Dubai & Abu Dhabi property market, charted
Every chart below is built from registered government transactions — Dubai Land Department for Dubai, ADREC for Abu Dhabi — not listings, not asking prices. Switch cities, or compare the two side by side. Updated to 2026-07-23.
- Sales in 2026 so far
- 96,675
- -14% vs same weeks 2025
- Median price, Jun 2026
- AED 18,235/m²
- 0% vs a year ago
- Off-plan share, Jun 2026
- 72%
- of registered sales
- 12-month volume
- 202,521
- 12 months to jun 2026
The last 30 days
Dubai's most recent month of registrations, 24 Jun – 23 Jul. Every figure is a transaction count: at this window length volumes are solid signal, while medians are not — they move several percent on the launch mix alone.
- Sales · 30 days to 23 Jul
- 13,183
- registered transactions
- vs a year ago
- -30%
- 18,753 in the same 30 days of 2025
- Value transacted
- AED 34.3bn
- registered sale value
No month-on-month figure: the prior 30-day window (25 May – 23 Jun) contains the registration halt, so comparing against it would read backlog clearing as growth.
Daily sales, last 90 days
Registered sales per day. Weekly rhythm is normal — registrations cluster on working days and bulk off-plan launches land in single-day spikes.
New launches, last 60 days
Projects whose first-ever registered sale falls in the window — the freshest stock to reach the register, with how many units have sold since.
- ProjectSales since launch
- Azizi Noura139Jabal Ali Industrial Second · first sale 15 Jul
- Raw District By Imtiaz R112Jabal Ali Industrial Second · first sale 10 Jul
- Hayat 194Madinat Al Mataar · first sale 24 Jun
- Riverton House61Bukadra · first sale 7 Jul
- Palm Central Private Residences - Frond N57Palm Jabal Ali · first sale 9 Jul
- Arancia Yards By Beyond33Wadi Al Safa 4 · first sale 29 Jun
- Stories By Mirfa15Madinat Al Mataar · first sale 22 Jun
- Al Vista14Bukadra · first sale 11 Jun
- Flamingo Lux Residence12Nad Al Shiba First · first sale 9 Jun
- Prestige Gardens by Prestige One8Al Satwa · first sale 3 Jun
Busiest developments, last 30 days
Where the volume actually landed. Sibling towers are folded into one development — the register lists them separately, so an ungrouped ranking is just one project repeated.
- Project30-day sales
- Azizi Venice1,851Madinat Al Mataar
- Azizi Milan398Wadi Al Safa 4
- Eltiera Views271Al Thanyah Fifth
- Azizi Milan Heights232Wadi Al Safa 4
- Azizi Noura139Jabal Ali Industrial Second
- Azizi Riviera139Al Merkadh
- Arian By Azizi130Jabal Ali Industrial Second
- Beach Oasis124Al Hebiah Second
Weekly sales — 2026 vs 2025
Registered sales per ISO week. The shaded band marks the halt in DLD registrations during the war with Iran (May 26 – 31, 2026). The current partial week is excluded.
Monthly sales since 2021
The full cycle: post-Covid recovery, the 2023–2025 boom, and the cooler 2026. July 2026 is a partial month.
Median price — ready vs off-plan
Median AED per m² of registered sales, residential units and villas only. Off-plan launches price above ready stock; both lines held through the war.
Off-plan share of sales
Share of monthly sales registered off-plan — the launch-market sentiment gauge.
Mortgages per 100 sales
Mortgage registrations relative to sales — how leveraged the buying is. Dubai remains a predominantly cash market.
Source: Dubai Land Department (DLD) open data via Dubai Pulse. Data through 2026-07-23.
How to read these numbers
2026 was already cooling before the conflict: after a strong January, sales volumes slipped below 2025 levels from March. The war then stopped DLD registrations almost entirely for the last four working days of May. The recovery was fast — daily volumes returned to their pre-war pace within a week of the June 1 restart — but to the 2026 pace, which runs well below the 2025 record year. For context, 2025 closed with roughly AED 682 billion in registered sales value.
Prices have been far steadier than volumes: the median AED/m² of registered residential sales barely moved through the shock. Off-plan launches continue to take a growing share of the market, which also props the headline median up — the launch premium over ready stock is visible in the ready-vs-off-plan chart.
Abu Dhabi is a different market on the same map. It runs roughly an eighth of Dubai's transaction volume, but its median AED/m² sits right alongside Dubai's — the Saadiyat, Yas and Reem island launches carry the price. It is far more launch-driven: a large majority of registered sales are off-plan and primary-market (straight from the developer), so the resale market is still thin. And it is accelerating: registered sales in the first half of 2026 ran roughly 80% ahead of the same weeks of 2025, a genuine surge that shows up consistently in both the weekly and monthly counts — not a reporting quirk. The compare tab puts the two emirates on one axis for volume, price and off-plan share.
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Dubai Land Department (Dubai Pulse) & Abu Dhabi Real Estate Centre (ADREC / DARI)
Medians derived from registered DLD transactions — indicative only, not official valuations. Actual prices vary by unit, floor and view.
Method: aggregates cover registered sale transactions; medians use residential units and villas only (whole-share, non-distressed). Dubai counts mortgages and gifts separately; Abu Dhabi's ADREC extract is sales-only and adds a primary/secondary split. Weekly comparisons use complete ISO weeks; the current partial week is excluded. Charts generated 2026-07-30.
The 30-day figures are transaction counts, and every recent window ends at the data date above rather than at today — so a number never quietly drifts as the page ages. Short-window medians are deliberately absent: over 30 days a single area's median moves several percent on the off-plan/ready mix alone, which would read as a price change when no price has changed.
This market, deal by deal
Esto turns these market-wide numbers into per-area prices, rents and yields — live in the app.