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Dubai property market — May 2026

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

Sales10,444Registered in May 2026down43.7% vs a year earlier
Total valueAED 29.42BRegistered in May 2026Across 106 communities
Price per sqftAED 1,654/sqftMedian across May 2026up3.3% vs a year earlier
Sale priceAED 1.21MMedian across May 202672% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 10,444 property sales in May 2026, worth AED 29.42B in total, across 106 communities. That is 44% fewer than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,210,850 at AED 1,654/sqft, 3.3% above the same month last year. 72% of sales were off-plan.

Madinat Al Mataar was the busiest community with 1,359 registered sales, while Business Bay took the most money at AED 2.73B.

Against the previous month, Wadi Al Safa 4 rose 143% to 292 sales, while Al Khairan First fell 75% to 149.

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 2026, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Madinat Al Mataar1,359+15.1%AED 1.56BAED 846KAED 1,684/sqft95%
Wadi Al Safa 3998+138.8%AED 1.66BAED 706KAED 1,408/sqft94%
Wadi Al Safa 5642-22.2%AED 847.70MAED 851KAED 1,483/sqft87%
Al Barsha South Fourth565-33.1%AED 710.23MAED 1.00MAED 1,450/sqft57%
Jabal Ali First476-45.7%AED 882.97MAED 1.45MAED 1,528/sqft76%
Dubai Investment Park First461+55.7%AED 696.24MAED 872KAED 1,214/sqft98%
Business Bay403-28.0%AED 2.73BAED 2.25MAED 2,471/sqft54%
Palm Deira372-49.6%AED 1.43BAED 3.21MAED 3,049/sqft99%
Wadi Al Safa 4292+143.3%AED 253.36MAED 608KAED 1,682/sqft100%
Al Hebiah Fifth260-61.8%AED 444.43MAED 1.36MAED 1,687/sqft73%
Warsan Fourth259+97.7%AED 233.80MAED 564KAED 1,014/sqft53%
Al Merkadh248+45.0%AED 547.19MAED 1.46MAED 2,044/sqft37%
Marsa Dubai211-30.6%AED 734.87MAED 2.05MAED 2,525/sqft17%
Al Barshaa South Third199-28.4%AED 242.46MAED 1.00MAED 1,622/sqft66%
Al Thanyah Fifth188-13.8%AED 539.41MAED 2.15MAED 2,209/sqft56%

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 2.73B403
Wadi Al Safa 3AED 1.66B998
Madinat Al MataarAED 1.56B1,359
Palm DeiraAED 1.43B372
Palm JumeirahAED 1.26B71
Trade Center FirstAED 1.15B14
Jabal Ali FirstAED 882.97M476
Wadi Al Safa 5AED 847.70M642
Palm Jabal AliAED 838.03M24
Me'Aisem FirstAED 797.81M185

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
Wadi Al Safa 4292+143.3%
Wadi Al Safa 3998+138.8%
Warsan Fourth259+97.7%
Al Khairan First149-75.3%
Al Yelayiss 1103-70.2%
Saih Shuaib 194-64.0%
Madinat Dubai Almelaheyah93-63.4%
Al Hebiah Fifth260-61.8%
Al Wasl72-60.2%
Dubai Investment Park First461+55.7%

The largest sales of May 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
20 May 2026Trade Center First—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified25,000 sqftAED 44,000/sqftAED 1,100,000,000
25 May 2026Al Mamzer—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified82,080 sqftAED 3,655/sqftAED 300,000,000
25 May 2026Island 2—Jumeira BayLandExisting PropertiesNot specified23,998 sqftAED 11,668/sqftAED 280,000,000
11 May 2026Dubai Investment Park First—Dubai Investment Park FirstBuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified825,203 sqftAED 242/sqftAED 200,000,000
18 May 2026Saih Shuaib 3—Dubai Industrial CityLandExisting PropertiesNot specified1,261,610 sqftAED 154/sqftAED 194,288,198
18 May 2026Saih Shuaib 3—Dubai Industrial CityLandExisting PropertiesNot specified1,232,231 sqftAED 154/sqftAED 189,763,830
20 May 2026Palm Jumeirah—Palm JumeirahVillaExisting PropertiesNot specified18,844 sqftAED 7,695/sqftAED 145,000,000
7 May 2026Al Yelayiss 1REEM-MIRA COMMUNITY PH5LandExisting PropertiesNot specified307,782 sqftAED 416/sqftAED 127,912,035
1 May 2026Jumeirah FirstSolaya (5,7)LA MERFlatOff-Plan Properties5 B/R15,347 sqftAED 7,337/sqftAED 112,603,000
11 May 2026Bukadra—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified29,869 sqftAED 3,716/sqftAED 111,000,000

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.