Dubai RERA Exam 2026: Format, Fee, Pass Mark and How to Register

The Dubai RERA exam is the Dubai Land Department (DLD) broker exam. The DLD broker exam fee is AED 720 (AED 700 + AED 10 knowledge + AED 10 innovation). Unless you qualify for one of DLD’s three listed exam exemptions, you must pass it before DLD issues your broker card. DLD’s card e-service states: “The applicant must have passed the annual test to practice the mediation profession”. The card itself is not applied for by an individual alone: your agency first holds a real estate licence and registers it in DLD’s Trakheesi system, and the card application then follows through Trakheesi. The exam is separate from DLD’s training courses, and DLD’s e-service pages state no pass mark; the only official figure we found is in a RERA circular, set out below. We found no statement of the exam’s question count or duration in the official sources reviewed. This page sets out the fees, the requirements, the exemptions, how the card application runs, what the pass-mark sources say, renewal, and what we could not find.

DLD broker card e-service, read 28 October 2026. Totals are our arithmetic.

In Dubai, RERA (the Real Estate Regulatory Agency) is governed by Law No. (4) of 2019, which superseded Law No. (16) of 2007 and describes RERA as a public corporation “which is affiliated to the DLD”. Among RERA’s functions the 2019 law lists to “issue the bylaws required for regulating training and qualifying the staff of establishments authorised to conduct Real Property Activities”, and to register the persons conducting real property activities and “issue identification cards” for them (Article 5). Bylaw No. (85) of 2006, which regulates the Real Estate Brokers Register, states in Article (3) that “No Person may engage in Real Estate Brokerage activities in the Emirate unless he is licensed by the Competent Entities and entered in the Register.” Among the documents that Article (6) lists for entry in the Register are certificates of completion of accredited real estate training courses and “a certificate evidencing that the applicant passed the Real Estate Brokerage test prepared by the Department.”

So when people search for the “RERA exam”, they mean this test, whose fee DLD lists in its professional practice card e-service. DLD’s card e-service states two terms for the card: a certificate of good conduct issued by the Dubai Police, and the passed annual test. It adds that “No person shall have the right to practice the activity registered in the license except after registering and obtaining the card designated for the type of activity.”

The exam is not the same thing as a DLD training course. DLD’s training page answers the question “Is there any exam after the training?” with: “No, there is no exam after the training. However, exams are conducted separately for certain categories such as brokers.” The same page offers an “Exam Link” and lists “Multiple Attempts” and “English Language” among its features, and says the training is conducted only in English. Bylaw No. (85) of 2006 lists certificates of accredited training courses among the papers for entry in the Brokers Register; no current DLD page we read says a course must be finished before the exam is sat.

DLD’s e-service for issuing a real estate professional practice card lists these fees for a real estate broker. The totals are our arithmetic from the listed parts.

These are not the only costs of starting out. The agency itself needs a real estate licence: DLD’s real estate activity licence page lists, for activities it does not name separately in its fee list, “AED 5,000 Annual Fee AED 20 Knowledge and Innovation Fee”. Brokerage is not one of the separately named activities in that fee list. Training course fees are set by whoever runs the course and are not on DLD’s e-service pages. For the full set of steps and costs from visa to card, see the guide to becoming an agent in this series.

The DLD broker exam fee is AED 720 (AED 700 + AED 10 knowledge + AED 10 innovation). The sources we read do not specify retake fees, attempt limits or waiting periods, so none is given here; confirm them with DLD before booking another attempt. DLD’s training page lists “Multiple Attempts” among its features without saying what it covers.

The RERA Real Estate Brokerage Practice Guide (second edition, November 2024) sets out how to obtain a broker card in four steps, and DLD’s e-service lists the online procedure. Put together:

DLD’s card e-service lists its “Residency Status” as “Company” and its service channel as the DLD website (Trakheesi). We read that as: the card application is made through the agency’s Trakheesi account under its licence. The sources we read do not explain how the exam itself is booked, when sittings are held or how results are sent; ask your agency’s Trakheesi administrator.

DLD’s card e-service lists exemption from the real estate broker exam “only for” these three groups:

RERA Circular 31/2014 sets the pass mark at 85% on the initial licensing exam and the annual renewal exam. Here is exactly what each official source we read says.

Our reading: the only official figure we found is the one in this 2014 circular, which DLD still lists, so aim for a mock score at or above it. The same circular adds that “Brokers will have to remain aware of new laws and regulations in order to pass the exam”, which is why studying from current texts matters (see the questions guide in this series).

We found no statement of the number of questions, the time allowed, the question type, the language or whether marks are deducted for wrong answers in the official sources reviewed. We therefore state no format as fact. What DLD does publish is a description of the subject matter. The 2024 Brokerage Practice Guide closes with sample pages under two domain headings, “Real Estate Mathematics” and “Laws and Legislation”, and its chapters cover Bylaw No. (85) of 2006, real estate circulars, the ethics of practising the profession, the smart contracts A, B and F, the Trakheesi system and the Dubai REST app, real estate permits, the green list, the classification of brokerage offices and brokers, the marketing of off-plan projects and the amicable settlement of contract F disputes.

For practice, our mocks use 70 questions in 120 minutes and spread them over eight areas of Dubai law and practice. The Dubai RERA Broker Exam Complete Pass Pack has its own 14-day practice plan, about 75 minutes a day on average (days 12 and 13 are each a separate 70-question full mock with a 120-minute limit), 6 timed practice mocks of 70 questions with a 120-minute limit (our practice format, not a confirmed official one), 8 topic drills and 6 scenario drills, Revise fast answer cards whose explanations cite the law, bylaw or official DLD/RERA guidance behind them, a plain-English revision kit PDF and the Annual Renewal Refresher, with no expiry. You can try 4 free questions first. Our RERA exam questions guide works three of them through, and the 14-day plan takes the eight areas one at a time.

A broker card is not for life. Bylaw No. (85) of 2006, Article (13), says each broker entered in the Register “must apply to the Division for registration renewal on a yearly basis”, at least thirty days before the registration certificate expires. DLD’s renewal e-service lists the renewal fee for a real estate broker card at AED 500 and repeats the term: “The applicant must have passed the annual test to practice the mediation profession”, so the annual test is required for card renewal unless an exemption DLD lists applies. It also states that “All sales personnel must be registered and their cards are issued”. The pass-mark circular above covers the annual renewal exam as well as the first one.

Before you pay the exam fee, a timed mock shows where you stand. The Dubai RERA Broker Exam Complete Pass Pack sets out its own 14-day practice plan, about 75 minutes a day on average (days 12 and 13 are each a separate 70-question full mock with a 120-minute limit), and you can try 4 free questions before you decide.