Dubai property prices › Month by month › May 2025
The Dubai property market in May 2025
In May 2025 the Dubai Land Department registered 15,331 residential sales worth AED 40.6bn — 2% fewer than in May 2024, when it registered 15,612, and 18% more by value. Most were homes not yet built: 9,934 off-plan against 5,397 completed. A completed home changed hands at a median AED 1.46M, AED 1,389 a square foot — 16% more a foot than in May 2024.
The month in its year
May 2025 against the twelve months before it
15,331 sales in May 2025 — the most in a month since October 2024, against 15,612 in May 2024. Off-plan was 65% of the month, against 66% a year earlier.
Completed homes
What a completed home sold for in May 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.
| Layout | Sales | Median price | AED/sqft |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | 956 | AED 563K | 1,298 |
| 1 B/R | 1,742 | AED 990K | 1,284 |
| 2 B/R | 1,127 | AED 2.03M | 1,489 |
| 3 B/R | 501 | AED 3.30M | 1,616 |
| 4 B/R | 135 | AED 4.22M | 1,542 |
| 5 B/R | 10 | AED 4.90M | 1,265 |
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
- 22, 1 May to 30 May. The busiest was 26 May: 1,010 sales, AED 3.1bn.
- Off-plan
- 9,934 sales at a median AED 1,818 a square foot — its own line, never blended into the completed-home medians.
- Villas
- 1,125 of the 15,331, as the register files them. A house sold with its plot is filed as land and is not counted here.
- Payment plans
- 1,107 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 May, 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 community | Sales | Off-plan | Completed AED/sqft |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jumeirah Village Circle | 1,753 | 1,225 | 1,280 |
| Business Bay | 847 | 596 | 1,795 |
| Dubai South (Dubai World Central) | 594 | 499 | 1,111 |
| Motor City | 578 | 515 | 988 |
| Dubai Production City (IMPZ) | 573 | 461 | 920 |
| Dubai Creek Harbour (The Lagoons) | 507 | 361 | 2,249 |
| Dubai Land Residence Complex | 492 | 376 | 857 |
| Bukadra | 424 | 418 | 3,167 |
| Jumeirah Village Triangle | 408 | 351 | 1,201 |
| Dubai Marina | 406 | 160 | 1,714 |
| Mohammed Bin Rashid City | 383 | 222 | 2,053 |
| Dubai Islands | 381 | 381 | — |
| Dubai Land | 368 | 214 | 1,433 |
| Dubai Hills Estate | 328 | 163 | 2,175 |
| Dubai Silicon Oasis | 321 | 201 | 833 |
| Dearest community | AED/sqft | Resales |
|---|---|---|
| Dubai Harbour | 3,732 | 44 |
| Jumeirah | 3,105 | 25 |
| Zabeel | 3,018 | 19 |
| Al Safa | 2,806 | 52 |
| City Walk | 2,654 | 18 |
| Downtown Dubai | 2,533 | 175 |
| Palm Jumeirah | 2,448 | 80 |
| Tilal Al Ghaf | 2,382 | 17 |
| Dubai Creek Harbour (The Lagoons) | 2,249 | 146 |
| Dubai Hills Estate | 2,175 | 165 |
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 May 2025
The 15 buildings with the most sales registered in May, each linking its own recorded history.
| Building | Sales | Off-plan | AED/sqft | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Albero by EmaarDubai Creek Harbour (The Lagoons) | 296 | all | 2,461 |
| 2 | Skyvue SolairBukadra | 222 | all | 2,452 |
| 3 | Rivera at the ValleyThe Valley | 174 | all | 1,364 |
| 4 | Binghatti EliteDubai Production City (IMPZ) | 160 | all | 1,330 |
| 5 | Peace LagoonsDubai Land | 142 | all | 1,533 |
| 6 | Timez By DanubeDubai Silicon Oasis | 131 | all | 1,987 |
| 7 | Skyhills Residences 3Jumeirah Village Circle | 123 | all | 1,746 |
| 8 | The Acres (Phase 2)Dubai Land | 115 | 0 | 1,617 |
| 9 | The MuralMaritime City | 94 | all | 3,627 |
| 10 | One Park SquareJumeirah Village Circle | 86 | all | 1,620 |
| 11 | Sobha Solis Tower AMotor City | 84 | all | 1,955 |
| 12 | Guzel TowersJumeirah Village Triangle | 84 | all | 1,328 |
| 13 | Rove Home Dubai MarinaDubai Marina | 81 | all | 3,560 |
| 14 | The Autograph S SeriesJumeirah Village Circle | 80 | all | 1,585 |
| 15 | Golf MeadowDubai South (Dubai World Central) | 79 | all | 1,597 |
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 May 2025
The dearest was an AED 300M off-plan six-bedroom home at Eome Residences, Palm Jumeirah — 26,225 sq ft at AED 11,440 a square foot, registered on 7 May.
| Registered | Home | Layout | Sq ft | Price | AED/sqft | Sold |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 May 2025 | Eome ResidencesPalm Jumeirah | 6 B/R | 26,225 | AED 300M | 11,440 | Off-plan |
| 28 May 2025 | Jumeirah Asora BayJumeirah | 6 B/R | 18,183 | AED 164M | 9,013 | Off-plan |
| 28 May 2025 | Jumeirah Asora BayJumeirah | 5 B/R | 19,035 | AED 144M | 7,545 | Off-plan |
| 28 May 2025 | Jumeirah Asora BayJumeirah | 5 B/R | 11,689 | AED 121M | 10,368 | Off-plan |
| 22 May 2025 | Jumeirah Asora BayJumeirah | 5 B/R | 11,927 | AED 99M | 8,319 | Off-plan |
| 7 May 2025 | Jumeirah Asora BayJumeirah | 5 B/R | 12,107 | AED 97M | 8,003 | Off-plan |
| 28 May 2025 | Jumeirah Asora BayJumeirah | 5 B/R | 11,485 | AED 91M | 7,950 | Off-plan |
| 5 May 2025 | World Islands | 6 B/R | 24,709 | AED 79M | 3,205 | Off-plan |
| 28 May 2025 | Jumeirah Asora BayJumeirah | 4 B/R | 7,728 | AED 70M | 8,993 | Off-plan |
| 7 May 2025 | Jumeirah Asora BayJumeirah | 4 B/R | 6,522 | AED 65M | 10,000 | Off-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 May 2025, answered
How many properties were sold in Dubai in May 2025?
15,331 residential sales were registered at the Dubai Land Department in May 2025, worth AED 40.6bn: 9,934 off-plan and 5,397 completed homes. That is 2% fewer than in May 2024, when 15,612 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 May 2025?
The dearest apartment or villa registered was an AED 300M off-plan six-bedroom home at Eome Residences, Palm Jumeirah — 26,225 sq ft at AED 11,440 a square foot, registered on 7 May. Next came AED 164M at Jumeirah Asora Bay, Jumeirah, and AED 144M at Jumeirah Asora Bay, Jumeirah. 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 May 2025?
Jumeirah Village Circle, with 1,753 registered sales, 1,225 of them off-plan; then Business Bay (847) and Dubai South (Dubai World Central) (594). The dearest, by the median price of a square foot of completed home, was Dubai Harbour at AED 3,732 across 44 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.