Dubai property prices
What is the average price per square foot in Dubai?
About AED 1,431 a square foot.The middle of every completed home resold in the last twelve months — and every community’s own.
The short answer
About AED 1,431 a square foot. McCone Properties’ count of the 43,247 completed homes resold in Dubai over the twelve months to 16 Oct 2026, as registered with the Land Department, puts the median at AED 1,431 a square foot — up 5% on the twelve months before (AED 1,360). The middle home sold for AED 1.46 million. By community it runs from AED 663 in International City to AED 5,630 in Bluewaters — Jumeirah Village Circle 1,300, Dubai Marina 1,874, Downtown Dubai 2,517 and Palm Jumeirah 2,716. Off-plan, priced from developers’ launch lists, ran AED 1,801 — 26% more.
By Sam McCone, Managing Partner · Land Department sales register, twelve months to 16 Oct 2026
By community
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Every community with twenty or more resales in the year, by its median price a square foot. The line is Dubai’s AED 1,431; above it in colour.
- Bluewaters90 resales5,630few sales
- Dubai Harbour296 resales3,400−6% on a year
- Jumeirah152 resales3,122+6% on a year
- Al Safa77 resales2,962few sales
- Zabeel145 resales2,7850% on a year
- Umm Suqeim150 resales2,771−4% on a year
- Palm Jumeirah667 resales2,716+8% on a year
- City Walk259 resales2,704+5% on a year
- Downtown Dubai1,382 resales2,5170% on a year
- Tilal Al Ghaf178 resales2,474+5% on a year
- Dubai Creek Harbour (The Lagoons)1,205 resales2,322+3% on a year
- Mina Rashid29 resales2,304few sales
- Dubai Hills Estate1,151 resales2,293+3% on a year
- The Lakes22 resales2,292few sales
- Dubai Media City64 resales2,212few sales
- Nad Al Sheba187 resales2,1700% on a year
- Maritime City32 resales2,041few sales
- The Views155 resales2,036+9% on a year
- Mohammed Bin Rashid City1,576 resales2,022+1% on a year
- Bur Dubai101 resales1,947−5% on a year
- Meydan1,052 resales1,944+3% on a year
- Business Bay2,352 resales1,887+6% on a year
- Dubai Marina1,748 resales1,874+10% on a year
- Culture Village72 resales1,832few sales
- Arabian Ranches 3249 resales1,799−9% on a year
- Al Jaddaf476 resales1,778+24% on a year
- Wadi Al Safa 231 resales1,774few sales
- Al Barari172 resales1,738−8% on a year
- Al Satwa92 resales1,738few sales
- Greens309 resales1,737+8% on a year
- The Springs358 resales1,668+10% on a year
- Jumeirah Beach Residence455 resales1,6580% on a year
- Mudon397 resales1,653+21% on a year
- Dubai Internet City29 resales1,648few sales
- Jumeirah Golf Estates180 resales1,640−16% on a year
- Damac Lagoons1,082 resales1,633+8% on a year
- Al Sufouh54 resales1,608few sales
- Arabian Ranches21 resales1,578few sales
- Villanova234 resales1,505+4% on a year
- Wasl Gate65 resales1,480few sales
- Jumeirah Lake Towers881 resales1,454+4% on a year
- Dubai Science Park117 resales1,453−8% on a year
- Damac Hills828 resales1,425+8% on a year
- Arabian Ranches 276 resales1,422few sales
- Downtown Jebel Ali110 resales1,419+16% on a year
- Dubai Studio City498 resales1,393+18% on a year
- Rukan244 resales1,393+32% on a year
- Dubai Festival City31 resales1,385few sales
- Al Muhaisnah45 resales1,382few sales
- Dubai Land451 resales1,366−6% on a year
- Arjan1,288 resales1,360+10% on a year
- Town Square938 resales1,352+8% on a year
- Jumeirah Village Triangle444 resales1,317+15% on a year
- Jumeirah Village Circle4,198 resales1,300+4% on a year
- Al Furjan695 resales1,293+3% on a year
- The Valley497 resales1,292−3% on a year
- Al Barsha72 resales1,290few sales
- Serena51 resales1,289few sales
- Reem188 resales1,216+9% on a year
- Barsha Heights (Tecom)44 resales1,161few sales
- Mirdif84 resales1,139few sales
- City of Arabia31 resales1,131few sales
- Dubai South (Dubai World Central)1,093 resales1,124+2% on a year
