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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.

Sales38,305Registered in Q2 2026down27.5%
Total value110.89BRegistered in Q2 2026Across 135 communities
Price per sqft1,716/sqftMedian across Q2 2026up6.8%
Sale price1.35MMedian across Q2 202673% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 38,305 property sales in Q2 2026, worth AED 110.89B in total, across 135 communities. That is 28% fewer than the same quarter a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,348,999 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 5,395 registered sales, while Business Bay took the most money at AED 8.71B.

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 Mataar5,395+82.1%7.39B955K1,678/sqft95%
Jabal Ali First2,349+27.6%4.09B1.38M1,510/sqft69%
Al Barsha South Fourth2,173-30.9%2.76B1.01M1,500/sqft60%
Wadi Al Safa 51,991-25.6%3.09B998K1,475/sqft85%
Wadi Al Safa 31,826-19.3%3.52B981K1,473/sqft89%
Business Bay1,444-35.4%8.71B2.36M2,550/sqft56%
Palm Deira1,383-18.3%5.43B3.15M3,033/sqft99%
Al Hebiah Fifth1,322+106.6%2.16B1.21M1,827/sqft79%
Dubai Investment Park First1,035+501.7%1.69B936K1,203/sqft95%
Al Khairan First939-22.5%2.69B2.30M2,605/sqft72%
Wadi Al Safa 4907+101.6%1.12B616K1,720/sqft99%
Al Thanyah Fifth882+5.6%2.65B2.18M2,460/sqft65%
Al Barshaa South Third849-18.0%1.05B970K1,617/sqft68%
Marsa Dubai759-24.3%2.91B2.25M2,461/sqft18%
Me'Aisem First754-44.8%3.05B1.11M1,386/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 Bay8.71B1,444
Madinat Al Mataar7.39B5,395
Palm Deira5.43B1,383
Jabal Ali First4.09B2,349
Palm Jabal Ali3.80B78
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid3.79B463
Wadi Al Safa 33.52B1,826
Wadi Al Safa 53.09B1,991
Me'Aisem First3.05B754
Nad Al Shiba First2.98B556

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 4907+101.6%
Me'Aisem Second65-87.4%
Madinat Al Mataar5,395+82.1%
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—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified25,000 sqftAED 44,000/sqftAED 1,100,000,000
24 Jun 2026Nad Al Shiba First—Meydan Racecourse CommunityLandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified341,671 sqftAED 1,683/sqftAED 575,000,000
20 Apr 2026Nad Al Shiba FirstMaybach SixMeydan Racecourse CommunityFlatResidential · Off-Plan Properties3 B/R1,325 sqftAED 378,148/sqftAED 501,100,000
24 Apr 2026Um Suqaim First—LandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified52,886 sqftAED 7,129/sqftAED 377,000,000
20 Apr 2026Palm Jabal Ali—Palm Jabal AliLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified225,892 sqftAED 1,430/sqftAED 323,032,711
27 Apr 2026Business Bay—Business BayBuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified34,392 sqftAED 9,014/sqftAED 310,000,000
25 May 2026Al Mamzer—BuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified82,080 sqftAED 3,655/sqftAED 300,000,000
2 Apr 2026Al JadafBinghatti WraithSama Al JadafLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified99,220 sqftAED 3,024/sqftAED 300,000,000
25 May 2026Island 2—Jumeira BayLandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified23,998 sqftAED 11,668/sqftAED 280,000,000
27 Apr 2026Palm Jabal Ali—Palm Jabal AliLandCommercial · Existing 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. Refresh times vary by dataset; records shown here are not a live feed.