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Quarterly report

Dubai property market — Q1 2026

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside Q1 2026. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales47,773Registered in Q1 2026up5.4% vs a year earlier
Total valueAED 176.17BRegistered in Q1 2026Across 142 communities
Price per sqftAED 1,758/sqftMedian across Q1 2026up12.8% vs a year earlier
Sale priceAED 1.73MMedian across Q1 202665% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 47,773 property sales in Q1 2026, worth AED 176.17B in total, across 142 communities. That is 5% more than the same quarter a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,725,000 at AED 1,758/sqft, 12.8% above the same quarter last year. 65% of sales were off-plan.

Al Barsha South Fourth was the busiest community with 3,142 registered sales, while Al Yelayiss 1 took the most money at AED 12.90B.

Against the previous quarter, Al Safouh First rose 800% to 459 sales, while Al Safouh Second fell 81% to 56.

Sales by quarter

Price per square foot by quarter

Median price per sqft

Where the sales were

The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in Q1 2026, and how each moved against the quarter before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Al Barsha South Fourth3,142-33.0%AED 3.98BAED 1.06MAED 1,492/sqft61%
Madinat Al Mataar2,962+11.7%AED 5.51BAED 1.35MAED 1,491/sqft83%
Al Yelayiss 12,877+612.1%AED 12.90BAED 2.90MAED 1,822/sqft95%
Wadi Al Safa 52,676-14.1%AED 4.56BAED 985KAED 1,471/sqft86%
Wadi Al Safa 32,261-13.5%AED 5.31BAED 987KAED 1,622/sqft66%
Business Bay2,234-33.9%AED 7.82BAED 2.34MAED 2,619/sqft55%
Jabal Ali First1,841-24.7%AED 3.20BAED 1.25MAED 1,417/sqft56%
Palm Deira1,693+13.5%AED 5.83BAED 2.69MAED 2,779/sqft99%
Me'Aisem First1,367+21.7%AED 4.82BAED 1.11MAED 1,397/sqft66%
Nad Al Shiba First1,352+125.0%AED 4.80BAED 1.43MAED 3,498/sqft88%
Al Khairan First1,212+11.3%AED 3.67BAED 2.97MAED 2,560/sqft69%
Al Barsha South Fifth1,100-53.6%AED 1.53BAED 1.18MAED 1,663/sqft80%
Madinat Dubai Almelaheyah1,065-45.3%AED 3.80BAED 2.63MAED 3,168/sqft98%
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid1,061+6.5%AED 7.14BAED 2.70MAED 2,447/sqft55%
Al Hebiah First1,047-39.3%AED 1.76BAED 1.28MAED 1,737/sqft80%

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 1AED 12.90B2,877
Me'Aisem SecondAED 9.69B517
Business BayAED 7.82B2,234
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin RashidAED 7.14B1,061
Al Rowaiyah FirstAED 6.31B3
Palm DeiraAED 5.83B1,693
Al Yelayiss 5AED 5.81B737
Madinat Al MataarAED 5.51B2,962
Wadi Al Safa 3AED 5.31B2,261
Palm JumeirahAED 5.29B385

Biggest movers

Change in registered sales against the previous quarter. Limited to communities with at least 50 sales in both — below that a swing is noise.

CommunitySalesChange
Al Safouh First459+800.0%
Al Yelayiss 12,877+612.1%
Um Suqaim Third265+147.7%
Nad Al Shiba First1,352+125.0%
Al Safouh Second56-81.0%
Al Barshaa South Second450-75.5%
Dubai Investment Park Second865-70.2%
Zaabeel Second237+66.9%
Al Yufrah 1301-61.7%
Al Kifaf51-58.5%

The largest sales of Q1 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
11 Feb 2026Al Yelayiss 1—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified11,711,769 sqftAED 122/sqftAED 1,426,327,587
11 Feb 2026Saih Shuaib 1LUNAYALandExisting PropertiesNot specified4,215,875 sqftAED 307/sqftAED 1,293,294,500
21 Jan 2026Al Yelayiss 1—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified3,507,078 sqftAED 304/sqftAED 1,067,779,799
11 Feb 2026Al Yelayiss 1—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified6,810,855 sqftAED 122/sqftAED 829,465,633
12 Mar 2026Al Safouh First—Sufouh GardensLandExisting PropertiesNot specified58,084 sqftAED 12,138/sqftAED 705,000,000
11 Feb 2026Warsan Fourth—International City Phase 2LandExisting PropertiesNot specified12,930,453 sqftAED 45/sqftAED 584,621,221
23 Jan 2026Al Jadaf—Jaddaf WaterfrontLandExisting PropertiesNot specified118,761 sqftAED 4,210/sqftAED 500,000,000

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.