equire is where UAE businesses are bought, sold and invested in, with the trust you expect from a property portal. Every listing is licence-checked before it goes live, every financial is structured, and every serious buyer signs an NDA before opening the data room.
Property search moved online and earned people’s trust years ago. Business sales did not. Deals still move through private contact books, forwarded PDFs and classifieds that nobody checks.
Businesses change hands through personal networks and scattered classifieds. Nobody can see what is actually for sale.
Buyers cannot check a trade licence, real turnover or lease status until they have signed an NDA and spent hours with a seller.
Duplicate, stale and inflated listings crowd out the real ones and waste everyone’s time, brokers’ most of all.
Existing sites feel like 2010 classifieds, a long way from the map-and-filter search buyers already use for property.
equire is a tool for brokers, and we will never compete with you for a mandate. List your stock once, and it reaches buyers who have already been qualified.
| Listing | Status | NDAs | Asking (AED) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Specialty coffee roastery, JLT | Verified | 11 | 1,850,000 |
| Nursery, 120 seats, Mirdif | Verified | 8 | 6,500,000 |
| Freight forwarder, SAIF Zone | Featured | 14 | 4,800,000 |
| Ladies’ salon, Al Barsha | In review | – | 690,000 |
UAE funds still find deals through bankers, personal networks and PDFs forwarded by email. equire lets you search live, verified opportunities the way you would search for property.
The same four steps on every listing, whether it is a café in JLT or a logistics group in Sharjah.
Search verified listings by sector, emirate, price and turnover. Every card shows photos, a financial snapshot and its verified status.
Sign the NDA in the app with DocuSign to unlock full financials, contracts and the lease in a secure data room.
Message the owner or their broker directly. Every conversation stays in one thread, attached to the listing.
Agree terms and move to the share purchase agreement, MoA addendum and licence amendment, with each step tracked.
These are illustrative listings, created to show the product, with photos from Unsplash. Select any listing to open it in the demo below. Live listings open to the broker pilot in Q1 2027.
Every listing passes the same checks before it earns the verified badge. Buyers see what was checked and when, so trust is built into the listing from the start.
The licence is matched against the issuing authority, whether DET in Dubai or the relevant free zone.
Turnover and profit come from the uploaded statements, not from the asking price the seller would like.
For many sectors the lease is the business, so we check it before any buyer falls in love with the location.
Buyers sign a DocuSign NDA in the app to unlock full financials, contracts and the lease. Owners and brokers see exactly who opened what.
Search, open a verified listing, sign the NDA, open the data room and message the broker. This is the flow every buyer follows on equire.
Interactive demo with example data. No documents are signed and no messages are sent.
What buyers check, and which approvals the sale needs, change by sector. Listings carry the right fields and the right checklist for each.
| Business area | What buyers look for | How it changes hands |
|---|---|---|
| F&BRestaurants, cafés, cloud kitchens | Footfall, lease term, fit-out, monthly covers | Landlord NOC and new Ejari, food permit re-issued by Dubai Municipality, DET licence amendment |
| Beauty & wellnessSalons, spas, gyms | Repeat clients, staff retention, location | Share or asset sale, municipality health permit, staff visa transfers |
| HealthcareClinics, pharmacies | Licences, patient base, medical staff | DHA facility licence updated to the new owner, licensed medical director in place |
| Education & childcareNurseries, training centres | Enrolment, ratings, premises approval | KHDA approval of the new owner before the licence is amended |
| Retail, trading & logisticsShops, distributors, fleets | Stock, supplier contracts, fleet, margins | Share or asset sale with inventory valuation, customs and RTA records updated |
| Startups & distressed SMEsGrowth and turnaround | Traction for VCs, undervalued assets for PE | Equity stake issued to investors (licensed, Phase 2) or fast asset purchase with creditor settlement |
Mainland sales run share purchase agreement, then notarised MoA addendum, then DET licence amendment, typically in 1 to 2 weeks (4 to 6 with regulator approvals). Free zone transfers are handled in-house by the authority, often in days.
Around 5,600 UAE SMEs change hands every year. Roughly 100 verified brokers serve the whole country, with no RERA-style licensing and no common marketplace. The biggest SME portal closes about 200 deals a year.
Sources: UAE Ministry of Economy; CBUAE and EY via Gulf Today; SMERGERS; BusinessesForSale.com UAE; Business Finder. Assumes 1% of SMEs change hands a year at an AED 750k average deal.
Meeting Dubai’s leading brokerages one by one and building the MVP around their feedback.
10 to 20 Dubai brokers onboarded and the first 100 verified listings live.
Self-serve owner listings open alongside broker stock, and the iOS and Android apps launch.
PE and VC funds onboarded, Abu Dhabi launch, then Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
Mobile made finding a flight, a flat or a driver instant. equire does the same for your next business or investment. Search, sign the NDA, open the data room and message the seller from one app.
Six years of high-trust, relationship-led sales across ACMI and VIP charter brokerage at Chapman Freeborn, property sales leadership at The Boros Collection, and freight forwarding. Leads brokers, partnerships and growth.
25+ years across SME startups and web and app development. Leads equire’s technology: the web and mobile app, listing verification and secure data rooms.
“Mobile has made almost everything instant, finding a flight, a flat, a driver, but not the search for your next business or investment. equire is what happens when it finally does.”Ethan Brown, Founder
We are onboarding 10 to 20 Dubai brokerages for a closed pilot. Founding brokers list for free, shape the product with us, and get their stock in front of qualified buyers first.