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Annual report

Dubai property market — 2026

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside 2026. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

2026 is still running. About 65% of it has elapsed, so the totals here are partial and will keep rising. Comparisons against earlier periods are withheld until it closes — a part-period measured against a whole one shows the calendar, not the market.
Sales108,221Registered in 2026
Total valueAED 339.83BRegistered in 2026Across 155 communities
Price per sqftAED 1,722/sqftMedian across 2026
Sale priceAED 1.43MMedian across 202669% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 108,221 property sales in 2026, worth AED 339.83B in total, across 155 communities. 2026 has not finished, so that total is still rising.

The median sale was AED 1,431,000 at AED 1,722/sqft. 69% of sales were off-plan.

Madinat Al Mataar was the busiest community with 11,942 registered sales, while Business Bay took the most money at AED 19.13B.

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 2026, and how each moved against the year before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Madinat Al Mataar11,942—AED 17.28BAED 995KAED 1,651/sqft92%
Al Barsha South Fourth6,780—AED 8.71BAED 1.03MAED 1,476/sqft58%
Wadi Al Safa 55,506—AED 8.99BAED 1000KAED 1,461/sqft85%
Jabal Ali First5,041—AED 9.14BAED 1.37MAED 1,490/sqft63%
Wadi Al Safa 34,826—AED 10.15BAED 993KAED 1,514/sqft77%
Business Bay4,408—AED 19.13BAED 2.28MAED 2,521/sqft52%
Al Yelayiss 13,752—AED 16.14BAED 2.90MAED 1,822/sqft89%
Palm Deira3,352—AED 12.33BAED 2.89MAED 2,854/sqft99%
Wadi Al Safa 42,848—AED 5.77BAED 620KAED 1,717/sqft98%
Me'Aisem First2,591—AED 9.60BAED 1.10MAED 1,399/sqft61%
Al Hebiah Fifth2,477—AED 4.65BAED 1.30MAED 1,711/sqft68%
Jabal Ali Industrial Second2,440—AED 2.82BAED 727KAED 1,706/sqft97%
Al Khairan First2,411—AED 7.12BAED 2.68MAED 2,573/sqft68%
Al Thanyah Fifth2,319—AED 6.99BAED 2.08MAED 2,195/sqft53%
Al Barshaa South Third2,314—AED 2.92BAED 953KAED 1,594/sqft63%

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 19.13B4,408
Madinat Al MataarAED 17.28B11,942
Al Yelayiss 1AED 16.14B3,752
Palm DeiraAED 12.33B3,352
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin RashidAED 11.95B1,805
Me'Aisem SecondAED 11.35B608
Wadi Al Safa 3AED 10.15B4,826
Palm JumeirahAED 9.99B757
Me'Aisem FirstAED 9.60B2,591
Jabal Ali FirstAED 9.14B5,041

The largest sales of 2026

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 Jan 2026Al Rowaiyah First—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified6,693,160 sqftAED 468/sqftAED 3,130,254,657
26 Jan 2026Al Rowaiyah FirstGreenz By DanubeLandExisting PropertiesNot specified4,395,265 sqftAED 390/sqftAED 1,713,543,533
26 Jan 2026Al Rowaiyah First—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified3,125,785 sqftAED 468/sqftAED 1,461,865,761
11 Feb 2026Al Yelayiss 1—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified11,711,769 sqftAED 122/sqftAED 1,426,327,587
11 Feb 2026Saih Shuaib 1LUNAYALandExisting PropertiesNot specified4,215,875 sqftAED 307/sqftAED 1,293,294,500
20 May 2026Trade Center First—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified25,000 sqftAED 44,000/sqftAED 1,100,000,000
21 Jan 2026Al Yelayiss 1—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified3,507,078 sqftAED 304/sqftAED 1,067,779,799
11 Feb 2026Al Yelayiss 1—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified6,810,855 sqftAED 122/sqftAED 829,465,633
12 Mar 2026Al Safouh First—Sufouh GardensLandExisting PropertiesNot specified58,084 sqftAED 12,138/sqftAED 705,000,000
30 Jul 2026Al Thanyah First—TECOM Site CLandExisting PropertiesNot specified79,042 sqftAED 8,540/sqftAED 675,000,000

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.