Dubai property prices › Month by month › May 2026
The Dubai property market in May 2026
In May 2026 the Dubai Land Department registered 9,017 residential sales worth AED 18.9bn — 41% fewer than in May 2025, when it registered 15,331, and 54% less by value. Most were homes not yet built: 6,706 off-plan against 2,311 completed. A completed home changed hands at a median AED 1.40M, AED 1,375 a square foot — 1% less a foot than in May 2025.
The month in its year
May 2026 against the twelve months before it
9,017 sales in May 2026 — the fewest in a month since April 2023, against 15,331 in May 2025. Off-plan was 74% of the month, against 65% a year earlier.
Completed homes
What a completed home sold for in May 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.
| Layout | Sales | Median price | AED/sqft |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | 447 | AED 525K | 1,200 |
| 1 B/R | 788 | AED 1.05M | 1,319 |
| 2 B/R | 454 | AED 2.00M | 1,488 |
| 3 B/R | 198 | AED 3.33M | 1,743 |
| 4 B/R | 93 | AED 4.16M | 1,500 |
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
- 21, 1 May to 29 May. The busiest was 18 May: 995 sales, AED 1.5bn.
- Off-plan
- 6,706 sales at a median AED 1,715 a square foot — its own line, never blended into the completed-home medians.
- Villas
- 594 of the 9,017, as the register files them. A house sold with its plot is filed as land and is not counted here.
- Payment plans
- 392 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dubai South (Dubai World Central) | 1,287 | 1,227 | 1,188 |
| Majan | 816 | 791 | 1,171 |
| Dubai Land Residence Complex | 512 | 470 | 787 |
| Jumeirah Village Circle | 511 | 294 | 1,230 |
| Dubai Islands | 334 | 334 | — |
| Business Bay | 275 | 162 | 1,781 |
| City of Arabia | 261 | 260 | 762 |
| Al Warsan | 221 | 108 | 857 |
| Damac Lagoons | 205 | 143 | 1,541 |
| Jebel Ali | 197 | 195 | 1,776 |
| Dubai Land | 195 | 175 | 1,389 |
| Arjan | 191 | 125 | 1,429 |
| Mohammed Bin Rashid City | 176 | 66 | 1,847 |
| Jumeirah Village Triangle | 166 | 145 | 1,147 |
| Bukadra | 153 | 153 | — |
| Dearest community | AED/sqft | Resales |
|---|---|---|
| Dubai Harbour | 3,423 | 17 |
| Jumeirah Golf Estates | 2,989 | 21 |
| City Walk | 2,909 | 12 |
| Palm Jumeirah | 2,654 | 35 |
| Downtown Dubai | 2,449 | 76 |
| Dubai Hills Estate | 2,304 | 54 |
| Dubai Creek Harbour (The Lagoons) | 2,273 | 57 |
| Meydan | 1,990 | 60 |
| Al Jaddaf | 1,928 | 37 |
| Greens | 1,912 | 12 |
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 2026
The 15 buildings with the most sales registered in May, each linking its own recorded history.
| Building | Sales | Off-plan | AED/sqft | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Binghatti Skyflame 1Majan | 443 | all | 1,350 |
| 2 | Binghatti Skyflame 2Majan | 193 | all | 1,387 |
| 3 | Azizi Venice 14 - Building FDubai South (Dubai World Central) | 109 | all | 1,752 |
| 4 | Azizi Venice 14 Building ADubai South (Dubai World Central) | 104 | all | 1,738 |
| 5 | BondAl Warsan | 101 | 0 | 853 |
| 6 | LunayaJebel Ali | 89 | all | 2,495 |
| 7 | Linea by HolmAl Satwa | 79 | all | 2,565 |
| 8 | Greenfield by Samana DevelopersAl Warsan | 75 | all | 1,404 |
| 9 | Le Blanc Residence by ImtiazDubai Land Residence Complex | 73 | all | 1,662 |
| 10 | Azizi Venice 14 Building GDubai South (Dubai World Central) | 71 | all | 1,751 |
| 11 | Azizi Venice 14 Building DDubai South (Dubai World Central) | 61 | all | 1,724 |
| 12 | Azizi Venice 14 - Building EDubai South (Dubai World Central) | 61 | all | 1,591 |
| 13 | Nuve by ZoyaDubai Land Residence Complex | 60 | all | 1,627 |
| 14 | Azizi Venice 14 Building CDubai South (Dubai World Central) | 57 | all | 1,697 |
| 15 | The Pinnacle at Sobha CentralJebel Ali | 54 | all | 3,255 |
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 2026
The dearest was an AED 113M off-plan five-bedroom home at Solaya 5, Jumeirah — 15,347 sq ft at AED 7,337 a square foot, registered on 1 May.
| Registered | Home | Layout | Sq ft | Price | AED/sqft | Sold |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 May 2026 | Solaya 5Jumeirah | 5 B/R | 15,347 | AED 113M | 7,337 | Off-plan |
| 22 May 2026 | Solaya 6Jumeirah | 5 B/R | 15,331 | AED 106M | 6,917 | Off-plan |
| 4 May 2026 | Al Wasl | 6 B/R | 21,211 | AED 101M | 4,771 | Off-plan |
| 18 May 2026 | Emirates Golf Club VillasEmirates Golf Club | 7 B/R | 18,883 | AED 60M | 3,177 | Completed |
| 18 May 2026 | Orla by OmniyatPalm Jumeirah | 4 B/R | 8,258 | AED 58M | 7,018 | Off-plan |
| 14 May 2026 | Como ResidencesPalm Jumeirah | 4 B/R | 9,967 | AED 57M | 5,669 | Off-plan |
| 14 May 2026 | Six Senses ResidencesPalm Jumeirah | 4 B/R | 6,978 | AED 56M | 8,025 | Off-plan |
| 6 May 2026 | Como ResidencesPalm Jumeirah | 3 B/R | 9,441 | AED 53M | 5,605 | Off-plan |
| 4 May 2026 | Al Wasl | 5 B/R | 10,829 | AED 52M | 4,800 | Off-plan |
| 19 May 2026 | Serenia Residences Building BPalm Jumeirah | 4 B/R | 12,869 | AED 50M | 3,909 | Completed |
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 2026, answered
How many properties were sold in Dubai in May 2026?
9,017 residential sales were registered at the Dubai Land Department in May 2026, worth AED 18.9bn: 6,706 off-plan and 2,311 completed homes. That is 41% fewer than in May 2025, when 15,331 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 2026?
The dearest apartment or villa registered was an AED 113M off-plan five-bedroom home at Solaya 5, Jumeirah — 15,347 sq ft at AED 7,337 a square foot, registered on 1 May. Next came AED 106M at Solaya 6, Jumeirah, and AED 101M in the Land Department's Al Wasl 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 May 2026?
Dubai South (Dubai World Central), with 1,287 registered sales, almost all of them off-plan; then Majan (816) and Dubai Land Residence Complex (512). The dearest, by the median price of a square foot of completed home, was Dubai Harbour at AED 3,423 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.