Why this exists
Dubai publishes the truth. Almost nobody translates it.
Every property sale in Dubai is registered with the Land Department, and the Land Department publishes them. The price a home actually changed hands for is a matter of public record — not a secret, not a premium data product, not something you need an agent to tell you.
It is also, in practice, almost unusable. The records arrive as spreadsheets of registration numbers and area codes, in institutional language, with no explanation of what any of it means for somebody deciding whether to buy. So the numbers most people see instead come from listings — which are asking prices, which is a seller stating a hope about a sale that has not happened.
Keyva exists to close that gap, and to be honest about where it cannot be closed.
Keyva was at dubaikeyva.com until 4 October 2026. That address now brings you here.
What we hold
- 1,793,845
- registered transactions, 1990 to 7 October 2026
- 73
- residential Dubai areas with registered home sales
- 3,091
- projects on DLD's register
- 34,123
- brokers on DLD's register snapshot of 28 August 2026
A completed Dubai home registers at a median of AED 1,383/sqft, across 87,185 residential resales registered in the 24 months to 7 October 2026 — off-plan is a different market and is not in that figure. It is recomputed from the records at least every hour — a site arguing that numbers should be checkable cannot hard-code its own.
The rules we hold ourselves to
An asking price is never a sold price
Advertised figures are collected, labelled as asking prices, and never enter a typical price, a typical rent, a trend or a yield anywhere on this site.
A blank beats an invented figure
Every typical price or rent is shown with the number of sales or contracts behind it, and figures with too few sales or contracts are held back rather than shown — a figure built on three sales is not one we will show you without saying so.
We say what we cannot know
39% of the projects on the Land Department's register that we list carry no completion date, so we publish no delivery scores. Where we do show a five-year value it is the project’s own price history extended forward as a low-to-high band and labelled a trend — what a market did is not what it will do, and we never present it as what a home will be worth.
Nothing here is for sale by us
Nothing here is sold by us and we take no commission. Developers may publish their own project details, marked as theirs, without paying us. Agents are introduced only to people who ask to be introduced, and may pay a flat site service charge for using the site to answer — never a commission, and never for a higher place in any list. The one paid service for buyers is a buyer-side report, and its page names the free alternative.
Questions people ask
Where do Keyva's prices come from?
From the Dubai Land Department's own published transaction records. Keyva holds 1,793,845 of them, registered 1990 to 7 October 2026: sales, mortgages and gifts. Every price on this site comes from the 1,055,147 home sales among them, registered 2003 to 7 October 2026: apartments, villas and townhouses, each a price somebody actually paid, never an advertised or asking price. Asking prices are collected separately, labelled as asking prices, and never enter a median, a trend or a yield.
Why does Keyva refuse to rank developers by how much they sell?
Because volume is not quality. DLD's transaction file carries no developer field, so a sale is attributed through its project, and DLD's projects register names a project's developer by number. Of the projects Keyva holds, 94% carry a developer. A ranking by sales would measure how much each developer built, presented as a judgement of how well — the largest builder wins by definition. We publish price positioning against the local market instead, and say what it controls for.
Can Keyva tell me if a developer delivers on time?
Not yet — and the limit is ours, not the record's. We load only the completion date: of the 3,091 projects on DLD's register that we list, 1,880 carry one, so 39% have none, and no punctuality score is possible from what we hold. DLD's open projects file does also carry a planned end date on most projects, so the comparison is buildable; we will not publish it until that field is loaded and we have confirmed what it actually means.
Is Keyva a brokerage?
No. Keyva is not a licensed brokerage, does not represent sellers, and takes no commission on any transaction. Developers can publish their own project details here; those pages are marked “Listed by developer”, and the registered prices shown beside them are the Land Department’s, not theirs. Nothing on this site has a reason to prefer one property over another.
Is Keyva free?
The research, the area data, the calculators and the verification guide are free and need no account. One paid service exists — an independent pre-purchase report for buyers who cannot run the free checks themselves from abroad — and the page for it says outright which parts you can do yourself for nothing.
Where to start
Keyva is built on Dubai Land Department open data, published under CC BY 4.0, and on Department of Land and Real Estate Regulation, Ajman open data (CC BY 4.0). It is not a licensed brokerage. Figures are historical records and trend-based estimates, not guarantees, and nothing here is investment or legal advice.