The RERA forms: Contracts A, B and F

Which forms does the Land Department actually list?

The Department's Real Estate Brokerage Practice Guide, second edition, dated November 2024, names three. It has a chapter called "Smart marketing and sales contracts (A, B, F)". It says brokers must commit to using smart contracts for real estate marketing and sales, and it defines each one in a sentence. Elsewhere it says all brokers are mandated to use electronic contracts to record real estate sales.

The Practice Guide's word is contract. The Department has used both: its Circular 01-2022 calls the marketing contract Form A. Contract F also appears as the Unified Sale Contract (F). The market says Form A, Form B and Form F, and MOU is common for the last one. They are the same documents, and this page uses both names because you will hear both.

What the guide does not contain matters as much. It has no Form I, no Form U and no contract for renting. That is a statement about the guide, not about those forms. They are covered further down, separately, because the evidence for them is different.

How the contracts connect in DLD's walkthroughs

The Department publishes a separate broker walkthrough for each contract. All three are listed on its site as 26 April 2021, so the screens and steps may have changed since. We read the three documents again on 22 October 2026, which says when we checked them and not when the Department last updated them.

Read as they are written, the walkthroughs describe this:

1. 01

   Contract A

   The broker creates it in Dubai Brokers for the seller, an owner or a company, and a link goes to the owner. Once the owner has approved it, the broker can search for it and download it.

2. 02

   Contract B

   The broker creates it for the buyer or buyers, adding the property requirements, financial details, each buyer's share, and the duration and commission. Once the buyer or buyers have approved it, the broker can search for it and download it.

3. 03

   Contract F

   The walkthrough starts from an approved Contract A: the broker opens it and chooses Create Unified Sale Contract (F), and the next step is to relate an active Contract B. It then runs through the owner, the buyer, any tenancy, the financial details, the payment plan, the duration, the two brokers and the Department's fees, and is submitted for approval. The broker can download it once the owner has approved it. The walkthrough does not set out the buyer's approval step.

What is Form A (Contract A), and how is it made?

Contract A is the listing agreement: the seller and your brokerage agree that the brokerage will market the property. The Department's walkthrough for brokers, listed on its site as 26 April 2021, shows it being made in Dubai Brokers, reached either through the Dubai REST app, under Business User, or through the Dubai Broker web application on the Department's site.

You choose whether the seller is an owner or a company. For an owner, you enter the current title deed details and the system validates them, then the owner is verified by Emirates ID, date of birth or passport. You confirm whether an Ejari tenancy contract exists on the property, enter the financial details, set the commission and the contract duration, and upload a no objection document signed by the owner. On submission, a link with the contract details goes to the owner, or to each owner. Once they approve, you can find and download the contract, which arrives as a password protected PDF.

Contract A is also what an advert stands on. The Department's ad permit service requires a broker applicant to supply the marketing contract with the property owner, and the permit itself has its own piece in this section.

1. 01

   The title deed details

   The certificate number, its year and the property type, current, because the system validates them before you can continue.

2. 02

   A way to verify the owner

   Emirates ID, date of birth or passport, as the walkthrough lists them.

3. 03

   The signed no objection document

   The walkthrough says the broker must upload one signed by the owner.

4. 04

   Agreed commission and duration

   Both are entered before submission, so agree them with the owner first rather than inside the link.

What is Form B (Contract B), and what does it record?

Contract B is the buyer's side: the guide calls it an agreement of desire to purchase a property between the buyer and the broker. If you are representing a buyer rather than listing for a seller, this is the agreement that records it.

The Department's published Contract B template shows what it carries. Your brokerage's details, including its ORN, and yours, including your BRN. The buyer's identity and contact details. What they are looking for: the area, the type of property and the budget. How they will pay, split into ready cash and finance, with the bank and the date of any approval. Then the commission, a start and end date, and signatures from the brokerage and the buyer.

The Department also publishes a broker walkthrough for creating it. It has the broker choose Create Contract B in Dubai Brokers, add the buyer by Emirates ID, passport or as a registered owner, with several buyers allowed, then enter the property requirements, the financial details, each buyer's share, and the duration and commission. Documents and notes are optional. After a preview and acceptance of the terms the broker submits it for approval, and once the buyer or buyers have approved it the broker can search for it and download it.

The Contract F walkthrough has a step to relate an active Contract B when the sale contract is created. The walkthrough does not say what happens where none exists, and we did not find Department guidance that does. An agent who has shown a buyer six properties without one has nothing to relate.

What is Form F (Contract F), and how is it created?

Contract F is the sale contract, between seller and buyer. In the Department's walkthrough it does not start from a blank page: you open an approved Contract A, choose Create Unified Sale Contract (F), and the next step is to relate an active Contract B. In that walkthrough the listing agreement therefore comes first.

From there the walkthrough runs through the parties and the deal. You verify the owner and their selling share, the buyer and their share, and any tenancy contract on the property. You enter the price and financial details, the payment plan and the contract duration, then verify the seller's broker and the buyer's broker, check the Department's fee details, add notes, and add further terms if the deal needs them. After a preview it is submitted for approval. The walkthrough describes the broker finding and downloading the contract once the owner has approved it. It does not set out the buyer's approval step, and a contract being available to download is not a statement about when it is complete or binding.

The Contract F template we found on the Department's site is the one for a sale with no broker, and it is marked as such on every page. We did not find the brokered version published as a template. The walkthrough shows it generated in the system, so read the one you are issuing rather than one copied from a colleague.

Where do rental documents fit?

The Practice Guide describes A, B and F as smart marketing and sales contracts, and it names no contract for renting. Rental paperwork sits in two other places on the Department's site.

The Department publishes two lease brokerage agreement templates, both issued in August 2022: one between the owner and the broker, and one between the broker and the tenant. Each records the broker's ORN and BRN, the property, an approximate rental budget, the agreement dates and the commission, with space for whether the owner or the tenant pays it. Neither carries a letter.

It also publishes a unified Ejari tenancy contract on its Ejari templates page, a PDF listed as 7 September 2022. That is the tenancy contract itself, a different document from the lease brokerage agreements and from Contracts A, B and F.

If you are handed a form to sign for a rental, check which of these it is before you sign.

What about Form I and Form U?

Form I is widely referred to in the market, and the Department's Practice Guide does not list it. Market guides describe it as an agreement between two brokerages sharing a deal, setting out how they split the commission. When we checked on 14 October 2026 we found no template, walkthrough or service page for it on dubailand.gov.ae. That is a dated search result, not a finding that the form does not exist or is not used. What the Department's material does show is that the Contract F walkthrough records the seller's broker and the buyer's broker separately. Whether a separate agreement between brokers is still expected, and where it is recorded, the published guidance we read does not say.

Form U is in the same position. Market guides describe it as a notice ending a brokerage agreement, some with a notice period attached. It is not in the Practice Guide and we found no Department source for it by that name when we checked, so this page states no period. The Department does publish one route that touches this: its Find Broker Contract guide shows a party looking up a broker contract in the Dubai REST app by contract number and mobile number, then downloading or cancelling it.

Where a form is not in the guide, ask your brokerage how it is recorded and confirm the current position with the Department rather than with a colleague or an article, this one included.