Gift transfer calculator.

Far less than selling it. For a gift the Land Department takes 0.125% of its own valuation, never less than AED 2,000, where a sale pays 4%. So on a home it values at AED 3 million you'd pay AED 3,750 and skip a bill of AED 120,000. Once the title deed, map fee and registration trustee go on top, most gift transfers still come in below AED 10,000 all told.

Husbands and wives, and parents and their children. Your brother or sister won't qualify, and grandchildren usually don't either. Anyone outside that circle gets charged the full 4%, because to the Land Department it's just a sale. The department looks at every case separately. Have a word with it, or with a conveyancer, before you plan around the lower rate.

A marriage certificate if it's your spouse and a birth certificate if it's a parent or child. If yours was issued outside the UAE it has to be attested and legally translated, and that can take a while, so get going on it long before you book the appointment.

Not while the bank's charge sits on the title. You'd need to pay off the loan and have the mortgage discharged at the Land Department first, and only then can the gift be registered. Paying early costs you a settlement fee of 1% of the balance or AED 10,000, whichever is lower. Some owners refinance with another lender to clear the charge, though that route has costs of its own.

Its own. Each gift gets a compulsory valuation, so there's no shaving the fee by putting in a low number. When you use the calculator, enter the department's figure, whatever you happen to think the place is worth.

You do, exactly as you would for a sale. The developer has to confirm no service charges are outstanding before anything is registered. If your Mollak account is behind, everything stops there. Look at the balance before you book the trustee.

Not in the UAE, which has neither a gift tax nor a capital gains tax on the transfer. If you're tax resident somewhere else, though, that country may look at a lifetime gift quite differently, so ask there before you register.

The property leaves your estate, and that changes what your heirs end up with. Think that through as its own question; the cheaper fee shouldn't be what decides it.