What the rent clause cannot do: increases are the law's, not the landlord's

The decree sets the maximum increase by how far the current rent sits below the average market rent for similar units: no increase where the rent is up to ten percent below the average; up to five percent where it is eleven to twenty percent below; up to ten percent where twenty-one to thirty percent below; up to fifteen percent where thirty-one to forty percent below; and up to twenty percent where the rent is more than forty percent below the average. The reference point is the RERA rental index, applied through the official rent calculator on the Dubai Land Department’s channels — run the unit through it before any renewal conversation, whichever side of it you are on.