Form A & Form B: Broker Mandates Before Form F
RERA’s Brokerage Practice Guide: Contract A is seller–broker marketing; Contract B is buyer–broker purchase intent. Both sit before Form F in Dubai REST.
Before Dubai Land Department (DLD — Dubai’s land registry) prints a Form F sale between seller and buyer, a licensed broker usually needs two earlier smart contracts on file. The Real Estate Regulatory Agency (RERA — DLD’s regulatory arm) calls them Contract A and Contract B. RERA’s Real Estate Brokerage Practice Guide 2024 is explicit: brokers must commit to using smart contracts for marketing and sales, and it defines the trio in plain language.
Contract A is an agreement to market a property between the seller and the real estate brokerage. Contract B is an agreement of desire to purchase between the buyer and the real estate broker. Contract F is the agreement to sell between seller and buyer — the standard Property Sales Contract covered in Kyora’s Form F guide. A and B are mandates. They are not the title deed, and they are not Form F.
What Contract A does
DLD’s published map Broker’s Journey to create Contract A shows the path inside Dubai REST / the Dubai Broker web app. After login, the broker creates Contract A, chooses seller type (company or owner), and — for an individual owner — validates the latest title deed with certificate number, year, property type and owner verification (Emirates ID, date of birth or passport). The journey then confirms property details, owner details, whether an Ejari tenancy contract (the lease register, not a sale) sits on the unit, financials, commission and contract duration. The broker must upload a NOC document signed by the owner, then submit for owner approval. A link goes to the owner(s); after approval the broker downloads a password-protected smart-contract PDF. That PDF is the marketing mandate — not proof that a buyer already owns the home.
What Contract B does
The matching map Broker’s Journey to create Contract B starts the same way in Dubai REST, then builds the buyer side: Emirates ID, passport or registered-owner lookup, with room for multiple buyers. The broker records property requirements, financial details, buyer share, contract duration and commission, then submits for buyer approval and downloads the smart-contract PDF. Practice Guide language: Contract B records a desire to purchase with the broker — it does not transfer ownership and it does not replace Form F.
How A and B unlock Form F
DLD’s Form F journey (cited in the 3 Sep Kyora file) starts from an approved Contract A, then asks the broker to create the Unified Sale Contract (F) and relate an active Contract B. Know Your Rights — DLD’s investor booklet — also requires the department’s standard broker-appointment form when a broker represents a party in the sale. In operational English: listing mandate (A) + buyer mandate (B) → sale contract (F) → trustee registration → new title deed. Skipping A/B and waving a WhatsApp “reservation” is not the RERA stack.
Investor check
If a broker is in your secondary or ready purchase, ask two process questions before you treat the deal as “under contract”: Does the seller side sit on an approved Contract A (marketing mandate with title-deed validation and owner approval)? Does your side sit on an approved Contract B (buyer–broker desire-to-purchase)? Only then does Form F become the sale contract between the parties — and even Form F is still not the title deed until a DLD trustee office registers the transfer. This is orientation, not personalised legal, tax or investment advice. Recheck the live DLD PDFs and your signed smart contracts before you wire funds.
Agent check
Brief the stack in order: RERA licence / Trakheesi card → Contract A with the seller (title deed validate, Ejari check, owner-signed NOC upload, owner approve) → Contract B with the buyer → Unified Sale Contract F → developer NOC when required for transfer → trustee registration → title deed. Do not invent commission percentages that are not in the signed A/B. Do not tell a client that an approved A or B is already ownership. Do not open Form F in Dubai REST without the approved A and related active B the journey requires.
What we did not claim
We did not invent 2026 Form A/B volumes, exclusivity windows, or a private fee table. We did not treat a portal blog as the wording of record. Primaries cited: RERA/DLD Real Estate Brokerage Practice Guide 2024; DLD Broker’s Journey to create Contract A; DLD Broker’s Journey to create Contract B.
Related files on the same desk: Form F: Dubai’s Standard Sale Contract, Oqood: The Off-Plan Interim Register, Ejari Registers the Lease, Not the Sale, DLD Initial Registration: Projects, Sales and Escrow, First-Home QR Code Is Not a Title Deed.
