather you were one of them and knew it.
One price, one product. There is no cheaper version that leaves out the part you need, and no expensive one we upsell you to afterwards.
Everything
The Dubai Rent Kit
AED299
One price. Everything in it. No add-ons, no upgrade you find out about later.
- Your Rent Verdict — written on your actual notice and contract, not a blank form
- Savings Ledger with every line marked not-owed or negotiable
- The Landlord Position Statement — formal, numbered, evidenced
- Letter Pack in English and Arabic — your figures already in it, ready to send
- 20 objection scripts for when the first answer is no
- Shortlist and renew-versus-move calculators
- All 18 instruments, yours to keep
Worked from your own documents and returned within one business day, or same day if you are about to sign. Full refund for any reason within 14 days — and you keep the documents.
What actually arrives. You send your notice and contract, or your shortlist. We work your file and email it back within one business day: your Verdict as a PDF, your Savings Ledger and the calculators as editable spreadsheets, and the letters as Word documents you fill in and send yourself. Nothing is locked, watermarked or view-only. It is your paperwork.
Why there is only one price. A cheap version would have to leave something out, and the thing it would leave out is the Position Statement — the only document in here that reaches the landlord’s side of the table. Selling you the rest without it would be selling you a case you cannot make. So there is one kit, it has everything, and it costs AED 299.
The work itself
Here is what you get. All of it.
Three finished documents, published whole rather than teased — the renewal letter, the position statement that reaches the landlord, and the email for a new lease. Read them before you spend anything, and judge the standard yourself.
Sample 01 — negotiation letter · renewal
Dear [Landlord / Agent name],
Thank you for your notice dated [date] regarding the renewal of the tenancy at [unit, building, community], due to expire on [expiry date].
I would like to renew, and to settle the terms without delay. Before I do, there are two points I would ask you to confirm.
First, the date of the notice. A change to the terms of a renewal requires ninety days’ written notice before expiry. Your notice is dated [date], which is [n] days before expiry. On that basis the existing terms would carry into the renewed period. I would be grateful if you would confirm your position.
Second, the increase itself. Permitted increases on renewal are set by reference to how far the current rent sits below comparable units. On the figures I hold, the current rent of AED [current] against a comparable range of AED [low] to AED [high] places this tenancy in the band permitting [x]%. The proposed increase is [y]%.
I am not asking for a reduction and I recognise none is owed. I am asking that the increase be brought to [x]%, which is AED [amount] on the annual rent, and that we sign promptly on that basis.
If it helps, I am content to discuss the cheque schedule separately — I can be flexible there in return for settling the rent figure this week.
I have been a reliable tenant for [n] years and I would prefer to stay. A void of even one month, plus re-letting commission, costs considerably more than the difference we are discussing.
Yours sincerely,
[Your name] · [Unit] · [Mobile]
Sample 02 — landlord position statement · extract
Statement of position — renewal of tenancy at [unit, building, community]
Prepared by the tenant. Figures as at [date].
- This statement sets out the tenant’s position on the proposed renewal terms. It is submitted in good faith and with a view to settlement rather than dispute.
- The tenancy commenced on [date] at an annual rent of AED [amount], registered under Ejari number [number].
- Notice of the proposed variation is dated [date]. Expiry is [date]. The interval is [n] days. The requirement for a variation of terms on renewal is ninety days’ written notice.
- Where that interval is not met, the tenancy renews on its existing terms. The tenant’s position is that the existing rent therefore continues to apply.
- Without prejudice to clause 4, the tenant addresses the proposed increase on its merits below.
- Permitted increases on renewal are determined by the shortfall between the current rent and comparable units in the same area, rising in steps to a maximum of twenty per cent.
- The comparable evidence relied upon is listed at Appendix A: [n] transactions in [community] between [date] and [date], at annual rents of AED [range].
- On that evidence the current rent sits [x]% below the comparable figure, placing the tenancy in the band permitting an increase of [y]%.
- The proposed increase of [z]% exceeds that band by AED [amount] per annum.
- The tenant does not seek a reduction and accepts that none is owed. The request is limited to bringing the increase within the permitted band.
- The tenant proposes settlement at AED [amount] per annum, on [n] cheques, with signature within seven days of agreement.
- Should the matter not settle, the tenant reserves the right to refer it to the Rental Dispute Settlement Centre, and would prefer not to.
Appendices: A — comparable transactions. B — copy of notice. C — Ejari certificate. D — payment history.
Sample 03 — pre-signing email · new lease
Dear [Agent name],
Thank you for showing me [unit, building, community] on [date]. I am interested and would like to move quickly, so I will be direct about the terms.
On the rent. The unit is advertised at AED [advertised]. Units of the same type and size in [building or community] have recently let at AED [range]. On that basis I would like to offer AED [offer] for a twelve-month term, and I am ready to proceed this week.
On the commission. You have quoted [x]%. My understanding is that this is customary rather than fixed, and commonly settles at 3%. I would ask that it be set at 3% plus VAT. If the landlord is dealing directly, I would expect no commission to arise.
