Dubai Market Data
Registered sales and Ejari contracts, organized for clear comparisons and better property decisions.
Public records · Dubai Land Department
Annual report
Dubai property market — 2025
Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside 2025. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.
In a sentence
The Land Department registered 214,615 property sales in 2025, worth AED 681.44B in total, across 167 communities. That is 20% more than the year before.
The median sale was AED 1,549,999 at AED 1,650/sqft, 8.3% above the year before. 63% of sales were off-plan.
Al Barsha South Fourth was the busiest community with 18,749 registered sales, while Business Bay took the most money at AED 40.36B.
Against the previous year, Al Yelayiss 1 rose 698% to 6,362 sales, while Zaabeel First fell 92% to 140.
Sales by year
Price per square foot by year
Where the sales were
The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in 2025, and how each moved against the year before.
| Community | Sales | vs prior | Total value | Median price | Price/sqft | Off-plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 18,749 | +7.6% | 24.50B | 1.02M | 1,475/sqft | 68% |
| Business Bay | 13,844 | +16.0% | 40.36B | 1.66M | 2,462/sqft | 64% |
| Wadi Al Safa 5 | 11,654 | +33.6% | 21.81B | 1.05M | 1,396/sqft | 80% |
| Madinat Al Mataar | 9,989 | +30.9% | 25.21B | 1.58M | 1,564/sqft | 83% |
| Jabal Ali First | 8,275 | +23.8% | 18.29B | 1.43M | 1,374/sqft | 63% |
| Marsa Dubai | 7,539 | -2.8% | 29.49B | 2.45M | 2,720/sqft | 47% |
| Dubai Investment Park Second | 7,472 | +301.7% | 24.47B | 1.47M | 1,514/sqft | 74% |
| Wadi Al Safa 3 | 7,021 | +117.0% | 21.88B | 1.16M | 1,515/sqft | 72% |
| Al Yelayiss 1 | 6,362 | +698.2% | 24.96B | 2.59M | 1,509/sqft | 1% |
| Al Hebiah First | 6,191 | +177.9% | 10.07B | 1.19M | 1,910/sqft | 81% |
| Me'Aisem First | 5,995 | +114.6% | 11.27B | 790K | 1,331/sqft | 70% |
| Madinat Dubai Almelaheyah | 5,529 | +11.5% | 19.85B | 2.50M | 2,984/sqft | 98% |
| Al Barshaa South Second | 5,485 | +101.8% | 7.49B | 1.10M | 1,663/sqft | 95% |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 5,331 | -9.9% | 15.60B | 2.00M | 1,980/sqft | 45% |
| Al Barsha South Fifth | 5,287 | +70.1% | 7.24B | 1.06M | 1,549/sqft | 83% |
Where the money went
Ranked by total registered value rather than count — a different list, and the one that shows where capital actually landed.
| Community | Value | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Business Bay | 40.36B | 13,844 |
| Marsa Dubai | 29.49B | 7,539 |
| Madinat Al Mataar | 25.21B | 9,989 |
| Al Yelayiss 1 | 24.96B | 6,362 |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 24.50B | 18,749 |
| Dubai Investment Park Second | 24.47B | 7,472 |
| Palm Jumeirah | 23.27B | 1,692 |
| Wadi Al Safa 3 | 21.88B | 7,021 |
| Wadi Al Safa 5 | 21.81B | 11,654 |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 21.76B | 4,913 |
Biggest movers
Change in registered sales against the previous year. Limited to communities with at least 50 sales in both — below that a swing is noise.
| Community | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Al Yelayiss 1 | 6,362 | +698.2% |
| Dubai Investment Park Second | 7,472 | +301.7% |
| Al Satwa | 1,356 | +255.9% |
| Palm Jabal Ali | 772 | +243.1% |
| Saih Shuaib 2 | 1,107 | +205.0% |
| Al Hebiah First | 6,191 | +177.9% |
| Me'Aisem Second | 1,058 | +155.6% |
| Palm Deira | 4,458 | +148.2% |
| Jumeirah Second | 216 | +125.0% |
| Wadi Al Safa 3 | 7,021 | +117.0% |
The largest sales of 2025
Each row links to its own register record, so any figure in this report can be traced to the transactions behind it.
| Date | Community | Project / building | Type | Beds | Size | Price/sqft | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Dec 2025 | Al Yufrah 1 | — | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 37,483,853 sqft | AED 101/sqft | AED 3,800,000,000 |
| 28 Oct 2025 | Al Yelayiss 1 | — | LandOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 20,915,422 sqft | AED 122/sqft | AED 2,547,202,033 |
| 27 Nov 2025 | Palm Jumeirah | —Palm Jumeirah | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 1,015,595 sqft | AED 1,833/sqft | AED 1,861,158,239 |
| 26 May 2025 | Palm Deira | Hado By BeyondPalm Deira | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 2,135,380 sqft | AED 703/sqft | AED 1,501,492,000 |
| 10 Jan 2025 | Madinat Al Mataar | —EXPO CITY | LandOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 5,459,559 sqft | AED 274/sqft | AED 1,495,000,000 |
| 21 Apr 2025 | Jabal Ali First | Sobha Central Phase IIDMCC-EZ2 | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 1,067,633 sqft | AED 1,358/sqft | AED 1,450,000,000 |
| 15 Dec 2025 | Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | — | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 16,699,910 sqft | AED 80/sqft | AED 1,335,992,819 |
| 24 Nov 2025 | Al Yelayiss 1 | — | LandOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 8,366,168 sqft | AED 152/sqft | AED 1,273,600,181 |
| 10 Feb 2025 | Madinat Al Mataar | —Dubai World Central | LandOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 13,579,334 sqft | AED 90/sqft | AED 1,222,151,404 |
| 6 Mar 2025 | Al Rowaiyah First | — | LandOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 18,468,184 sqft | AED 60/sqft | AED 1,110,000,000 |
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.