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Dubai property market, July 2026: median AED 1,737/sqft, up 8.2% year on year

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

In July 2026 the Dubai Land Department registered 13,753 residential sale transactions worth AED 30.2B. Over the 12 months to 31 Jul 2026 the median price of apartments and villas was AED 1,737/sqft, up 8.2% on the prior 12 months. Off-plan sales were 68.8% 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 2026 count includes registrations that arrived after the month’s regular publication date.

Median price · 12M to 31 Jul 2026

AED 1,737/sqft

▲ 8.2%YoY

Source: DLD via Dubai Pulse · Updated · Methodology ↗

Sales registered in July 2026

13,753

at publication

Source: DLD via Dubai Pulse · Updated · Methodology ↗

Sales · 12M

192,949

AED 521.7B

Source: DLD via Dubai Pulse · Updated · Methodology ↗

Off-plan share · 12M

68.8%

of registered sales

Source: DLD via Dubai Pulse · Updated · Methodology ↗

July 2026 in detail

Median price per sqft, month
AED 1,716 (IQR 1,422–2,044)
Ready homes, median per sqft
AED 1,404
Off-plan homes, median per sqft
AED 1,746
Off-plan share of the month’s sales
69.9%
12-month median a year earlier
AED 1,606
DLD price index, Q4 2025
167.3, +8.9% 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 2026 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 ↗

Revision note. This edition is frozen as published: it counted 13,753 sales for July 2026. Registrations kept arriving afterwards, and the current data holds 13,748. The 12-month figures above are unchanged by design; the live view is on the current report.

Suggested citation

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

Free to reuse with attribution to the Dubai Land Department as the data source and a link to this page. Machine-readable copy: /report/2026-07.md.