Golden Visa Properties in the UAE: How to Find AED 2M+ Eligible Listings via API

The UAE Golden Visa has turned property search into visa-eligibility search. A single residential purchase of AED 2,000,000 or more now qualifies the buyer for a 10-year renewable residence visa — so for a large share of investors, the first filter on any listing isn’t bedrooms or community, it’s “does this clear the AED 2M threshold?”

If you’re building an investor portal, a buyer-matching tool, or an internal deal pipeline, you don’t want to hand-check that. This guide shows how to pull Golden Visa–eligible properties as structured data through the UAEPropertyAPI, filter them by the threshold, and keep ready and off-plan stock in the same view.

What actually qualifies (the data you need)

The property route to a 10-year Golden Visa is straightforward in data terms:

• AED 2,000,000+ in property value qualifies for the 10-year visa.
• It can be one property or several combined to reach the threshold.
• It works for ready and off-plan property (off-plan must be bought from approved developers).
• The property can be mortgaged, subject to bank/down-payment conditions.

See our Golden Visa glossary entry for the eligibility nuances. The practical takeaway for a developer: every eligible listing is just a property where price >= 2000000. That’s a clean, queryable filter.

Finding eligible ready properties

Use the search-buy endpoint with price_min set to the threshold. First resolve a location_id from autocomplete-location, then query:

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://uae-real-estate-property.p.rapidapi.com/search-buy?location_id=<DUBAI_ID>&price_min=2000000&sort=newest&page=1' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-host: uae-real-estate-property.p.rapidapi.com' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-key: YOUR_API_KEY'

Every result in the properties array is, by definition, Golden Visa–eligible on the single-property route. The response envelope gives you everything you need to rank and display:

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "properties": [
      {
        "external_id": "12345678",
        "title": { "en": "2BR | Burj Khalifa View | Vacant" },
        "price": 2650000,
        "bedrooms": 2,
        "area": "Downtown Dubai"
      }
    ],
    "total": 4120,
    "totalPages": 138,
    "page": 1
  }
}

To narrow to a realistic investor band, add price_max (for example price_max=5000000) and a property_type. To surface only move-in-ready stock, set completion_status=ready.

Including off-plan inventory

Off-plan from approved developers counts toward the threshold, and it’s where a lot of the AED 2M+ launch supply sits. Query it separately with search-new-projects and the same price floor:

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://uae-real-estate-property.p.rapidapi.com/search-new-projects?location_id=<DUBAI_ID>&price_min=2000000&sort=featured' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-host: uae-real-estate-property.p.rapidapi.com' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-key: YOUR_API_KEY'

Merge the two result sets, tag each with ready vs off-plan, and you have a single Golden Visa inventory feed.

Where the eligible stock is

The AED 2M floor sits naturally above the entry price of most prime communities, so eligible inventory clusters predictably. A few reference points from current UAE market data:

Community	Typical entry for AED 2M+ stock
Downtown Dubai	Apartments comfortably clear 2M
Palm Jumeirah	Almost all stock qualifies
Saadiyat Island (Abu Dhabi)	Median apartment ~AED 3.77M — nearly all eligible
Dubai Marina	2-bed and up typically qualifies
JVC / Dubai South	Larger units and villas only

For per-community medians you can build segmentation on, see the UAE market data hub — every figure there is reproducible from the same API.

Build it once, keep it fresh

The reason to do this via API rather than scraping a portal is that eligibility inventory changes daily — new launches, price moves, sold units. A query with price_min=2000000 always returns today’s eligible set, with stable external_ids you can de-duplicate and track over time. We cover the trade-off in depth in web scraping vs. API.

Ready to build an investor-facing Golden Visa search? Get started with the API — the free tier is enough to prototype the whole flow.