What a Dubai brokerage website costs, what a Beirut team charges in US dollars, and the permit and portal feed work that decides the quote.
A Dubai brokerage asking for its own listings site will hear quotes from AED 6,000 to AED 90,000. Most of that spread is scope, not skill. Propphy, a Dubai real estate web studio, puts template sites at AED 6,000 to AED 18,000 and premium builds at AED 35,000 to AED 90,000.
We are a web development team in Beirut, and Dubai brokerages now commission some of the platforms we build. The last one needed a listings CMS, staff sign-in, lead routing, a mortgage calculator on UAE rates, a permit number on every listing and a feed out to the portals. This post prices that kind of build, shows what a Beirut team changes, and lists the checks to run before you sign.
How much does a real estate website cost in Dubai?
A real estate website in Dubai costs AED 6,000 to AED 18,000 as a template, and AED 35,000 to AED 90,000 as a custom build. Those are Propphy's published 2026 ranges. The low end is a brochure with listings typed in by hand. The high end adds CRM workflows, community pages and multilingual architecture.
Google results for "real estate website development dubai cost" searched from the UAE. Screenshot taken 2026-10-29.
Google's own summary repeats the same pattern. Every range is wide because every quote assumes a different listing flow. Integration specialists price the job differently again: Codingclave, an India-based supplier, lists a brokerage website plus CRM at AED 13,500 to AED 98,000. Nobody can price your site until the flow is on paper.
What does a Beirut team charge for a Dubai brokerage website?
We charge $1,500 to $4,000 for an agent or small brokerage site, and $8,000 to $20,000 or more for a listings platform with portal feeds and lead routing. Those are the published ranges on our web development page. We quote in US dollars, and the dirham is fixed at 3.6725 to the dollar.
Starting prices in AED. Data from Propphy, Codingclave and Voxire, dollars converted at the peg, read 2026-10-29
At the 3.6725 peg, $8,000 is about AED 29,400 and $20,000 is about AED 73,450. That puts a Beirut listings platform inside the Dubai custom band, not below it. Be wary of anyone who sells Lebanon as the cheap option.
The saving is elsewhere. Portal feeds, permit fields and a right-to-left Arabic layout sit in our first quote, not in change requests after launch. For how we price websites in general, see our website cost guide.
Does your own website need a Trakheesi permit on every listing?
Yes: the Dubai Land Department treats online listings as advertising, so each one needs an ad permit. DLD lists electronic advertisements among its permit types, at AED 1,000 plus a AED 20 knowledge fee, issued in one working day. A broker applying must also hold a marketing contract with the owner.
Skipping it is expensive. When the rule was extended, Pinsent Masons reported fines of AED 50,000 for advertising without a displayed permit number. So we build the permit number in as a required field. A listing without one stays a draft.
The same check protects you on the portals. Since January 2026, Bayut can withhold verification and charge extra credits for two live listings that share one permit. De-duplicating by permit before export costs little to build and saves credits every month.
How do listings move between your CRM, Bayut and Property Finder?
Listings leave your CRM or website through two separate doors: an XML feed for Bayut and dubizzle, and an API for Property Finder. Codingclave documents Bayut's XML listing feed and Leads API, and Property Finder's Enterprise API 2.0, each running on the agency's own portal accounts.
That split decides the cost. A site that only shows listings needs one feed in. A site that is the source of truth needs feeds out, permit checks before export and a lead pull back.
On our last brokerage build, the feed out to Bayut, Property Finder and dubizzle was its own milestone. We tested it against each portal's rules before go-live. Ask every team you shortlist which side of that line they are quoting.
If you are still deciding whether to own a site at all, our comparison of portals against your own website sets out the trade.
Which features turn an agent site into a listings platform?
Four things move a site from one band to the other: where listings live, how many portals you feed, how leads are routed, and how many languages you publish. A platform in our band from $8,000 usually carries all four. An agent site in the $1,500 to $4,000 band carries one or two, and that is often enough.
| What you need | Agent site | Listings platform |
|---|---|---|
| Price from our Beirut team | $1,500 to $4,000 | $8,000 to $20,000+ |
| Listings | Entered by hand | CMS with drafts, review and publishing |
| Permit number on each listing | Text field | Required field, no permit means no publish |
| Bayut and dubizzle | Link to your profile | XML feed with duplicate checks |
| Property Finder | Link to your profile | Enterprise API 2.0 connection |
| Leads | Form to email and WhatsApp | Routed to one agent, duplicates merged |
| Calculators | None | Mortgage, payment plan and net yield |
| Languages | English and Arabic | English and Arabic, full right-to-left |
Source: Voxire web development pricing, Codingclave on Bayut and Property Finder integration, Dubai Land Department ad permit, read 2026-10-29
Calculators cost less than owners expect. A mortgage view on UAE rates, a payment plan for off-plan stock and a yield figure for investors are a few days each, once listing data is clean. Lead routing costs more than expected, because one buyer enquiring on three listings must stay one record. For what the pages themselves should carry, read what a real estate website needs to win buyers.
What changes when the team is in Beirut and the brokerage is in Dubai?
Beirut runs one to two hours behind Dubai, so the working days overlap almost fully. Lebanon uses UTC+2 in winter and UTC+3 in summer, while the UAE stays on UTC+4 all year. Reviews and launch nights happen the same afternoon, not across a night.
Language is the second difference. Our team writes Arabic natively, so right-to-left layouts, currency names and permit labels are designed from the first screen. Nothing gets machine translated at the end.
Ownership is the third. Ask for the code repository, hosting account and portal keys in your company's name. Property Finder allows up to three active API keys per account, so a key left with a former supplier blocks a slot. We hand all of it over at launch.
What should you actually do this week?
Write down where your listings live and where they must appear, before you ask anyone for a price. Propphy's spread of AED 6,000 to AED 90,000 is mostly teams guessing at that flow. With it on one page, quotes become comparable.
- List every place a listing appears now: your site, Bayut, dubizzle, Property Finder and Instagram.
- Count the listings live this month and the agents who receive leads.
- Check that every listing on your own site shows its permit number.
- Decide which system is the source of truth: your CRM or the website.
- Ask each shortlisted team for a fixed price that names the feeds and permit checks as line items.
That page is your brief. It also shows whether you need an agent site or a platform.
Sources
- Propphy, Real estate website cost in Dubai, 2026 breakdown, read 2026-10-29
- Codingclave, Bayut API integration for UAE CRMs: XML feed and Leads API, read 2026-10-29
- Dubai Land Department, Real Estate Ad Permit, read 2026-10-29
- Pinsent Masons, New permits required for Dubai property advertising, read 2026-10-29
- Gulf News, Dollar peg here to stay, UAE central bank official says, read 2026-10-29
- Wikipedia, Time in Lebanon, read 2026-10-29
- Wikipedia, UTC+04:00, read 2026-10-29
Want your listings flow scoped by a Beirut team?
Send us where your listings live today, which portals you feed and how many agents take leads. We will reply with a fixed USD quote that names the permit checks, the portal feeds and the lead routing as separate line items.
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