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Monthly report

Dubai property market — January 2026

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

Sales16,888Registered in January 2026up19.5%
Total value70.07BRegistered in January 2026Across 119 communities
Price per sqft1,789/sqftMedian across January 2026up18.2%
Sale price1.84MMedian across January 202664% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 16,888 property sales in January 2026, worth AED 70.07B in total, across 119 communities. That is 19% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,844,462 at AED 1,789/sqft, 18.2% above the same month last year. 64% of sales were off-plan.

Al Yelayiss 1 was the busiest community with 1,073 registered sales, while Al Rowaiyah First took the most money at AED 6.31B.

Against the previous month, Al Yelayiss 1 rose 732% to 1,073 sales, while Dubai Investment Park Second fell 63% to 497.

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 January 2026, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Al Yelayiss 11,073+731.8%4.68B2.90M1,822/sqft96%
Al Barsha South Fourth1,072-32.3%1.24B1.04M1,491/sqft56%
Business Bay983-16.5%3.84B2.53M2,748/sqft59%
Madinat Al Mataar951-8.9%1.95B1.53M1,445/sqft75%
Wadi Al Safa 5864-1.7%1.43B986K1,427/sqft84%
Wadi Al Safa 3692-58.9%1.54B759K1,827/sqft86%
Palm Deira630+29.6%2.14B2.65M2,698/sqft99%
Al Khairan First609+142.6%1.77B2.65M2,619/sqft79%
Jabal Ali First589-21.5%1.08B1.20M1,415/sqft55%
Dubai Investment Park Second497-63.0%1.88B3.48M1,657/sqft82%
Me'Aisem First478+46.2%1.90B1.11M1,386/sqft59%
Al Barsha South Fifth450-27.4%622.28M1.16M1,609/sqft84%
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid449+33.2%3.81B2.73M2,504/sqft49%
Madinat Dubai Almelaheyah424-39.2%1.60B2.64M3,178/sqft99%
Al Hebiah Fourth395-30.6%803.25M1.09M1,408/sqft62%

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
Al Rowaiyah First6.31B3
Me'Aisem Second6.02B328
Al Yelayiss 14.68B1,073
Business Bay3.84B983
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid3.81B449
Palm Deira2.14B630
Madinat Al Mataar1.95B951
Me'Aisem First1.90B478
Dubai Investment Park Second1.88B497
Um Suqaim First1.86B13

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 Yelayiss 11,073+731.8%
Al Khairan First609+142.6%
Al Satwa124+77.1%
Dubai Investment Park Second497-63.0%
Al Yufrah 1164+60.8%
Al Barshaa South Second194-60.6%
Wadi Al Safa 3692-58.9%
Nad Al Shiba First200+53.8%
Al Hebiah First198-50.9%
Me'Aisem First478+46.2%

The largest sales of January 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
21 Jan 2026Al Yelayiss 1—LandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified3,507,078 sqftAED 304/sqftAED 1,067,779,799
23 Jan 2026Al Jadaf—Jaddaf WaterfrontLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified118,761 sqftAED 4,210/sqftAED 500,000,000
26 Jan 2026Island 2—Jumeira BayLandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified26,269 sqftAED 12,943/sqftAED 340,000,000
20 Jan 2026Trade Center First—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified10,050 sqftAED 27,960/sqftAED 281,000,000
29 Jan 2026Palm Jumeirah—Palm JumeirahLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified30,686 sqftAED 7,984/sqftAED 245,000,000
5 Jan 2026Um Suqaim First—LandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified27,364 sqftAED 6,500/sqftAED 177,867,495
22 Jan 2026Um Suqaim First—LandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified28,586 sqftAED 5,850/sqftAED 167,230,849

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.