On what is not in the advertised figure. Before I sign, please confirm in writing: whether cooling is billed separately and the approximate annual cost; the security deposit and whether the unit is treated as furnished; who pays for the Ejari registration; whether parking is included and for how many vehicles; and any maintenance or service charge payable by the tenant.
I ask because these have moved my decision between properties before, and I would rather establish them now than discover them in February.
On the cheques. I can be flexible on the instalment count if that helps you place the unit. I would rather use that flexibility on the rent figure than on the deposit.
If we can agree the rent and the commission, I am content to sign within seven days and to provide references and proof of income immediately.
Kind regards,
[Your name] · [Mobile] · [Email]
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What the evidence looks like
One lookup, start to finish
This is the part you are actually paying for — so here is one, run properly, with the building anonymised.
AdvertisedAED [ADVERTISED]
Registered contracts, same size, same building, last [PERIOD][COUNT]
Range actually paidAED [LOW] – [HIGH]
Gap between the advert and the evidenceAED [GAP]
Anonymised, and published with permission. The figures are what the register shows, not what we would like it to show.
The whole method on one case, with the arithmetic shown. Sent to your inbox.
All three are templates. The bracketed parts get filled in from your own paperwork. Neither is legal advice, and neither was written for your tenancy in particular.
Run the free check first. Then decide if this is worth AED 299 to you.
Before you buy
What you would ask a stranger for AED 299.
Where the evidence comes from
Dubai’s published tenancy law for the rules, and the Land Department’s rental index — built on registered contracts — for the comparables. Public information that nobody puts in front of you at the moment you need it. Not an inside line.
Your documents
Used to produce your file and nothing else. Not published, not shared, not sold, not used as examples. Ask us to delete them after delivery and we will, same day. The samples here were written for publication, not taken from a customer.
What we will not do
We will not contact your landlord for you — every message goes from your address, in your name. We will not tell you a reduction is owed. We will not cover an emirate we have not researched. And if the sums warrant a lawyer, we will say so.
Questions
Including the ones we’d rather you didn’t ask.
You just showed me the cheque table for free. Why would I pay you?
Fair. Take it — the cheque arithmetic is yours now and you do not owe us anything for it. It was the biggest lever on your money and it would have been a poor way to treat you to hold it hostage.
Here is what you still cannot do on your own. You cannot see what units like yours actually transacted at, because that sits in registered contracts and never appears in a listing. Without it every number you put to an agent is your opinion against theirs.
And you do not have the letters. Not templates — the letters, with your figures already in them, in the register that gets a reply rather than a shrug. Writing those from scratch is an afternoon, and the second email matters more than the first.
If the free part is all you needed, we are genuinely pleased. Plenty of people will stop here and they should.
I need to save money right now, not next year. Does this help?
That is the right question, and it is why the calculator leads with cash before keys rather than annual rent.
The biggest single lever on your upfront is the cheque count, and it is arithmetic rather than persuasion: on one cheque you pay the year in advance, on six you pay a sixth. Landlords price that flexibility, so it is a negotiation \u2014 but it moves tens of thousands, which nothing else on this page does.
After that: the commission, the asking rent itself, and knowing which of your deposits you will actually get back.
How do I know the agent is genuine?
Every licensed broker in Dubai has a registration number. You can check it in the official Dubai REST app in under a minute, and the regulator runs a public helpline on 800 4488.
An unlicensed agent cannot lawfully collect commission, and money handed to one is not protected. Do this before any deposit moves, not after. It costs nothing and it is the single most useful minute you will spend.
Can you actually get my rent reduced?
No. And nor can anyone else, which is the more useful half of that answer.
The rules cap what a landlord may add at renewal. They say nothing whatsoever about taking any away. A reduction is something a landlord agrees to, out of goodwill or fear of an empty flat, never something you are owed. Anybody telling you otherwise is guessing or selling.
What we can settle is whether the increase sits inside its permitted step, whether the notice arrived in time, and how your rent compares to what places like yours actually let for. Those questions have answers. That one doesn’t.
Will I get my deposit back?
It is refundable in principle \u2014 5% of the annual rent unfurnished, 10% furnished, plus the utility and cooling deposits on top.
Whether you actually see it depends almost entirely on what you photograph and put in writing on the day you move in. Almost nobody does this, and it is the cheapest insurance in the whole process. Do it even if you buy nothing from us.
Free. Ninety seconds. If there is nothing there, it says so.
Ninety seconds now. Or that number, every month, until next year.
Whatever you decide, decide it before you reply to them. Once you have answered, the room to move is mostly gone. Free, no card, and it will tell you straight if the answer is nothing.
The whole thing, start to finish
A complete worked case: the notice that arrived, the dates counted, the band applied, the evidence gathered, the letter sent, and the figure it came to. Every step, with the arithmetic shown.
- The original notice and what was wrong with it
- The comparable evidence, and where it came from
- The Savings Ledger, line by line, each one marked
- The letter and the position statement, complete
- What it came to, and what was left on the table
Worked on realistic figures, not a customer’s file — we don’t publish those, and we’d rather show you the method than ask you to trust a story.
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