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The Dubai property market in January 2026

In January 2026 the Dubai Land Department registered 14,506 residential sales worth AED 39.5bn — 20% more than in January 2025, when it registered 12,064, and 36% more by value. Most were homes not yet built: 10,279 off-plan against 4,227 completed. A completed home changed hands at a median AED 1.51M, AED 1,454 a square foot — 7% more a foot than in January 2025.

Sales registered
14,506
+20% on January 2025 (12,064)
Value
AED 39.5bn
+36% on January 2025 (AED 29.0bn)
Off-plan
10,279
71% of the month · 4,227 completed
Completed homes, median
AED 1,454
per sq ft · AED 1.51M a home · +7% on January 2025

The month in its year

January 2026 against the twelve months before it

Residential sales registered, by monthOff-planResale14,506 in January 2026
12,064
14,506
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14,506 sales in January 2026 — the fewest in a month since June 2025, against 12,064 in January 2025. Off-plan was 71% of the month, against 60% a year earlier.

Completed homes

What a completed home sold for in January 2026

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
Studio710AED 580K1,361
1 B/R1,346AED 1.07M1,372
2 B/R879AED 2.00M1,542
3 B/R417AED 3.38M1,711
4 B/R152AED 4.39M1,484
5 B/R10AED 11M1,955

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 January to 30 January. The busiest was 19 January: 1,078 sales, AED 3.2bn.
Off-plan
10,279 sales at a median AED 1,850 a square foot — its own line, never blended into the completed-home medians.
Villas
2,157 of the 14,506, as the register files them. A house sold with its plot is filed as land and is not counted here.
Payment plans
805 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
Dubai Land1,1621,1321,387
Jumeirah Village Circle9225441,387
Business Bay7525141,887
Dubai South (Dubai World Central)6525211,206
Dubai Land Residence Complex604547858
Dubai Creek Harbour (The Lagoons)6014852,406
Dubai Islands596596—
Majan5535071,154
Dubai Investment Park (DIP)438418760
Jumeirah Village Triangle4103621,459
Dubai Production City (IMPZ)351279910
Maritime City3353321,735
Dubai Hills Estate3242182,399
Dubai Sports City304191989
Arjan2991801,362
Dearest communityAED/sqftResales
Bluewaters5,38112
Dubai Harbour3,37927
Jumeirah3,00217
Zabeel2,89914
City Walk2,79220
Palm Jumeirah2,76661
Umm Suqeim2,75116
Downtown Dubai2,683141
Tilal Al Ghaf2,52912
Dubai Creek Harbour (The Lagoons)2,406116

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 2026

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 2026

The dearest was an AED 80M off-plan four-bedroom home at Bulgari Lighthouse, Jumeirah — 6,439 sq ft at AED 12,424 a square foot, registered on 23 January.

RegisteredHomeLayoutSq ftPriceAED/sqftSold
23 Jan 2026Bulgari LighthouseJumeirah4 B/R6,439AED 80M12,424Off-plan
16 Jan 2026Amali IslandThe World Islands6 B/R38,306AED 71M1,865Off-plan
9 Jan 2026Atlantis The Royal ResidencesPalm Jumeirah5 B/R6,238AED 65M10,420Completed
13 Jan 2026Atlantis The Royal ResidencesPalm Jumeirah5 B/R6,239AED 64M10,178Completed
14 Jan 2026Ocean HousePalm Jumeirah3 B/R8,295AED 58M7,030Off-plan
30 Jan 2026One CanalAl Wasl5 B/R9,309AED 54M5,848Off-plan
7 Jan 2026AVA at Palm Jumeirah By OmniyatPalm Jumeirah4 B/R7,024AED 54M7,688Off-plan
7 Jan 2026Mercedes Benz Places by BinghattiDowntown Dubai4 B/R5,602AED 50M8,925Off-plan
20 Jan 2026Wadi Al Safa 35 B/R8,288AED 49M5,924Off-plan
15 Jan 2026Jumeirah First3 B/R6,439AED 44M6,905Off-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 2026, answered

How many properties were sold in Dubai in January 2026?

14,506 residential sales were registered at the Dubai Land Department in January 2026, worth AED 39.5bn: 10,279 off-plan and 4,227 completed homes. That is 20% more than in January 2025, when 12,064 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 2026?

The dearest apartment or villa registered was an AED 80M off-plan four-bedroom home at Bulgari Lighthouse, Jumeirah — 6,439 sq ft at AED 12,424 a square foot, registered on 23 January. Next came AED 71M at Amali Island, The World Islands, and AED 65M at Atlantis The Royal Residences, Palm 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 January 2026?

Dubai Land, with 1,162 registered sales, almost all of them off-plan; then Jumeirah Village Circle (922) and Business Bay (752). The dearest, by the median price of a square foot of completed home, was Bluewaters at AED 5,381 across 12 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 2026.

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