DXB Interact explained

DXB Interact is the website most people in Dubai find first when they want to know what a home actually sold for. Search an area or a project on it and it lists the sales the Dubai Land Department has registered there, with the price, the size and the date, and charts the market above them. It is free, it is widely quoted, and it is widely misdescribed: it is not the Land Department's site. It is a platform built and run by fäm Properties, a Dubai brokerage, reading the register the department publishes as open data, which is the same register this site reads every night. This page says what DXB Interact is and who runs it, what a transaction row on it means, what the register it reads leaves out, and where the same sales are read here building by building. Everything about the platform was checked on 15 September 2026 against the department's own pages and the platform's own descriptions of itself; a dashboard moves with each release, so the date matters.

What is DXB Interact?

DXB Interact, at dxbinteract.com, is a free website that shows Dubai property transactions from the Dubai Land Department's published register, with dashboards built over them. In its owner's own description, from July 2020, it "makes the most out of the open data provided by the Dubai Land Department", and the same description lists the panels it carries: sales transactions across every area of Dubai, by value, volume and price per square foot; the split between off-plan and completed homes; the split between mortgaged and cash purchases; the busiest areas; the supply of homes launched, under construction and delivered; and, beside the property data, panels of tourism, business-licence and population figures for the emirate. The owner's own user guide, from March 2024, adds the tools built on top: a transactions page for a building or a project, a search that gathers every unit sharing a layout in a tower, an investment map colouring every project by its price per square foot, a watchlist that follows chosen areas and projects, and charts of price and yield over time. On the day this page was checked the site sat behind a bot check that stopped an automated read, so the list above is the platform's own account of itself and the guides written about it, not a screen read that morning; where it has moved since, the site is the authority.

What it is, in one line: the department's transaction register with a friendlier front on it. What it is not: the register itself, or the department.

Is DXB Interact official?

No. It is a private platform, built and run by fäm Properties, one of Dubai's larger brokerages, and the figures on it are official only in the sense that they come from the Dubai Land Department's published data. The department's own website is dubailand.gov.ae; its own transaction tools are the Real Estate Transactions lookup and the open-data page there, the Dubai REST app, and Digital Dubai's data platform, which is where the older years live. On 15 September 2026 neither the department's open-data page nor its transactions page named DXB Interact, and the platform's owner describes it in its own words as a reading of the department's open data. Press coverage from 2023 describes the platform as running "in collaboration with the Dubai Land Department", and an account of its launch names a technology partner and a date in 2019; none of that is on the department's site, so this page does not repeat it as the department's position.

The distinction is worth a paragraph because of what follows from it. The transactions themselves are the department's record, and any two sites reading the same publish will show the same sale. Everything above the rows is the platform's: how an area is bounded, what is averaged with what, which rows are kept, what a "trend" or an "ROI" is computed from. A figure that surprises you on DXB Interact is a question for DXB Interact, and a transaction you want in evidence, for a bank, a court or the Rental Dispute Centre, is one to take from the department's own record, through its lookup or a title deed check in Dubai REST. The same applies, in fairness, to every figure on this site: the rows are the department's, the reading is ours, and the reports print the rules the reading follows.

How do I check property transactions in Dubai?

Four routes, all free, and which one to use depends on what you are checking.

• The department's own lookup. The Real Estate Transactions service on dubailand.gov.ae lists registered transactions from the department's record; its page directs a reader to Digital Dubai's data platform for earlier years. It is the record to cite when a figure has to stand up.
• The department's open data. Its open-data page carries nine datasets, each filterable and downloadable as a CSV: transactions, rents, projects, valuations, land, buildings, units, brokers and developers. The transactions set is the raw material behind every transactions dashboard in the city, this one included. It is a spreadsheet, not a page: right for a person who wants to run their own numbers.
• DXB Interact. The same register with charts, search and a map over it, at dxbinteract.com. Right for a quick look at an area or a project, with the caveats in the next two sections.
• A building's page on this site. 4,605 buildings and 112 communities have a permanent page here that reads their own rows from the same register, nightly, as a report: what it sold for by layout, by year and against its neighbours, with the rows nobody paid a price on taken out and the rule for taking them out printed. The lookup on the reports page finds any of them by name.

