The recorded register

Dubai property prices

Dubai property prices as the Land Department recorded them: every residential sale registered since 1997 — 1,097,794 of them — read back as one figure per community and one per building. Not asking prices: what buyers actually paid.

DubaiFirst edition

The recorded market,
address by address

Recorded prices, not asking prices.

Dubai Land Department1997–2026

Look up a building or community

4,605buildings with a report

123communities

29years of register

Not sure of the spelling? Every building with a report is listed on buildings in Dubai, A to Z, by first letter, with its community and its recorded sales beside it.

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Dubai · the whole register

What Dubai actually sells for

Median resale

AED 1,423

per sq ft · up 5% on the year

Mean AED 1,583

Typical resale price

AED 1.45M

44,901 sales in 12 months

Mean AED 2.92M

Off-plan, separately

AED 1,803

per sq ft · 119,858 sales

Mean AED 2,025

1997

through 17 September 2026

Price, year by year

Twenty-five years of the Dubai property market

Median resale price per sqft, by yearAED 1,433 · the highest the register has held

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Completed resales only — off-plan is counted separately, because the mix of launches moves a blended median more than prices do. A year appears once it holds at least 100 recorded resales, and 2026 runs to the date above. The same series as an index — rebased to 2020 = 100, with every community’s price by year and the towers that rose most since 2020 — is the Dubai property price index. Who is launching what — every developer ranked by RERA’s project register, with what each has built, has on site and has not yet started — is on real estate developers in Dubai. What the register recorded in a single month — the count against a year earlier, the off-plan split, the busiest and dearest communities and towers, the record sale — is the monthly note, most recently August 2026, with every month since 2010 in Dubai real estate news, month by month.

Communities

Every community, ranked by what it sells for

80 of Dubai’s 123 communities have enough recorded resales in the last twelve months to carry a median. The rest still have a report — measured over a longer window. Each community also has an area guide, the same registers read as a place to live. The two ends of this table are pages of their own — the most expensive areas, with the dearest building in each and what a villa and a flat cost there, and the cheapest.

	Community	AED/sqft	Year on year	Resales, 12m	Buildings
1	Bluewaters	5,771	+8%	94	12
2	Dubai Harbour	3,438	−4%	297	38
3	Jumeirah	3,090	+5%	158	38
4	Al Safa	2,930	+9%	87	15
5	Umm Suqeim	2,845	0%	140	38
6	Zabeel	2,813	0%	148	10
7	City Walk	2,677	+5%	249	56
8	Palm Jumeirah	2,677	+8%	663	109
9	Downtown Dubai	2,538	+1%	1,415	156
10	Tilal Al Ghaf	2,481	+7%	194	5
11	Mina Rashid	2,347	+8%	25	38
12	Dubai Creek Harbour (The Lagoons)	2,330	+4%	1,238	114
13	Dubai Hills Estate	2,303	+4%	1,180	108
14	The Lakes	2,229	+18%	24	4
15	Dubai Media City	2,222	−3%	68	3
16	Nad Al Sheba	2,171	0%	204	18
17	Maritime City	2,125	+3%	33	30
18	Mohammed Bin Rashid City	2,036	+2%	1,600	140
19	The Views	1,970	+4%	185	19
20	Meydan	1,951	+5%	1,099	121
21	Bur Dubai	1,947	−5%	101	10
22	Dubai Marina	1,896	+13%	1,809	154
23	Business Bay	1,886	+6%	2,397	159
24	Culture Village	1,846	+10%	75	8
25	Arabian Ranches 3	1,845	−4%	236	16
26	Al Jaddaf	1,774	+26%	473	39
27	Wadi Al Safa 2	1,774	0%	30	2
28	Al Barari	1,738	−7%	169	17
29	Greens	1,737	+9%	324	47
30	Al Satwa	1,725	+1%	89	34
31	Mudon	1,677	+27%	397	13
32	The Springs	1,667	+11%	371	14
33	Jumeirah Beach Residence	1,663	+1%	470	36
34	Jumeirah Golf Estates	1,659	−11%	191	19
35	Al Sufouh	1,647	+10%	57	8
36	Damac Lagoons	1,645	+9%	1,115	49
37	Dubai Festival City	1,533	−4%	36	13
38	Arabian Ranches	1,514	+10%	21	7
39	Villanova	1,509	+5%	242	16
40	Wasl Gate	1,473	+7%	65	36
41	Dubai Science Park	1,460	−9%	118	21
42	Jumeirah Lake Towers	1,448	+4%	926	71
43	Damac Hills	1,433	+10%	851	72
44	Arabian Ranches 2	1,407	+6%	79	9
45	Downtown Jebel Ali	1,406	+14%	113	8
46	Dubai Studio City	1,392	+11%	492	24
47	Al Muhaisnah	1,378	+6%	48	11
48	Rukan	1,374	+34%	272	6
49	Dubai Land	1,366	−5%	451	80
50	Arjan	1,356	+11%	1,327	107
51	Town Square	1,349	+9%	977	65
52	The Valley	1,318	0%	509	25
53	Jumeirah Village Triangle	1,316	+15%	474	69
54	Jumeirah Village Circle	1,312	+6%	4,287	415
55	Al Furjan	1,309	+6%	719	102
56	Al Barsha	1,298	+4%	83	7
57	Serena	1,277	+8%	55	2
58	Reem	1,219	+10%	193	8
59	Barsha Heights (Tecom)	1,161	+3%	53	8
60	Mirdif	1,139	−4%	93	14
61	City of Arabia	1,131	+67%	26	28
62	Dubai South (Dubai World Central)	1,125	+3%	1,154	189
63	Damac Hills 2	1,060	−16%	1,138	38
64	Motor City	1,000	+11%	863	79
65	Dubai Production City (IMPZ)	974	+4%	795	60
66	Discovery Gardens	969	+18%	954	86
67	Dubai Silicon Oasis	961	+15%	890	78
68	Dubai Industrial City	958	−2%	102	21
69	Dubai Internet City	955	−73%	226	3
70	Jebel Ali	945	+29%	56	20
71	Remraam	943	+8%	270	59
72	Dubai Sports City	938	+8%	1,219	84
73	Al Quoz	915	+16%	114	14
74	Living Legends	911	+19%	52	12
75	Dubai Investment Park (DIP)	886	+22%	215	133
76	Majan	885	−9%	926	45
77	Liwan	885	+13%	423	53
78	Al Warsan	882	+7%	298	37
79	Dubai Land Residence Complex	819	+2%	620	96
80	International City	661	+3%	1,369	302

