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Dubai property market — May 2025

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside May 2025. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales18,561Registered in May 2025up7.4% vs a year earlier
Total valueAED 66.57BRegistered in May 2025Across 128 communities
Price per sqftAED 1,601/sqftMedian across May 2025up2.8% vs a year earlier
Sale priceAED 1.69MMedian across May 202555% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 18,561 property sales in May 2025, worth AED 66.57B in total, across 128 communities. That is 7% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,686,438 at AED 1,601/sqft, 2.8% above the same month last year. 55% of sales were off-plan.

Al Barsha South Fourth was the busiest community with 1,853 registered sales, while Me'Aisem Second took the most money at AED 6.14B.

Against the previous month, Al Khairan First rose 97% to 522 sales, while Palm Jabal Ali fell 70% to 50.

Sales by month

Price per square foot by month

Median price per sqft

Where the sales were

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

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Al Barsha South Fourth1,853+16.2%AED 2.44BAED 980KAED 1,454/sqft68%
Al Yelayiss 11,237+26.0%AED 3.89BAED 2.46MAED 1,503/sqft0%
Business Bay1,021-14.1%AED 4.36BAED 1.62MAED 2,270/sqft59%
Wadi Al Safa 5819-12.7%AED 1.59BAED 975KAED 1,322/sqft70%
Marsa Dubai736-20.1%AED 3.10BAED 2.65MAED 2,946/sqft48%
Madinat Al Mataar730-18.1%AED 1.47BAED 1.58MAED 1,589/sqft83%
Me'Aisem First675-25.5%AED 1.22BAED 744KAED 1,330/sqft68%
Jabal Ali First599-17.9%AED 1.10BAED 1.18MAED 1,283/sqft54%
Al Hebiah First597+72.5%AED 778.80MAED 1.20MAED 1,930/sqft88%
Al Thanyah Fifth529+1.3%AED 1.54BAED 2.10MAED 2,144/sqft46%
Al Khairan First522+97.0%AED 1.44BAED 2.55MAED 2,427/sqft69%
Bukadra487+34.5%AED 1.59BAED 2.04MAED 2,430/sqft98%
Al Barsha South Fifth439+43.9%AED 567.35MAED 875KAED 1,398/sqft80%
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid436-14.5%AED 1.75BAED 2.50MAED 2,410/sqft55%
Palm Deira399-10.9%AED 2.93BAED 2.73MAED 2,414/sqft96%

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
Me'Aisem SecondAED 6.14B337
Business BayAED 4.36B1,021
Al Yelayiss 1AED 3.89B1,237
Marsa DubaiAED 3.10B736
Palm DeiraAED 2.93B399
Dubai Investment Park SecondAED 2.47B361
Al Barsha South FourthAED 2.44B1,853
Burj KhalifaAED 2.03B360
Wadi Al Safa 3AED 1.98B343
Al WaslAED 1.96B344

Biggest movers

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

CommunitySalesChange
Al Khairan First522+97.0%
Ras Al Khor Industrial First114+78.1%
Al Hebiah First597+72.5%
Palm Jabal Ali50-69.5%
Wadi Al Safa 466-63.3%
Al Yufrah 1253+63.2%
Al Yelayiss 2295+55.3%
Wadi Al Safa 7253+55.2%
Al Barshaa South Second167+51.8%
Al Hebiah Fifth308+51.7%

The largest sales of May 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
26 May 2025Palm DeiraHado By BeyondPalm DeiraLandExisting PropertiesNot specified2,135,380 sqftAED 703/sqftAED 1,501,492,000
8 May 2025Business BayLumena by OmniyatBusiness BayLandExisting PropertiesNot specified110,146 sqftAED 7,505/sqftAED 826,668,324
26 May 2025Business Bay—Business BayBuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified278,605 sqftAED 2,871/sqftAED 800,000,000
7 May 2025Palm JumeirahEOMEPalm JumeirahVillaOff-Plan Properties6 B/R26,225 sqftAED 11,440/sqftAED 300,000,000
14 May 2025Business BayPeninsula FourBusiness BayBuildingOff-Plan PropertiesNot specified162,580 sqftAED 1,507/sqftAED 245,054,000
6 May 2025Bukadra—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified73,203 sqftAED 2,541/sqftAED 186,000,000
15 May 2025Madinat Dubai AlmelaheyahBreez by DanubeDubai Maritime CityLandExisting PropertiesNot specified30,011 sqftAED 5,515/sqftAED 165,500,000
15 May 2025Madinat Dubai Almelaheyah—Dubai Maritime CityLandExisting PropertiesNot specified30,011 sqftAED 5,515/sqftAED 165,500,000
28 May 2025Jumeirah FirstJumeirah Asora BayLA MERFlatOff-Plan Properties6 B/R18,183 sqftAED 9,013/sqftAED 163,881,000
22 May 2025World IslandsPANGKOR LAUT LUXURY RESIDENCE & SPA VILLAGEThe WorldVillaExisting PropertiesNot specified2,720,714 sqftAED 59/sqftAED 160,100,000

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.