Spare and Rewa Partner to Digitize Rent Payments in UAE
Through the partnership, Rewa will integrate Spare's Pay-by-bank payment solution, enabling tenants to pay rent directly from their bank accounts without cheques or manual transfers, simplifying rent collection, improving payment visibility, and enabling digital tracking of rental transactions throughout the payment lifecycle.
Spare, a leading Open Finance infrastructure provider, announced a strategic partnership with Rewa, a UAE-based property technology platform, to modernize rental payments and accelerate the digitization of real estate transactions across the UAE.
Through the partnership, Rewa will integrate Spare’s Pay-by-bank payment solution, enabling tenants to pay rent directly from their bank accounts without cheques or manual transfers, simplifying rent collection, improving payment visibility, and enabling digital tracking of rental transactions throughout the payment lifecycle.
Spare’s solution utilizes the Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) Open Finance Framework to provide Pay-by-bank capabilities to fintech platforms and financial institutions across the country.
“The UAE has set a global benchmark for digital government services, ranking among the world’s top countries for digital infrastructure and e-government delivery, and the real estate sector is a natural extension of that. Through our partnership with Rewa, we’re helping transform the cumbersome, manual process of rental payments to a seamless experience that is more transparent and easier to manage.”
– Dalal AlRayes, Co-founder and CEO, Spare
“Moving away from post-dated cheques isn’t just a convenience upgrade, it’s a structural shift in how the rental market operates, and one that sits squarely within the Central Bank of the UAE’s Open Finance vision. Integrating Spare’s Pay-by-bank infrastructure means tenants can pay rent digitally and instantly, while landlords gain the payment certainty and real-time visibility that cheques never provided. We’re building the payment and loyalty layer that the UAE rental market has been missing.”
– Najib Khanafer, Co-Founder and CEO, Rewa
The partnership supports the Dubai Land Department’s vision for a fully digital and paperless real estate ecosystem. In 2025, Dubai recorded 1.38 million registered tenancy contracts worth a combined AED 126.4 billion, according to DLD data, underscoring the scale of the opportunity to modernize how rental payments move through the sector, and the shift away from post-dated cheques has never been more urgent.
As UAE’s Open Finance Framework adoption grows, Spare and Rewa are demonstrating how financial infrastructure and property technology can work together to deliver more efficient, secure, and customer-centric experiences.