Buildings

Down to the individual building

4,605 of them have a page. Two ways in — the dearest addresses in the city, and the ones where the market actually moves.

Dearest building, by community	AED/sqft	Resales, 2y
BV Residences 2Jumeirah Bay Island	11,578	10
Atlantis The Royal ResidencesPalm Jumeirah	9,039	41
Bluewaters Residences Building 9Bluewaters	6,234	18
IL PrimoDowntown Dubai	5,506	31
Five Luxe JBRJumeirah Beach Residence	5,202	46
Eden House The CanalJumeirah	5,139	17
One Za'abeel The ResidencesZabeel	4,464	61
IxoraAl Barari	3,929	32
Grand Bleu Tower 1Dubai Harbour	3,919	101
J One - 2Business Bay	3,699	16

Busiest building	Sales, 90 days	Usual pace	AED/sqft
Binghatti ApexJumeirah Village Circle	138	14.2×	1,518
LIV WatersideDubai Marina	113	New to resale, 2026	3,172
MaltaDamac Lagoons	80	2.6×	1,618
Luma Park ViewsJumeirah Village Circle	73	1.8×	1,461
Qasr Sabah 1Dubai Production City (IMPZ)	60	10.0×	710
Crest GrandeMohammed Bin Rashid City	59	5.2×	1,949
Costa Brava 1Damac Lagoons	44	2.4×	1,678
Peninsula ThreeBusiness Bay	43	1.9×	2,604
T88Dubai Silicon Oasis	39	13.0×	1,200
PortofinoDamac Lagoons	38	1.3×	1,500

The dearest buildings change hands a few dozen times in two years. The busiest turn over that many in a month — most of them newly handed over, their first owners selling on. Completed homes only, by the date the Dubai Land Department registered the transfer: the ninety days to 17 Sept 2026, each building against its own average ninety days over the year before. One building per community on the left, or the list would be seven Bluewaters addresses in a row — the full league, fifty deep with every district’s dearest beneath it, is on the best residential buildings in Dubai, and the single dearest sales on the register — the record homes, this year’s and every year’s since 2015 — on the most expensive homes sold in Dubai, and every tower that handed over this year and last, with what its first resales fetched against the off-plan price, is on new buildings in Dubai, and every sale of each recent day, dearest first, each row linking its building’s page, is on Dubai property transactions. 10 buildings that registered a portfolio in one go — one buyer, not a market — are left out on the right and named on their community pages.

