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Monthly report

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%
Total value66.57BRegistered in May 2025Across 128 communities
Price per sqft1,601/sqftMedian across May 2025up2.8%
Sale price1.69MMedian 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%2.44B980K1,454/sqft68%
Al Yelayiss 11,237+26.0%3.89B2.46M1,503/sqft0%
Business Bay1,021-14.1%4.36B1.62M2,270/sqft59%
Wadi Al Safa 5819-12.7%1.59B975K1,322/sqft70%
Marsa Dubai736-20.1%3.10B2.65M2,946/sqft48%
Madinat Al Mataar730-18.1%1.47B1.58M1,589/sqft83%
Me'Aisem First675-25.5%1.22B744K1,330/sqft68%
Jabal Ali First599-17.9%1.10B1.18M1,283/sqft54%
Al Hebiah First597+72.5%778.80M1.20M1,930/sqft88%
Al Thanyah Fifth529+1.3%1.54B2.10M2,144/sqft46%
Al Khairan First522+97.0%1.44B2.55M2,427/sqft69%
Bukadra487+34.5%1.59B2.04M2,430/sqft98%
Al Barsha South Fifth439+43.9%567.35M875K1,398/sqft80%
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid436-14.5%1.75B2.50M2,410/sqft55%
Palm Deira399-10.9%2.93B2.73M2,414/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 Second6.14B337
Business Bay4.36B1,021
Al Yelayiss 13.89B1,237
Marsa Dubai3.10B736
Palm Deira2.93B399
Dubai Investment Park Second2.47B361
Al Barsha South Fourth2.44B1,853
Burj Khalifa2.03B360
Wadi Al Safa 31.98B343
Al Wasl1.96B344

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 DeiraLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified2,135,380 sqftAED 703/sqftAED 1,501,492,000
8 May 2025Business BayLumena by OmniyatBusiness BayLandMulti-Use · Existing PropertiesNot specified110,146 sqftAED 7,505/sqftAED 826,668,324
26 May 2025Business Bay—Business BayBuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified278,605 sqftAED 2,871/sqftAED 800,000,000
7 May 2025Palm JumeirahEOMEPalm JumeirahVillaResidential · Off-Plan Properties6 B/R26,225 sqftAED 11,440/sqftAED 300,000,000
14 May 2025Business BayPeninsula FourBusiness BayBuildingOther · Off-Plan PropertiesNot specified162,580 sqftAED 1,507/sqftAED 245,054,000
6 May 2025Bukadra—BuildingOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified73,203 sqftAED 2,541/sqftAED 186,000,000
15 May 2025Madinat Dubai AlmelaheyahBreez by DanubeDubai Maritime CityLandIndustrial · Existing PropertiesNot specified30,011 sqftAED 5,515/sqftAED 165,500,000
15 May 2025Madinat Dubai Almelaheyah—Dubai Maritime CityLandIndustrial · Existing PropertiesNot specified30,011 sqftAED 5,515/sqftAED 165,500,000
28 May 2025Jumeirah FirstJumeirah Asora BayLA MERFlatResidential · Off-Plan Properties6 B/R18,183 sqftAED 9,013/sqftAED 163,881,000
22 May 2025World IslandsPANGKOR LAUT LUXURY RESIDENCE & SPA VILLAGEThe WorldVillaCommercial · Existing 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. Refresh times vary by dataset; records shown here are not a live feed.