What the job is actually like
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The short answer
The most common problems Dubai agents hit are a brokerage withholding visa or BRN paperwork, no inbound leads despite what was promised at interview, commission paid late or not at all, and burnout inside the first year. Each has a route out, and knowing it before you sign is worth more than knowing it after.
Questions about this
The ones that come up most often, answered without a pitch.
Establish which problem you have before filing anything. Employment matters go to MOHRE. Brokerage conduct goes to the Dubai Land Department, whose complaint service accepts filings from brokers but excludes financial claims. Money owed is a legal matter.
Not to the Dubai Land Department: its complaint service excludes financial claims and compensation. Depending on your arrangement it is an employment matter for MOHRE or a contractual claim for the courts. Establish which you have before escalating, and take advice on material sums.
Before resigning, establish from your contract the notice period, what happens to deals agreed but not yet transferred, and how your Brokers Registration Number is released. The release is the step that strands people, because only the firm you are leaving can action it.
One of four reasons: the firm has no lead flow, it has flow but no allocation rule, you are in a performance weighted system with no performance yet, or you are receiving leads and converting them badly. The remedies differ, and three of the four are fixable.
It depends on four things: whether you can survive a long unpaid start, whether you can generate business rather than only service it, whether your firm supplies demand, and whether commission-only income suits your circumstances. The market matters less than any of them.
Written by House Of Orange, a licensed Dubai brokerage that also recruits agents
House Of Orange Real Estate is a licensed Dubai brokerage, ORN 49865. We publish this because we recruit, and we would rather you put the questions on these pages to us than take our word for anything. If a firm cannot answer them, that is the answer.