TryBeforeDubaiGet the move right the first time.
Land in the right Dubai neighbourhood, in the right home, near the right school, and avoid the kind of AED 20,000–100,000 mistake many newcomers make in their first year. The free quiz shows you where to look. The Landing Plan makes the decision real: DLD-backed rents and honest first-year numbers, the risks specific to you, and a move plan built from your own answers.
Founding-member beta: the plan is currently free while we collect feedback. You still take the about 10 minutes quiz first, because the report is built from your answers.
IllustrativeSee a real (redacted) report before you buy.
Ranked areas with fit scores, the true first-year cost table, the risk register and the phased move plan: the same sections yours will have, built from your answers.
Open the sample reportEleven sections, all generated from your answers.
Nothing is written by hand and nothing is padded. Every section below reads your household, budget, work hub, school needs and deal-breakers, and it is saved at a private link you can revisit on any device.
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The call
A plain-English verdict on where to start, and the fallback if it falls through.
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True first-year cost table
Rent, setup and living costs for each of your top areas, side by side.
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Your shortlist on the map
Your ranked areas, nearby schools, beaches and malls on one interactive map.
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Dubai versus home
How the numbers compare with the city you are leaving.
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Every area, ranked
All 42 areas scored against your answers, not just the top three.
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Peak-commute table
Off-peak and 8am drive times to your work hub for each shortlisted area.
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KHDA school shortlist
Your top three schools by curriculum, rating, fees and the school run.
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Risk register
Which of your must-haves each area fails, and what to do about it.
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Phased move timeline
From shortlist to keys, in the order Dubai makes you do it.
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Agent questions
The questions to ask at viewings, tailored to your household.
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Tool links
Find my School, True Cost, Commute optimiser and Relocation planner, prefilled from your answers.
Getting the area wrong in Dubai is a five-figure problem, not a small annoyance. The most common ways people lose money in year one:
- Overpaying rent in an area that looked cheaper than it lives
- The chiller + service-charge bills nobody mentioned
- Signing a lease then breaking it, at a 1–2 month penalty
- Missing the school, then moving again to be near the next one
- A commute that's fine off-peak and brutal at 8am
The Landing Plan is built to help you avoid all five. At AED 499 against a potential five-figure mistake, it is one of the smallest costs in your whole move.
Find where to look
- Ranked shortlist of communities
- Fit scores + honest upside/downside
- One first-year cost estimate
- The interactive map + all directories
The Dubai Landing Plan
Everything in free, plus:
- True first-year cost, modelled across your whole shortlistAED 800
- A risk register specific to your householdAED 600
- KHDA school shortlist for your curriculum and budgetAED 500
- Peak-time commute to your work hub, from measured traffic dataAED 400
- Agent questions tailored to you + a phased move planAED 500
- A print-ready PDF to keep and shareAED 200
You're about to make a six-figure annual housing decision. AED 499 is cheap if it prevents one bad lease, one impossible commute, or one school-location mistake.
Your risk, removed.
Two promises that make saying yes easy.
Do it yourself, do it with us, or have it done for you.
The Dubai Landing Plan
Your personalised report: areas, true cost, schools, commute, risks and a move plan, generated and delivered the moment you buy.
Start free, then buy for AED 499what's insideThe Guided Landing
The Landing Plan, done with you: a 1:1 strategy call to pressure-test your shortlist, a tailored viewing and agent-introduction plan, and priority support through your move.
Book a callThe VIP Landing
We coordinate your whole landing end to end: the area decision, introductions to licensed agents and schools, visas, movers, home setup and 90 days of settling-in support. You arrive; it's handled.
Apply for a placeDone with you: pressure-test the decision before you sign.
The Landing Plan, done with you: a 1:1 strategy call to pressure-test your shortlist, a tailored viewing and agent-introduction plan, and priority support through your move.
On the call we go through your shortlist together, sense-check the real numbers and the trade-offs, and turn the report into a clear next move: which areas to drop, which agents to see, and exactly what to ask them.
- The full Dubai Landing Plan reportAED 499
- A 60–90 min 1:1 strategy call to pressure-test your shortlistAED 1,500
- A tailored viewing and agent-introduction planAED 1,500
- A shortlist personally validated for your householdAED 1,000
- Curated introductions to licensed agentsAED 750
- 30 days of priority WhatsApp and email supportAED 750
Hand us the move. Arrive to a life that already works.
A handful of fully-managed relocations each month, run by a dedicated relocation lead. We take it from “we're moving to Dubai” to keys, school places and a furnished home, so you spend your energy on the job and the family, not on logistics. We accept this work by application to protect the depth of service, and places are limited.
AED 32,000+ of coordinated work, expertise and time, handled for from AED 15,000.
Complex, multi-family or executive moves are scoped individually, typically AED 25,000–50,000+.
Who it's for
- Senior hires and executives relocating on a deadline
- Families who need schools, home and visas solved at once
- People moving from abroad with no time to fly in and view
- Anyone who would rather buy back the weeks this takes
What's included
- A dedicated relocation lead, end to end
- A shortlist of areas and communities matched to your brief, with the building-vetting questions to ask
- Introductions to licensed agents for viewings and the lease (we never broker the deal)
- School shortlist and applications coordinated
- Ejari, DEWA, chiller, visas, Emirates ID and movers project-managed
- Home setup: furniture, internet, the first-week essentials
- 90 days of settling-in support after you land
What's excluded
- Rent, deposits, school fees and government charges (paid by you, at cost)
- Property purchase / mortgage brokering
- Immigration legal advice beyond standard relocation visas
- Ongoing household staff or PA services
Every VIP engagement starts with a scoping consultation. We only take it on if we are confident we can make the move materially better, and we will tell you if the Landing Plan is all you need.
Relocating a team to Dubai?
A consumer moves once; a company moves staff every quarter. We give HR and mobility teams a repeatable, neutral relocation package per employee, so people land well and tickets to HR drop.
Per-employee landing packages + retainers.
Founding-member beta: no card is taken for the Landing Plan right now. Bespoke tiers are scoped on a quick call and invoiced before any work starts.