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Dubai property market — April 2026

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

Sales14,072Registered in April 2026down20.9% vs a year earlier
Total valueAED 48.76BRegistered in April 2026Across 114 communities
Price per sqftAED 1,842/sqftMedian across April 2026up16.2% vs a year earlier
Sale priceAED 1.70MMedian across April 202673% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 14,072 property sales in April 2026, worth AED 48.76B in total, across 114 communities. That is 21% fewer than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,700,000 at AED 1,842/sqft, 16.2% above the same month last year. 73% of sales were off-plan.

Madinat Al Mataar was the busiest community with 1,181 registered sales, while Business Bay took the most money at AED 3.76B.

Against the previous month, Al Khairan First rose 231% to 603 sales, while Al Yelayiss 5 fell 75% to 113.

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

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Madinat Al Mataar1,181+14.9%AED 2.71BAED 1.60MAED 1,625/sqft91%
Jabal Ali First876+64.0%AED 1.89BAED 1.76MAED 1,541/sqft73%
Al Barsha South Fourth845-8.6%AED 1.04BAED 1.05MAED 1,604/sqft69%
Wadi Al Safa 5825-8.3%AED 1.43BAED 1.08MAED 1,494/sqft87%
Palm Deira738+69.7%AED 2.84BAED 3.16MAED 3,027/sqft100%
Al Hebiah Fifth681+136.5%AED 915.08MAED 783KAED 1,877/sqft87%
Al Khairan First603+231.3%AED 1.78BAED 2.17MAED 2,673/sqft88%
Business Bay560+13.6%AED 3.76BAED 2.77MAED 2,721/sqft65%
Wadi Al Safa 3418-47.2%AED 974.95MAED 1.26MAED 1,591/sqft78%
Al Yelayiss 1346-58.2%AED 1.19BAED 3.04MAED 1,822/sqft77%
Me'Aisem First323-25.7%AED 1.25BAED 1.12MAED 1,396/sqft61%
Nad Al Shiba First323-18.6%AED 1.57BAED 2.06MAED 3,399/sqft71%
Al Satwa316+76.5%AED 460.29MAED 1.45MAED 2,233/sqft97%
Al Barsha South Fifth307-13.0%AED 431.76MAED 1.20MAED 1,713/sqft80%
Marsa Dubai304+30.5%AED 1.32BAED 2.23MAED 2,781/sqft25%

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 BayAED 3.76B560
Palm DeiraAED 2.84B738
Madinat Al MataarAED 2.71B1,181
Palm Jabal AliAED 2.67B44
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin RashidAED 1.98B205
Saih Shuaib 1AED 1.96B261
Jabal Ali FirstAED 1.89B876
Al Khairan FirstAED 1.78B603
Nad Al Shiba FirstAED 1.57B323
Wadi Al Safa 5AED 1.43B825

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 Khairan First603+231.3%
Dubai Investment Park First296+214.9%
Al Hebiah Fifth681+136.5%
Warsan Fourth131+84.5%
Al Satwa316+76.5%
Al Yelayiss 5113-75.3%
Palm Deira738+69.7%
Jabal Ali First876+64.0%
Al Yelayiss 1346-58.2%
Wadi Al Safa 3418-47.2%

The largest sales of April 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
20 Apr 2026Nad Al Shiba FirstMaybach SixMeydan Racecourse CommunityFlatOff-Plan Properties3 B/R1,325 sqftAED 378,148/sqftAED 501,100,000
24 Apr 2026Um Suqaim First—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified52,886 sqftAED 7,129/sqftAED 377,000,000
20 Apr 2026Palm Jabal Ali—Palm Jabal AliLandExisting PropertiesNot specified225,892 sqftAED 1,430/sqftAED 323,032,711
27 Apr 2026Business Bay—Business BayBuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified34,392 sqftAED 9,014/sqftAED 310,000,000
2 Apr 2026Al JadafBinghatti WraithSama Al JadafLandExisting PropertiesNot specified99,220 sqftAED 3,024/sqftAED 300,000,000
27 Apr 2026Palm Jabal Ali—Palm Jabal AliLandExisting PropertiesNot specified173,440 sqftAED 1,206/sqftAED 209,129,122
27 Apr 2026Palm Jabal Ali—Palm Jabal AliLandExisting PropertiesNot specified172,898 sqftAED 1,208/sqftAED 208,862,715
27 Apr 2026Palm Jabal Ali—Palm Jabal AliLandExisting PropertiesNot specified173,299 sqftAED 1,205/sqftAED 208,862,715
21 Apr 2026Madinat Al MataarDiscovery DunesDubai World CentralLandExisting PropertiesNot specified95,300 sqftAED 1,927/sqftAED 183,625,000
21 Apr 2026Al JadafBinghatti StarfallSama Al JadafLandExisting PropertiesNot specified60,600 sqftAED 2,970/sqftAED 180,000,000

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.