Ejar program of the Public Authority for Real Estate stressed the importance of ensuring that the electronic contract documentation process is completed in the platform before making any payment for rental dues, using electronic payment channels in Ejar, and not transferring financial amounts to individual bank accounts, in order to avoid potential fraud and scams.
Requiring a licensed real estate broker
The program stressed that dealing in rental transactions is through <a style="color: #800000;" href="https://amlak.net. licensed real estate broker from the Authority, with the importance of inspecting the property and looking at the real estate advertising license, making sure that the property owner or licensed real estate broker is present, in addition to visiting the rental index to ensure that the price offered for the rental unit is appropriate; before starting the rental journey.
This comes in conjunction with the awareness campaign launched by Ejar to warn against falling into fraud in the real estate rental sector, targeting all segments of society, current or potential tenants, landlords, and real estate brokers in particular.
This comes in conjunction with the awareness campaign launched by Ejar to warn against falling into fraud in the real estate rental sector.
The importance of documenting the electronic contract
The campaign aims to raise awareness about the importance of documenting rental contracts in Ejar and the subsequent documentation of the entire rental process, in order to avoid potential fraudulent operations, as fraudsters use the data of some individuals who have unknowingly handed over their data to such fraudsters to use them to receive bank transfers or register rental contracts in their names.
The campaign aims to raise awareness about the importance of documenting rental contracts in Ejar and the subsequent documentation of the entire rental process. Ejar pointed out that the property owner (lessor), when marketing his vacant rental unit, must entrust the marketing task to a real estate broker licensed by the "Authority“, and ensure that the data of the real estate broker with whom the unit was offered is matched before documenting the lease contract, and not to enable any external parties to personal data; to avoid their exploitation in rental fraud, pointing out the importance of the community role in not promoting fake offers with attractive prices for properties offered on electronic platforms, which contributes to increasing fraud.
The importance of the community role in not promoting fake offers with attractive prices for properties offered on electronic platforms, which contributes to increasing fraud operations.
Pivotal role of the real estate broker
The real estate broker plays a pivotal role in raising the level of transparency and reliability in the real estate rental sector, as it requires him to be licensed by the General Real Estate Authority to be able to practice real estate brokerage and marketing activity, and among the requirements that the broker must adhere to, not to conclude real estate rental contracts outside the framework of Ijar, and to create a mediation contract with the owner of the property. Establishing a brokerage contract with the property owner to be able to market the property, issuing a real estate advertising license, and not making his account data available in digital channels (the General Real Estate Authority's online platform and Ejar so as not to be accountable by enabling fraudsters to use his accounts in the digital platforms of the Authority).
The Authority called on those wishing to complete the rental of real estate units not to deal with unlicensed people who claim to be brokers, real estate offices or real estate owners to avoid falling into fraud and transferring money to unknown individuals, by verifying the validity of the broker's data and advertising license through the query feature provided by the Authority in the e-services platform on its website.
The Authority called on those wishing to complete real estate rental operations not to deal with unlicensed people who claim to be brokers, real estate offices or real estate owners to avoid falling into fraud operations and transferring money to unknown individuals.
