Bridging 533K Dubai Land Department transactions to 1,387 buildings — developer naming is the real problem

When I started building Ghost Workforce — a Dubai real estate intelligence dashboard — I assumed scraping the Dubai Land Department (DLD) was going to be the hard part. It wasn't. The DLD publishes most of what you need: transaction-level data going back 15 years, M-codes (a building registry), Ejari rent registrations, RERA escrow status. The data is public. APIs exist. CSVs are downloadable. The hard part was bridging it. Specifically — bridging a transaction's listed building name to the actu