- Jebel Ali60 resales1,091few sales
- Damac Hills 21,092 resales1,063−15% on a year
- Motor City728 resales1,003+9% on a year
- Dubai Production City (IMPZ)781 resales975+4% on a year
- Dubai Silicon Oasis841 resales969+15% on a year
- Discovery Gardens945 resales967+16% on a year
- Dubai Industrial City101 resales962−2% on a year
- Dubai Sports City1,133 resales956+10% on a year
- Remraam243 resales942+7% on a year
- Al Quoz110 resales921+14% on a year
- Majan891 resales899−6% on a year
- Al Warsan299 resales882+1% on a year
- Dubai Investment Park (DIP)209 resales881+21% on a year
- Liwan403 resales868+9% on a year
- Living Legends77 resales868few sales
- Dubai Land Residence Complex581 resales817+1% on a year
- International City1,324 resales663+3% on a year
The median price per square foot of completed homes resold in each community over the twelve months to 16 Oct 2026, from the Land Department’s register; the change is against the twelve months before, stated where a community had 100 resales or more. Each name opens the community’s own sales. Every community year by year since 2020 is on the price index; whether prices are turning is on will Dubai property prices go down?
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Questions
Common questions
What is the average house price in Dubai?
In McCone Properties’ count of the Land Department’s register, the middle completed home resold in Dubai over the twelve months to 16 Oct 2026 went for AED 1.46 million, the median of 43,247 sales. By size, in September 2026: a studio AED 550,000, one-bedroom AED 1.04 million, two-bedroom AED 2.05 million, three-bedroom AED 3.2 million and four-bedroom AED 4.05 million. A house on its own: the median completed villa resale was AED 3.8 million over the twelve months to 10 Sept 2026, at AED 1,461 a square foot. Every figure is what buyers paid, registered with the Land Department, not an asking price.
How much has the price per square foot gone up in the last year?
Up 5%, by McCone Properties’ count of the register: AED 1,360 a square foot over the twelve months before, AED 1,431 over the last twelve. The latest three months, to September 2026, read AED 1,406 — up 2% on the same three months a year earlier. Year by year: AED 1,140 in 2023, AED 1,240 in 2024, AED 1,382 in 2025 and AED 1,429 in 2026 so far — 25% since 2023. Whether it carries on is the question the price outlook answers, read from the same register every night.
Is off-plan more expensive per square foot than a ready home?
Yes, a square foot at a time: McCone Properties’ count puts off-plan at AED 1,801 across 112,140 off-plan sales in the twelve months, against AED 1,431 for completed homes resold — 26% more. An off-plan price comes from a developer’s launch list and buys a new building with a payment plan; a resale is priced against what the building’s own homes have already sold for. The two are never blended here, because off-plan is now most of the city’s sales and would turn the median into a measure of launch schedules.
How is the price per square foot worked out?
The price paid divided by the home’s size in square feet, as the Land Department registers the sale (it records square metres; one is 10.764 square feet). McCone Properties’ figures here are medians — every sale lined up by its price a foot, and the middle one read — because a handful of very dear homes pull the plain average up: the mean over the same twelve months was AED 1,592. Completed homes resold only, off-plan kept apart. A community needs twenty resales in the year to be listed, and 100 to have its change on the year stated. For one building, its own page prints its own median and every recorded sale.
Houses on their own, by community and bedroom count, are on villas in Dubai; the direction from here is on the price outlook.
