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

> The UAE Golden Visa needs AED 2M+ in property. Here's how to programmatically find and filter eligible listings — ready and off-plan — across Dubai and Abu Dhabi as structured JSON.

Source: https://uaepropertyapi.com/blog/find-golden-visa-properties-uae-api
Published: 2026-06-28

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](/documentation), 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](/glossary/golden-visa) for the eligibility nuances. The practical takeaway for a developer: every eligible listing is just a property where `price.value >= 2000000`. That's a clean, queryable filter.

## Finding eligible ready properties

Use the [`search-buy` endpoint](/documentation/endpoints/search-buy) with `price_min` set to the threshold. First resolve a `location_id` from [`autocomplete-location`](/documentation/endpoints/autocomplete-location) (all of Dubai is `1`), then query:

```bash
curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://uae-real-estate-property.p.rapidapi.com/search-buy?location_id=1&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 `data` array is, by definition, Golden Visa–eligible on the single-property route. The response envelope gives you everything you need to rank and display:

```json
{
  "success": true,
  "total_count": 4120,
  "data": [
    {
      "property_id": "162345678",
      "title": "2BR | Burj Khalifa View | Vacant",
      "price": { "value": 2650000, "currency": "AED", "period": "sell", "is_hidden": false },
      "bedrooms": "2",
      "size": { "value": 1302, "unit": "sqft" },
      "address": { "full_name": "Burj Royale, Downtown Dubai, Dubai" }
    }
  ]
}
```

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`](/documentation/endpoints/search-new-projects) and the same price floor:

```bash
curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://uae-real-estate-property.p.rapidapi.com/search-new-projects?location_id=1&price_min=2000000&sort=featured&page=1' \
  --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](/market-data) — 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 `property_id`s you can de-duplicate and track over time. We cover the trade-off in depth in [web scraping vs. API](/blog/web-scraping-vs-api).

Ready to build an investor-facing Golden Visa search? [Get started with the API](/get-started) — the [free tier](/pricing) is enough to prototype the whole flow.