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Dubai only
Tenqira is a document service for Dubai tenants. A notice has arrived with a figure on it. The free check counts the days, applies the band and tells you what is actually owed. If something is there, AED 299 buys the finished paperwork — written on your figures, in your name, back within one business day.
Step 1 of 4 · Your situation
This is the check almost nobody runs, and it is often the whole ballgame.
Your number
On the figures you entered.
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Leverage Score
Calculating…
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The other findings, the figures behind each one, and the single thing worth doing today — in writing, so you can quote it back at somebody.
Indicative only, based on what you entered. Not legal advice and not a review of your documents.
Tenqira is not a law firm. Nothing here is legal advice.
Works whether the notice has landed or you’re still viewing
Every dirham marked not owed or negotiable — never blurred together
Free, and it says so plainly when the answer is nothing
Five steps, and no discretion in them. This is the entire calculation.
Permitted increase on renewal
Most tenancies sit in the top two rows, where the permitted increase is nothing or five per cent. The whole thing turns on one figure — what comparable units actually transact at — and that is the number you cannot get from a listing.
No card, and no email needed for your headline number.
The part most people leave out. There is no route to a rent reduction. None. The rules cap what they can add and say nothing about taking any away. Anyone promising to get your rent lowered is confused or selling — and claiming a right you do not have is the fastest way to lose the ones you do.
There are no testimonials here. We have none we are permitted to publish, and a story is the easiest thing in the world to write. Here is the method instead — realistic figures, every step shown, nothing rounded in our favour.
The situation
A one-bedroom flat. Current rent AED 92,000, tenancy expiring 31 March. On 20 January a notice arrives proposing AED 112,000, and the agent asks five per cent commission to process the renewal.
What goes out. A dated letter asking them to confirm the notice date and the band relied on. A Position Statement setting out the interval, the eight comparable contracts at Appendix A, and a settlement figure. Twenty scripts for the second email, which is where these actually die. All in the client’s name, sent by the client.
No settlement figure is printed here, because we will not invent one. When we have a result we are permitted to show, it appears in this space and not before.
This is the part you are actually paying for — so here is one, run properly, with the building anonymised.
Anonymised, and published with permission. The figures are what the register shows, not what we would like it to show.
The same worked case, laid out to keep. Nothing else unless you ask.
Not a guide explaining what a good letter contains. The letter itself, your figures already in it, ready to send this afternoon. One price, one product — no cheaper version that leaves out the part you need, and nothing we upsell you to later.
AED299
One price. Everything in it. No add-ons, no upgrade you find out about later.
Worked from your own documents and returned within one business day, or same day if you are about to sign.
Judge the writing before you spend anything. Bracketed parts are filled from your own paperwork; the complete documents are what you receive.
First, the date of the notice. A change to the terms of a renewal requires ninety days’ written notice before expiry. Your notice is dated [date], which is [n] days before expiry. On that basis the existing terms would carry into the renewed period.
Second, the increase itself. On the figures I hold, the current rent of AED [current] against a comparable range of AED [low] to AED [high] places this tenancy in the band permitting [x]%. The proposed increase is [y]%.
I am not asking for a reduction and I recognise none is owed. I am asking that the increase be brought to [x]%, and that we sign promptly on that basis.
تحية طيبة وبعد،
بالإشارة إلى إشعاركم المؤرخ في [التاريخ] بشأن تجديد عقد إيجار الوحدة [رقم الوحدة، المبنى، المنطقة]، والمقرر انتهاؤه بتاريخ [تاريخ الانتهاء].
أود إفادتكم بأنني أرغب في التجديد، وفي الاتفاق على الشروط دون تأخير.
Notice of the proposed variation is dated [date]. Expiry is [date]. The interval is [n] days. The requirement for a variation of terms on renewal is ninety days’ written notice. Where that interval is not met, the tenancy renews on its existing terms.
The comparable evidence relied upon is listed at Appendix A: [n] transactions in [community] between [date] and [date], at annual rents of AED [range]. On that evidence the current rent sits [x]% below the comparable figure, placing the tenancy in the band permitting an increase of [y]%.
The tenant does not seek a reduction and accepts that none is owed. The request is limited to bringing the increase within the permitted band.
Why there is only one price. A cheaper version would have to leave out the Position Statement — the only document here that reaches the landlord’s side of the table. Selling you the rest without it would be selling you a case you cannot make.
Dubai’s published tenancy law for the rules, and the Land Department’s rental index — built on registered contracts — for the comparables. Public information that nobody puts in front of you at the moment you need it. Not an inside line.
Used to produce your file and nothing else. Not published, shared, sold, or used as examples. Ask us to delete them after delivery and we will, same day. The extracts above were written for publication, not taken from a customer.
We will not contact your landlord for you. We will not tell you a reduction is owed. We will not cover an emirate we have not researched. And if the sums warrant a lawyer, we will say so.
Tenqira is operated by [OPERATOR NAME], Dubai trade licence [LICENCE NUMBER], registered at [REGISTERED ADDRESS]. Card payments are processed by [PAYMENT PROVIDER]; we never see or store your card details.
Questions before you buy go to hello@tenqira.com and are answered by the person who would work your file.
Then you send it. Not us. Every message goes from your address, in your name — corresponding with a landlord on your behalf edges into representation, and we are not licensed for that. You get the paperwork, finished, and the scripts for what comes back.
The range across four modelled rent levels. AED 15,000 is the midpoint; the conservative floor is AED 5,422, still eighteen times what the kit costs. Run the free check first — plenty of people find nothing, and we would rather you were one of them and knew it.
Back within one business day. Or check free first — ninety seconds, no card.
Fair. Take it — the bands are public and you owe us nothing for them. Holding the rule itself hostage would have been a poor way to treat you.
What the table cannot tell you is which row you are in. That depends entirely on what comparable units actually transacted at, which sits in registered contracts and never appears in a listing. Without it the table is five rows you cannot place yourself in. And you still do not have the letter, on your figures, in the register that gets a reply rather than a shrug.
Then we say so in writing, and you have a document confirming the increase is lawful and the notice was good — which is worth knowing before you spend three weeks arguing with someone who is right.
The free check runs the same three tests first, and it is built to say “limited leverage here” when that is the answer. Use it before you buy.
No. And nor can anyone else, which is the more useful half of that answer.
The rules cap what a landlord may add at renewal. They say nothing whatsoever about taking any away. A reduction is something a landlord agrees to, out of goodwill or fear of an empty flat, never something you are owed. Anybody telling you otherwise is guessing or selling.
What we can settle is whether the increase sits inside its permitted step, whether the notice arrived in time, and how your rent compares to what places like yours actually let for. Those questions have answers. That one does not.
Most of the time they do not, once the position is put formally and with the evidence attached. That is what the Position Statement is for — it reads like something that has been prepared rather than felt.
If it does not settle, the Rental Dispute Settlement Centre exists: 3.5% of the annual rent to file, minimum AED 500, and no lawyer required. We will tell you honestly whether the sums justify it. Often they do not, and we would rather say that than sell you a fight.
Free. Ninety seconds. If there is nothing there, it says so.
Whatever you decide, decide it before you reply to them. Once you have answered, the room to move is mostly gone.
The same case that is set out on this page, laid out to keep and to read next to your own notice.
Realistic figures, not a customer’s file — we do not publish those.
Check your inbox in the next minute or two. If it has not landed, look in promotions — it sometimes goes there first.
Meanwhile, your own number takes ninety seconds and does not need the email at all.
Check mine now