on august 19, 2008, dubai law no. (14) of 2008 was issued and will become effective 60 days after it is published in the official gazette.

dubai law no. (26) of 2007 requires tenancy contracts to be in writing and registered with the real estate regulatory agency.

dubai law no. (27) of 2007 provides for registration of jointly owned property, which covers 2 concepts of subdivision, namely (i) subdivision within buildings where common areas will be created, and (ii) subdivision within conventional methods of horizontal subdivision of land where common areas will be created. earlier during 2007, the difc passed law no. (5) of 2007, which recognizes that real property may be divided both vertically and horizontally and provides for registration of the strata plan.

dubai law no. (8) of 2007 was enacted to provide legislative protection to purchasers in off-plan (le., pre-construction) transactions.