Out of the box

Respecting the right to a profession is a duty and abuse is illegal

Ismail Al Hammadi

15th September 2020

The development at the level of the real estate sector in Dubai is not limited only to the quality of real estate projects that are put on the market or the legislative laws that guarantee the rights of the seller and the buyer, nor is it limited to creating new styles for residential complexes in order to meet the requirements of modern life.

The development included everything related and related to the real estate industry, even the occupational functions and specialties developed with time, and each profession had its own concept, its own laws, and a specific mechanism to work with.

What I would like to refer to is "respecting the rights of the profession". Yes, just as you have rights in society, your profession has rights over you, and one of its most important rights over you is that you respect the controls and standards on which it was founded and the pivotal role that you have derived from it, as is the case with various activities in the real estate field. The profession and role of the real estate broker, for example, means mediation between two parties (the seller and the buyer), and we have a detailed conversation in this profession and a special topic later, and the same description applies to the real estate consultant who specializes in providing consultations in the real estate issue and helping the various parties to the real estate relationship to achieve their goals.

For knowledge, it is a specialized profession and activity licensed by the concerned bodies, and it can be practiced as a single and specialized activity that generates income for the professional in it, but the situation in the Dubai market is not the case, as there are some violations committed by some against the right of this profession, and there are many reasons behind this, either because it is ignorance. A separate activity, or intentionally to seize and infringe on an illegal and unauthorized right within the scope of their work, and in particular here mentioning some real estate brokers who have taken the profession of real estate consultancy as a way to attract clients to them, without obtaining a license to practice it, and the strange thing is that it reached the limit of its announcement and authorization As a free initiative by the media!

We are not against initiatives and we are not against providing real estate consultancy for free to your client, but the question: Are you qualified to provide real estate advice?

Are you a licensed counselor and have an accredited certificate and prior training for that?

If the initiative is issued by specialists, it is welcome, and it is a feature that is added to the record of achievements of the one who proposed it, but to practice as a person a profession in a certain field and to propose an initiative in another field, this is not considered an initiative but an unlawful transgression against the right of a particular profession and its harm is greater than its benefit to the investor. Because it is not the result of experience, studies and academic formation.

It is shameful for me to enter the real estate brokers inquiry system in Dubai and find the broker who claims experience and real estate consultancy has neither experience nor certification in the field!

Some may ask me about the real estate companies and institutions that provide real estate consultancy services within their various services.

To those, I say that these companies have expanded the scope of their activities and have specialized and qualified consultants as part of their work team, but this is not the case for a real estate broker as a natural person who professions in real estate brokerage, there is a difference between licensing a real estate institution that the law allows it to practice a range of services, and a real estate broker as a person who The law grants him the exercise of his activity within specific and codified conditions;

Therefore, respecting the right to a profession is a duty, and transgression is illegal, and if it is not respected, it will not be respected.

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