For a single home rather than a market, the department's Property Status Enquiry in Dubai REST takes a deed number or a Makani number and returns whether the property is blocked, disputed or in a freehold area, and the deed verification returns the owner's name against the deed in front of you. Neither is a transactions search; both are the checks to run before money moves.

How to read a transaction

A row on DXB Interact is a row from the department's transactions dataset, and the dataset's own fields say what a row carries: the transaction's number and date, its group and its procedure, the registration type, whether the area is freehold, the area, the property type and sub-type, the amount, the size, the rooms, whether it has parking, the nearest metro station, mall and landmark, how many buyers and sellers there were, and the project and master project it sits in. Six of those decide what the price means.

The group is the first thing to read, because the register is three registers in one stream. On one full year of the feed, 2018, the split was roughly 64% sales, 28% mortgages and 8% gifts.

DXB Interact's owner set out its own handling of the second heading in June 2024: a mortgaged purchase appears on the sales page at its price and again on a mortgage page at the loan, and a loan on a home already owned appears only on the mortgage page. That is the right way round. When reading any transactions page, the sales rows are the market and the other two are context. Gifting property has what the third heading is and what the register shows families doing with it.

The registration type is the second thing. The department files a home as off-plan or as an existing property, and the two are different markets at different prices: an off-plan row is a developer's launch price registered on Oqood, the interim register, while a completed row is a resale between two owners. In the twelve months to 11 September 2026 the register held 121,409 off-plan registrations against 45,037 completed resales, and the off-plan rows registered at a higher median price per square foot. Blend them and an area's figure tracks its launch schedule rather than its prices; off-plan against resale has why a buyer treats them as two questions, and every headline figure on this site is completed resales with off-plan printed beside it.

The property type is the third. A Unit is an apartment, and every apartment row names its tower, which is why an apartment's history can be read building by building. A Villa row names its project rather than a building, because the register does not put a house in a tower. And a Land row is two things the register does not distinguish for you: a bare plot, which is not a home, and a house sold together with its plot, which is — the department files a great many completed house transfers that way, and the project name is what tells the two apart. As at 15 September 2026 the residential register held 58,610 Land rows, 14,085 of them bare plots with no project and 44,525 houses filed with their plot. Villas in Dubai reads the second kind as the houses they are.

Then the size, which is the registered area of the unit and the divisor under every price-per-square-foot figure on any site, the rooms, and the date, which is the day the department registered the transfer, a week or more after the handshake it records; a figure labelled "this week" on any dashboard is last week's market.

What it leaves out, and what any reading of the register has to handle

The register is a record of registrations, and a dashboard that reads it raw inherits everything in it. Whether any given site removes the rows below is for that site to say; this site does, and prints how. They are the things to know before quoting a number from any transactions page.

• Rows that carry a price nobody paid. The department files a lease-to-own conversion as a sale at the contract's figure, a developer's registration of its own stock as a sale, and the transfer of a fractional share in a unit as a sale of the whole unit at the share's price, so a flat can appear to have sold three times in a week for a few thousand dirhams. It also holds the occasional registered area of a hundredth of a square metre. As at 15 September 2026 this site's copy of the residential sale register held 1,159,725 rows, of which 63,768, 5.5%, were set aside for one of those reasons, and every median on every page here is of the 1,095,957 that remain. Five per cent moves a city-wide figure little and a single tower's a great deal: one building's published price per square foot was less than half its true one until its share transfers were taken out.
• Mortgages and gifts, above: context, not prices, and a mortgaged purchase counted once.
• Off-plan blended with completed, above: a launch schedule read as a price move.
• The rent register names no building. The department's rent dataset, from Ejari, carries the area a home sits in and, on a minority of contracts, the project, but no tower; a building-level rent on any site is either an area's rent worn by a building or a reading of the minority of contracts that name the project. This site prints the area it read and who shares it on every rent panel, and a building's own rents only where the register names it on ten or more contracts in the year.
• The date is the registration, not the deal. A quarter's figure is not final until the quarter's registrations are in.
• What it is not for. A transactions site holds no home for sale; it is the record of what was paid, not what is asked. And a dispute about a figure, a fee or a deed is the department's, through its own record, never a dashboard's.

