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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.

Sales214,620Registered in 2025up19.7% vs the year before
Total valueAED 681.45BRegistered in 2025Across 167 communities
Price per sqftAED 1,650/sqftMedian across 2025up8.3% vs the year before
Sale priceAED 1.55MMedian across 202563% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 214,620 property sales in 2025, worth AED 681.45B 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

Median price per sqft

Where the sales were

The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in 2025, and how each moved against the year before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Al Barsha South Fourth18,749+7.6%AED 24.50BAED 1.02MAED 1,475/sqft68%
Business Bay13,844+16.0%AED 40.36BAED 1.66MAED 2,462/sqft64%
Wadi Al Safa 511,654+33.6%AED 21.81BAED 1.05MAED 1,396/sqft80%
Madinat Al Mataar9,989+30.9%AED 25.21BAED 1.58MAED 1,564/sqft83%
Jabal Ali First8,275+23.8%AED 18.29BAED 1.43MAED 1,374/sqft63%
Marsa Dubai7,539-2.8%AED 29.49BAED 2.45MAED 2,720/sqft47%
Dubai Investment Park Second7,472+301.7%AED 24.47BAED 1.47MAED 1,514/sqft74%
Wadi Al Safa 37,021+117.0%AED 21.88BAED 1.16MAED 1,515/sqft72%
Al Yelayiss 16,362+698.2%AED 24.96BAED 2.59MAED 1,509/sqft1%
Al Hebiah First6,191+177.9%AED 10.07BAED 1.19MAED 1,910/sqft81%
Me'Aisem First6,000+114.7%AED 11.28BAED 790KAED 1,331/sqft70%
Madinat Dubai Almelaheyah5,529+11.5%AED 19.85BAED 2.50MAED 2,984/sqft98%
Al Barshaa South Second5,485+101.8%AED 7.49BAED 1.10MAED 1,663/sqft95%
Al Thanyah Fifth5,331-9.9%AED 15.60BAED 2.00MAED 1,980/sqft45%
Al Barsha South Fifth5,287+70.1%AED 7.24BAED 1.06MAED 1,549/sqft83%

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 BayAED 40.36B13,844
Marsa DubaiAED 29.49B7,539
Madinat Al MataarAED 25.21B9,989
Al Yelayiss 1AED 24.96B6,362
Al Barsha South FourthAED 24.50B18,749
Dubai Investment Park SecondAED 24.47B7,472
Palm JumeirahAED 23.27B1,692
Wadi Al Safa 3AED 21.88B7,021
Wadi Al Safa 5AED 21.81B11,654
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin RashidAED 21.76B4,913

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.

CommunitySalesChange
Al Yelayiss 16,362+698.2%
Dubai Investment Park Second7,472+301.7%
Al Satwa1,356+255.9%
Palm Jabal Ali772+243.1%
Saih Shuaib 21,107+205.0%
Al Hebiah First6,191+177.9%
Me'Aisem Second1,058+155.6%
Palm Deira4,458+148.2%
Jumeirah Second216+125.0%
Wadi Al Safa 37,021+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.

Registered property transactions from the Dubai Land Department
DateCommunityProject / buildingTypeBedsSizePrice/sqftPrice
10 Dec 2025Al Yufrah 1—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified37,483,853 sqftAED 101/sqftAED 3,800,000,000
28 Oct 2025Al Yelayiss 1—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified20,915,422 sqftAED 122/sqftAED 2,547,202,033
27 Nov 2025Palm Jumeirah—Palm JumeirahBuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified1,015,595 sqftAED 1,833/sqftAED 1,861,158,239
26 May 2025Palm DeiraHado By BeyondPalm DeiraLandExisting PropertiesNot specified2,135,380 sqftAED 703/sqftAED 1,501,492,000
10 Jan 2025Madinat Al Mataar—EXPO CITYLandExisting PropertiesNot specified5,459,559 sqftAED 274/sqftAED 1,495,000,000
21 Apr 2025Jabal Ali FirstSobha Central Phase IIDMCC-EZ2LandExisting PropertiesNot specified1,067,633 sqftAED 1,358/sqftAED 1,450,000,000
15 Dec 2025Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified16,699,910 sqftAED 80/sqftAED 1,335,992,819
24 Nov 2025Al Yelayiss 1—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified8,366,168 sqftAED 152/sqftAED 1,273,600,181
10 Feb 2025Madinat Al Mataar—Dubai World CentralLandExisting PropertiesNot specified13,579,334 sqftAED 90/sqftAED 1,222,151,404
6 Mar 2025Al Rowaiyah First—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified18,468,184 sqftAED 60/sqftAED 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.