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Quarterly report

Dubai property market — Q2 2026

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside Q2 2026. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales38,275Registered in Q2 2026down27.6% vs a year earlier
Total valueAED 110.84BRegistered in Q2 2026Across 135 communities
Price per sqftAED 1,716/sqftMedian across Q2 2026up6.8% vs a year earlier
Sale priceAED 1.35MMedian across Q2 202673% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 38,275 property sales in Q2 2026, worth AED 110.84B in total, across 135 communities. That is 28% fewer than the same quarter a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,349,100 at AED 1,716/sqft, 6.8% above the same quarter last year. 73% of sales were off-plan.

Madinat Al Mataar was the busiest community with 5,391 registered sales, while Business Bay took the most money at AED 8.70B.

Against the previous quarter, Saih Shuaib 1 rose 609% to 390 sales, while Me'Aisem Second fell 87% to 65.

Sales by quarter

Price per square foot by quarter

Median price per sqft

Where the sales were

The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in Q2 2026, and how each moved against the quarter before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Madinat Al Mataar5,391+82.0%AED 7.39BAED 955KAED 1,678/sqft95%
Jabal Ali First2,348+27.5%AED 4.09BAED 1.38MAED 1,510/sqft69%
Al Barsha South Fourth2,172-30.9%AED 2.75BAED 1.01MAED 1,500/sqft60%
Wadi Al Safa 51,990-25.6%AED 3.09BAED 998KAED 1,475/sqft85%
Wadi Al Safa 31,821-19.5%AED 3.51BAED 990KAED 1,473/sqft89%
Business Bay1,440-35.5%AED 8.70BAED 2.36MAED 2,549/sqft56%
Palm Deira1,382-18.4%AED 5.43BAED 3.15MAED 3,034/sqft99%
Al Hebiah Fifth1,322+106.6%AED 2.16BAED 1.21MAED 1,827/sqft79%
Dubai Investment Park First1,035+501.7%AED 1.69BAED 936KAED 1,203/sqft95%
Al Khairan First939-22.5%AED 2.69BAED 2.30MAED 2,605/sqft72%
Wadi Al Safa 4905+101.1%AED 1.12BAED 616KAED 1,720/sqft99%
Al Thanyah Fifth882+5.5%AED 2.65BAED 2.18MAED 2,460/sqft65%
Al Barshaa South Third843-18.6%AED 1.04BAED 970KAED 1,622/sqft67%
Marsa Dubai759-24.3%AED 2.91BAED 2.25MAED 2,461/sqft18%
Me'Aisem First753-44.9%AED 3.05BAED 1.11MAED 1,387/sqft57%

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 8.70B1,440
Madinat Al MataarAED 7.39B5,391
Palm DeiraAED 5.43B1,382
Jabal Ali FirstAED 4.09B2,348
Palm Jabal AliAED 3.80B78
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin RashidAED 3.78B462
Wadi Al Safa 3AED 3.51B1,821
Wadi Al Safa 5AED 3.09B1,990
Me'Aisem FirstAED 3.05B753
Nad Al Shiba FirstAED 2.98B556

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.

CommunitySalesChange
Saih Shuaib 1390+609.1%
Dubai Investment Park First1,035+501.7%
Jabal Ali Industrial Second458+244.4%
Al Hebiah Fifth1,322+106.6%
Wadi Al Safa 4905+101.1%
Me'Aisem Second65-87.4%
Madinat Al Mataar5,391+82.0%
Al Yelayiss 1614-78.7%
Al Yelayiss 5160-78.3%
Dubai Investment Park Second244-71.8%

The largest sales of Q2 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
24 Jun 2026Nad Al Shiba First—Meydan Racecourse CommunityLandExisting PropertiesNot specified341,671 sqftAED 1,683/sqftAED 575,000,000
20 Apr 2026Nad Al Shiba FirstMaybach SixMeydan Racecourse CommunityFlatOff-Plan Properties3 B/R1,325 sqftAED 378,148/sqftAED 501,100,000
24 Apr 2026Um Suqaim First—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified52,886 sqftAED 7,129/sqftAED 377,000,000
20 Apr 2026Palm Jabal Ali—Palm Jabal AliLandExisting PropertiesNot specified225,892 sqftAED 1,430/sqftAED 323,032,711
27 Apr 2026Business Bay—Business BayBuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified34,392 sqftAED 9,014/sqftAED 310,000,000
25 May 2026Al Mamzer—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified82,080 sqftAED 3,655/sqftAED 300,000,000
2 Apr 2026Al JadafBinghatti WraithSama Al JadafLandExisting PropertiesNot specified99,220 sqftAED 3,024/sqftAED 300,000,000
25 May 2026Island 2—Jumeira BayLandExisting PropertiesNot specified23,998 sqftAED 11,668/sqftAED 280,000,000
27 Apr 2026Palm Jabal Ali—Palm Jabal AliLandExisting PropertiesNot specified173,440 sqftAED 1,206/sqftAED 209,129,122

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.