Remraam apartments
Remraam apartment renovation: owner or tenant decides the route
Remraam mixes owned flats with 18 buildings in Al Ramth that Dubai Residential owns and lets, so the first question is whose flat it is. Owners apply to Dubai Holding Community Management; tenants start with the landlord.
Owners and tenants
Remraam apartment renovation: who gives the approval?
A Remraam apartment renovation takes one of two routes, and the title decides which. Remraam is a gated Dubailand community of about 13,400 residents, developed by Dubai Properties and managed today by Dubai Holding Community Management, under the rulebook it applies across its communities. In 18 of its buildings, all in Al Ramth, there are no individual owners at all: Dubai Residential owns them and lets the flats.
Can you renovate a flat in Remraam's Al Ramth buildings?
Only with the landlord's consent, because Dubai Residential owns those 18 buildings outright and no tenant holds a title of their own. An owner elsewhere in Remraam applies to Dubai Holding Community Management instead, using the community app 24 hours or more before work starts, or email with 72 hours in hand, and the Dubai Properties portal's service list includes the Minor Work Permit and a Home Modification NOC. For Dubai Properties communities no fee, deposit or processing time is published.
What does a tenant in Al Ramth need?
The landlord's written consent, with the work spelled out. Where Dubai Municipality regulates the plot, its décor circular will not let a tenant carry out décor without the property owner's approval, and a Municipality service exists for modifications or additions to leased properties. Agree in the same letter what happens to the work when the lease ends, whether it stays or comes out, and who pays for either.
Handing a flat back is its own job, set out in our lease-end guide, and the hub's renting rules cover what a consent letter should say.
How the Dubai Properties portal handles NOCs
Owners in Remraam deal with two online systems. Dubai Properties' own portal, eservices.dp.ae, sits behind a login and names its services: Request Major Modification NOC, Home Modification NOC, Minor Work Permit, Modification Permit, Resale NOC and Trakhees Site Plan. Dubai Holding's pages for Dubai Properties communities, meanwhile, send their frequently used services to the shared platform on Nakheel's online services.
The portal's renewal rules are tight and worth planning around. Extensions to an NOC are possible only in its final ten days, and it can be renewed a single time. A programme that outruns the NOC and its one renewal has nothing left to fall back on, so we ask contractors to price a schedule that fits inside both.
Dubai Holding's rules in Remraam buildings
The rulebook is the one Dubai Holding also applies in its Nakheel communities. Minor works, the non-structural kind that stay inside the unit, may run from 8 in the morning to 6 in the evening, Monday through Saturday; major works get weekdays only, from 7 until 5. In both, drilling and cutting start at 9 AM, stop at 1 PM and resume from 3 PM until 5 PM, and hours beyond the rulebook's need a night-shift NOC. Big vehicles need 48 hours' notice, loading ends the same day, and construction waste goes to a Municipality-approved disposal site.
Some works need Dubai Holding's written approval whatever their size: balcony enclosures, changes to the external façade, satellite dishes, external AC units and external CCTV. No worker may be housed in the unit. Dubai Holding lists a community engagement centre in Remraam, which it also names as the centre for Mudon.
What does a Remraam apartment renovation cost?
None of the companies on our price guide publishes a band for Remraam itself. MBC Renovation Services says its apartment prices begin at AED 20,000, and First Unicorn Interiors publishes a range per size: studios from AED 25,000 to 50,000, one bedroom from AED 35,000 to 70,000, two bedrooms from AED 60,000 to 120,000. At the very bottom sits ASM Interiors, whose entry-level package for flats of up to two bedrooms, paint, floors and patching, starts at AED 15,000 and tops out at 40,000.
Which authority permits building work in Remraam is not published, so the contractor confirms it from the site plan before any permit is priced. Unit prices names each band's publisher, and other Dubai managers are set out beside Dubai Holding.
Questions
Remraam questions
- Who inspects the work when it is finished?
- Dubai Holding sends an inspector roughly three weeks after the owner reports the job complete. Anything that departs from the approval has to be put right within 30 days, and approved works must be finished within six months of the approval.
- Can I extend my NOC if the work overruns?
- Once, and only in its closing ten days, under the Dubai Properties portal's own rules. Build the programme around that limit.
- Where can I talk to Dubai Holding in person?
- At the community engagement centre Dubai Holding lists in Remraam. Renovation requests themselves go through the community app, or by email three days ahead.
- Do tenants in owned buildings need the owner and Dubai Holding?
- Yes: consent from the owner in writing, then the owner's own request to Dubai Holding, since the rulebook makes raising it on the community app the owner's job. In Al Ramth's 18 buildings the landlord is Dubai Residential, so its consent stands in for the owner's.
- What does unapproved work cost in Remraam?
- A warning first, under Dubai Holding's schedule, then AED 2,000, and twice that on the final notice. Repairs that damage shared spaces or a neighbour's property carry another AED 2,000.
Who you are dealing with
- OperatorWebsiteOS LLC
- Licence2646567.01
- Cost to homeownerNone
- Figures datedSeptember 2026
Tell us about your Remraam flat
Building, whether you own or rent, unit size and what you want changed. We come back with the approval route and contractors who quote against the published bands, and we show you where each quote sits against them.