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How to Start a Real Estate Survey Services Business in Dubai
Real estate survey services cover the technical measurement and mapping of property and land: establishing boundaries, areas and site conditions, and producing the survey records that underpin transactions, development and registration. In Dubai's fast-building environment, accurate survey work is a foundational technical service.
The scale of construction and transaction activity keeps demand high. Dubai recorded around 226,000 real estate transactions worth AED 761 billion in 2024, a 36 per cent rise in volume. 1
The emirate logged 2.78 million real estate procedures in the same year, the highest in its history. 2 Each new plot, building and registration depends on precise survey data, tying this activity directly to the market's growth.
For qualified surveyors, this pipeline of development and registration makes survey services a well-supported activity to hold under a Meydan Free Zone business license, subject to the approval noted below.
Survey Work Behind Every Plot and Building
Accurate survey data underpins transactions, development and registration. The figures below show the volume of activity that relies on it.
Sources: Dubai Land Department; Dubai Media Office
Who Is This Activity For?
7110.99 - Real Estate Survey Services
Activity 7110.99 sits within the broader Architectural and Engineering Activities and Related Technical Consultancy class, which includes surveying and mapping services.
Within that class, this activity is real estate survey work: the technical measurement of property and land and the production of the resulting survey records.
The activity is technical survey. It does not extend to full engineering or architectural design, to valuing the property, or to brokering its sale, each of which is a separate licensed activity, as the exclusions below set out.
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Compliance
THIRD-PARTY APPROVAL
This activity requires pre-approval from the Dubai Real Estate Regulatory Agency (RERA) before a business license can be issued by Meydan Free Zone. This license cannot be combined with other activities except those within RERA Activity Group 3.
ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING COMPLIANCE
This business activity is not subject to AML compliance requirements.
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References
1 Dubai Land Department. Dubai's real estate sector records AED 761 billion in transactions in 2024.
2 Dubai Media Office. Dubai real estate 2024 performance: 2.78 million procedures.
