Moving Your Office from Al Maryah to Al Reem: Is It Worth It?

The call usually comes a few months before a lease renewal. A firm on Al Maryah, doing perfectly well, has seen the renewal figure and started to wonder whether they're paying for something that moves the needle — or just for the postcode. It's a fair question, and the answer is usually clarifying.

What stays exactly the same

Here is where people brace for a complication that never comes. Both islands are inside ADGM, so moving from Al Maryah to Al Reem changes nothing about your ADGM licence, your English common law framework, your FSRA regulation, or your access to the ADGM Courts. Your registered address stays a valid ADGM address throughout. You are relocating within one jurisdiction — not leaving and re-entering anything.

What changes: the bill

• Dedicated desk: from about AED 3,500/month down to AED 1,200/month.
• Private office: from roughly AED 5,000/month in the core to a competitively quoted Al Reem rate.

For a firm carrying a private office or several desks year after year, that's not a one-off saving — it's a structural reduction in run-rate that compounds at every renewal.

What the move actually involves

• Update your registered address with the ADGM Registration Authority once new premises are secured.
• Notify the FSRA if you're a regulated firm with premises details on file.
• Refresh commercial records — bank, contracts, website, letterhead, invoices.
• Time the physical move around your lease break or renewal so you never pay twice.

We've walked clients through each step; none is the obstacle people fear.

When it is — and isn't — worth it

Mid-lease with years to run? The timing may not justify it yet, and we'll say so. But if renewal is approaching, or your floor no longer matches your headcount, relocating to Al Reem resets your cost base while keeping everything that made ADGM the right home.

Related: the cost difference between the islands and flexible office solutions for ADGM firms.

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Cut your rent without changing your jurisdiction. Send us your current setup and we will show you the like-for-like Al Reem cost — no pressure, just the numbers.

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