Our articles on the handover of new villas in Dubai: snagging, warranties, the handover report, maintenance.
- Managing a villa in Dubai when you live in EuropeThe climate does not stop when you leave, distance makes you dependent on what you are told, and coordinating a contractor from Europe is a job in itself. What serious management covers, and the three warning signs.
- Buying off-plan in Dubai: the real timeline, from reservation to keysReservation, contract, payment instalments, delivery announcement, inspection, handover report, snag clearance: the eight stages of an off-plan purchase in Dubai, and the three moments when a hasty decision costs you for a long time.
- Palm Jumeirah: what a beachfront villa requires you to checkSalt air, waterproofing in both directions, constraints specific to frond villas: taking over a villa on Palm Jumeirah calls for a different checklist from an inland villa.
- Infinity pool: the item buyers look at the leastStructure, overflow, plant room: a villa pool is three structures in one, and each is checked differently. The five most common defects at handover, and the full-cycle test nobody does.
- Air conditioning in Dubai: the defects that cost the most after handoverBalancing, condensate, access, insulation, controls: the five air-conditioning defects we find most often at the handover of a villa in Dubai — and why none of them is visible on key-handover day.
- Snagging: what we actually inspect in a 12,000 sqft villaStructure, envelope, finishes, building services: the detail of a handover inspection, in the order the work is done. And why a 12,000 sqft villa takes one to two days, not a morning.
- Why the handover report is the most important document of your purchaseAnything not written on the handover report is deemed compliant. The four most expensive mistakes at the key handover of a villa in Dubai, and what an independent snag list changes.
- One-year warranty, ten-year liability: what the developer really owes youIn Dubai, the defects warranty is contractual and usually lasts twelve months; ten-year liability is set by law and lasts ten years. They do not cover the same things — and between the two there is a gap that only a proper handover can fill.
- Ten-year liability in Dubai: what changed on 1 June 2026The new UAE Civil Code came into force on 1 June 2026. Ten-year (decennial) liability moves from Article 880 to Article 821. What it really covers, what it does not, and the three-year deadline almost nobody knows about.
