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Dubai standardised its brokerage paperwork into a handful of lettered forms, and knowing them cold is half the RERA exam and most of a clean transaction. Here is what each form is for, who signs it, and where deals go wrong.
Form A — the listing agreement
Between: seller and brokerage.
Form A is the seller's mandate: it authorises your brokerage to market and sell the property, and records the asking price, your commission, the payment terms, and mortgage status. No valid Form A, no legal listing — it is what backs the Trakheesi advertising permit every portal listing needs.
Sellers can sign Form A with up to three brokerages. If you want the listing exclusively — and you should push for it when you are investing in marketing — that has to be agreed explicitly.
Form B — the buyer's agreement
Between: buyer and brokerage.
Form B is Form A's mirror image: it appoints you as the buyer's agent and records what they are looking for and what your fee is. It is the most skipped form in Dubai — and skipping it is how agents end up doing weeks of viewings for a buyer who transacts through someone else. Signing it sets professional expectations on both sides.
Form F — the sale contract (MOU)
Between: buyer and seller.
Form F is the contract of sale — the document everyone calls the MOU. It fixes the price, the deposit (10% is the market convention, held as a security cheque), who pays which fees, and the completion timeline. Both parties sign it, brokers witness it, and from that signature the deal is binding: a party who walks away typically forfeits or pays the deposit.
Get the details right here — financing conditions, inclusions, timelines — because every dispute you will ever mediate lives in a vague Form F.
Form I — broker to broker
Between: two brokerages.
When the listing agent and the buyer's agent are different companies — most secondary deals — Form I records how they cooperate and split the commission before the client introductions happen. Agents who skip Form I are relying on goodwill at the exact moment money enters the room.
Form U — the termination
Between: seller and brokerage.
Form U ends a listing agreement. If a seller wants to leave you (or you want to drop an unsellable mandate), Form U is the clean exit that keeps everyone's registration tidy. A seller who signed with three agencies uses it to consolidate down to the one who is performing.
After Form F: the road to transfer
Form F kicks off the closing sequence: the seller obtains the developer's NOC, any mortgage is settled, and the parties meet at a registration trustee office where the DLD transfer fee (4% of price, plus admin fees) is paid and the title deed is issued to the buyer. Knowing this sequence — and shepherding clients through it calmly — is where an agent earns the fee.
The paperwork proves the deal. What proves you?
Master the forms and your transactions run clean. But notice what all this machinery protects: the client's trust. Dubai built an entire form system because this market runs on verification — and clients apply the same instinct to you before they ever sign your Form A or B.
That is why the sharpest agents pair clean paperwork with a checkable identity: a Brokerfolio profile showing their RERA licence number, verified closed deals, client reviews, and live listings on one link. The client who can verify you signs faster.
Know the forms, then show your proof. Create your Brokerfolio profile and give every client a reason to sign with you specifically.