Rental disputes, developer and off-plan claims, and real-estate brokerage disputes.
The firm represents landlords, tenants, purchasers, developers and brokers across the disputes that arise from Qatar’s property market: rental disputes before the competent committees, claims arising from off-plan sales and development delays or defects, and disputes over real-estate brokerage and commissions.
Property disputes are won on documents, the lease, the sale agreement, the brokerage mandate, and on procedure before the right forum. The firm assesses each claim realistically before it is filed.
This practice covers three distinct kinds of dispute that are often lumped together and should not be. Leasing disputes are governed by Law No. 4 of 2008 on the leasing of real estate. Development disputes are governed by Law No. 6 of 2014 regulating real estate development. Brokerage disputes are governed by Law No. 22 of 2017 regulating real estate brokerage. Each has its own subject matter, its own documents and its own route.
How we help
- Rental disputes before the competent committees
- Eviction, rent and maintenance claims
- Off-plan and development delay or defect claims
- Service-charge and community disputes
- Real-estate brokerage and commission disputes
- Enforcement of judgments and awards
In Qatar
On leasing, the written and registered lease is the foundation. Rent and its revision, the allocation of maintenance, sub-letting, the grounds for termination, eviction and the condition in which the premises must be handed back are all matters the Law and the lease address together, and rental disputes are directed to the committee route rather than beginning as an ordinary civil action.
On development, the position of a purchaser buying off plan turns on whether the developer and the project are registered and whether instalments were paid into the escrow arrangement the Law requires. Where a project is delayed or not completed, those two facts decide what a purchaser can realistically recover.
On brokerage, the questions are whether the broker held a licence, whether there was a written brokerage agreement, and whether the event on which commission depends actually occurred. A broker acting without a licence faces consequences under the Law, and an unwritten arrangement is the most common reason a commission claim fails.