Dubai property price index

The city, year by year

Dubai property prices since 1998, as an index

Every year the register holds a hundred or more completed resales, the median price per square foot over them, and that median as a share of 2020's. The chart begins at 2013, the first year the register holds 30,000 completed resales; the table has the whole run.

2020 was the bottom of the cycle: the median fell from AED 991 a foot in 2014 to AED 719, and stands at AED 1,432 so far in 2026 — +99%, an index of 199. What a dirham bought at each year’s median is worth today, and the deepest fall on the way, is on property investment in Dubai.

Completed-home resales registered at the Dubai Land Department, every residential property type, through 11 Sept 2026; a year appears once it holds a hundred of them, and 2026 runs to that date. Off-plan sales are counted beside the resales and never blended into the median: a launch price is a developer’s schedule, not a market. The years before 2013 are printed faint because they record a city being built rather than traded — the median rose through 2009 and 2010, when Dubai’s prices are widely reported to have fallen by around half, because the homes changing hands changed faster than their prices did — so the index is fit to read from 2013. A city median also moves with what sold as well as with what it sold for; the community and tower tables below are the same reading with less of that in it.

The towers since 2020

The towers that rose most since 2020 — and the ones that did not

Every published apartment tower with completed sales on record before 2020, ten or more completed resales in 2020 and ten or more in the twelve months to 11 Sept 2026: 171 towers across 26 communities, 3,369 resales then and 4,335 now. The change between the two medians, most first, then the other end.

Completed apartment resales only — off-plan is never blended in, and villa projects are priced on villas in Dubai instead — read from the register on 11 Sept 2026 with the site’s own exclusions applied (a transfer recorded at a fraction of what the building trades for is not a price a buyer paid). The floor of ten resales in each window is why the pool is 171 and not four thousand: half of Dubai’s buildings sold fewer than a dozen homes last year. A tower whose first completed sales fell in 2020 is left out on purpose — that is its handover year, first owners taking title at prices agreed when they bought off-plan, not a market to index from. The figure in brackets beside each price is the number of resales behind it; ten is a thin median, and a fall of half in a small tower usually means the tower sold a different thing in 2020 than it sells now. Each links its own page, where the year series shows whether a move is one year or a slide. The dearest towers today, by the foot, are on the best residential buildings in Dubai.

Questions people ask

The Dubai property price index, answered

What each community and building sells for now, ranked, is Dubai property prices; what a dirham at each year’s median did to today’s, the yield from the rent register and the costs in and out are on property investment in Dubai; every community here has an area guide with both registers behind it. Working out what yours has done since 2020? Sell property in Dubai is how to read your building’s report as a price.