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Annual report

Dubai property market — 2026

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside 2026. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

2026 is still running. About 79% of it has elapsed, so the totals here are partial and will keep rising. Comparisons against earlier periods are withheld until it closes — a part-period measured against a whole one shows the calendar, not the market.
Sales128,929Registered in 2026
Total value395.32BRegistered in 2026Across 162 communities
Price per sqft1,714/sqftMedian across 2026
Sale price1.41MMedian across 202668% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 128,929 property sales in 2026, worth AED 395.32B in total, across 162 communities. 2026 has not finished, so that total is still rising.

The median sale was AED 1,412,994 at AED 1,714/sqft. 68% of sales were off-plan.

Madinat Al Mataar was the busiest community with 14,004 registered sales, while Business Bay took the most money at AED 21.72B.

Sales by year

Price per square foot by year

Median price per sqft

Where the sales were

The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in 2026, and how each moved against the year before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Madinat Al Mataar14,004—20.24B970K1,654/sqft92%
Al Barsha South Fourth8,217—10.74B1.01M1,467/sqft57%
Wadi Al Safa 56,290—10.63B1.00M1,450/sqft83%
Wadi Al Safa 35,928—11.92B985K1,482/sqft79%
Jabal Ali First5,925—11.06B1.41M1,501/sqft64%
Business Bay5,142—21.72B2.23M2,467/sqft50%
Al Yelayiss 14,022—17.08B2.90M1,822/sqft87%
Palm Deira3,623—13.23B2.89M2,837/sqft99%
Wadi Al Safa 43,419—6.63B652K1,719/sqft98%
Jabal Ali Industrial Second3,395—3.98B749K1,715/sqft97%
Al Hebiah Fifth3,178—5.96B1.30M1,701/sqft68%
Al Khairan First3,025—8.87B2.65M2,566/sqft70%
Me'Aisem First3,010—11.10B1.09M1,406/sqft61%
Marsa Dubai2,736—10.84B2.52M2,402/sqft18%
Al Barshaa South Third2,731—3.40B959K1,577/sqft63%

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
Business Bay21.72B5,142
Madinat Al Mataar20.24B14,004
Al Yelayiss 117.08B4,022
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid13.92B2,110
Palm Deira13.23B3,623
Palm Jumeirah12.04B888
Wadi Al Safa 311.92B5,928
Me'Aisem Second11.69B626
Me'Aisem First11.10B3,010
Jabal Ali First11.06B5,925

The largest sales of 2026

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
26 Jan 2026Al Rowaiyah First—LandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified6,693,160 sqftAED 468/sqftAED 3,130,254,657
26 Jan 2026Al Rowaiyah FirstGreenz By DanubeLandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified4,395,265 sqftAED 390/sqftAED 1,713,543,533
26 Jan 2026Al Rowaiyah First—LandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified3,125,785 sqftAED 468/sqftAED 1,461,865,761
11 Feb 2026Al Yelayiss 1—LandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified11,711,769 sqftAED 122/sqftAED 1,426,327,587
11 Feb 2026Saih Shuaib 1LUNAYALandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified4,215,875 sqftAED 307/sqftAED 1,293,294,500
20 May 2026Trade Center First—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified25,000 sqftAED 44,000/sqftAED 1,100,000,000
21 Jan 2026Al Yelayiss 1—LandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified3,507,078 sqftAED 304/sqftAED 1,067,779,799
11 Feb 2026Al Yelayiss 1—LandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified6,810,855 sqftAED 122/sqftAED 829,465,633
28 Aug 2026Burj Khalifa—DownTown DubaiBuildingOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified378,885 sqftAED 1,914/sqftAED 725,000,000
12 Mar 2026Al Safouh First—Sufouh GardensLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified58,084 sqftAED 12,138/sqftAED 705,000,000

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. Refresh times vary by dataset; records shown here are not a live feed.