The same register, building by building, on this site

Most visits to a transactions site are one of a handful of questions. Each has a page here that reads the same register for it, and each page exists whether or not this firm has a home there today.

The difference in grain is the point. A dashboard's unit is the area, because that is how the register groups; a page here is one building, because every apartment row names its tower, and a building's page accumulates the whole of its history, from the first registration in the register to the last, in one place that stays put.

Where the data comes from

Behind DXB Interact, behind this site and behind every other transactions dashboard in Dubai is one publish. The Dubai Land Department releases its registers as open data on its own website, in the nine datasets above, and, for the years before the current one, through Digital Dubai's city data platform: on 15 September 2026 the department's pages still sent a reader to Dubai Pulse for older years, and Dubai Pulse itself redirected to its successor at data.dubai, where the department appears as a publishing entity. This site reads the transactions and rent datasets through Digital Dubai's data gateway every night, keeps the residential sales and the residential tenancies, judges each new row by the rules above, and rebuilds every report before morning. The department publishes the whole register afresh each evening and dates the load once, so any site reading it is a day behind the counter, and the day this site's copy runs to is printed at the top of every report.

On 15 September 2026 the copy held 1,159,725 residential sale rows since 10 November 1997, with sales registered through 11 September; 1,076,890 of them attached to one of the 4,605 buildings and 112 communities with a page. The twelve months to that day held 45,037 completed resales at a median of AED 1,423 a square foot and AED 1,450,000 a home, and 121,409 off-plan registrations beside them. The rent register, read the same way, is the other half, and the Dubai Land Department page has what else the department publishes: projects with their escrow accounts and completion, the licensed brokers and developers, the valuations, every parcel, building and unit.

Is DXB Interact free?

Yes. Its owner described it in 2020 as "a 100% free property data platform", and guides written about it in 2026 describe a free registration for exporting data; what it charges on the day, if anything, is on the site itself. The department's own lookup and its open-data downloads are free and need no login, and so is every report and building page here. Nothing about a registered transaction in Dubai is behind a paywall; what costs money is the reading of it, and the reading is what to judge each site on.

Common questions

• Who owns DXB Interact? fäm Properties, a Dubai brokerage, which built it and describes it as its own; the Android app is listed under the brokerage's developer name.
• Is DXB Interact accurate? As accurate as the department's publish, for the rows. The department re-dates rows between loads and the register carries the non-market rows above, so a raw count or average from any site can differ from another's by a few per cent, and a single building's figure by much more, depending on what each keeps. Where two sites disagree, the question is which rows each excluded.
• Does DXB Interact show rental transactions? Its owner's descriptions of it lead with sales, and guides written about it describe rental data as well; the department publishes the Ejari rent dataset alongside the transactions, so the raw material is there. Whatever it shows, no rent in the department's data names a building, and a rent quoted for a tower on any site is worth the question of how it was made.
• Does it show who bought? No site does. The department's open transactions data carries how many buyers and sellers a transfer had, not who they were; a name is on the deed, which its owner can download from Dubai REST, and on nothing public.
• Does it show a specific unit? The open transactions dataset carries the building, the size and the rooms, not the unit number, which is how this site and every other reads a tower rather than a flat. DXB Interact's guide describes a search that gathers the units sharing a layout in a tower; treat what it names as the platform's own matching.
• Is there a DXB Interact app? fäm publishes one under its own developer name on the Android store, on the day this page was written; the website is the fuller tool.
• Which should I use? For a market, either, knowing what each keeps. For a figure that has to stand up, the department's own record. For a building, its page here, because it is the only reading of the register that is one tower, all of its history, and the rule for every row, on a page that does not move.

The register is the thing. DXB Interact is one reading of it, this site is another, and the department's open-data page is where anyone can make a third; the difference between them is never the sale, and always what was done with it.