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The Dubai property market in January 2025

In January 2025 the Dubai Land Department registered 12,064 residential sales worth AED 29.0bn — 21% more than in January 2024, when it registered 9,964, and 12% more by value. Most were homes not yet built: 7,221 off-plan against 4,843 completed. A completed home changed hands at a median AED 1.90M, AED 1,355 a square foot — 15% more a foot than in January 2024.

Sales registered
12,064
+21% on January 2024 (9,964)
Value
AED 29.0bn
+12% on January 2024 (AED 26.0bn)
Off-plan
7,221
60% of the month · 4,843 completed
Completed homes, median
AED 1,355
per sq ft · AED 1.90M a home · +15% on January 2024

The month in its year

January 2025 against the twelve months before it

Residential sales registered, by monthOff-planResale12,064 in January 2025
9,964
12,064
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12,064 sales in January 2025 — the fewest in a month since April 2024, against 9,964 in January 2024. Off-plan was 60% of the month, against 58% a year earlier.

Completed homes

What a completed home sold for in January 2025

Resales of completed homes, by layout — a layout prints at ten sales. Off-plan is kept out: a launch price is a developer’s schedule, not a market, and the month’s off-plan sales have their own line beside the table.

LayoutSalesMedian priceAED/sqft
Studio696AED 533K1,215
1 B/R1,285AED 965K1,261
2 B/R853AED 2.00M1,464
3 B/R459AED 3.20M1,581
4 B/R127AED 4.10M1,490
5 B/R15AED 6.00M1,556

Medians of what buyers paid at transfer, never an asking price. Each is a month’s sales, so a layout’s figure moves with which buildings happened to sell as well as with prices; the year-long reading of the same register is on Dubai property prices.

Registration days
23, 1 January to 31 January. The busiest was 20 January: 894 sales, AED 2.2bn.
Off-plan
7,221 sales at a median AED 1,722 a square foot — its own line, never blended into the completed-home medians.
Villas
1,300 of the 12,064, as the register files them. A house sold with its plot is filed as land and is not counted here.
Payment plans
1,436 registered under the Land Department’s payment-plan and delayed-sale procedures.

Where the sales were

The busiest communities, and the dearest

The communities with the most sales registered in January, launches and resales together; beside them the dearest, by the median price of a square foot of completed home at ten resales or more.

Busiest communitySalesOff-planCompleted AED/sqft
Jumeirah Village Circle8735361,260
Dubai Land Residence Complex817692786
Damac Hills 2654541,538
Business Bay6153951,728
Expo City5495481,914
Dubai Marina4212161,703
The Valley4011551,221
Jumeirah Lake Towers3542061,388
Dubai South (Dubai World Central)3532811,010
Dubai Land3322591,254
Al Furjan3072271,262
Downtown Dubai3021012,539
Dubai Hills Estate3011942,187
Bukadra2592582,862
Mohammed Bin Rashid City2441391,902
Dearest communityAED/sqftResales
Bluewaters4,46610
Dubai Harbour3,75132
Al Safa2,98810
Zabeel2,90327
Jumeirah2,87520
Downtown Dubai2,539201
City Walk2,34316
Al Barari2,33810
Palm Jumeirah2,33666
Dubai Creek Harbour (The Lagoons)2,230102

A community counts the sales of every building and villa project in it that has a page here. A sale the register files where we have no page — a plot, a tower not yet placed — is in the month’s total and in neither table. The busiest table’s price is completed homes only, so a community that sold nothing but launches has none; the dearest table ranks completed homes alone.

Buildings

The busiest towers in January 2025

The 15 buildings with the most sales registered in January, each linking its own recorded history.

Every sale the tower registered in the month. The price is its median a square foot where it sold one kind of home — off-plan or completed — and a dash where it sold both, because the two are never averaged together.

The record sales

The dearest homes registered in January 2025

The dearest was an AED 57M off-plan three-bedroom home at AVA at Palm Jumeirah By Omniyat, Palm Jumeirah — 7,187 sq ft at AED 7,913 a square foot, registered on 22 January.

RegisteredHomeLayoutSq ftPriceAED/sqftSold
22 Jan 2025AVA at Palm Jumeirah By OmniyatPalm Jumeirah3 B/R7,187AED 57M7,913Off-plan
14 Jan 2025Ocean HousePalm Jumeirah3 B/R8,620AED 50M5,800Off-plan
20 Jan 2025The Lakeview Villas by EllingtonMohammed Bin Rashid City6 B/R17,840AED 43M2,436Off-plan
31 Jan 2025Six Senses ResidencesPalm Jumeirah4 B/R6,457AED 40M6,195Off-plan
9 Jan 2025One CanalAl Wasl5 B/R8,893AED 39M4,329Off-plan
14 Jan 2025BV Residences 6Jumeirah Bay Island3 B/R2,611AED 36M13,790Completed
14 Jan 2025IL PrimoDowntown Dubai4 B/R5,176AED 32M6,182Completed
21 Jan 2025Baccarat Residence T1Downtown Dubai3 B/R3,793AED 31M8,188Off-plan
10 Jan 2025Casa CanalAl Wasl3 B/R5,316AED 29M5,399Off-plan
17 Jan 2025Eden House The CanalJumeirah3 B/R4,627AED 29M6,160Off-plan

Apartments and villas as the register files them. A house registered with its plot is filed as land, so a mansion can be missing here; it is read apart, with every year’s record since 2015, on the most expensive homes sold in Dubai. A home with no page here is named by the Land Department’s area.

Questions people ask

The Dubai property market in January 2025, answered

How many properties were sold in Dubai in January 2025?

12,064 residential sales were registered at the Dubai Land Department in January 2025, worth AED 29.0bn: 7,221 off-plan and 4,843 completed homes. That is 21% more than in January 2024, when 9,964 were registered. The count is of transfers the Land Department registered in the month; mortgage registrations, gifts, lease-to-own conversions, developers' own filings and transfers recorded at a fraction of what a home sells for are left out, because none of them is a price a buyer paid.

What was the most expensive home sold in Dubai in January 2025?

The dearest apartment or villa registered was an AED 57M off-plan three-bedroom home at AVA at Palm Jumeirah By Omniyat, Palm Jumeirah — 7,187 sq ft at AED 7,913 a square foot, registered on 22 January. Next came AED 50M at Ocean House, Palm Jumeirah, and AED 43M at The Lakeview Villas by Ellington, Mohammed Bin Rashid City. A house registered with its plot is filed as land rather than as a villa, so it is read apart, on the page for the most expensive homes sold in Dubai.

Which area of Dubai had the most property sales in January 2025?

Jumeirah Village Circle, with 873 registered sales, 536 of them off-plan; then Dubai Land Residence Complex (817) and Damac Hills 2 (654). The dearest, by the median price of a square foot of completed home, was Bluewaters at AED 4,466 across 10 resales. A community counts every building and villa project in it that has a page here.

The same register read as a year rather than a month: what every community and building sells for now is Dubai property prices, and how far prices have moved since 2020 is the Dubai property price index. Rents are read from the Ejari register as a year, with a new lease kept apart from a renewal, on Dubai rent prices.

Where these numbers come from. Every figure on this page is drawn from the Dubai Land Department’s transaction register, read directly from the Dubai Data Exchange. It is what buyers actually paid, recorded at transfer — not asking prices, not valuations, not our own estimates. Mortgage registrations, gift transfers, rent-to-own contracts and developers’ own filings are all excluded; none of them is a price a buyer paid. Medians are used rather than averages so one unusual sale cannot move the number. Data through 31 Jan 2025.

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