Frequently asked questions

You buy the home from Meraas. The sale and purchase agreement is between you and the developer, the unit is registered to you with the Dubai Land Department, and your instalments go to the project's escrow account. Wincasa Properties (Wincasa LLC) is the brokerage: an authorised sales partner that advises you, reserves the unit on your behalf and runs the paperwork. Your enquiry on this site reaches Wincasa, not the developer.

No. Wincasa LLC is an independent Dubai brokerage. It is not part of the Meraas group, does not build or own anything, and does not speak for the developer. This website is operated by Wincasa and is not the official website of Meraas. Where we quote a figure the developer has published — a price, a completion date, a construction percentage — we label it as the developer's.

No. You pay the developer's published price on the developer's payment plan. There is no broker premium and no advisory fee to you; Wincasa is paid a commission by the developer under the sales partnership. Any launch price, waiver or promotion the developer is running is available through Wincasa on identical terms, because it is the same price list.

Off-plan plans split the price into a booking amount, a series of instalments during construction, and a balance at handover; some releases add a post-handover schedule that runs for a year or two after you get the keys. Instalments are triggered either by dates or by construction milestones, and both are set out in the sale and purchase agreement. Every project has its own plan and the developer revises plans between releases, so treat the summary on a project page as indicative and ask for the current schedule in writing before you commit.

The booking or token amount reserves a specific unit while the paperwork is prepared. It varies by project and is stated on the reservation form. Treat it as non-refundable unless the developer's own form says otherwise — the reservation form and the sale and purchase agreement govern that, not this website. Read the cancellation clause before you transfer anything, and ask your consultant to walk you through it.

Off-plan payments in Dubai go into a project escrow account, registered at the Dubai Land Department and held by an approved bank. Money is released to the developer against certified construction progress rather than on request, which is what stops a developer spending one project's instalments on another. Wincasa gives you the escrow account details for the project you choose. Pay that account only — never an individual, never a broker, never an account name that does not match the project.

The largest is the Dubai Land Department transfer fee, which the developer states as 4% of the price. On top of that sit the Land Department's own registration and administrative charges, the Oqood fee on an off-plan unit, and — if you are financing — a mortgage registration charge and the lender's valuation. Those amounts are set by the Land Department and the banks rather than by the developer or by Wincasa, none of them is published on the developer's pages, and they are revised from time to time, so this page does not quote a figure for them. Once the building is handed over you also pay annual service charges, set per destination and charged per square foot. Wincasa itemises every one of these in writing for your specific unit before you reserve, with the current amounts confirmed on the day. There is no buyer-side fee to Wincasa.

Yes — resident and many non-resident buyers borrow from UAE banks. The developer publishes two routes rather than rates: an off-plan facility, which it states becomes available once 50% of the price is paid and construction is 30% complete, and handover financing arranged at completion, with a Sharia-compliant option quoted at terms of up to 25 years. Loan-to-value limits, income multiples, interest rates and arrangement fees are set by the individual lender and the UAE Central Bank, are not published by the developer, and change — so no figure for them appears on this site. Wincasa is a brokerage, not a lender or a mortgage broker: we introduce you to the developer's financing partners and to independent brokers, and the bank sets the actual terms. The buying guide sets out how the two routes differ.

Yes. Foreign nationals can buy outright in Dubai's designated freehold areas, which is where the projects on this site are built, and the title is registered in your name with the Dubai Land Department. You do not need to live in the UAE or hold a residence visa to buy. You will need a valid passport, and at reservation and transfer the developer and the DLD will ask for identity documents and evidence of the source of your funds.

The developer puts the threshold at AED 2 million: a home bought at or above that value can be put forward for the UAE's ten-year renewable residence permit, and Meraas states that a mortgaged home may also be accepted where the conditions are met and the bank supplies its documentation. Whether an application succeeds is for the UAE authorities to decide — not the developer, and not Wincasa — and the rules move. We will tell you how a particular unit, or two units together, measures against the threshold and what the file usually needs, but take immigration advice before buying for the visa alone.

Each project page carries the developer's stated completion quarter and, where the developer publishes it, the percentage complete broken down by sub-structure, super-structure, MEP and finishing works. Those are the developer's figures and they are estimates: construction programmes move, and neither the developer's estimate nor our reproduction of it is a guarantee. Once you are a buyer you receive the developer's progress reports directly, and Wincasa can arrange a site visit at sensible stages.

The developer issues a completion notice, you settle the final instalment and the fees due, then you inspect the unit and list any defects — a snagging list — for the developer to make good. Title is registered at the Dubai Land Department, and the keys are released. From then on the annual service charge for the building or destination applies. Wincasa will attend the inspection with you and keep pressure on the developer until the snag list is closed.

Usually yes, by assigning the contract to another buyer, but the developer sets the condition — typically a minimum percentage of the price already paid — and charges a transfer fee, and the assignment must be registered with the Dubai Land Department. The exact threshold differs between Meraas projects and releases, so ask us to check the clause in your own sale and purchase agreement before you plan around it. Wincasa can market the unit for you and handle the resale.

Yes. Wincasa is a licensed Dubai brokerage, so we can find a tenant, handle the Ejari registration and advise on what the unit should achieve in its destination. We will also give you a realistic view of the service charge and the void periods before you buy, rather than after, because that is what decides whether a rental yield survives contact with reality.

It depends entirely on the project and the release — some Meraas towers and branded residences are delivered furnished or part-furnished, most villas and townhouses are not. The furnishing specification is part of the developer's sales material for each release, and it is the one detail that changes most often between phases. Ask us to confirm what is included for the exact unit before you compare it with anything else.

They are projects the developer has named after, or developed alongside, a third-party brand — Bulgari on Jumeirah Bay Island, Nikki Beach on Pearl Jumeirah, and the Jumeirah hospitality name at Madinat Jumeirah Living and Marsa Al Arab. Those marks belong to their owners and appear on this site only as facts about the project. Wincasa neither represents nor is endorsed by any of them, and a brand name on a building does not change who you contract with — that is still Meraas Development LLC.

A Wincasa consultant contacts you, usually the same working day, to understand the budget, the timeline and what the home is for. You then receive a shortlist with the developer's current price list, payment plan and floor plans. There is no obligation at any point, and your details stay with Wincasa unless and until you decide to reserve a unit, at which stage they go to the developer to raise the paperwork.