Why this exists
Dubai publishes the truth. Almost nobody translates it.
Every property sale in Dubai is registered with the Land Department, and the Land Department publishes them. The price a home actually changed hands for is a matter of public record — not a secret, not a premium data product, not something you need an agent to tell you.
It is also, in practice, almost unusable. The records arrive as spreadsheets of registration numbers and area codes, in institutional language, with no explanation of what any of it means for somebody deciding whether to buy. So the numbers most people see instead come from listings — which are asking prices, which is a seller stating a hope about a sale that has not happened.
Keyva exists to close that gap, and to be honest about where it cannot be closed.
What we hold
- 1,768,393
- registered transactions
- 307
- Dubai areas
- 3,091
- projects
- 34,123
- licensed brokers
The median Dubai home currently registers at AED 1,347/sqft, across 1,065,609 residential sales. That figure is recomputed from the records at least every hour — a site arguing that numbers should be checkable cannot hard-code its own.
The rules we hold ourselves to
An asking price is never a sold price
Advertised figures are collected, labelled as asking prices, and never enter a median, a trend or a yield anywhere on this site.
An empty state beats an invented figure
Every median is published with the number of sales behind it, and thin slices are held back rather than printed — a figure built on three transactions is not one we will show you without saying so.
We say what we cannot know
93% of the projects we hold carry no completion date, so we publish no delivery scores. Where we do show a five-year value it is the project’s own price history extended forward as a low-to-high band and labelled a trend — what a market did is not what it will do, and we never present it as what a home will be worth.
Nothing here is for sale by us
Nothing here is sold by us and we take no commission. Developers may publish their own project details, marked as theirs, and licensed agents may be introduced to buyers who ask to be — neither pays us for it. The one paid service is a buyer-side report, and its page names the free alternative.
Questions people ask
Where do Keyva's prices come from?
From the Dubai Land Department's own published transaction records — 1,768,393 of them. Every price on this site is one somebody actually paid and registered, never an advertised or asking price. Asking prices are collected separately, labelled as asking prices, and never enter a median, a trend or a yield.
Why does Keyva refuse to rank developers by how much they sell?
Because volume is not quality. DLD's transaction file carries no developer field, so a sale is attributable only when its project can be matched to one; 92% of projects now can be, enough that a ranking would be possible. It would also be a ranking of how much each developer built, presented as a judgement of how well — the largest builder wins by definition. We publish price positioning against the local market instead, and say what it controls for.
Can Keyva tell me if a developer delivers on time?
Not yet — and the limit is ours, not the record's. We load only the completion date, which 3,091 projects carry on 225 of them, so 93% have none and no punctuality score is possible from what we hold. DLD's open projects file does also carry a planned end date on most projects, so the comparison is buildable; we will not publish it until that field is loaded and we have confirmed what it actually means.
Is Keyva a brokerage?
No. Keyva is not a licensed brokerage, does not represent sellers, and takes no commission on any transaction. Developers can publish their own project details here; those pages are marked “Listed by developer”, and the registered prices shown beside them are the Land Department’s, not theirs. Nothing on this site has a reason to prefer one property over another.
Is Keyva free?
The research, the area data, the calculators and the verification guide are free and need no account. One paid service exists — an independent pre-purchase report for buyers who cannot run the free checks themselves from abroad — and the page for it says outright which parts you can do yourself for nothing.
Where to start
Keyva is built on Dubai Land Department open data, published under CC BY 4.0. It is not a licensed brokerage. Figures are historical records and trend-based estimates, not guarantees, and nothing here is investment or legal advice.