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The Dubai property market in October 2026
So far in October 2026 — registrations to 21 October — the Dubai Land Department has registered 6,787 residential sales worth AED 14.6bn. Most were homes not yet built: 4,407 off-plan against 2,380 completed. A completed home has changed hands at a median AED 1.45M, AED 1,428 a square foot — 3% more a foot than in October 2025. The whole of October 2025 registered 17,891.
Not complete yet. The register runs to 21 October, and October grows each night until its last day is loaded. Every count on this page is a part month, set beside the whole of October 2025 — which is why no change on the year is given for the count or the value until the month closes.
The month in its year
October 2026 against the twelve months before it
A part month: 6,787 registrations to 21 October, drawn where the register has reached, and the bar grows each night until October closes. Off-plan is 65% of it so far, against 70% across October 2025.
Completed homes
What a completed home sold for in October 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 | 409 | AED 550K | 1,313 |
| 1 B/R | 769 | AED 1.02M | 1,360 |
| 2 B/R | 533 | AED 2.00M | 1,522 |
| 3 B/R | 257 | AED 3.40M | 1,764 |
| 4 B/R | 89 | AED 4.40M | 1,533 |
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
- 15, 1 October to 21 October. The busiest was 5 October: 829 sales, AED 1.7bn.
- Off-plan
- 4,407 sales at a median AED 1,758 a square foot — its own line, never blended into the completed-home medians.
- Villas
- 657 of the 6,787, as the register files them. A house sold with its plot is filed as land and is not counted here.
- Payment plans
- 405 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 October, 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) | 502 | 463 | 1,088 |
| Jumeirah Village Circle | 482 | 246 | 1,245 |
| Majan | 279 | 232 | 1,272 |
| Jebel Ali | 275 | 270 | 1,192 |
| Motor City | 238 | 218 | 1,031 |
| Business Bay | 193 | 73 | 1,866 |
| Dubai Creek Harbour (The Lagoons) | 177 | 117 | 2,274 |
| Arjan | 169 | 97 | 1,371 |
| Dubai Land | 155 | 136 | 1,408 |
| Jumeirah Village Triangle | 153 | 121 | 1,263 |
| Damac Lagoons | 149 | 77 | 1,578 |
| Dubai Land Residence Complex | 148 | 119 | 748 |
| Nad Al Sheba | 122 | 122 | — |
| International City | 120 | 28 | 640 |
| Dubai Hills Estate | 108 | 39 | 2,213 |
| Dearest community | AED/sqft | Resales |
|---|---|---|
| Dubai Harbour | 3,318 | 16 |
| Palm Jumeirah | 3,215 | 53 |
| City Walk | 3,042 | 17 |
| Zabeel | 2,892 | 11 |
| Umm Suqeim | 2,713 | 11 |
| Downtown Dubai | 2,364 | 82 |
| Dubai Creek Harbour (The Lagoons) | 2,274 | 60 |
| Dubai Hills Estate | 2,213 | 69 |
| The Views | 2,052 | 12 |
| Meydan | 1,968 | 67 |
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 October 2026
The 15 buildings with the most sales registered in October, each linking its own recorded history.
| Building | Sales | Off-plan | AED/sqft | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Binghatti SkyterracesMotor City | 191 | all | 1,496 |
| 2 | Raw District 2 by Imtiaz - ResidentialJebel Ali | 116 | all | 1,820 |
| 3 | Binghatti Skyflame 1Majan | 104 | all | 1,409 |
| 4 | Greenz by DanubeAcademic City | 94 | all | 2,640 |
| 5 | Valia TowerDubai Creek Harbour (The Lagoons) | 84 | all | 2,542 |
| 6 | Serenz by Danube Tower AJumeirah Village Circle | 58 | all | 2,371 |
| 7 | Azizi Venice 10 Building BDubai South (Dubai World Central) | 50 | all | 1,594 |
| 8 | Binghatti HillsideDubai Science Park | 46 | all | 2,160 |
| 9 | Binghatti Skyflame 2Majan | 46 | all | 1,404 |
| 10 | Azizi Venice 11Dubai South (Dubai World Central) | 43 | all | 1,691 |
| 11 | Damac District Tower BDamac Hills | 41 | all | 1,791 |
| 12 | Binghatti HillcrestArjan | 40 | all | 2,249 |
| 13 | Maybach Six Tower BNad Al Sheba | 37 | all | 3,413 |
| 14 | Binghatti LuxuriaJumeirah Village Triangle | 36 | all | 2,174 |
| 15 | Maybach Ultimate Luxury Tower BNad Al Sheba | 36 | all | 3,600 |
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 October.
The record sales
The dearest homes registered in October 2026
The dearest was an AED 79M completed six-bedroom home in the Land Department's World Islands area — 41,067 sq ft at AED 1,924 a square foot, registered on 5 October.
| Registered | Home | Layout | Sq ft | Price | AED/sqft | Sold |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 Oct 2026 | World Islands | 6 B/R | 41,067 | AED 79M | 1,924 | Completed |
| 16 Oct 2026 | The Crescent W ResidencesPalm Jumeirah | 4 B/R | 13,009 | AED 54M | 4,128 | Completed |
| 13 Oct 2026 | Wadi Al Safa 3 | 6 B/R | 9,270 | AED 49M | 5,338 | Off-plan |
| 8 Oct 2026 | Orla by OmniyatPalm Jumeirah | 4 B/R | 7,326 | AED 49M | 6,746 | Off-plan |
| 19 Oct 2026 | Business Bay | 3 B/R | 9,197 | AED 46M | 5,029 | Off-plan |
| 5 Oct 2026 | Mercedes Benz Places by BinghattiDowntown Dubai | 4 B/R | 4,043 | AED 36M | 8,979 | Off-plan |
| 8 Oct 2026 | Sobha Seahaven Tower ADubai Harbour | 4 B/R | 5,310 | AED 31M | 5,915 | Off-plan |
| 8 Oct 2026 | Sur La MerJumeirah | 5 B/R | 8,520 | AED 30M | 3,550 | Completed |
| 2 Oct 2026 | City Walk Residential Building 13BCity Walk | 4 B/R | 7,362 | AED 30M | 4,007 | Completed |
| 5 Oct 2026 | The Alba Residences by OmniyatPalm Jumeirah | 2 B/R | 2,037 | AED 24M | 11,969 | 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 October 2026, answered
How many properties were sold in Dubai in October 2026?
6,787 residential sales have been registered at the Dubai Land Department in October 2026, to 21 October, worth AED 14.6bn: 4,407 off-plan and 2,380 completed homes. The whole of October 2025 registered 17,891. 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 October 2026?
The dearest apartment or villa registered was an AED 79M completed six-bedroom home in the Land Department's World Islands area — 41,067 sq ft at AED 1,924 a square foot, registered on 5 October. Next came AED 54M at The Crescent W Residences, Palm Jumeirah, and AED 49M in the Land Department's Wadi Al Safa 3 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 October 2026?
Dubai South (Dubai World Central), with 502 registered sales, almost all of them off-plan; then Jumeirah Village Circle (482) and Majan (279). The dearest, by the median price of a square foot of completed home, was Dubai Harbour at AED 3,318 across 16 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.