How to File an ADGM Lease on AccessRP as the Landlord

The lease for a unit on Al Maryah Island or Al Reem Island is signed, and the folder still holds the signed PDF plus a forwarded checklist for Tawtheeq, Abu Dhabi's municipal tenancy register. That PDF is not the lease the lessor lodged on AccessRP. AccessRP does not accept a Tawtheeq upload. Ejari, Dubai's tenancy register, a Tawtheeq renewal, and a Tawtheeq closure are other files. The lessor starts Lease Agreement Registration and keeps the lodged copy on the unit.

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The signed PDF is not the lodged AccessRP lease

AccessRP is the platform the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) uses for real-estate services on Al Maryah Island and Al Reem Island. The lessor typically starts lease registration. The tenant reviews the application and approves it. The Registration Authority accepts registration applications for interests in that jurisdiction under the ADGM Real Property Regulations. The AccessRP guidance covers who starts the registration, and the Registration Authority states the same islands on its real-estate services page.

The copy that belongs on the unit is the lease lodged through that service. The PDF the parties signed is the contract they agreed. The unit keeps the copy AccessRP holds after the lessor registers it. A checklist forwarded from a Tawtheeq file, the pack used on TAMM or DARI, does not register that lease. On AccessRP the lessor finds the unit and the tenant. A Tawtheeq upload does not take the place of that registration.

A unit elsewhere in Abu Dhabi uses the municipal register. The documents for that pack are the Tawtheeq registration file. A Dubai unit uses Ejari, and the document list for that register is the Ejari checklist. A renewal of a tenancy that already exists on Tawtheeq uses the renewal form for that existing tenancy. A Tawtheeq closure is a separate paper. An Abu Dhabi address is not automatically an AccessRP lease, and an Abu Dhabi lease is not automatically a Tawtheeq lease. AccessRP records cover Al Maryah Island and Al Reem Island.

For the lease to be registered, section 44 of the Real Property Regulations requires a description sufficient to identify each lot or part lot, a description sufficient to identify the lessor and the lessee, and the term. The parties are identified with addresses, contact details, nationalities, and a licence number where one applies. The term includes the commencement date and any option to renew, purchase, or expand that the lease already states. Those are the particulars on the section 44 rule page. A short-term residential lease also has to meet section 52.

The registration fee stays on the AccessRP application

The landlord is responsible for the lease registration fee on a commercial lease and on a residential lease. The amount is the amount AccessRP shows when the application is filed. Under the Real Property Regulations, the Registrar may charge registration fees and, in addition, a one-time service fee and annual authority fees. No dirham amount is given for those charges in the regulations or in the AccessRP guidance. The landlord pays the figure shown on the application.

Rent, deposits, repairs, and AccessRP's other lease services stay outside this copy. What the unit keeps is the registered lease and the receipt.

One lodging, and the copy stays on the unit

The steps are one lodging for this unit, from the island and the signed lease through to the receipt. The condition report appears in that lodging only when the lease is a short-term residential lease. Section 52 requires that lease to be in clear and concise language and to include a condition report of the present repair and condition, including the lessor's furniture and equipment where the lessor provides them. The lessee counter-signs the report at handover, and a disagreement is annotated on the report. That page stays with the lodged copy. On any other lease, the report is not added.

For a lease other than a short-term residential lease, a memorandum may be registered in place of the complete lease when it includes the section 44 particulars. It cannot replace a short-term residential lease. Once both parties have approved, the receipt is stored with the lodged lease and the amount stays on the receipt.

Stop when this unit holds the lease the lessor lodged on AccessRP, with the receipt stored beside it. The receipt carries the amount. The unit file does not add a fee figure, a dirham amount, a percentage, or a number of days. When the lease is a short-term residential lease, the condition report the lessee counter-signed at handover stays with that copy, including a disagreement annotated on the report.

If the paper in the folder is a Tawtheeq pack, it stays on the Tawtheeq registration file. If it is an Ejari registration, it stays on the Ejari file. If it is a Tawtheeq renewal, it stays on the renewal form for the existing tenancy. If it is a Tawtheeq closure, that confirmation stays on its own file. AccessRP renewal, a variation, a surrender, and an expiry are separate services.

IziRento stores the lodged copy and, where the lease is a short-term residential lease, the condition report. It does not file the lease on AccessRP, pay the registrar, or make the landlord compliant.