Property snagging & handover inspection · Dubai

As soon as the developer gives you a handover date. We inspect before you sign the handover documents, which is the point at which the list carries most weight. In peak handover weeks the slots go quickly, so a week or two of notice is sensible. If you have already taken the keys, book anyway. The defect liability period runs for twelve months from handover.

Four to six hours for an apartment, and a full day for most villas. We do not shorten it. Four hundred checkpoints take the time they take, and the ones people skip are the ones in the risers, the roof space and behind the appliances.

No, and most owners are not. We arrange access with the developer, inspect, and send the report. If you would like to walk the property with us at the end we will take you through what we found, and we can do that on a live video call if you are overseas.

Before we leave the property. It is generated from the record made on site, photographed, measured and time-stamped as we go, not written up later from memory.

412 checkpoints in an apartment, 488 in a villa, across eleven systems: structure and finishes, floors and tiling, joinery, windows and balconies, kitchen and fitted units, electrical, plumbing and drainage, HVAC, waterproofing and thermal, fire safety, and the common areas serving your unit. Every checkpoint is signed off individually.

Yes. We publish a full sample report, unredacted apart from the address. Read it before you spend a dirham. It is the clearest way to judge the difference between one inspection and another.

Advertised fees start at a few hundred dirhams. Ours start at 1,400 for a property up to 600 sqft, priced on built-up area above that. The calculator returns the exact fee for your property, fixed before we attend, and every price is on the pricing page.

Because the low headline fee is only possible if the work is unbundled. Re-inspections are billed per visit, the developer is left to you to chase, the thermal survey becomes an add-on, and the 11-month check is a new instruction at a new fee. Our fee includes all of it. Add the extras to a 999 quote and the difference narrows considerably.

It is your property, and inspections are routine in Dubai, and most developers expect them. We attend with your authority letter, or under power of attorney if you are overseas. If access is refused, you get that in writing from us so it is on record, and we reattend at no extra charge.

That depends on your sale and purchase agreement, and we will read yours so you know which clause to quote. In practice most developers work through handover snags in the weeks between inspection and move-in, and the defect liability period gives you twelve months from handover for anything that emerges later. We point you at the dates in your contract rather than a general expectation, so what you ask for is what you are owed.