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Dubai property market — December 2025

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

Sales19,171Registered in December 2025up23.8% vs a year earlier
Total valueAED 64.80BRegistered in December 2025Across 117 communities
Price per sqftAED 1,804/sqftMedian across December 2025up15.1% vs a year earlier
Sale priceAED 1.47MMedian across December 202570% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 19,171 property sales in December 2025, worth AED 64.80B in total, across 117 communities. That is 24% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,474,999 at AED 1,804/sqft, 15.1% above the same month last year. 70% of sales were off-plan.

Wadi Al Safa 3 was the busiest community with 1,683 registered sales, while Dubai Investment Park Second took the most money at AED 4.40B.

Against the previous month, Wadi Al Safa 3 rose 290% to 1,683 sales, while Al Yufrah 1 fell 70% to 102.

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 December 2025, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Wadi Al Safa 31,683+290.5%AED 2.73BAED 721KAED 1,839/sqft93%
Al Barsha South Fourth1,583+12.1%AED 2.41BAED 1.08MAED 1,578/sqft67%
Dubai Investment Park Second1,344+114.4%AED 4.40BAED 3.61MAED 1,775/sqft98%
Business Bay1,177+13.0%AED 4.27BAED 2.26MAED 2,619/sqft64%
Madinat Al Mataar1,044+16.9%AED 2.04BAED 1.52MAED 1,545/sqft81%
Wadi Al Safa 5879-21.7%AED 1.67BAED 1.10MAED 1,461/sqft83%
Jabal Ali First750-12.6%AED 1.40BAED 1.46MAED 1,531/sqft67%
Madinat Dubai Almelaheyah697-16.3%AED 2.20BAED 2.31MAED 3,248/sqft98%
Al Barsha South Fifth620-21.0%AED 749.99MAED 1.06MAED 1,648/sqft89%
Al Hebiah Fourth569+24.5%AED 1.18BAED 1.03MAED 1,521/sqft62%
Al Barshaa South Third517+4.0%AED 822.56MAED 882KAED 1,633/sqft70%
Al Barshaa South Second493+5.6%AED 695.73MAED 1.11MAED 1,853/sqft97%
Palm Deira486-7.1%AED 1.72BAED 2.82MAED 2,642/sqft98%
Marsa Dubai441+4.8%AED 2.00BAED 3.04MAED 2,624/sqft26%
Al Thanyah Fifth409-9.5%AED 1.31BAED 2.10MAED 2,000/sqft39%

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
Dubai Investment Park SecondAED 4.40B1,344
Business BayAED 4.27B1,177
Al Yufrah 1AED 4.22B102
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin RashidAED 3.26B337
Wadi Al Safa 3AED 2.73B1,683
Palm Jabal AliAED 2.62B152
Al Barsha South FourthAED 2.41B1,583
Madinat Dubai AlmelaheyahAED 2.20B697
Madinat Al MataarAED 2.04B1,044
Marsa DubaiAED 2.00B441

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
Wadi Al Safa 31,683+290.5%
Dubai Investment Park Second1,344+114.4%
Al Yufrah 1102-69.8%
Al Yelayiss 1129+67.5%
Al Satwa70-56.0%
Al Khairan First251-55.4%
Wadi Al Safa 2280+53.0%
Al Hebiah Third178-45.4%
Al Wasl123+39.8%
Al Hebiah First403-37.6%

The largest sales of December 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
10 Dec 2025Al Yufrah 1—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified37,483,853 sqftAED 101/sqftAED 3,800,000,000
15 Dec 2025Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified16,699,910 sqftAED 80/sqftAED 1,335,992,819
12 Dec 2025Bukadra—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified400,409 sqftAED 2,022/sqftAED 809,547,847
24 Dec 2025Al Hebiah First—Motor CityLandExisting PropertiesNot specified865,176 sqftAED 809/sqftAED 700,000,000
12 Dec 2025Business BayBugatti Residences by BinghattiBusiness BayFlatOff-Plan Properties6 B/R47,201 sqftAED 11,652/sqftAED 550,000,000
26 Dec 2025Al Hebiah First—Motor CityLandExisting PropertiesNot specified127,114 sqftAED 3,029/sqftAED 385,000,000
18 Dec 2025Al Thanayah FourthEmirates HillsEmirates LivingLandExisting PropertiesNot specified27,208 sqftAED 8,582/sqftAED 233,500,000
31 Dec 2025Wadi Al Safa 3—Mohammed Bin Rashid AL Maktoum District 11LandExisting PropertiesNot specified148,297 sqftAED 1,347/sqftAED 199,709,232
5 Dec 2025Palm Jumeirah—Palm JumeirahLandExisting PropertiesNot specified27,158 sqftAED 7,180/sqftAED 195,000,000
17 Dec 2025Madinat Dubai Almelaheyah—Dubai Maritime CityLandExisting PropertiesNot specified41,615 sqftAED 4,549/sqftAED 189,287,739

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.