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Codeeo delivers rental property portal website development in Dubai for marketplace founders, brokerages and holiday home operators who want landlords and agents to list units, tenants and guests to book or reserve, and the platform to collect money and pay everyone their share. We build listing onboarding with permit checks, search by community and budget, viewing and booking requests, holding deposits and booking payments, commission and payouts, reviews and dispute handling, in English and Arabic.
Dubai renters move between Dubai Marina, Jumeirah Village Circle, Business Bay and Al Barsha every year, and visitors book short stays across Palm Jumeirah and Downtown. A portal that verifies listings and handles payment properly earns trust that classified boards cannot, and it gives landlords a reason to list with you first.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
What the portal runs
A rental portal is three products at once. Landlords, brokers and holiday home operators need a fast way to publish accurate listings and manage requests. Tenants and guests need search they can trust and a clear way to reserve. Your business needs every payment to arrive, be split correctly and leave a record. In Dubai, regulation shapes all three: property adverts need a valid permit, brokers need current registration, holiday homes need licensing with the Department of Economy and Tourism, and long term tenancies are registered through Ejari. A portal that ignores these rules fills up with stale or illegal listings and loses the serious landlords. We design the rules into onboarding and moderation, so the marketplace stays clean as it grows, and we design payments so money moves only when each side has done what the booking requires. Here is what we usually build, ordered by how a listing becomes revenue.
Separate sign-up paths for individual landlords, brokerage offices and holiday home operators, each collecting the documents that apply: title deed or tenancy authority, brokerage and broker registration numbers, or holiday home permits. UAE Pass sign-in can speed identity checks where your provider supports it. Moderators approve accounts before listings go live.
Only verified suppliers can publish on the portal.
Guided listing forms for unit type, community, building, size, rent, payment terms, furnishing and photos, with fields for the advertising permit number your moderators verify. Listings expire or pause automatically when permits lapse or units are marked let, so tenants stop calling about properties that are gone.
Fewer stale and non-compliant adverts.
Search across Dubai communities, map views, filters for annual rent, number of cheques, furnishing, pets, parking and move-in date, and saved searches with alerts. Short stay search adds dates, guests and nightly totals. Results rank verified and recently updated listings above older ones. Arabic search terms map to the same communities as English ones.
Tenants find suitable units faster and enquire with intent.
Long term tenants request viewings in slots the landlord or agent publishes. Short stay guests book instantly or request approval, depending on the host's setting. Confirmations, reminders and reschedules go by email, SMS or WhatsApp, and every request is logged against the listing.
Fewer missed viewings and double bookings.
Tenants can pay a holding deposit to reserve a long term unit while paperwork is prepared, and guests pay for short stays at booking. Card and Apple Pay go through a UAE gateway, and Tabby or Tamara can be offered for eligible payments where your agreements allow. Refund and forfeiture rules are shown before payment.
Reservations backed by money, with terms both sides accepted.
The platform calculates your commission or service fee on each booking, holds funds according to the payout rules you define, and pays landlords, operators or agents on schedule through your payment provider's split or payout features. Every payout has a statement showing the booking, deductions and amount transferred.
Suppliers see exactly what they earned and why.
For long term lets, applicants upload passport, visa and Emirates ID copies and employment details once, then share them with the landlord they choose. Documents are encrypted, visible only to the parties involved and deleted on a schedule. The Ejari registration reference is recorded when the tenancy is signed.
Faster tenancy paperwork with less exposed personal data.
Verified stay and tenancy reviews for hosts and units, response times for agents, verified badges for checked listings, and reporting tools for misleading adverts. Reviews can only be left by users with a completed booking or signed tenancy, which keeps them credible.
Good landlords stand out and bad listings get reported.
Cancellation policies per listing type, a dispute flow where either side submits evidence such as photos and messages, and an admin view to decide refunds or releases. Payment decisions are recorded with the reason, so finance and support can explain every outcome later.
Problems resolved on the record, not in private chats.
Moderation queues for new accounts and listings, fraud flags for duplicate photos or suspicious rents, revenue and payout reports, listing performance by community, and exports for accounting. Paid placements or featured listings can be sold to agents and managed from the same panel. Moderator actions are logged with the reason for each decision.
Your team runs the marketplace from one screen.
Who this is for
Rental property portal website design in Dubai depends on which side of the market you start from. A founder building a new marketplace has neither supply nor demand yet. A brokerage has supply but wants its own channel. A holiday home operator has units and guests but pays heavy commission elsewhere. A developer has whole buildings to lease. Each needs a different first release and different payment rules. Rental booking platform development in Dubai also has to reflect who pays whom: some portals earn from landlords, some from tenants and some from featured placements, and that choice shapes the checkout as much as the design.
You want a portal with a clear angle, such as verified furnished lets, monthly rentals for new arrivals or shared accommodation done properly. The first release needs strong landlord onboarding, a narrow but excellent search, and a payment model you can explain in one sentence. We help you decide which side to recruit first and build tools that make listing on your portal easier than listing elsewhere. We usually recommend one community or rental type at launch, because depth in one area beats thin coverage across the whole city.
Supply quality decides whether a new marketplace survives.
You already manage listings for many landlords and want a branded portal where co-brokers and landlords list alongside you, and where tenants reserve with a holding deposit. The portal connects to your CRM, shows broker registration on every listing, and handles commission sharing between agents. Your own stock can be featured without hiding partner listings. Lead routing sends each enquiry to the listing agent, with a copy to a team leader if no reply is logged within the time you set.
You operate licensed holiday homes and rely on large booking sites. A direct booking portal with live calendars, nightly pricing, guest payments, security deposits and owner payouts lets repeat guests book with you directly. Channel calendars sync so a night sold elsewhere disappears from your site, and owners receive statements from the same system. Owner dashboards show occupancy, revenue and upcoming stays per unit, and payouts follow each owner's agreement automatically.
Licence and permit details stay visible on each unit page.
You own one or more residential towers and want a leasing portal for your own stock, with floor plans, unit availability, online reservations and holding deposits, and handover booking once a tenancy is signed. There are no third party suppliers, so payouts are simple, but tenant volumes at a new building launch are high and the reservation flow must hold up. Waiting lists and unit hold timers keep launch day fair. Building pages show amenities, parking and service charges in words, and the reservation flow releases unpaid holds after a set time.
How we work together
Most portal founders start with a fixed scope first release covering onboarding, listings, search, booking requests and one payment flow, then extend on a monthly retainer as the marketplace grows. Larger operators sometimes take a dedicated team for a longer programme. Cost depends on how many supplier types you support, whether you handle both long term and short stay rentals, the complexity of commission and payout rules, calendar and CRM integrations, and the number of languages.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
A Next.js front end for fast, indexable listing pages, a Laravel or Node back end for bookings and payouts, PostgreSQL with map search, and a UAE payment provider with split or payout support. Images run through a CDN, and personal documents sit in encrypted storage.
01Web
02Commerce
03Data and cloud
04Marketing and tracking
Supplier onboarding, listings, search, booking, payments, payouts and admin.
We define your marketplace rules, design the portal for landlords, agents, tenants and guests, and build onboarding with document checks, listing tools, search with filters and maps, viewing and booking requests, payments, commission and payouts, reviews, disputes and an admin panel. Arabic and English versions, SEO for community and building pages, and analytics are planned from the start. Workshops take place at our Dubai office.
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