Freehold, leasehold, usufruct and musataha, where each applies and what a company can hold that an individual cannot. Also the residence routes a property purchase opens: the AED 2,000,000 investor Golden Visa, the retirement visa at AED 1,000,000 and the two-year Taskeen permit.
Since 1 February 2023 a non-Muslim who dies without a will gets a civil split, not Sharia succession, though real estate is unsettled. Wills and DLD fees.
Co-owners are presumed to hold equal shares unless the title deed says otherwise. How joint mortgages, selling a share, pre-emption and partition work.
The AED 1,000,000 figure is real, but it belongs to the retirement visa. The three property routes into UAE residence, separated.
Personal real estate investment sits outside Corporate Tax. A company holding the identical unit does not, and free-zone status rarely shelters it.
Not 2002, and not "60-plus areas". The designated list, the four property rights it creates, and where the edges are genuinely contested.
