Price history

Dubai property prices, 2011–2026

Median registered sale price per square foot, by year, from Dubai Land Department records. Ready homes and off-plan registrations are two markets and are never added together here; each cell says how many sales it is a median of.

Ready homes · monthly median

AED 1,507/sqftJan 2011Aug 2026

Off-plan registrations · monthly median

AED 1,981/sqftJan 2011Aug 2026

Months with fewer than 30 registered sales are left out of the lines.

The last eight quarters, Q3 2024 to Q2 2026

Citywide, by calendar quarter of the transaction date, complete quarters only. A quarter prints on 60 or more sales; the change shown is against the same quarter a year earlier, because a quarter's move against the one before it is mostly a change in which homes sold.

QuarterReady homes · median per sqftvs a year earlierOff-plan · median per sqft
Q3 2024AED 1,227/sqft12,708 sales+9.5%AED 1,677/sqft30,850 registrations
Q4 2024AED 1,308/sqft12,816 sales+10.1%AED 1,663/sqft30,721 registrations
Q1 2025AED 1,374/sqft11,938 sales+10.9%AED 1,704/sqft24,867 registrations
Q2 2025AED 1,390/sqft13,147 sales+12.3%AED 1,789/sqft29,522 registrations
Q3 2025AED 1,348/sqft11,973 sales+9.9%AED 1,838/sqft39,036 registrations
Q4 2025AED 1,420/sqft13,295 sales+8.6%AED 1,844/sqft37,949 registrations
Q1 2026AED 1,468/sqft10,917 sales+6.9%AED 1,831/sqft29,772 registrations
Q2 2026still registeringAED 1,430/sqft7,299 sales+2.9%AED 1,753/sqft26,748 registrations

Ready-home median +16.6% from Q3 2024 (AED 1,227/sqft, 12,708 sales) to Q2 2026 (AED 1,430/sqft, 7,299 sales).

Q2 2026 holds 7,299 ready sales against about 12,062 in each of the three quarters before it: registrations for it are still being filed, and its median will settle in later months.

By year

Median of registered residential sales in that year, not an index; the mix changes as buildings complete. 2007–2010 are shown greyed: the register exists for those years but is not a comparable market — the 2009 column, for example, is mostly a backlog of off-plan contracts registered in one go. Before 2007 the record holds a handful of residential sales a year and is omitted.

YearReady apartmentsAED/sqft · salesOff-plan apartmentsAED/sqft · salesReady villas & townhousesAED/sqft · salesOff-plan villas & townhousesAED/sqft · sales
2007registration-era coverage5382,530 sales—2 sales2831,558 sales—
2008registration-era coverage62412,006 sales—11 sales6322,574 sales—
2009registration-era coverage69623,473 sales93024,651 sales5311,404 sales661310 sales
2010registration-era coverage84016,948 sales1,0058,704 sales5801,280 sales67058 sales
201185017,745 sales8921,918 sales5641,206 sales—9 sales
201288720,253 sales1,2563,266 sales6741,260 sales69457 sales
201396233,463 sales1,5698,689 sales7192,282 sales5532,026 sales
20141,03925,743 sales1,42811,053 sales8491,225 sales6421,638 sales
20151,00716,213 sales1,19711,176 sales795915 sales6031,761 sales
20161,00712,766 sales1,11114,541 sales811970 sales8791,618 sales
20171,03812,318 sales1,28318,657 sales7851,251 sales7032,977 sales
20189619,315 sales1,33613,106 sales7241,054 sales7151,296 sales
20198569,661 sales1,42915,113 sales6391,054 sales7224,357 sales
202080110,312 sales1,38110,734 sales6141,698 sales7712,714 sales
202196119,956 sales1,51817,332 sales8223,056 sales8635,343 sales
20221,09629,814 sales1,80035,334 sales8833,195 sales8556,248 sales
20231,15238,591 sales1,80057,743 sales1,0673,931 sales1,1158,291 sales
20241,25144,026 sales1,77294,154 sales1,2824,537 sales1,39112,022 sales
20251,36545,686 sales1,847122,092 sales1,4904,667 sales1,5059,282 sales
2026year to date, to 28 August 20261,42121,522 sales1,77067,154 sales1,5532,292 sales1,8206,403 sales

A cell is blank below 30 sales. Prices in AED only; history is not converted. Typical price of a home in each year: 2025 ready apartments AED 1,100,000.

Registered DLD sales · medians, not estimates · how we compute this

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