Determining Rent Increases for Real Property in the Emirate of Dubai
Our landlord verbally told us that he would not increase the rent of our two-bedroom apartment in Dubai in the second year. However, now that we wish to renew the lease, he said it will be increased by 10 per cent. Can he demand such an increase?
Decree No. 43 of 2013, Determining Rent Increases for Real Property in the Emirate of Dubai, regulates any increase in the annual rent of any property in Dubai, including in free zones, and the percentage of increase.
The Dubai Land Department has developed a rental increase calculator, which is readily accessible on its website for any person to check whether any increase in their annual rent amount applies.
The tenant cannot rely on the landlord’s verbal undertaking as the circumstances and applicable principles in which an increase may be effected are set out in a decree (law). Even if such undertaking was recorded in the initial lease agreement it is unlikely that it could be enforced by the tenant
Decree No. 43 of 2013, Determining Rent Increases for Real Property in the Emirate of Dubai, regulates any increase in the annual rent of any property in Dubai, including in free zones, and the percentage of increase.
The Dubai Land Department has developed a rental increase calculator, which is readily accessible on its website for any person to check whether any increase in their annual rent amount applies.
The tenant cannot rely on the landlord’s verbal undertaking as the circumstances and applicable principles in which an increase may be effected are set out in a decree (law). Even if such undertaking was recorded in the initial lease agreement it is unlikely that it could be enforced by the tenant
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