CRESCO RESEARCH
Do not take our word for it. The Dubai Land Department publishes the register and anyone can search it. Here are the exact steps, the numbers to type and what you should see on screen.
On 22 October 2026 the Dubai Land Department public list of licensed real estate brokerage companies held 9,977 companies. Searching it for Cresco returned exactly one record: Cresco Real Estate L.L.C., office number 34288.
That check took under a minute and costs nothing. You can run it right now, on this company or on any other Dubai brokerage that has asked you for money. This page shows you how, tells you what you should see, and is equally clear about what the register cannot tell you and what we do not claim.
The Dubai Land Department publishes every brokerage company RERA has licensed. It is a public page. There is no login and no fee.
Typing Cresco returns one record. It reads Cresco Real Estate L.l.c, Office Number 34288, with a registered contact address at the company domain. The office number is the ORN. If a brokerage gives you an ORN that does not match the name on this list, stop there.
A licensed company can still put an unlicensed person in front of you. The broker card is a separate record and it has its own public lookup.
Entering 59655 returns the holder name Umer Shauket Shauket Pervez, the company Cresco Real Estate L.L.C., an issue date of 15 May 2023 and an expiry date of 23 February 2027. Check the expiry date. A card that has lapsed is not a current licence, whoever is holding it.
| What to check | Where | What comes back for Cresco |
|---|---|---|
| Brokerage licence | Dubai Land Department licensed brokerage list | Cresco Real Estate L.L.C., office number 34288 |
| Broker card | Dubai Land Department e-card verification | Umer Shauket, card 59655, expires 23 February 2027 |
| Records matching the name | Same brokerage list, 9,977 companies on 22 October 2026 | Exactly one |
| Office | Address | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Dubai | M-03 and M-04, Rawdat Al Wasl Building, Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai | Licensed brokerage, ORN 34288 |
| Los Angeles | 1800 N Vine St Suite 346, Los Angeles CA 90028 | Representative office, not a licensed US brokerage |
The company was founded in February 2022 and has been trading under that licence since.
This matters more than anything we could claim, so it goes above the good news rather than below it.
Everything in this section is a company figure rather than a public record. We publish it because you should be able to see which of the two you are reading.
| Figure | Source |
|---|---|
| Founded February 2022 | Company record, licence held since |
| AED 6.8 billion and above in closed transactions | Company figure, not independently published |
| 2,500 and above transactions | Company figure, not independently published |
| 100 and above agents | Company figure |
| 50 and above developer partnerships | Company figure |
| Around AED 140 million bought by American clients | Company figure |
| 4.9 out of 5 from 95 Google reviews | Google Business Profile, Dubai, read 22 October 2026 |
Umer Shauket has worked in real estate since 2018, starting in Pakistan, and in Dubai since 2022. He holds broker card 59655 and is the named licence holder above.
The same two lookups work on every brokerage in Dubai. Run them before you send money to anyone.
We wrote the longer version of this as a developer check in how to verify a Dubai developer before you wire money, and the escrow and build status side in the developer escrow check.
What was actually done. On 22 October 2026 we opened the Dubai Land Department list of licensed real estate brokerage companies, recorded the total record count of 9,977, searched the name Cresco and recorded the single result. We then opened the Dubai Land Department e-card verification service, selected Broker Card, entered 59655 and recorded the result. Both services are public and neither requires an account.
The counts move. The 9,977 figure is the total on the day. Licences are issued and lapse continuously, so the number you see will differ. The Google rating and review count move for the same reason. We date every one of these rather than presenting them as fixed.
The Dubai Land Department service pages describe the e-card check as an app service. The web form at the address above worked and returned the result quoted here on the day of writing. The Dubai REST app offers the same lookup if the web form is unavailable to you.
Company figures are not audited. Transaction value, deal count, agent count, partnership count and the American client total in the table above come from our own records. They are not published by any registry and you cannot verify them from a public source. They are labelled as company figures for exactly that reason.
No testimonials appear on this page. A trust page built out of quotes we selected ourselves would prove nothing. Everything that can be checked independently is above, with the steps to check it.
General information, not advice. This page explains how to use public Dubai Land Department services. It is not legal advice.
Yes. Cresco Real Estate L.L.C. holds office registration number 34288 on the Dubai Land Department list of licensed real estate brokerage companies. On 22 October 2026 that list held 9,977 companies and a search for Cresco returned exactly one record.
Open the Dubai Land Department list of licensed real estate brokerage companies, type the company name into the search box and read the office number that comes back. If nothing comes back the company is not licensed to broker property in Dubai.
An ORN is the office registration number of the brokerage company. A BRN is the number on the individual broker card carried by the person you are dealing with. They are separate records and you should check both.
No. Cresco holds a Dubai brokerage licence from RERA. The Los Angeles address is a representative office. Cresco does not hold a California DRE licence or any other United States brokerage licence and does not act as a broker on United States property transactions.
No. Cushman and Wakefield CRESCO Real Estate is a separate and unrelated commercial real estate firm in the United States. The two businesses share part of a name and nothing else.
The Dubai Business Profile showed 4.9 out of 5 from 95 Google reviews when it was read on 22 October 2026. Review counts move, so check the profile rather than this page if the number matters to you.
Verifying the brokerage is the first of the checks, not the last. The rest of the sequence for a United States buyer sits in buying property in Dubai from the United States, which collects every guide we have published for American buyers. If you would rather speak to someone, ask us.
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