Property is usually the most valuable thing in dispute — and property disputes in the UAE run through their own mix of general civil law and specialist regimes. We handle the full spectrum: conflicts over ownership and sale, off-plan projects that stall, tenancy battles, construction disagreements and encroachment, protecting your rights and your investment.
Sale and purchase breaches — deposits, defaults and failed completions under the SPA; off-plan delays and cancellations — pursuing buyers’ rights within the escrow and registration framework that protects off-plan purchasers; landlord-tenant conflicts — rent, eviction and deposit disputes through the specialist rental committees (in Dubai, the Rental Dispute Settlement Centre); construction disputes — defects, payment and delay between owners and contractors; and ownership and encroachment issues — boundaries, shares and competing claims to the same property.
We identify the correct forum first — rental committee, civil court or arbitration under the contract — because property disputes are lost by starting in the wrong one; we secure the position early, including precautionary attachments and registration steps where the asset is at risk; and we pursue resolution by negotiation where the numbers favour it, and through proceedings where they do not. Our civil litigators work alongside the firm’s dedicated real estate practice, so the transactional and contentious sides of your problem are handled together.
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