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A father wants to put an apartment in his daughter's name. A brother wants to hand over a villa to his sibling without any money changing hands. These situations happen all the time in Dubai, and on the surface, gifting real estate looks like paperwork you can wrap up in an afternoon. It rarely works out that clean, especially when a tenant is already living in the property. Why Does a Simple Gift Turn Into a Legal Headache? People assume a gift deed is just about changing a name on the title. That's only part of it. The Dubai Land Department has its own rules on who can receive a property as a gift, and if there's a tenant in place, that lease doesn't just vanish because ownership changed hands. We've had clients walk into our office at Compton Conveyancing months after receiving a gifted property, confused about why a tenant is still paying rent into the old owner's account, or worse, refusing to acknowledge them as the landlord at all. That confusion is usu...