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Monthly report

Dubai property market — May 2026

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

Sales10,455Registered in May 2026down43.7%
Total value29.44BRegistered in May 2026Across 106 communities
Price per sqft1,653/sqftMedian across May 2026up3.3%
Sale price1.21MMedian across May 202673% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 10,455 property sales in May 2026, worth AED 29.44B in total, across 106 communities. That is 44% fewer than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,210,850 at AED 1,653/sqft, 3.3% above the same month last year. 73% of sales were off-plan.

Madinat Al Mataar was the busiest community with 1,360 registered sales, while Business Bay took the most money at AED 2.73B.

Against the previous month, Wadi Al Safa 4 rose 142% to 293 sales, while Al Khairan First fell 75% to 149.

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

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Madinat Al Mataar1,360+15.2%1.56B847K1,684/sqft95%
Wadi Al Safa 31,000+138.7%1.67B706K1,408/sqft95%
Wadi Al Safa 5642-22.2%847.70M851K1,483/sqft87%
Al Barsha South Fourth566-33.0%712.08M1.00M1,451/sqft57%
Jabal Ali First477-45.5%883.55M1.45M1,530/sqft76%
Dubai Investment Park First461+55.7%696.24M872K1,214/sqft98%
Business Bay403-28.3%2.73B2.25M2,471/sqft54%
Palm Deira372-49.7%1.43B3.21M3,049/sqft99%
Wadi Al Safa 4293+142.1%254.99M609K1,683/sqft100%
Al Hebiah Fifth260-61.8%444.43M1.36M1,687/sqft73%
Warsan Fourth259+97.7%233.80M564K1,014/sqft53%
Al Merkadh249+45.6%554.19M1.47M2,047/sqft37%
Marsa Dubai211-30.6%734.87M2.05M2,525/sqft17%
Al Barshaa South Third201-28.2%244.19M1.00M1,617/sqft67%
Al Thanyah Fifth188-13.8%539.41M2.15M2,209/sqft56%

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 Bay2.73B403
Wadi Al Safa 31.67B1,000
Madinat Al Mataar1.56B1,360
Palm Deira1.43B372
Palm Jumeirah1.26B71
Trade Center First1.15B14
Jabal Ali First883.55M477
Wadi Al Safa 5847.70M642
Palm Jabal Ali838.03M24
Me'Aisem First798.31M186

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
Wadi Al Safa 4293+142.1%
Wadi Al Safa 31,000+138.7%
Warsan Fourth259+97.7%
Al Khairan First149-75.3%
Al Yelayiss 1103-70.2%
Saih Shuaib 194-64.0%
Madinat Dubai Almelaheyah93-63.5%
Al Hebiah Fifth260-61.8%
Al Wasl72-60.2%
Dubai Investment Park First461+55.7%

The largest sales of May 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 May 2026Trade Center First—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified25,000 sqftAED 44,000/sqftAED 1,100,000,000
25 May 2026Al Mamzer—BuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified82,080 sqftAED 3,655/sqftAED 300,000,000
25 May 2026Island 2—Jumeira BayLandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified23,998 sqftAED 11,668/sqftAED 280,000,000
11 May 2026Dubai Investment Park First—Dubai Investment Park FirstBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified825,203 sqftAED 242/sqftAED 200,000,000
18 May 2026Saih Shuaib 3—Dubai Industrial CityLandIndustrial · Existing PropertiesNot specified1,261,610 sqftAED 154/sqftAED 194,288,198
18 May 2026Saih Shuaib 3—Dubai Industrial CityLandIndustrial · Existing PropertiesNot specified1,232,231 sqftAED 154/sqftAED 189,763,830
20 May 2026Palm Jumeirah—Palm JumeirahVillaCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified18,844 sqftAED 7,695/sqftAED 145,000,000
7 May 2026Al Yelayiss 1REEM-MIRA COMMUNITY PH5Al AryamLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified307,782 sqftAED 416/sqftAED 127,912,035
1 May 2026Jumeirah FirstSolaya (5,7)LA MERFlatResidential · Off-Plan Properties5 B/R15,347 sqftAED 7,337/sqftAED 112,603,000
11 May 2026Bukadra—LandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified29,869 sqftAED 3,716/sqftAED 111,000,000

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.