• Bayut launched AI Search on 27 August 2026, letting users query listings in natural language instead of filters, the company said.
• Bayut is owned by Dubizzle Group, which postponed its Dubai Financial Market IPO on 22 October 2025, one day before subscriptions were due to open.
• Dubizzle Group's Intention to Float documents cited roughly 54 million monthly sessions and 18 million monthly active users in H1 2025, with a UAE EBITDA margin near 46%.
• No revised IPO date has been confirmed; the Dubai Financial Market's disclosure feed is the venue Dubizzle Group used to signal timing last year.
• The AI Search launch follows Bayut's June 2026 debut as a property-search app inside ChatGPT.

Bayut, the UAE property portal owned by Dubizzle Group, launched a conversational search tool called AI Search on 27 August 2026, the company said, letting users describe budget, location and lifestyle needs in natural language instead of working through dropdown filters. The launch lands ten months after Dubizzle Group postponed its Dubai Financial Market initial public offering on 22 October 2025 — a day before subscriptions were due to open — leaving the UAE's most closely watched proptech listing without a confirmed timeline.

The product: conversational search replaces filters

AI Search interprets a single query — such as a two-bedroom apartment in Dubai Marina with a sea view under AED 2 million — to surface ranked listings, Bayut said. VP of Product Muneeb Farrukh described the aim as matching search to how people actually think about a home, lifestyle and trade-offs, not filter fields. The tool sits alongside Bayut's existing filter search, its TruEstimate valuation tool and BayutGPT assistant, and follows the platform's June 2026 debut as a searchable app inside ChatGPT.

The backdrop: an IPO that never opened

Bayut's parent, Dubizzle Group, announced its Intention to Float on the Dubai Financial Market on 13 October 2025, targeting roughly 30.34% of its issued share capital and a listing as soon as 6 November 2025, according to the company statement carried by Zawya. Nine days later, on 22 October 2025 — one day before the book-building subscription period was due to start — the group postponed the offering, saying in a disclosure filed with the Dubai Financial Market that it would assess the optimal timing for a future listing.

Why it matters for the Gulf listings pipeline

A private company shipping a consumer product is not itself a market signal, but Dubizzle Group was one of the largest names investors expected on the DFM's 2025 IPO slate before the pullback. Its Intention to Float statement cited roughly 54 million monthly sessions and 18 million monthly active users across its platforms in H1 2025, with a UAE EBITDA margin near 46%. Continued product investment at Bayut keeps that business relevant to any renewed listing conversation, though the company has not confirmed a new IPO date.

What to watch

Dubizzle Group has not disclosed a revised IPO timetable since the October 2025 postponement, and it has not tied AI Search or the ChatGPT integration to a renewed listing narrative. Investors tracking the UAE pipeline should watch the Dubai Financial Market's disclosure feed, the venue the group used to signal both its original float and the postponement, for any fresh Intention to Float filing. This is not investment advice.