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Dubai property market — March 2026

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

Sales13,852Registered in March 2026down9.2% vs a year earlier
Total valueAED 44.44BRegistered in March 2026Across 108 communities
Price per sqftAED 1,731/sqftMedian across March 2026up8.4% vs a year earlier
Sale priceAED 1.66MMedian across March 202670% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 13,852 property sales in March 2026, worth AED 44.44B in total, across 108 communities. That is 9% fewer than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,662,560 at AED 1,731/sqft, 8.4% above the same month last year. 70% of sales were off-plan.

Madinat Al Mataar was the busiest community with 1,028 registered sales, while Al Yelayiss 5 took the most money at AED 3.54B.

Against the previous month, Bukadra rose 111% to 375 sales, while Al Safouh First fell 71% to 52.

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

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Madinat Al Mataar1,028+4.6%AED 1.76BAED 1.36MAED 1,546/sqft91%
Al Barsha South Fourth925-19.2%AED 1.23BAED 1.10MAED 1,521/sqft68%
Wadi Al Safa 5900-1.3%AED 1.37BAED 974KAED 1,487/sqft89%
Al Yelayiss 1827-15.4%AED 2.64BAED 2.82MAED 1,777/sqft95%
Wadi Al Safa 3791+1.7%AED 1.74BAED 838KAED 1,492/sqft60%
Jabal Ali First534-25.6%AED 1.00BAED 1.67MAED 1,498/sqft64%
Business Bay493-35.0%AED 1.67BAED 2.30MAED 2,599/sqft61%
Al Yelayiss 5458+64.2%AED 3.54BAED 7.77MAED 1,485/sqft0%
Me'Aisem First435-4.2%AED 1.20BAED 1.11MAED 1,396/sqft75%
Palm Deira435-30.7%AED 1.45BAED 2.70MAED 2,783/sqft100%
Al Hebiah First415-4.4%AED 744.90MAED 1.30MAED 1,813/sqft87%
Nad Al Shiba First397-47.4%AED 1.17BAED 1.43MAED 3,526/sqft90%
Bukadra375+110.7%AED 1.06BAED 2.18MAED 2,990/sqft99%
Al Barsha South Fifth353+18.9%AED 513.52MAED 1.22MAED 1,715/sqft82%
Al Barshaa South Third317-13.9%AED 420.93MAED 1.02MAED 1,635/sqft72%

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 Yelayiss 5AED 3.54B458
Al Yelayiss 1AED 2.64B827
Madinat Al MataarAED 1.76B1,028
Wadi Al Safa 3AED 1.74B791
Business BayAED 1.67B493
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin RashidAED 1.59B240
Me'Aisem SecondAED 1.52B72
Palm JumeirahAED 1.48B109
Palm DeiraAED 1.45B435
Wadi Al Safa 5AED 1.37B900

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
Bukadra375+110.7%
Al Safouh First52-70.9%
Warsan Fourth71-70.5%
Al Yelayiss 5458+64.2%
Al Khairan First182-56.8%
Al Hebiah Fifth288+56.5%
Dubai Investment Park Second118-52.8%
Al Wasl134-51.6%
Nad Al Shiba First397-47.4%
Marsa Dubai233-46.4%

The largest sales of March 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
12 Mar 2026Al Safouh First—Sufouh GardensLandExisting PropertiesNot specified58,084 sqftAED 12,138/sqftAED 705,000,000
5 Mar 2026Jumeirah SecondAman Residences DubaiFlatOff-Plan Properties6 B/R31,201 sqftAED 13,525/sqftAED 422,000,000
26 Mar 2026Jumeirah SecondAman Residences DubaiFlatOff-Plan Properties6 B/R31,201 sqftAED 11,418/sqftAED 356,232,500
17 Mar 2026Jabal Ali Industrial SecondRAW DISTRICT BY IMTIAZ CRDown Town Jabal AliLandExisting PropertiesNot specified185,442 sqftAED 1,296/sqftAED 240,340,500
12 Mar 2026World IslandsAMALI ISLANDThe WorldVillaOff-Plan Properties7 B/R58,082 sqftAED 3,788/sqftAED 220,000,000
13 Mar 2026Um Suqaim First—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified23,505 sqftAED 6,500/sqftAED 152,784,905
13 Mar 2026Um Suqaim First—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified23,288 sqftAED 6,500/sqftAED 151,371,610
10 Mar 2026Um Suqaim First—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified20,116 sqftAED 6,500/sqftAED 130,752,050
16 Mar 2026Wadi Al Safa 5—Dubai Land Residence ComplexLandExisting PropertiesNot specified64,705 sqftAED 1,970/sqftAED 127,500,000
10 Mar 2026Um Suqaim First—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified19,311 sqftAED 6,500/sqftAED 125,523,580

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.