Before you pay a deposit
An independent check on the property you are about to buy
You are being asked to send money to a country you may never have visited, on the word of somebody paid to sell to you. We check the parts of that story that can be checked, and tell you what we find — including when we find nothing wrong.
Most of this you can do yourself, free.
DLD publishes the developer register, the broker register and the escrow rules, and our free verification guide walks through every step. Pay us when the obstacle is distance, language or time — not because the information is hidden. It is not.
What we check
The agent's licence
Our register, plus a live check on the day
We hold the Land Department's register of 34,123 brokers, so we can tell you at once whether the number you were given appears in it and whether the agency matches. Whether that licence is current on the day you are buying is a live lookup a person does, and we print the date and time they did it.
Where your money goes
A live check, and sometimes we cannot complete it
For off-plan, money is legally required to sit in the project's escrow account, and a request to pay anywhere else is the clearest warning sign there is. We check what we can and we tell you plainly which part we could not — with the reason, who can obtain it, and whether they can do it before your payment date. We would rather say "we could not check this" than imply we did.
The price against real sales
Our database of 1,353,718 registered sales
The one check that comes from data rather than from a lookup, and the reason to buy the report. We show every comparable sale we used — matched to your unit's size, because a two-bedroom in one building can be 1,062 or 1,558 square feet and a single average describes neither. An asking price is a seller's opinion; a registered price is what somebody paid.
The project's own record
A live check on the day
Its registered status and what the Land Department holds against it — a project can be quietly frozen while still being marketed. This is a live lookup, not a database answer: the status field in bulk transaction data is unset for most projects, so we do not read it and we do not repeat it.
One of those four comes from a database. Two come from a person opening an official system on the day, and one cannot always be completed at all. We label every line in the report with which it was, because an answer backed by 1,353,718 registered sales and an answer backed by one screen at one moment are not the same kind of answer, and we will not present them as if they were.
Across 1,080 developers and every registered sale the Land Department has published — the same data behind every figure on this site.
What this is not
This is not a valuation. It contains no opinion of what a property is worth. Property valuation in Dubai may only be done by a valuer accredited by the Dubai Land Department, through RERA’s Taqyeem programme. Keyva is not accredited and does not do it.
It cannot be used for a mortgage, a court, or any Dubai Land Department process.
It is not legal advice, and it is not a recommendation to buy or not to buy.
What it is: a written check of the public record about one property, and what registered sales say about the price being asked. Read a full sample or the full terms and scope.
What it costs
Desk report
AED 1,500
Everything above, from records. Agent licence, developer and project registration, escrow, and your asking price set against what comparable homes actually sold for. Delivered as a written report in 72 hours.
Desk report + site visit
AED 3,500
The same report, plus somebody of ours physically at the site with dated photographs — what is actually built, not what the brochure renders. For off-plan and anything you cannot visit yourself.
For scale: a snagging inspection, which checks a finished building for defects rather than whether the deal is sound, runs AED 1,500–3,500 in Dubai. Nothing is charged until you have a quote and accept it.
Request a report
Your name, your email, the project, and who is selling to you — a name and a phone or email. Everything else is optional: a buyer early enough for this to help often does not know the rest yet, and we would rather hear from you then.
Keyva is not a licensed brokerage and does not act for any seller. A report states what the public record shows on the day we run it and what our figures say about the price. It is not a valuation, not legal advice, and not a guarantee about any property or party. Where the record shows nothing wrong, we say so.