Off Plan Resolve Insights
What purchasers ask, answered carefully.
Delay
Dubai off-plan property delayed: what can a buyer do?
Missing a handover date is the most common off-plan complaint in Dubai, and the one where purchasers most often act on assumptions rather than on the contract.
Refunds
Can I get a refund from a Dubai property developer?
The most common question purchasers ask, and the one with the least useful general answer. What can be done is to identify what determines the answer in your case.
Delay
Dubai developer missed the handover date: understanding your options
A missed date is a starting point for analysis, not a conclusion. Here is what has to be established before anyone can say what it means.
Defects
Off-plan property defects in Dubai: what buyers should review
Handover is when a purchaser finally sees what was built. What happens in the following weeks tends to determine how a defect dispute goes.
Project status
What happens when a Dubai off-plan project is cancelled?
Purchasers often use “cancelled” loosely. Establishing what has actually happened to a project is the first task, because the routes differ.
Material changes
Developer changed my apartment specifications: what are my options?
Finishes, materials, layouts and sizes can all end up different from what was presented. Whether a particular change creates a claim is a narrower question than most purchasers expect.
Contract
Dubai off-plan SPA: clauses purchasers should review during a dispute
Most off-plan disputes turn on a small number of provisions. These are the ones worth reading properly when something has gone wrong.
Registration
What is Oqood and why does it matter in an off-plan dispute?
Registration of an off-plan sale is administrative until something goes wrong, at which point it becomes one of the first things anyone asks about.
Project accounts
Dubai off-plan escrow accounts explained for purchasers
Where instalments are paid, and how development funds are handled, tends to become interesting to purchasers only once a project stops progressing.
Notices
Developer sent me a default notice: what should I do?
These are time-sensitive. Whatever you think of its merits, an unanswered notice is worse than an answered one.
Delay
Developer changed the handover date in Dubai: is it allowed?
Many SPAs contain extension mechanisms or grace periods. Whether a particular extension is valid or effective is a question about the clause and the circumstances.
International
Can an overseas investor bring a property claim in Dubai?
Living outside the UAE is generally not the obstacle purchasers assume it to be. The practical questions are procedural.
Refunds
Dubai off-plan refund disputes explained
How a refund dispute typically develops, and where purchasers tend to lose ground.
Project status
What happens if construction on my Dubai property stops?
A quiet site raises three separate questions: what is the project’s actual status, what happens to instalments, and what can be done now.
Evidence
What evidence should I keep when disputing with a Dubai developer?
Almost every purchaser who comes to us wishes they had kept something they no longer have. This is the list.