Dubai property market, August 2025: median AED 1,625/sqft, up 6.8% year on year
Monthly edition · published 15 Oct 2026 · data as registered by 12 Oct 2026 · methodology v2.1
In August 2025 the Dubai Land Department registered 18,002 residential sale transactions worth AED 45.7B. Over the 12 months to 31 Aug 2025 the median price of apartments and villas was AED 1,625/sqft, up 6.8% on the prior 12 months. Off-plan sales were 60.3% 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 August 2025 count includes registrations that arrived after the month’s regular publication date.
Median price · 12M to 31 Aug 2025
AED 1,625/sqft
Source: DLD via Dubai Pulse · Updated · Methodology ↗
Sales registered in August 2025
18,002
Source: DLD via Dubai Pulse · Updated · Methodology ↗
August 2025 in detail
- Median price per sqft, month
- AED 1,738 (IQR 1,383–2,355)
- Ready homes, median per sqft
- AED 1,328
- Off-plan homes, median per sqft
- AED 1,893
- Off-plan share of the month’s sales
- 70.0%
- 12-month median a year earlier
- AED 1,521
- 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 Aug 2025 against the 12 months before, areas with at least 50 sales in each window.
Rising
- Dubai Science ParkAED 1,550/sqft · +53.5%
- Al KheeranAED 1,585/sqft · +37.1%
- Jumeirah Village TriangleAED 1,092/sqft · +36.6%
Falling
- MirdifAED 1,100/sqft · -5.1%
- Dubai Industrial CityAED 979/sqft · -2.1%
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 August 2025, data as registered by 12 Oct 2026. https://www.dubairealestatedata.com/report/2025-08
Free to reuse with attribution to the Dubai Land Department as the data source and a link to this page. Machine-readable copy: /report/2025-08.md.