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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.

Sales16,885Registered in January 2026up19.5% vs a year earlier
Total valueAED 70.06BRegistered in January 2026Across 119 communities
Price per sqftAED 1,789/sqftMedian across January 2026up18.2% vs a year earlier
Sale priceAED 1.84MMedian across January 202664% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 16,885 property sales in January 2026, worth AED 70.06B in total, across 119 communities. That is 19% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,844,035 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%AED 4.68BAED 2.90MAED 1,822/sqft96%
Al Barsha South Fourth1,072-32.3%AED 1.24BAED 1.04MAED 1,491/sqft56%
Business Bay982-16.6%AED 3.83BAED 2.52MAED 2,747/sqft59%
Madinat Al Mataar951-8.9%AED 1.95BAED 1.53MAED 1,445/sqft75%
Wadi Al Safa 5864-1.7%AED 1.43BAED 986KAED 1,427/sqft84%
Wadi Al Safa 3692-58.9%AED 1.54BAED 759KAED 1,827/sqft86%
Palm Deira630+29.6%AED 2.14BAED 2.65MAED 2,698/sqft99%
Al Khairan First609+142.6%AED 1.77BAED 2.65MAED 2,619/sqft79%
Jabal Ali First589-21.5%AED 1.08BAED 1.20MAED 1,415/sqft55%
Dubai Investment Park Second497-63.0%AED 1.88BAED 3.48MAED 1,657/sqft82%
Me'Aisem First478+46.2%AED 1.90BAED 1.11MAED 1,386/sqft59%
Al Barsha South Fifth450-27.4%AED 622.28MAED 1.16MAED 1,609/sqft84%
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid449+33.2%AED 3.81BAED 2.73MAED 2,504/sqft49%
Madinat Dubai Almelaheyah424-39.2%AED 1.60BAED 2.64MAED 3,178/sqft99%
Al Hebiah Fourth395-30.6%AED 803.25MAED 1.09MAED 1,408/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 FirstAED 6.31B3
Me'Aisem SecondAED 6.02B328
Al Yelayiss 1AED 4.68B1,073
Business BayAED 3.83B982
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin RashidAED 3.81B449
Palm DeiraAED 2.14B630
Madinat Al MataarAED 1.95B951
Me'Aisem FirstAED 1.90B478
Dubai Investment Park SecondAED 1.88B497
Um Suqaim FirstAED 1.86B13

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 Barshaa South Second193-60.9%
Al Yufrah 1164+60.8%
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—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified6,693,160 sqftAED 468/sqftAED 3,130,254,657
26 Jan 2026Al Rowaiyah FirstGreenz By DanubeLandExisting PropertiesNot specified4,395,265 sqftAED 390/sqftAED 1,713,543,533
26 Jan 2026Al Rowaiyah First—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified3,125,785 sqftAED 468/sqftAED 1,461,865,761
21 Jan 2026Al Yelayiss 1—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified3,507,078 sqftAED 304/sqftAED 1,067,779,799
23 Jan 2026Al Jadaf—Jaddaf WaterfrontLandExisting PropertiesNot specified118,761 sqftAED 4,210/sqftAED 500,000,000
26 Jan 2026Island 2—Jumeira BayLandExisting PropertiesNot specified26,269 sqftAED 12,943/sqftAED 340,000,000
20 Jan 2026Trade Center First—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified10,050 sqftAED 27,960/sqftAED 281,000,000
29 Jan 2026Palm Jumeirah—Palm JumeirahLandExisting PropertiesNot specified30,686 sqftAED 7,984/sqftAED 245,000,000
5 Jan 2026Um Suqaim First—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified27,364 sqftAED 6,500/sqftAED 177,867,495
22 Jan 2026Um Suqaim First—LandExisting 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.