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The Dubai property market in August 2026
In August 2026 the Dubai Land Department registered 10,649 residential sales worth AED 20.4bn — 36% fewer than in August 2025, when it registered 16,607, and 46% less by value. Most were homes not yet built: 7,667 off-plan against 2,982 completed. A completed home changed hands at a median AED 1.52M, AED 1,442 a square foot — 6% more a foot than in August 2025.
The month in its year
August 2026 against the twelve months before it
10,649 sales in August 2026, against 16,607 in August 2025. Off-plan was 72% of the month, against 75% a year earlier.
Completed homes
What a completed home sold for in August 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 | 439 | AED 575K | 1,359 |
| 1 B/R | 1,014 | AED 1.10M | 1,365 |
| 2 B/R | 734 | AED 2.00M | 1,520 |
| 3 B/R | 311 | AED 3.35M | 1,725 |
| 4 B/R | 118 | AED 4.20M | 1,468 |
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, 3 August to 31 August. The busiest was 3 August: 851 sales, AED 1.3bn.
- Off-plan
- 7,667 sales at a median AED 1,736 a square foot — its own line, never blended into the completed-home medians.
- Villas
- 697 of the 10,649, as the register files them. A house sold with its plot is filed as land and is not counted here.
- Payment plans
- 528 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 August, 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) | 1,892 | 1,851 | 1,097 |
| City of Arabia | 831 | 815 | 1,254 |
| Jumeirah Village Circle | 662 | 348 | 1,238 |
| Jebel Ali | 590 | 585 | 1,112 |
| Business Bay | 307 | 128 | 1,863 |
| Dubai Land Residence Complex | 295 | 256 | 837 |
| Damac Lagoons | 264 | 158 | 1,620 |
| Majan | 236 | 200 | 1,400 |
| Dubai Land | 233 | 205 | 1,283 |
| Arjan | 218 | 114 | 1,336 |
| Dubai Creek Harbour (The Lagoons) | 203 | 139 | 2,214 |
| Dubai Production City (IMPZ) | 197 | 126 | 846 |
| Mohammed Bin Rashid City | 182 | 57 | 1,860 |
| Dubai Marina | 175 | 3 | 2,098 |
| Motor City | 170 | 136 | 1,147 |
| Dearest community | AED/sqft | Resales |
|---|---|---|
| Dubai Harbour | 3,348 | 15 |
| Zabeel | 2,766 | 11 |
| City Walk | 2,704 | 17 |
| Umm Suqeim | 2,663 | 11 |
| Downtown Dubai | 2,453 | 108 |
| Palm Jumeirah | 2,366 | 40 |
| Dubai Hills Estate | 2,231 | 113 |
| Dubai Media City | 2,218 | 15 |
| Dubai Creek Harbour (The Lagoons) | 2,214 | 64 |
| Tilal Al Ghaf | 2,126 | 10 |
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 August 2026
The 15 buildings with the most sales registered in August, each linking its own recorded history.
| Building | Sales | Off-plan | AED/sqft | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Azizi Venice 15 Building BDubai South (Dubai World Central) | 343 | all | 1,735 |
| 2 | Azizi Milan 30City of Arabia | 259 | all | 1,668 |
| 3 | Raw District by Imtiaz CR - Building CJebel Ali | 191 | all | 1,770 |
| 4 | Golf FieldsDubai South (Dubai World Central) | 181 | all | 1,580 |
| 5 | Raw District by Imtiaz R - Building BJebel Ali | 125 | all | 1,753 |
| 6 | Raw District by Imtiaz R - Building AJebel Ali | 114 | all | 1,757 |
| 7 | Azizi Venice 11Dubai South (Dubai World Central) | 111 | all | 1,684 |
| 8 | Azizi Milan Heights Tower GCity of Arabia | 90 | all | 1,758 |
| 9 | Damac District Tower BDamac Hills | 86 | all | 1,819 |
| 10 | Binghatti SkyterracesMotor City | 82 | all | 1,615 |
| 11 | Azizi Venice 15 Building ADubai South (Dubai World Central) | 78 | all | 1,685 |
| 12 | Serra Tower 2Ghaf Woods | 72 | all | 1,888 |
| 13 | Azizi Venice 10 Building BDubai South (Dubai World Central) | 71 | all | 1,660 |
| 14 | Azizi WaresDowntown Jebel Ali | 68 | all | 1,729 |
| 15 | Oxford CoveJumeirah Village Circle | 66 | all | 1,536 |
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 August.
The record sales
The dearest homes registered in August 2026
The dearest was an AED 79M off-plan four-bedroom home at Orla Infinity, Palm Jumeirah — 8,392 sq ft at AED 9,414 a square foot, registered on 11 August.
| Registered | Home | Layout | Sq ft | Price | AED/sqft | Sold |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Aug 2026 | Orla InfinityPalm Jumeirah | 4 B/R | 8,392 | AED 79M | 9,414 | Off-plan |
| 5 Aug 2026 | Jumeirah Asora BayJumeirah | 4 B/R | 7,807 | AED 65M | 8,326 | Off-plan |
| 17 Aug 2026 | Bugatti Residences By BinghattiBusiness Bay | 4 B/R | 6,788 | AED 63M | 9,282 | Off-plan |
| 11 Aug 2026 | Aman Residences Tower 1Jumeirah | 2 B/R | 3,824 | AED 58M | 15,050 | Off-plan |
| 11 Aug 2026 | Jumeirah Second | 2 B/R | 3,826 | AED 55M | 14,306 | Off-plan |
| 4 Aug 2026 | Solaya 6Jumeirah | 3 B/R | 6,897 | AED 46M | 6,650 | Off-plan |
| 19 Aug 2026 | Bugatti Residences By BinghattiBusiness Bay | 3 B/R | 6,749 | AED 45M | 6,698 | Off-plan |
| 5 Aug 2026 | Jumeirah Second | 3 B/R | 4,652 | AED 44M | 9,544 | Off-plan |
| 6 Aug 2026 | Vela Viento By OmniyatBusiness Bay | 4 B/R | 6,185 | AED 43M | 7,028 | Off-plan |
| 13 Aug 2026 | Bugatti Residences By BinghattiBusiness Bay | 3 B/R | 3,801 | AED 43M | 11,259 | 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 August 2026, answered
How many properties were sold in Dubai in August 2026?
10,649 residential sales were registered at the Dubai Land Department in August 2026, worth AED 20.4bn: 7,667 off-plan and 2,982 completed homes. That is 36% fewer than in August 2025, when 16,607 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 August 2026?
The dearest apartment or villa registered was an AED 79M off-plan four-bedroom home at Orla Infinity, Palm Jumeirah — 8,392 sq ft at AED 9,414 a square foot, registered on 11 August. Next came AED 65M at Jumeirah Asora Bay, Jumeirah, and AED 63M at Bugatti Residences By Binghatti, Business Bay. 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 August 2026?
Dubai South (Dubai World Central), with 1,892 registered sales, almost all of them off-plan; then City of Arabia (831) and Jumeirah Village Circle (662). The dearest, by the median price of a square foot of completed home, was Dubai Harbour at AED 3,348 across 15 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.