How to rent out your parking bay in Dubai

Updated 2 October 2026 · 6 min read

1. Check you're allowed to rent it out

This is the step most people skip, and the one that causes most problems later.

• If you rent your apartment: read your tenancy contract. Some contracts don't allow you to sublet any part of the unit, including the bay. If in doubt, ask your landlord in writing.
• If you own the unit: check your building's rules and ask the building or community management whether they allow parking rentals and how access cards are handled.
• If you're a company: check your office lease, and agree internally which allotted bays are genuinely free.

When you list on ParkSouq, you confirm that you're allowed to rent out the bay. We may ask for proof before a listing goes live.

2. Decide when it's free

You don't give up your bay. ParkSouq rents it for working hours, 08:00–18:00, and you keep it every evening.

• Monday to Friday: the standard working week.
• Monday to Saturday: if your bay is also free on Saturdays. Drivers who work Saturdays book those days separately.
• 24 hours, 7 days: only for bays owned by a business that is happy to rent them day and night.

Then choose how it's rented: by the month (the fewest handovers), by the week, or by the day.

Drivers must leave by 18:00. After a 15-minute grace period a late driver pays AED 30 for each extra hour, and most of it goes to you.

3. Find out what your bay can earn

You don't need to work out a price. After you add your bay, we check it and email you what it can earn. Nothing goes live until you agree.

What a bay earns depends on a few things:

• The area and the building, and how close the bay is to offices.
• Whether it's covered, and how easy it is to get in and out.
• The days you offer: Monday to Friday or Monday to Saturday.

4. Write a listing that gets booked

• Give the building name, area, level and bay number.
• Say whether it's covered, and mention anything drivers should know, such as a height limit or a tight ramp.
• Add clear photos of the bay and the car park entrance. Don't include other people's number plates or faces.
• Keep your availability up to date, and pause the listing if the bay stops being free.

5. Access cards and handover

Many Dubai buildings need an access card, tag or plate registration to enter the car park.

• Tell us when you list if drivers need a card. The driver pays a refundable deposit for it, returned when the card comes back.
• Hand the card over in the way that suits you both: meet at the building, leave it with building security, or send it by courier.
• Check with building management whether drivers' plates need to be registered.

6. How payment will work

During the beta, no payments go through the site and listing commits you to nothing. When bookings open, drivers will pay through ParkSouq, you'll approve every driver before a booking starts, and you'll get one payout a month.