Dubai RERA Broker Exam study plan

Map the full Dubai real estate regulatory stack, tracing each rule you will be tested on back to the instrument that creates it and the body that enforces it.

Build a one-page comparison table of the core statutes you must know by number and scope, noting which regulator administers each and which parties are bound.

Separate the licensing, escrow-oversight and dispute-resolution functions of RERA from the registration, valuation and title-issuance functions of the Land Department, and state where the two overlap.

Draft 25 recall flashcards covering regulator names, law numbers, permit types and the enforcement powers attached to each.

Complete 30 untimed practice items on Domain 1 and log every wrong answer with the underlying rule.

Explain the broker licensing pathway in sequence: registration, competency requirements, card issuance, renewal and the consequences of lapse.

Compare the duties that attach to brokers, developers and owners respectively, and identify which duties survive after a transaction closes.

Extract professional conduct rules into a do-and-do-not checklist covering advertising accuracy, commission disclosure, conflict of interest, confidentiality and handling of client money.

Analyse five short misconduct scenarios and predict the correct disciplinary outcome for each using the sanctions ladder you built.

Walk through a sale transaction end to end from listing instruction to title transfer, naming the document produced at each stage and who signs it.

Compare seller-side and buyer-side broker engagement terms, focusing on commission, exclusivity, mandate duration and termination.

Model an offer-and-acceptance sequence in writing, marking the exact point at which commission becomes payable and what evidence proves it.

Identify six common contract defects that void or stall a transaction and state the correction for each.

Complete 25 practice items on standard forms and contract formation and review every error.

Explain the escrow regime for off-plan projects: who must open an account, who controls it, and how funds are released against verified construction milestones.

Sequence the project registration and off-plan marketing approval steps that must be completed before a single unit can be advertised.

Distinguish off-plan registration of a unit from final title registration and state precisely what event triggers each.

Calculate a milestone-based release schedule from a given construction progress figure and flag any payment that would be out of sequence.

Sit a timed 50-item mixed set across Domains 1 to 3 and 5 and categorise every miss as knowledge gap or misreading.

Finish the off-plan domain by summarising buyer protections, developer default remedies and the disclosures a broker must make before taking a reservation.

Summarise the tenancy framework as amended, covering rent-increase limits, notice periods for variation and the recognised grounds for eviction.

Distinguish the role of the rental dispute resolution channel from that of the courts, and state which tenancy conflicts belong where.

Apply the rent-increase framework to three scenarios with different current rents relative to the market average and write the correct permitted outcome for each.

Draft the broker checklist for registering a tenancy and confirming what makes it enforceable.

Map the Land Department digital services you will use, matching each platform to the transaction type it serves and the party who initiates it.

Trace the steps, documents and fees for a standard title deed transfer through a registration trustee, and list the five most common causes of rejection.

Describe the data fields a broker must verify in the system before advising a client on ownership, encumbrances or unit status.

Explain how mortgage registration, power of attorney and off-plan registration interact during a financed purchase.

Complete 40 practice items on Domains 4 and 6 and re-drill any item missed twice.

Close out the systems domain by rehearsing the document set required for each of the four common registration scenarios you mapped last week.

Explain the sales comparison, income and cost approaches to valuation and state when each is appropriate in the Dubai market.

Interpret a supplied set of market indicators, including transaction volume, price movement and rental yield, and write a short defensible market commentary.

Calculate gross and net yield for three properties from given purchase price, rent, service charges and vacancy assumptions.

Identify the behavioural errors that distort broker price opinions and note how to guard against each.

Outline anti-money-laundering duties end to end: customer due diligence, beneficial ownership, source of funds and wealth, ongoing monitoring, suspicious transaction reporting and record retention.

Apply customer due diligence to four cases covering a cash-heavy buyer, a politically exposed person, a third-party payer and an offshore corporate purchaser, and decide the correct action for each.

Sit two timed full-length mock exams across all eight domains under exam conditions and log every error by domain and cause.

Re-drill your two weakest domains using targeted item sets until each reaches 75 percent.

Consolidate the flashcards and checklists from weeks 1 to 7 into a single final review sheet.