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The Dubai property market in September 2026
In September 2026 the Dubai Land Department registered 9,790 residential sales worth AED 20.2bn — 47% fewer than in September 2025, when it registered 18,465, and 51% less by value. Most were homes not yet built: 6,670 off-plan against 3,120 completed. A completed home changed hands at a median AED 1.52M, AED 1,394 a square foot — 2% more a foot than in September 2025.
The month in its year
September 2026 against the twelve months before it
9,790 sales in September 2026 — the fewest in a month since May 2026, against 18,465 in September 2025. Off-plan was 68% of the month, against 76% a year earlier.
Completed homes
What a completed home sold for in September 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 | 530 | AED 550K | 1,264 |
| 1 B/R | 982 | AED 1.04M | 1,314 |
| 2 B/R | 678 | AED 2.05M | 1,536 |
| 3 B/R | 329 | AED 3.20M | 1,713 |
| 4 B/R | 143 | AED 4.05M | 1,458 |
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 September to 30 September. The busiest was 7 September: 707 sales, AED 1.3bn.
- Off-plan
- 6,670 sales at a median AED 1,743 a square foot — its own line, never blended into the completed-home medians.
- Villas
- 777 of the 9,790, as the register files them. A house sold with its plot is filed as land and is not counted here.
- Payment plans
- 491 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 September, 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) | 795 | 744 | 1,094 |
| Jumeirah Village Circle | 717 | 371 | 1,241 |
| Majan | 516 | 483 | 1,458 |
| Jebel Ali | 464 | 457 | 1,194 |
| Dubai Creek Harbour (The Lagoons) | 383 | 302 | 2,256 |
| Motor City | 335 | 308 | 978 |
| Business Bay | 312 | 117 | 1,790 |
| Damac Lagoons | 263 | 149 | 1,613 |
| Dubai Land Residence Complex | 253 | 186 | 861 |
| Dubai Land | 240 | 209 | 1,258 |
| Arjan | 218 | 134 | 1,350 |
| Dubai Production City (IMPZ) | 176 | 124 | 1,075 |
| International City | 165 | 67 | 697 |
| City of Arabia | 161 | 158 | 1,130 |
| Mohammed Bin Rashid City | 161 | 42 | 1,940 |
| Dearest community | AED/sqft | Resales |
|---|---|---|
| Jumeirah | 3,005 | 12 |
| Dubai Harbour | 2,824 | 18 |
| Umm Suqeim | 2,694 | 15 |
| Zabeel | 2,642 | 14 |
| City Walk | 2,616 | 21 |
| Downtown Dubai | 2,484 | 105 |
| Palm Jumeirah | 2,433 | 39 |
| Dubai Creek Harbour (The Lagoons) | 2,256 | 81 |
| Dubai Hills Estate | 2,169 | 88 |
| Bur Dubai | 2,005 | 11 |
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 September 2026
The 15 buildings with the most sales registered in September, each linking its own recorded history.
| Building | Sales | Off-plan | AED/sqft | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Valia TowerDubai Creek Harbour (The Lagoons) | 261 | all | 2,598 |
| 2 | Binghatti SkyterracesMotor City | 254 | all | 1,795 |
| 3 | Binghatti Skyflame 1Majan | 226 | all | 1,399 |
| 4 | Raw District 2 by Imtiaz - ResidentialJebel Ali | 186 | all | 1,752 |
| 5 | Binghatti Skyflame 2Majan | 136 | all | 1,399 |
| 6 | Greenz by DanubeAcademic City | 85 | all | 2,728 |
| 7 | Damac District Tower BDamac Hills | 69 | all | 1,801 |
| 8 | Samana South HavenDubai Industrial City | 62 | all | 1,582 |
| 9 | The Pinnacle at Sobha CentralJebel Ali | 59 | all | 3,225 |
| 10 | Binghatti CullinanAl Jaddaf | 54 | all | 2,083 |
| 11 | Reportage HillsDubai Land | 53 | all | 1,462 |
| 12 | Azizi Venice 10 Building BDubai South (Dubai World Central) | 46 | all | 1,755 |
| 13 | Serenz by Danube Tower AJumeirah Village Circle | 44 | all | 2,378 |
| 14 | Binghatti ApexJumeirah Village Circle | 44 | 0 | 1,570 |
| 15 | The Horizon at Sobha CentralJebel Ali | 43 | all | 2,810 |
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 September 2026
The dearest was an AED 260M completed six-bedroom home at Eome Residences, Palm Jumeirah — 26,551 sq ft at AED 9,792 a square foot, registered on 1 September.
| Registered | Home | Layout | Sq ft | Price | AED/sqft | Sold |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Sept 2026 | Eome ResidencesPalm Jumeirah | 6 B/R | 26,551 | AED 260M | 9,792 | Completed |
| 21 Sept 2026 | Como ResidencesPalm Jumeirah | 5 B/R | 11,711 | AED 71M | 6,083 | Off-plan |
| 23 Sept 2026 | Como ResidencesPalm Jumeirah | 4 B/R | 11,537 | AED 65M | 5,624 | Off-plan |
| 23 Sept 2026 | Como ResidencesPalm Jumeirah | 4 B/R | 10,237 | AED 61M | 5,953 | Off-plan |
| 23 Sept 2026 | Como ResidencesPalm Jumeirah | 4 B/R | 10,174 | AED 60M | 5,925 | Off-plan |
| 15 Sept 2026 | Muraba VeilAl Wasl | 3 B/R | 4,951 | AED 37M | 7,392 | Off-plan |
| 9 Sept 2026 | Jumeirah Second | 4 B/R | 5,832 | AED 37M | 6,258 | Completed |
| 18 Sept 2026 | Bluewaters Residences Building 3Bluewaters | 4 B/R | 6,771 | AED 36M | 5,317 | Completed |
| 4 Sept 2026 | Muraba VeilAl Wasl | 3 B/R | 4,951 | AED 32M | 6,380 | Off-plan |
| 23 Sept 2026 | Serenia Living Tower 3Palm Jumeirah | 4 B/R | 6,407 | AED 30M | 4,682 | 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 September 2026, answered
How many properties were sold in Dubai in September 2026?
9,790 residential sales were registered at the Dubai Land Department in September 2026, worth AED 20.2bn: 6,670 off-plan and 3,120 completed homes. That is 47% fewer than in September 2025, when 18,465 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 September 2026?
The dearest apartment or villa registered was an AED 260M completed six-bedroom home at Eome Residences, Palm Jumeirah — 26,551 sq ft at AED 9,792 a square foot, registered on 1 September. Next came AED 71M at Como Residences, Palm Jumeirah, and AED 65M at Como 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 September 2026?
Dubai South (Dubai World Central), with 795 registered sales, almost all of them off-plan; then Jumeirah Village Circle (717) and Majan (516). The dearest, by the median price of a square foot of completed home, was Jumeirah at AED 3,005 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.
