Form F usually arrives as a file 'for signature'. The Land Department's own procedure says otherwise: F is not drafted — it is GENERATED by the system out of an already approved Form A, linked to an active Form B, and issued as a password-protected smart contract. We read the RERA practice guide and the official broker instruction.
Checked against official sources on 17 September 2026: the RERA Real Estate Brokerage Practice Guide (DLD/RERA/RL/LP/Manual/No.6/Vr.2, issued November 2024) and the Land Department instruction "Broker's Journey to create Contract F". Both documents were read in full as PDFs; every claim carries its source link, and the sources are listed at the end.
In Dubai a buyer or seller almost always meets "Form F" as a finished file: the broker sends a document and asks for a signature. The official procedure describes something different, and the difference matters in practice.
Three contracts and who they bind
The RERA guide defines them verbatim:
- Contract A — "An agreement to market a property between the seller and the real estate brokerage."
- Contract B — "An agreement of desire to purchase a property between the buyer and the real estate broker".
- Contract F — "An agreement to sell a property between the seller and the buyer".
The same guide states that brokers "must commit to using smart contracts for real estate marketing and sales".
Note the asymmetry: A and B bind a client to a broker, while F binds the two parties to each other. The broker is not a party to Form F — yet the broker is who creates it in the system.
Form F is not drafted — the system generates it
This is the part worth knowing. The instruction "Broker's Journey to create Contract F" sets out the route step by step, and it does not begin with a blank document:
- The broker logs into the Dubai REST app or the Dubai Broker web application.
- Opens the contracts tab and searches for an approved Contract A.
- Opens it, scrolls to the approval functions and clicks "Create United Sale Contract (F)".
- Chooses the related active Contract B.
- Then, step by step: verifying owner details, buyer details, tenancy contract information, financial details, the payment plan, the contract duration, DLD fee details, contract notes and any additional terms.
- Submits the contract for the owner's approval.
- "Once Owner has approved, broker can search the contract" — only after the owner approves can the broker retrieve and download it.
Two conclusions follow that are rarely spelled out.
Without an approved Form A there is no Form F. F is created out of A as its continuation, not as a standalone document. If the seller never signed an A with that brokerage, there is nothing to generate F from.
Without an active Form B the transaction does not assemble in the system. Linking B is a mandatory part of the route.
The document comes out as a protected smart contract
The same instruction says of the resulting file: "Your PDF document (Smart Contract) is protected by the open password restriction and will ask you to enter the password immediately".
The practical meaning is simple: a file typed up by a broker in a word processor and named "Form F" is not the document the Department is describing. The real one comes out of the system and is protected.
What this means for the parties
For the seller. Signing Form A is not a formality before viewings; it is the condition without which a sale contract cannot be issued in the system. And approving Form F is yours too: step 7 of the route waits on your action.
For the buyer. Your Form B must be active when F is created. If a broker is rushing you to sign "the contract" while no Form B exists, the order is broken in more than a detail.
For both. Checking the broker makes sense before any of this — how exactly, we covered in verifying a broker through Trakheesi, and the brokerage rules themselves in the analysis of Bylaw 85/2006. What follows on fees and registration is set out in the full transfer bill.
What we do not claim here
- The date from which the forms became mandatory. A specific date circulates in the market, but the Department's announcement page did not open for us (HTTP 404), and neither document we read carries a date. So we state no figure.
- That a sale cannot be documented on Form F without a broker. The documents describe a broker's route; they do not address a transaction without an intermediary, and we do not fill that in.
- The clause-by-clause content of the forms. We read the guide and the instruction, not the blank forms.
- Broker commission. Neither document names it.
Sources
- RERA Real Estate Brokerage Practice Guide — DLD/RERA/RL/LP/Manual/No.6/Vr.2, issued November 2024: the definitions of Contracts A, B and F, and the requirement to use smart contracts.
- Broker's Journey to create Contract F — Land Department instruction: the route from an approved Form A, the linking of an active Form B, the owner's approval, and the password protection on the issued PDF.
