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The Dubai property market in March 2026

In March 2026 the Dubai Land Department registered 12,239 residential sales worth AED 29.8bn — 8% fewer than in March 2025, when it registered 13,345, and 9% less by value. Most were homes not yet built: 9,226 off-plan against 3,013 completed. A completed home changed hands at a median AED 1.39M, AED 1,417 a square foot — 3% more a foot than in March 2025.

Sales registered
12,239
−8% on March 2025 (13,345)
Value
AED 29.8bn
−9% on March 2025 (AED 32.9bn)
Off-plan
9,226
75% of the month · 3,013 completed
Completed homes, median
AED 1,417
per sq ft · AED 1.39M a home · +3% on March 2025

The month in its year

March 2026 against the twelve months before it

Residential sales registered, by monthOff-planResale12,239 in March 2026
13,345
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12,239 sales in March 2026 — the fewest in a month since January 2025, against 13,345 in March 2025. Off-plan was 75% of the month, against 66% a year earlier.

Completed homes

What a completed home sold for in March 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
Studio566AED 551K1,245
1 B/R1,000AED 1.01M1,299
2 B/R648AED 1.95M1,475
3 B/R316AED 3.37M1,625
4 B/R111AED 4.15M1,609

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, 2 March to 31 March. The busiest was 16 March: 864 sales, AED 1.8bn.
Off-plan
9,226 sales at a median AED 1,822 a square foot — its own line, never blended into the completed-home medians.
Villas
1,328 of the 12,239, as the register files them. A house sold with its plot is filed as land and is not counted here.
Payment plans
408 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 March, 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 Land9328871,411
Jumeirah Village Circle8405751,408
Dubai South (Dubai World Central)8277441,160
Dubai Land Residence Complex709669879
Majan586316851
Business Bay5183811,993
Dubai Islands391391—
Motor City3753301,050
Dubai Production City (IMPZ)3703221,101
Bukadra3233222,905
Jumeirah Village Triangle3212851,349
Nad Al Sheba3022912,333
Arjan2902071,427
Damac Lagoons2401831,806
Town Square2261491,383
Dearest communityAED/sqftResales
Jumeirah3,55017
Dubai Harbour3,51611
Umm Suqeim2,95211
Palm Jumeirah2,68747
Tilal Al Ghaf2,62620
Downtown Dubai2,50084
Dubai Creek Harbour (The Lagoons)2,39565
Nad Al Sheba2,33311
Jumeirah Golf Estates2,32011
Dubai Hills Estate2,31974

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 March 2026

The 15 buildings with the most sales registered in March, 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 March 2026

The dearest was an AED 422M off-plan six-bedroom home in the Land Department's Jumeirah Second area — 31,201 sq ft at AED 13,525 a square foot, registered on 5 March.

RegisteredHomeLayoutSq ftPriceAED/sqftSold
5 Mar 2026Jumeirah Second6 B/R31,201AED 422M13,525Off-plan
26 Mar 2026Aman Residences Tower 1Jumeirah6 B/R31,201AED 356M11,418Off-plan
12 Mar 2026Amali IslandThe World Islands7 B/R58,082AED 220M3,788Off-plan
9 Mar 2026Palm Jumeirah5 B/R11,521AED 93M8,029Off-plan
30 Mar 2026Bluewaters Residences Building 8Bluewaters5 B/R9,415AED 90M9,559Completed
24 Mar 2026Jumeirah First5 B/R11,567AED 85M7,318Off-plan
27 Mar 2026Jumeirah Second3 B/R5,944AED 77M12,921Off-plan
23 Mar 2026Baccarat Residence T1Downtown Dubai5 B/R9,537AED 73M7,654Off-plan
27 Mar 2026Aman Residences Tower 1Jumeirah3 B/R5,944AED 70M11,783Off-plan
5 Mar 2026W Residences At Dubai Harbour - Tower 2Dubai Harbour5 B/R15,097AED 62M4,129Off-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 March 2026, answered

How many properties were sold in Dubai in March 2026?

12,239 residential sales were registered at the Dubai Land Department in March 2026, worth AED 29.8bn: 9,226 off-plan and 3,013 completed homes. That is 8% fewer than in March 2025, when 13,345 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 March 2026?

The dearest apartment or villa registered was an AED 422M off-plan six-bedroom home in the Land Department's Jumeirah Second area — 31,201 sq ft at AED 13,525 a square foot, registered on 5 March. Next came AED 356M at Aman Residences Tower 1, Jumeirah, and AED 220M at Amali Island, The World Islands. 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 March 2026?

Dubai Land, with 932 registered sales, almost all of them off-plan; then Jumeirah Village Circle (840) and Dubai South (Dubai World Central) (827). The dearest, by the median price of a square foot of completed home, was Jumeirah at AED 3,550 across 17 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 Mar 2026.

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