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Data through 9 Nov 2026 · registered sales only · updated weekly
Registered sale transactions across all of Dubai, computed from official Dubai Land Department open data. Medians are outlier-trimmed; mortgages and gifts are tracked separately under registration activity, never mixed into sale prices.
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Sales volume · 12M
AED 456.6B
Source: DLD via Dubai Pulse · Updated · Methodology ↗
Median price
AED 1,738/sqft
USD 473/sqft
Source: DLD via Dubai Pulse · Updated · Methodology ↗
US dollar figures convert at the fixed peg of AED 3.6725 per USD, the rate published by the Central Bank of the UAE. Methodology ↗
Transactions per month · all of Dubai
11,735 in Oct 2026
Source: DLD via Dubai Pulse · Updated · trans_group = Sales · quality-filtered · complete months only · Methodology ↗
Median price per sqft
AED 1,738
▲ 5.2%YoY
Source: DLD via Dubai Pulse · Updated · outlier-trimmed median of clean sales · complete months only · Methodology ↗
Ready vs. off-plan per month
57% off-plan latest
Source: DLD via Dubai Pulse · Updated · reg_type per DLD · Methodology ↗
Median price per sqft: off-plan vs ready
Off-plan +25% vs ready · latest
Source: DLD via Dubai Pulse · Updated · per-cell monthly medians by reg_type · complete months only · Methodology ↗
Distribution of price per sqft · 12M
AED 1,738/sqft median
Shaded band = the middle 50% of sales (AED 1,407–2,248/sqft). 140,020 apartment and villa sales; axis shows AED 500–4,500/sqft.
Source: DLD via Dubai Pulse · Updated · built residential · the shape behind the median · Methodology ↗
Transactions by property type · 12M
- Apartments & units84.4%142,124 txAED 254B
- Land7.4%12,435 txAED 139.3B
- Buildings4.8%8,079 txAED 36.8B
- Villas3.4%5,791 txAED 26.6B
Source: DLD via Dubai Pulse · Updated · property_type per DLD · Methodology ↗
Seasonality
Typical registered sales by calendar month, averaged over the 8 complete years 2018–2025. The most recent months are excluded while their registrations are still settling, and the seasonal index is adjusted for the market's growth trend, so a fast-growing year cannot make its closing months look busier than they seasonally are. October is seasonally the strongest month, about 29% above the quietest, January.
Source: DLD via Dubai Pulse · Updated · registered sales · complete calendar years 2018–2025 · recent months excluded for registration lag · Methodology ↗
Sales by price band
Registered apartment and villa sales grouped by price, trailing 12 months. Homes under AED 2M are 70% of transactions but only 40% of the money. Most of the market’s value sits in the higher bands.
- Under 1M48,44934.6%AED 33.6B12.9%
- 1M – 2M50,16035.8%AED 70B27.0%
- 2M – 5M35,58225.4%AED 105.3B40.6%
- 5M – 10M4,6493.3%AED 30.4B11.7%
- 10M – 20M9050.6%AED 12B4.6%
- 20M+2750.2%AED 8.4B3.2%
Source: DLD via Dubai Pulse · Updated · built residential · registered sale price · trailing 12 months · Methodology ↗
Price momentum by area
Year-on-year change in the median price per sqft of ready (resale) apartments and villas, trailing 12 months vs the prior 12. Off-plan launches are excluded so the move reflects price, not a shift in what sold, among areas with at least 50 ready sales in each window.
Strongest growth
Highest YoY- Barsha Heights▲ 55.2%AED 1,773/sqft218 sales
- Jumeirah Village Triangle▲ 21.4%AED 1,359/sqft529 sales
- Mudon▲ 20.3%AED 1,614/sqft151 sales
- Al Jaddaf▲ 19.7%AED 1,785/sqft546 sales
- Al Quoz Fourth▲ 16.1%AED 915/sqft112 sales
- Al Sufouh First▲ 14.5%AED 1,737/sqft118 sales
- Emirates Living▲ 11.5%AED 1,711/sqft114 sales
- Jabal Ali▲ 11.3%AED 947/sqft154 sales
Weakest growth
Lowest YoY- Al Furjan▼ 8.8%AED 1,128/sqft1,705 sales
- Al Kifaf▼ 6.1%AED 1,931/sqft100 sales
- Umm Suqeim Third▼ 3.4%AED 2,754/sqft143 sales
- Dubai Science Park▼ 3.2%AED 1,391/sqft168 sales
- Dubai Design District▼ 3%AED 2,680/sqft111 sales
- Arabian Ranches III▼ 2.5%AED 899/sqft745 sales
- Sobha Hartland▼ 0.3%AED 2,008/sqft1,912 sales
- City Walk▲ 0.1%AED 2,766/sqft343 sales
Source: DLD via Dubai Pulse · Updated · YoY median psf · ready resale · built residential · ≥ 50 sales per window · Methodology ↗
Registration activity
Sales, mortgages and gifts registered with the DLD · trailing 12 months
Sales registered · 12M
168,429
Mortgages registered · 12M
41,846
Gifts registered · 12M
9,378
All three counts share one 12-month window anchored to the latest mortgage and gift registration, so the sales figure can differ marginally from the transactions headline above (which is anchored to the latest sale registration).
Financing activity: registered mortgage amounts, not sale values
32,733
new mortgage registrations · 12M
AED 1.4M
median registered loan amount
19%
new mortgages ÷ sales (count ratio, not an LTV)
Source: DLD via Dubai Pulse · Updated · registration counts across all three DLD transaction groups · medians from clean rows · Methodology ↗