About UnitHunter
What this is
UnitHunter is a Dubai property intelligence platform for real estate agents and agencies. It cross-references listings from PropertyFinder, Bayut, and Dubizzle against Dubai Land Department transaction records, resolves the most likely unit number for each listing, surfaces the registered owner where DLD data permits, verifies the listing's RERA permit at hunt time, and ships the result as an Excel or CSV export.
The product is built around a single observation: Dubai is the most agent-saturated property market in the world per capita, and most agent tooling is built around a single portal. UnitHunter sits across the three major portals and the DLD registry simultaneously, which is where the actual prospecting advantage lives.
Who builds it
UnitHunter is the work of Olivier Reynaud, a software engineer focused on Dubai PropTech infrastructure. The pipeline, the cross-portal deduplication, the DLD matching logic, and the public-facing site are all engineered in-house. There is no reseller chain.
How the data layer works
The core question UnitHunter answers is: given a listing on PropertyFinder, Bayut, or Dubizzle, what is the most likely DLD-registered unit it refers to, and what does DLD say about the registered owner? The pipeline runs in four stages.
First, listings are ingested from the three portals on a daily refresh cycle and normalised into a single schema. Second, each listing's metadata (building name, floor band, unit type, asking price, listing-date neighborhood) is matched against the DLD transaction registry to resolve a unit-number candidate set. Third, each listing is checked against the RERA permit registry for permit number, broker registration, and expiry date. Fourth, listings that match across more than one portal are deduplicated to a single canonical record with all agent contacts attached.
The methodology is documented in detail in the DLD unit number lookup guide. The agent-facing workflows that sit on top of the pipeline are documented in the solutions section.
Editorial and data principles
Stat honesty. Where UnitHunter publishes numbers (listing counts, agency rankings, RERA permit distribution), the numbers come from the live pipeline or from snapshots committed to the repository. Numbers are not invented for marketing copy.
Regulatory framing. The product surfaces data sourced from public DLD and RERA records. The site references the UAE Personal Data Protection Law (Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021) when discussing how the data can be used downstream. Agents using UnitHunter remain responsible for their own PDPL compliance in outreach.
Source disclosure. Every comparison page (the alternatives section) declares where the competitor wins and where UnitHunter wins. Affiliate or referral relationships, where any exist, are disclosed on the relevant page.
Contact
Editorial corrections, data accuracy flags, and partnership enquiries: [email protected]. For product support and access questions, use the contact page.