A secure environment for Land Department database
National experts develop a unified system integrating all real estate procedures. The upgraded system is ten times faster and easier.
Dubai, UAE25 March 2012 – The Government of Dubai Land Department (LD) has launched the new version of its real estate registration system (Al Tabou), heralding a new era in offering tens of electronic services and procedures to the audience under one user-friendly, quick process for 169 real estate procedures offered by the department and its divisions and affiliates.
The services offered by the upgraded system includes highly advanced, world-class technologies to offer tens of interactive services, such as registration, preliminary registration, collateral account and guaranteeing personal rights of property owners, as well as other services that customers seek to receive from the department, such as real estate rentals and owners and project screening and compensations.
Sultan Butti bin Mejren, Director General of LD, expressed his pride of the upgraded version of the real estate registration system, which was launched by professional national employees at the department, who have been working relentlessly since 1997 to set up the system and upgrade it to cope with the huge developments and the quantum leaps achieved by Dubai on all levels and in all sectors.
Bin Mejren explained that the new system managed to unify all the subsystems and integrate them in one system that serves LD’s customers at a ten-fold faster and easier pace, supported by a comprehensive, secure database.
He pointed out that this real estate registration system is the solid infrastructure upon which the department establishes its technical services that facilitate communication and linkage to other government departments.
Bin Mejren reiterated that the development witnessed in Dubai, especially the real estate sector, has created an urgent need to unify the various systems used in the department, in order to create a uniform future platform.”
He added: “the department’s awareness and commitment towards using the latest systems reflects on the service levels offered to customers, through adopting the best, new generation futuristic technologies.”
“the new move to unify the department’s systems in one integrated registration system goes a long way in helping manage the system in a more efficient way, and means the ability to modify the system in accordance with new developments while easily connecting to other departments in an easy and fast manner in addition to generating unified reports,” he commented.
On the same note, Ahmad Ali Al Shehi, LD’s Senior IT Manager, asserted that the new registration system for the year 2012 provides more secure applications that would serve the department’s objectives in protecting the rights and real estate databases while tightly monitoring all other related procedures.
“The real estate registration system is a launch platform for new electronic services to our customers, helping execute the procedures quickly and easily while reducing the difficulties customers might face when having to visit more than one site to follow up on their transactions – especially in the case where more than one government department is involved. The system is electronically linked with other relevant departments for this purpose,” he said.
Al Shehi pointed out that the department has been working since its inception to cope with the latest IT developments and get the necessary applications that facilitate procedures for customers. The first of those services were offered through the electronic portal.
He added that the department is fully aware of the information role in institutional performance, hence, it is dealing largely with land owner’s information and customers using the latest technologies and systems to provide a database that increases the efficiency of transactions, including full coverage of all document and financial transactions of the department, with quick and easy correspondence and report exchange.
Al Shehi further asserted the fact that the Land Department applies transparency in all its transactions and data, which makes it easier for the customers and the department to take proper informed decisions, in addition to offering customers the options to finalize their transactions by collaboration through the electronic portal.
Commenting on the subject, Khalifa Al Suwaidi, CEO of Emirates Real Estate Solutions, said: “the real estate boom that Dubai witnessed over the past years encouraged the department to exert more efforts to provide the proper information technology that helps handle a wide real estate database in a more organized way that protects property rights.” “We are seeking to build a well organized real estate community using innovative technologies by development real estate solutions and systems that abide by the best real estate practices,” he added.
“Procedures such as preliminary registration or collateral accounts should be accomplished in accordance to modern systems and global standards that regulate them and link them to one unified electronic ecosystem combining all procedures, and this is exactly what has been achieved,” Al Suwaidi concluded.