Check the official DLD / RERA index
This page explains the Decree 43 bands and the 90-day notice. It is not a live index. The legal average for your unit is on the Dubai Land Department rental index. Open it, enter your own unit, and keep a screenshot before you agree a renewal figure.
Official DLD rental index ↗ · 90-day notice date checker · Band planner (you type the average)
Apply published Dubai rent-increase bands to your current rent and an average-rent result copied from the official DLD Rental Index. Indicative tenancy-renewal planning only; live DLD Rental Index results, the registered lease, notice facts and competent tribunal interpretation control On supported formula tools, valid inputs refresh the estimate automatically. Use Calculate estimate to review it again. Saved estimates stay only in this browser on this device. Nothing is sent to Gulf Expat Tools. Save up to five named estimates per tool. Load or remove up to five recent estimates stored only in this browser. Current annual rent AED 90,000 with an official DLD Rental Index average of AED 115,000. This tool follows the convention used in its own script: gap = (115,000 - 90,000) / 115,000 x 100, which is about 21.74%, falling in the 21-30% band, so the published band is 10%. The maximum planning increase is AED 9,000 and the indicative renewed rent ceiling is AED 99,000, with the notice date to lease expiry checked against the 90 calendar-day reference. Mini-example: if the gap is 10% or less the band is 0%, so no increase is permitted for that renewal. Gap percentage = (official average rent entered − current annual rent) ÷ official average rent entered × 100. The planner applies Decree No. 43 bands: 0%, 5%, 10%, 15% or 20%, then calculates current rent × applicable band. Enter the live comparable average from DLD; it is not hard-coded. Read the explainer: Dubai rent increase bands — how the RERA index works — the method in plain words. The number still lives on this calculator. This tool is maintained against the referenced authority. Rules can change, so check the source and the page review date before acting. Dubai Land Department — Rental Index ↗ Short answers for using this tool responsibly. It is the Dubai Land Department calculator that publishes the average market rent for comparable units, and that average is what Decree No. 43 of 2013 compares your current rent against to set the permitted increase band; confirm against the live RERA index and your registered contract. Law No. 33 of 2008 Article 14 requires written notice of any change to the contract terms at least 90 calendar days before expiry unless the lease agreed otherwise, which is the interval this planner checks; confirm against the live RERA index and your registered contract. When your current rent is within 10% of the index average for comparable units the band is 0%, so no increase applies for that renewal; confirm against the live RERA index and your registered contract. The Rental Disputes Centre decides contested renewals, and the DLD/RERA index output plus the registered Ejari contract control over any planning figure produced here; confirm against the live RERA index and your registered contract.Dubai Rent Increase Calculator
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