Recorded rents

What each community rents for

103 communities with a hundred or more tenancies registered with Ejari in the last twelve months, ranked by rent per square foot a year. Each links to its rental report — median rents by layout, new leases against renewals, and gross yield against the sale register.

	Community	AED/sqft/yr	Studio	1 B/R	2 B/R	3 B/R	Contracts, 12m
1	Zabeel	154	—	120K	180K	270K	1,128
2	Dubai Design District	149	—	120K	171K	270K	1,008
3	Umm Suqeim	134	—	120K	190K	250K	948
4	Downtown Dubai	134	73K	115K	179K	287K	9,172
5	Dubai Hills Estate	132	57K	90K	145K	248K	7,078
6	Dubai Creek Harbour (The Lagoons)	129	—	100K	150K	215K	5,775
7	Meydan	128	50K	82K	130K	180K	14,071
8	Mohammed Bin Rashid City	126	50K	80K	130K	220K	22,897
9	Emirates Golf Club	125	90K	150K	205K	290K	3,887
10	Palm Jumeirah	125	90K	150K	205K	290K	3,887
11	Al Wasl	124	57K	139K	205K	269K	2,022
12	Al Safa	124	57K	139K	205K	269K	2,022
13	City Walk	124	57K	139K	205K	269K	2,022
14	Business Bay	112	65K	86K	125K	170K	17,468
15	The Lakes	109	60K	90K	150K	230K	4,025
16	The Views	109	60K	90K	150K	230K	4,025
17	Greens	109	60K	90K	150K	230K	4,025
18	Dubai Marina	108	64K	95K	140K	204K	18,105
19	Jumeirah Beach Residence	108	64K	95K	140K	204K	18,105
20	Bluewaters	108	64K	95K	140K	204K	18,105
21	Dubai Harbour	108	64K	95K	140K	204K	18,105
22	Bur Dubai	105	—	105K	150K	220K	617
23	Dubai Studio City	105	47K	66K	90K	110K	1,954
24	Downtown Jebel Ali	99	45K	58K	78K	90K	936
25	Jumeirah Park	98	58K	82K	120K	240K	9,083
26	Jumeirah Islands	98	58K	82K	120K	240K	9,083
27	Jumeirah Lake Towers	98	58K	82K	120K	240K	9,083
28	Damac Hills	96	45K	70K	120K	190K	4,136
29	Mudon	93	45K	70K	120K	185K	5,367
30	Dubai Science Park	92	46K	70K	110K	221K	1,472
31	Nad Al Sheba	91	53K	80K	121K	231K	2,321
32	Jumeirah Village Circle	91	48K	70K	95K	150K	29,226
33	Jumeirah Village Triangle	90	45K	72K	85K	180K	3,086
34	Al Satwa	88	54K	72K	94K	195K	5,457
35	Pearl Jumeirah	87	50K	100K	160K	217K	2,436
36	Jumeirah	87	50K	100K	160K	217K	2,436
37	Arabian Ranches	87	47K	66K	121K	230K	3,108
38	Arjan	86	45K	65K	90K	150K	13,266
39	Dubai Production City (IMPZ)	84	38K	57K	83K	210K	7,339
40	Jumeirah Golf Estates	84	38K	57K	83K	210K	7,339
41	Dubai Festival City	84	33K	86K	152K	204K	739
42	Dubai Media City	83	—	100K	139K	179K	492
43	Dubai Internet City	83	—	100K	139K	179K	492
44	Al Jaddaf	83	53K	70K	87K	135K	8,537
45	Culture Village	83	53K	70K	87K	135K	8,537
46	Barsha Heights (Tecom)	82	60K	68K	86K	120K	5,474
47	Al Muhaisnah	82	—	80K	120K	170K	367
48	Town Square	82	42K	60K	85K	145K	5,986
49	Al Sufouh	81	50K	85K	100K	181K	704
50	Tilal Al Ghaf	80	40K	56K	80K	195K	10,035
51	Dubai Sports City	80	40K	56K	80K	195K	10,035
52	Damac Lagoons	79	40K	54K	77K	127K	2,820
53	Remraam	79	40K	54K	77K	127K	2,820
54	Al Barsha	79	45K	65K	88K	130K	14,018
55	Dubai Industrial City	77	38K	50K	68K	80K	1,407
56	Jebel Ali	76	43K	62K	83K	150K	26,451
57	Expo City	76	41K	58K	85K	110K	8,458
58	Dubai South (Dubai World Central)	76	41K	58K	85K	110K	8,458
59	Wasl Gate	76	42K	62K	83K	152K	25,515
60	Discovery Gardens	76	42K	62K	83K	152K	25,515
61	Al Furjan	76	42K	62K	83K	152K	25,515
62	Reportage Village	75	44K	66K	102K	160K	3,225
63	Serena	75	44K	66K	102K	160K	3,225
64	Rukan	75	44K	66K	102K	160K	3,225
65	Arabian Ranches 2	75	44K	66K	102K	160K	3,225
66	Motor City	73	50K	72K	115K	177K	1,898
67	Majan	71	40K	60K	83K	150K	4,069
68	Living Legends	71	40K	60K	83K	150K	4,069
69	Al Barari	71	40K	60K	83K	150K	4,069
70	Academic City	70	19K	62K	80K	—	190
71	The Valley	69	—	—	—	135K	861
72	Liwan	69	40K	51K	73K	96K	4,805
73	Wadi Al Safa 2	69	40K	51K	73K	96K	4,805
74	Falcon City of Wonders	69	40K	51K	73K	96K	4,805
75	Oud Metha	69	42K	70K	88K	119K	3,716
76	Dubai Land	68	38K	53K	73K	155K	15,727
77	Arabian Ranches 3	68	38K	51K	67K	153K	10,990
78	Dubai Land Residence Complex	68	38K	51K	67K	153K	10,990
79	Athlon by Aldar	68	38K	51K	67K	153K	10,990
80	Villanova	68	38K	51K	67K	153K	10,990
81	Al Warsan	68	38K	49K	62K	88K	9,456
82	The Springs	68	—	—	155K	235K	2,342
83	Al Garhoud	68	65K	65K	81K	120K	1,881
84	Dubai Silicon Oasis	68	40K	54K	75K	120K	16,336
85	Dubai Investment Park (DIP)	67	36K	55K	76K	158K	6,016
86	Al Karama	67	44K	57K	70K	92K	11,402
87	Al Quoz	66	42K	59K	59K	71K	2,243
88	Maritime City	64	65K	63K	82K	110K	1,676
89	Mina Rashid	64	65K	63K	82K	110K	1,676
90	Damac Hills 2	62	37K	48K	82K	90K	5,359
91	Reem	60	—	—	—	160K	1,467
92	Damac Islands 2	60	—	—	—	160K	1,467
93	Al Warqa	59	34K	46K	62K	95K	9,415
94	Hor Al Anz	58	33K	43K	60K	80K	7,661
95	International City	58	30K	40K	56K	110K	24,556
96	Dubai Waterfront	56	32K	41K	64K	87K	562
97	Al Twar	55	32K	42K	62K	87K	3,041
98	Al Nahda	55	35K	45K	58K	82K	23,373
99	Al Rashidiya	52	33K	45K	64K	108K	884
100	Al Qusais	52	31K	42K	53K	65K	19,513
101	Mirdif	51	44K	53K	71K	109K	10,117
102	Al Khawaneej	37	35K	38K	70K	160K	266
103	Al Mizhar	19	—	—	55K	138K	197

