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 2026-10-02.
- Sales in 2026 so far
- 125,084
- -20% vs same weeks 2025
- Median price, Sep 2026
- AED 1,652/sqft
- -3% vs a year ago
- Off-plan share, Sep 2026
- 65%
- of registered sales
- 12-month volume
- 181,245
- 12 months to sep 2026
The last 30 days
Dubai's most recent month of registrations, 3 Sep – 2 Oct. 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 2 Oct
- 11,622
- registered transactions
- vs a year ago
- -43%
- 20,530 in the same 30 days of 2025
- Value transacted
- AED 29.9bn
- registered sale value
- vs prior 30 days
- -5%
- 12,247 in the 30 days before
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
- Valia333Dubai Creek Harbour · first sale 25 Aug
- Raw District 2 By Imtiaz316Jebel Ali · first sale 13 Aug
- Azizi Abraham193Jebel Ali · first sale 5 Aug
- Arancia Yards 2 By Beyond186City of Arabia · first sale 10 Aug
- Golf Fields181first sale 18 Aug
- The Greens at Sobha Sanctuary140The Valley by Emaar · first sale 18 Aug
- Greenz By Danube98first sale 25 Aug
- Samana South Haven96Dubai Industrial City · first sale 18 Aug
- The Brooks at Sobha Sanctuary93The Valley by Emaar · first sale 18 Aug
- Hayat 686first sale 6 Aug
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 Venice446Dubai South
- Binghatti Skyflame340Majan
- Raw District 2 By Imtiaz242Jebel Ali
- Valia240Dubai Creek Harbour
- Binghatti Skyterraces232Dubai Motor City
- Verdana Residence201Dubai Investment Park First
- Sobha Central160Dmcc-Ez2
- Arancia Yards 2 By Beyond132City of Arabia
Weekly sales — 2026 vs 2025
Registered sales per ISO week. The shaded band marks the Eid al-Adha holiday (May 26 – 31, 2026), when DLD registered almost nothing; in 2025 Eid fell on June 5 – 8, mostly over a weekend. The current partial week is excluded.
Monthly sales since 2021
The full cycle: post-Covid recovery, the 2023–2025 boom, and the cooler 2026. Through Sep 2026; Oct 2026 is still being registered.
Median price — ready vs off-plan
Median AED per sqft 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 data.dubai and dubailand.gov.ae. Data through 2026-10-02.
How to read these numbers
After a strong January, sales volumes slipped below 2025 levels from March, when the regional conflict that began on 28 February was at its height; a ceasefire followed in early April. The near-empty week at the end of May is not the conflict: it is the Eid al-Adha holiday (May 26 – 29, then the weekend), when DLD registers almost nothing. In 2025 Eid fell on June 5 – 8, mostly over a weekend, so compare those weeks with care. Volumes since June run at the 2026 pace, 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/sqft 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/sqft 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 (data.dubai and dubailand.gov.ae) & 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 2026-10-21.
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.
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