The AED 750,000 Rule Is Gone.
Here's what a Dubai Land Department eservice page actually confirms — and what's still being reported.

The reform draws its real line not at a single AED figure, but at how the title is held.

The practical read for couples and family buyers: if you're structuring a purchase specifically to unlock this visa for two people, run the share-value arithmetic before you sign, not after. A joint purchase engineered as an even split, or skewed so the smaller share still clears AED 400,000, is the difference between one qualifying applicant and two.

Removing the AED 750,000 floor doesn't fold the 2-year investor visa into the Golden Visa — it widens the gate below it. The two routes still sit at different points on the same ladder, and the table below is the ledger we use with clients trying to decide which one their portfolio actually clears.

Read the "best fit" row literally: if your equity is under AED 2M and you hold — or can hold — a clean completed title, the 2-year route is now realistically available to you, often for the first time. If you're already past AED 2M in freehold equity, off-plan or completed, the 10-year route usually wins on renewal frequency and family sponsorship reach alone.

The AED 750,000 floor — while it stood — quietly excluded a specific, large slice of Dubai's own buyer base: owners of completed studios and compact 1BRs in the city's most affordable freehold communities. Remove the floor for sole owners, and that slice becomes the reform's most direct beneficiary.

None of this replaces a Golden Visa's reach — you still can't sponsor parents on the 2-year route, and you're refiling every 2 years instead of every 10. But for an owner who has spent years priced out of any property-linked residency because their unit sat AED 200,000 or AED 400,000 under an old line, "not eligible" now reads as "eligible, sole owner, no minimum" — a meaningfully different sentence.

Six items decide whether a file gets accepted. Work through them in this order before you contact DLD or a consultant — it will save you a wasted trip.

Every figure below is quoted directly from DLD's investor-visa eservice fee schedule — not rounded, not estimated.

A family of three — primary applicant, spouse, one child under 18 — filing together would budget roughly AED 24,077 in visa fees alone (AED 10,212.50 + AED 7,382.25 + AED 6,482.25), before any agent, typing-centre, or medical-test charges some applicants incur separately.

The investor visa doubles as a sponsorship vehicle, but not on one uniform cycle — the fee schedule above hints at it, and it's worth stating plainly: spouse and children sponsorships run on the same 2-year cycle as the primary visa (with the exception of sons over 18, capped at a 1-year permit), while a parents' residency sits on its own 1-year cycle with a separate dependency-certificate requirement and three months of bank statements to prove support.

That mismatch matters for planning renewals: a family sponsoring a spouse, two children, and a parent under one investor visa is actually tracking three different renewal clocks — 2 years for the primary applicant and spouse/children, 1 year for the parent, and (for a son who turns 18 mid-cycle) a switch to annual renewal for him specifically. Build a simple calendar reminder around each date rather than assuming one renewal covers the whole file.