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Dubai property market — April 2025

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside April 2025. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales17,794Registered in April 2025up54% vs a year earlier
Total valueAED 62.16BRegistered in April 2025Across 115 communities
Price per sqftAED 1,585/sqftMedian across April 2025up3.5% vs a year earlier
Sale priceAED 1.65MMedian across April 202557% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 17,794 property sales in April 2025, worth AED 62.16B in total, across 115 communities. That is 54% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,649,170 at AED 1,585/sqft, 3.5% above the same month last year. 57% of sales were off-plan.

Al Barsha South Fourth was the busiest community with 1,594 registered sales, while Me'Aisem Second took the most money at AED 7.05B.

Against the previous month, Al Hebiah Second rose 243% to 233 sales, while Al Yufrah 1 fell 60% to 155.

Sales by month

Price per square foot by month

Median price per sqft

Where the sales were

The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in April 2025, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Al Barsha South Fourth1,594+16.0%AED 2.16BAED 1.01MAED 1,450/sqft72%
Business Bay1,189+5.5%AED 3.89BAED 1.81MAED 2,262/sqft53%
Al Yelayiss 1982+51.5%AED 3.23BAED 2.54MAED 1,503/sqft0%
Wadi Al Safa 5938+2.7%AED 1.96BAED 1.04MAED 1,326/sqft75%
Marsa Dubai921-7.4%AED 3.24BAED 2.23MAED 3,171/sqft60%
Me'Aisem First906+41.8%AED 1.26BAED 565KAED 1,330/sqft83%
Madinat Al Mataar891-5.0%AED 2.29BAED 1.68MAED 1,574/sqft86%
Jabal Ali First730+52.1%AED 2.73BAED 1.30MAED 1,297/sqft63%
Al Thanyah Fifth522+22.2%AED 1.52BAED 2.18MAED 2,278/sqft61%
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid510+18.3%AED 2.09BAED 2.48MAED 2,475/sqft64%
Palm Deira448+34.5%AED 1.74BAED 2.71MAED 2,376/sqft94%
Me'Aisem Second410+8100.0%AED 7.05BAED 15.01MAED 1,677/sqft0%
Al Wasl387+225.2%AED 1.89BAED 3.48MAED 3,192/sqft78%
Al Merkadh384+41.2%AED 1.22BAED 1.22MAED 2,135/sqft21%
Al Barshaa South Third377+55.1%AED 720.40MAED 1.00MAED 1,394/sqft73%

Where the money went

Ranked by total registered value rather than count — a different list, and the one that shows where capital actually landed.

CommunityValueSales
Me'Aisem SecondAED 7.05B410
Palm Jabal AliAED 4.28B164
Business BayAED 3.89B1,189
Marsa DubaiAED 3.24B921
Al Yelayiss 1AED 3.23B982
Jabal Ali FirstAED 2.73B730
Madinat Al MataarAED 2.29B891
Al Barsha South FourthAED 2.16B1,594
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin RashidAED 2.09B510
Wadi Al Safa 5AED 1.96B938

Biggest movers

Change in registered sales against the previous month. Limited to communities with at least 50 sales in both — below that a swing is noise.

CommunitySalesChange
Al Hebiah Second233+242.6%
Al Wasl387+225.2%
Wadi Al Safa 4180+200.0%
Al Barsha South Fifth305+116.3%
Bukadra362+76.6%
Al Khairan First265+73.2%
Al Yufrah 1155-59.5%
Palm Jabal Ali164+57.7%
Al Barshaa South Third377+55.1%
Jabal Ali First730+52.1%

The largest sales of April 2025

Each row links to its own register record, so any figure in this report can be traced to the transactions behind it.

Registered property transactions from the Dubai Land Department
DateCommunityProject / buildingTypeBedsSizePrice/sqftPrice
21 Apr 2025Jabal Ali FirstSobha Central Phase IIDMCC-EZ2LandExisting PropertiesNot specified1,067,633 sqftAED 1,358/sqftAED 1,450,000,000
11 Apr 2025Business Bay—Business BayBuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified63,927 sqftAED 10,950/sqftAED 700,000,000
30 Apr 2025Al Merkadh—SOBHA HARTLANDBuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified393,732 sqftAED 889/sqftAED 350,000,000
23 Apr 2025Madinat Dubai AlmelaheyahCHELSEA RESIDENCES 2 BY DAMACDubai Maritime CityLandExisting PropertiesNot specified211,957 sqftAED 1,539/sqftAED 326,182,380
23 Apr 2025Al Barshaa South Third—ArjanLandExisting PropertiesNot specified119,712 sqftAED 2,497/sqftAED 298,967,706
23 Apr 2025Madinat Dubai AlmelaheyahCHELSEA RESIDENCES BY DAMACDubai Maritime CityLandExisting PropertiesNot specified167,917 sqftAED 1,480/sqftAED 248,516,420
24 Apr 2025Al Safouh Second—Site ABuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified43,375 sqftAED 5,478/sqftAED 237,608,800
24 Apr 2025Island 2—Jumeira BayLandExisting PropertiesNot specified24,575 sqftAED 9,156/sqftAED 225,000,000
21 Apr 2025Palm JumeirahEOMEPalm JumeirahVillaOff-Plan Properties7 B/R24,509 sqftAED 7,344/sqftAED 180,000,000
30 Apr 2025Al Barsha South FourthAURESTA TOWERJumeirah Village CircleLandExisting PropertiesNot specified68,313 sqftAED 2,415/sqftAED 165,000,000

Source: Dubai Land Department open data, retrieved from the Digital Dubai data.dubai platform. Figures cover registered transactions and Ejari-registered tenancy contracts, and are statistical summaries of public record — not a valuation of any individual property. Registration data can be amended or backdated by the source after first publication.