Sandbox

PropTech Sandbox

Sandbox Overview

Transforming Dubai’s Real Estate Sector through Technical Innovation 

The PropTech Sandbox aims to foster a regulatory environment that accelerates the adoption of emerging technologies, enhancing the efficiency, sustainability, and accessibility of Dubai’s real estate sector. 

We are currently conducting outreach to industry and key regulators to scope the PropTech Sandbox. Open call for applications will be announced soon.

Start Time

2025.05

Participating Regulators

Key Innovation Areas

PropTech Sandbox will work with private sector partners and regulators to actively explore innovative solutions in areas such as:

Smarter Built Environment

Pilot, validate, and scale innovative building technologies (hardware and software) through clear regulatory pathways and real-world deployment opportunities.

Powering Data Innovation

Develop infrastructure to enable secure data-driven solutions allowing companies to innovate and automate real estate services at scale.

Future-Ready Ownership

Enable firms to test and scale next-gen real estate ownership and investment models.

FinTech License for PropTech

Modernize financial services regulations to enable further innovation in the real estate sector.

Active Sandbox Experiments

Real Estate Tokenization Sandbox

We support Dubai Land Department (DLD) and Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) in the Real Estate Tokenisation Project, which establishes Dubai as the first city in the region to implement tokenisation on property title deeds.