Median annual rents. The rental register records the area a home sits in, not the building, so a community’s figures are its DLD area’s — Dubai Marina, JBR and Dubai Harbour share one. Each report says which area it read. Set against the sale register, area by area and tower by tower, the same contracts become rental yields in Dubai, and what each community’s rent did on the year before, with a new lease kept apart from a renewal, is on Dubai rent prices.

How it is measured

The rules, so you can argue with the number

A sale is what a buyer paid

Every figure comes from the Dubai Land Department’s registered transactions. We exclude lease-to-own conversions, developer registration filings, and transfers recorded at a fraction of what the building trades for — they carry a price, but nobody bought a home at it that day. That is 5.5% of all rows, and enough to move a building’s median by five per cent.

Off-plan is never blended in

A community sells completed homes and launches at once, at very different prices. Averaged together, Dubai Marina reads as a 13% fall in a year it rose 10% — the number tracks launch schedules, not prices. Headlines are resales; off-plan is shown beside them, labelled.

The window says how long it is

Twelve months where there are enough sales to mean something, three years where there are not, and the whole record for a quiet building — always labelled, with the date of the last recorded sale. Half of Dubai’s buildings sold fewer than twelve homes last year.

Seen a different figure on DXB Interact? It reads the same publish. What it is, who runs it, what a row on it means and what any reading of the register leaves out is on DXB Interact explained.

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