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Dubai property market, July 2025: median AED 1,606/sqft, up 5.7% year on year

Monthly edition · published 15 Oct 2026 · data as registered by 12 Oct 2026 · methodology v2.1

In July 2025 the Dubai Land Department registered 19,734 residential sale transactions worth AED 55.1B. Over the 12 months to 31 Jul 2025 the median price of apartments and villas was AED 1,606/sqft, up 5.7% on the prior 12 months. Off-plan sales were 59.8% of the 12-month total. Figures count registered sales from official DLD open data, never listings or asking prices.

Compiled retrospectively on 15 Oct 2026, when this series of monthly editions began. It uses the register as it stood then, so its July 2025 count includes registrations that arrived after the month’s regular publication date.

Median price · 12M to 31 Jul 2025

AED 1,606/sqft

▲ 5.7%YoY

Source: DLD via Dubai Pulse · Updated · Methodology ↗

Sales registered in July 2025

19,734

at publication

Source: DLD via Dubai Pulse · Updated · Methodology ↗

Sales · 12M

198,166

AED 553.2B

Source: DLD via Dubai Pulse · Updated · Methodology ↗

Off-plan share · 12M

59.8%

of registered sales

Source: DLD via Dubai Pulse · Updated · Methodology ↗

July 2025 in detail

Median price per sqft, month
AED 1,698 (IQR 1,364–2,310)
Ready homes, median per sqft
AED 1,319
Off-plan homes, median per sqft
AED 1,862
Off-plan share of the month’s sales
63.1%
12-month median a year earlier
AED 1,519
DLD price index, Q2 2025
162.0, +11% YoY

Month-level figures are a snapshot of a month that is still filling in; the 12-month figures are the settled ones. Why the median, the DLD index and mix-adjusted indices can differ is explained on median vs index.

Source: DLD via Dubai Pulse · Updated · registered sales · built residential psf · edition frozen at publication · Methodology ↗

Largest price moves by area

Ready-resale median price per sqft, 12 months to 31 Jul 2025 against the 12 months before, areas with at least 50 sales in each window.

Rising

Falling

Source: DLD via Dubai Pulse · Updated · ready resale · built residential · n ≥ 50 per window · Methodology ↗

Suggested citation

Dubai Real Estate Data, Dubai Property Market Report July 2025, data as registered by 12 Oct 2026. https://www.dubairealestatedata.com/report/2025-07

Free to reuse with attribution to the Dubai Land Department as the data source and a link to this page. Machine-readable copy: /report/2025-07.md.