Training course for new batch of Qatari real estate brokers

The Ministry of Justice’s Legal and Judicial Studies Centre launched yesterday a specialised training course for the 3rd batch of Qatari real estate brokers, within the framework of licensing procedures under the provisions of Law No 22 of 2017 regulating real estate brokerage, QNA reported.

The course aims to provide participants with the necessary information and skills to apply the provisions regulating real estate brokerage business in Qatari law, by explaining the general provisions of real estate brokerage and the competent authority to regulate and control them as well as the provisions for licensing the practice of real estate brokerage and licensing procedures.

It also aims to introduce the rights and obligations of the real estate broker and the rules for disciplinary and criminal accountability, explain the general basis of brokerage or mediation contracts and the provisions related to them, and introduce the broker’s obligations in the field of combating money laundering and terrorist financing.

In order to deepen the participants understanding of the general objectives of the course, the course was divided into several parts, which were based in their entirety on the provisions of Law No 22 of 2017 regulating real estate brokerage, the Qatari companies law promulgated by Law No 11 of 2015, Law No 6 of 2014 regulating Real Estate development, and civil code law issued by Law No 22 of 2004, and  combating money laundering and terrorism financing law promulgated by Law No 20 of 2019. These parts deal with a number of important topics, including general provisions for real estate brokerage, the rights and obligations of the real estate broker, and the pillars and provisions of the mediation contract.

The course also reviews the definition of real estate brokerage and real estate broker in Qatari law, the organisational structure of the real estate brokerage department and its terms of reference, the real estate brokers affairs committee and the specialisations entrusted to it, the general conditions for granting licences to practice the profession of real estate brokerage, the procedures for obtaining it and the rules of grievance.

The course comes within the framework of the procedures initiated by the real estate brokerage affairs department at the Ministry of Justice to promote the real estate brokerage profession and to regulate the granting of licenses in the local market.


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