Dubai Market Data
Registered sales and Ejari contracts, organized for clear comparisons and better property decisions.
Public records · Dubai Land Department
Quarterly report
Dubai property market — Q1 2026
Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside Q1 2026. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.
In a sentence
The Land Department registered 47,781 property sales in Q1 2026, worth AED 176.19B in total, across 142 communities. That is 5% more than the same quarter a year earlier.
The median sale was AED 1,725,000 at AED 1,758/sqft, 12.8% above the same quarter last year. 65% of sales were off-plan.
Al Barsha South Fourth was the busiest community with 3,144 registered sales, while Al Yelayiss 1 took the most money at AED 12.90B.
Against the previous quarter, Al Safouh First rose 802% to 460 sales, while Al Safouh Second fell 81% to 56.
Sales by quarter
Price per square foot by quarter
Where the sales were
The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in Q1 2026, and how each moved against the quarter before.
| Community | Sales | vs prior | Total value | Median price | Price/sqft | Off-plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 3,144 | -33.0% | 3.98B | 1.06M | 1,492/sqft | 61% |
| Madinat Al Mataar | 2,962 | +11.7% | 5.51B | 1.35M | 1,491/sqft | 83% |
| Al Yelayiss 1 | 2,877 | +612.1% | 12.90B | 2.90M | 1,822/sqft | 95% |
| Wadi Al Safa 5 | 2,676 | -14.1% | 4.56B | 985K | 1,471/sqft | 86% |
| Wadi Al Safa 3 | 2,262 | -13.5% | 5.31B | 986K | 1,623/sqft | 66% |
| Business Bay | 2,235 | -33.9% | 7.82B | 2.34M | 2,622/sqft | 55% |
| Jabal Ali First | 1,841 | -24.7% | 3.20B | 1.25M | 1,417/sqft | 56% |
| Palm Deira | 1,693 | +13.5% | 5.83B | 2.69M | 2,779/sqft | 99% |
| Me'Aisem First | 1,367 | +21.7% | 4.82B | 1.11M | 1,397/sqft | 66% |
| Nad Al Shiba First | 1,352 | +125.0% | 4.80B | 1.43M | 3,498/sqft | 88% |
| Al Khairan First | 1,212 | +11.3% | 3.67B | 2.97M | 2,560/sqft | 69% |
| Al Barsha South Fifth | 1,100 | -53.6% | 1.53B | 1.18M | 1,663/sqft | 80% |
| Madinat Dubai Almelaheyah | 1,065 | -45.3% | 3.80B | 2.63M | 3,168/sqft | 98% |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 1,061 | +6.5% | 7.14B | 2.70M | 2,447/sqft | 55% |
| Al Hebiah First | 1,047 | -39.3% | 1.76B | 1.28M | 1,737/sqft | 80% |
Where the money went
Ranked by total registered value rather than count — a different list, and the one that shows where capital actually landed.
| Community | Value | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Al Yelayiss 1 | 12.90B | 2,877 |
| Me'Aisem Second | 9.69B | 517 |
| Business Bay | 7.82B | 2,235 |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 7.14B | 1,061 |
| Al Rowaiyah First | 6.31B | 3 |
| Palm Deira | 5.83B | 1,693 |
| Al Yelayiss 5 | 5.81B | 737 |
| Madinat Al Mataar | 5.51B | 2,962 |
| Wadi Al Safa 3 | 5.31B | 2,262 |
| Palm Jumeirah | 5.29B | 385 |
Biggest movers
Change in registered sales against the previous quarter. Limited to communities with at least 50 sales in both — below that a swing is noise.
| Community | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Al Safouh First | 460 | +802.0% |
| Al Yelayiss 1 | 2,877 | +612.1% |
| Um Suqaim Third | 265 | +147.7% |
| Nad Al Shiba First | 1,352 | +125.0% |
| Al Safouh Second | 56 | -81.0% |
| Al Barshaa South Second | 451 | -75.4% |
| Dubai Investment Park Second | 865 | -70.2% |
| Zaabeel Second | 237 | +66.9% |
| Al Yufrah 1 | 301 | -61.7% |
| Al Kifaf | 51 | -58.5% |
The largest sales of Q1 2026
Each row links to its own register record, so any figure in this report can be traced to the transactions behind it.
| Date | Community | Project / building | Type | Beds | Size | Price/sqft | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Jan 2026 | Al Rowaiyah First | — | LandOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 6,693,160 sqft | AED 468/sqft | AED 3,130,254,657 |
| 26 Jan 2026 | Al Rowaiyah First | Greenz By Danube | LandOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 4,395,265 sqft | AED 390/sqft | AED 1,713,543,533 |
| 26 Jan 2026 | Al Rowaiyah First | — | LandOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 3,125,785 sqft | AED 468/sqft | AED 1,461,865,761 |
| 11 Feb 2026 | Al Yelayiss 1 | — | LandOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 11,711,769 sqft | AED 122/sqft | AED 1,426,327,587 |
| 11 Feb 2026 | Saih Shuaib 1 | LUNAYA | LandOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 4,215,875 sqft | AED 307/sqft | AED 1,293,294,500 |
| 21 Jan 2026 | Al Yelayiss 1 | — | LandOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 3,507,078 sqft | AED 304/sqft | AED 1,067,779,799 |
| 11 Feb 2026 | Al Yelayiss 1 | — | LandOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 6,810,855 sqft | AED 122/sqft | AED 829,465,633 |
| 12 Mar 2026 | Al Safouh First | —Sufouh Gardens | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 58,084 sqft | AED 12,138/sqft | AED 705,000,000 |
| 11 Feb 2026 | Warsan Fourth | —International City Phase 2 | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 12,930,453 sqft | AED 45/sqft | AED 584,621,221 |
| 23 Jan 2026 | Al Jadaf | —Jaddaf Waterfront | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 118,761 sqft | AED 4,210/sqft | AED 500,000,000 |
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. Refresh times vary by dataset; records shown here are not a live feed.