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The Dubai property market in April 2026

In April 2026 the Dubai Land Department registered 12,351 residential sales worth AED 31.8bn — 18% fewer than in April 2025, when it registered 14,981, and 13% less by value. Most were homes not yet built: 9,500 off-plan against 2,851 completed. A completed home changed hands at a median AED 1.56M, AED 1,463 a square foot — 6% more a foot than in April 2025.

Sales registered
12,351
−18% on April 2025 (14,981)
Value
AED 31.8bn
−13% on April 2025 (AED 36.3bn)
Off-plan
9,500
77% of the month · 2,851 completed
Completed homes, median
AED 1,463
per sq ft · AED 1.56M a home · +6% on April 2025

The month in its year

April 2026 against the twelve months before it

Residential sales registered, by monthOff-planResale12,351 in April 2026
14,981
12,351
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12,351 sales in April 2026, against 14,981 in April 2025. Off-plan was 77% of the month, against 66% a year earlier.

Completed homes

What a completed home sold for in April 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
Studio441AED 565K1,285
1 B/R943AED 1.05M1,382
2 B/R618AED 2.20M1,647
3 B/R288AED 3.40M1,622
4 B/R127AED 4.60M1,590

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 April to 30 April. The busiest was 13 April: 810 sales, AED 1.8bn.
Off-plan
9,500 sales at a median AED 1,931 a square foot — its own line, never blended into the completed-home medians.
Villas
1,038 of the 12,351, as the register files them. A house sold with its plot is filed as land and is not counted here.
Payment plans
490 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 April, 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 South (Dubai World Central)8467761,171
Jumeirah Village Circle7775391,343
Dubai Islands677677—
Damac Lagoons6305591,692
Dubai Creek Harbour (The Lagoons)6015282,397
Dubai Land Residence Complex575535785
Dubai Land5464961,399
Jebel Ali5145121,130
Business Bay4583181,838
Al Satwa3042982,202
Wasl Gate2862821,582
Expo City275275—
Jumeirah Village Triangle2712431,305
Arjan2671681,382
Majan2622261,321
Dearest communityAED/sqftResales
Dubai Harbour2,97914
City Walk2,66970
Downtown Dubai2,50377
Tilal Al Ghaf2,40913
Dubai Creek Harbour (The Lagoons)2,39773
Dubai Hills Estate2,34068
Palm Jumeirah2,33938
Nad Al Sheba2,23916
Jumeirah Golf Estates2,08815
Mohammed Bin Rashid City2,05599

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 April 2026

The 15 buildings with the most sales registered in April, 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. All 15 sold only off-plan in April.

The record sales

The dearest homes registered in April 2026

The dearest was an AED 171M off-plan five-bedroom home in the Land Department's Jumeirah Second area — 10,021 sq ft at AED 17,067 a square foot, registered on 10 April.

RegisteredHomeLayoutSq ftPriceAED/sqftSold
10 Apr 2026Jumeirah Second5 B/R10,021AED 171M17,067Off-plan
1 Apr 2026Baccarat Residence T1Downtown Dubai4 B/R13,248AED 122M9,197Off-plan
29 Apr 2026Jumeirah Second3 B/R5,944AED 83M13,996Off-plan
2 Apr 2026Jumeirah Second3 B/R5,944AED 79M13,374Off-plan
6 Apr 2026Aman Residences Tower 1Jumeirah4 B/R5,944AED 70M11,817Off-plan
21 Apr 2026Jumeirah Second3 B/R5,944AED 70M11,783Off-plan
7 Apr 2026Orla InfinityPalm Jumeirah4 B/R8,392AED 65M7,798Off-plan
13 Apr 2026The Alba Residences by OmniyatPalm Jumeirah4 B/R6,681AED 64M9,580Off-plan
27 Apr 2026The Vela Dorchester CollectionBusiness Bay4 B/R7,373AED 61M8,236Off-plan
6 Apr 2026Jumeirah Second2 B/R3,824AED 58M15,232Off-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 April 2026, answered

How many properties were sold in Dubai in April 2026?

12,351 residential sales were registered at the Dubai Land Department in April 2026, worth AED 31.8bn: 9,500 off-plan and 2,851 completed homes. That is 18% fewer than in April 2025, when 14,981 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 April 2026?

The dearest apartment or villa registered was an AED 171M off-plan five-bedroom home in the Land Department's Jumeirah Second area — 10,021 sq ft at AED 17,067 a square foot, registered on 10 April. Next came AED 122M at Baccarat Residence T1, Downtown Dubai, and AED 83M in the Land Department's Jumeirah Second area. 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 April 2026?

Dubai South (Dubai World Central), with 846 registered sales, almost all of them off-plan; then Jumeirah Village Circle (777) and Dubai Islands (677). The dearest, by the median price of a square foot of completed home, was Dubai Harbour at AED 2,979 across 14 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 30 Apr 2026.

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