Dubai registered home sales: what the market report shows, August 2026

What the data shows

This page sets out what the Dubai Land Department register holds for the period of Keyva's market report. Each figure below is a sentence computed by Keyva's code from the register and printed without change, with the figure, what it measures, the place and the dates in the same sentence.

The report covers ready homes and off-plan homes separately. Where a change is given, it sets a window beside the window that precedes it and describes the medians and nothing else.

• The Dubai market report for August 2026 covers the three complete months June to August 2026, and the newest registered sale in its data is dated 17 September 2026.
• Dubai Land Department data shows 8,173 ready-home sales registered in Dubai in June to August 2026.
• Dubai Land Department data shows a median price of AED 1,411 per sqft for ready homes registered in Dubai in June to August 2026.
• Dubai Land Department data shows 7,279 ready-home sales registered in Dubai in March to May 2026.
• Dubai Land Department data shows a median price of AED 1,418 per sqft for ready homes registered in Dubai in March to May 2026.
• In Dubai, the ready-home median price per sqft was down 0.5% in June to August 2026 on March to May 2026, in Dubai Land Department data.
• Dubai Land Department data shows 26,053 off-plan sales registered in Dubai in June to August 2026, at a median of AED 1,728 per sqft; off-plan and ready homes are never pooled.
• Keyva printed a ready-home median for 33 Dubai areas in June to August 2026, the areas with enough registered sales.
• In Jumeirah Village Circle, Dubai Land Department data shows 1,143 ready-home sales registered in June to August 2026, at a median of AED 1,251 per sqft.
• In Dubai Marina, Dubai Land Department data shows 642 ready-home sales registered in June to August 2026, at a median of AED 1,975 per sqft.
• In Business Bay, Dubai Land Department data shows 528 ready-home sales registered in June to August 2026, at a median of AED 1,821 per sqft.
• In Meydan One, Dubai Land Department data shows 410 ready-home sales registered in June to August 2026, at a median of AED 1,935 per sqft.
• In Al Furjan, Dubai Land Department data shows 389 ready-home sales registered in June to August 2026, at a median of AED 1,074 per sqft.

The pages for these figures: the market report; the market statistics page.

How to read these figures

The figures come from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department, as published in its open data, which Keyva narrows to home sales. They describe registered sales and not offers or asking prices.

A median is the middle value when a group of prices is put in order. It is a steadier guide to a typical sale, as a single unusual sale cannot drag it far. Keyva prints the median together with the count of sales that stand under it.

A price per sqft divides the price paid by the size of the home, so homes of different sizes can be read on a single scale. A price for the whole home is a different measure and is labelled as such.

Ready homes are finished homes. Off-plan homes are sold while still under construction. The two are priced and registered differently, which is why a figure for one is never blended into a figure for the other.

A window is a fixed stretch of time named in each sentence above. A different window gives a different figure.

The sample size is the count of sales that form a figure. A small sample can sit far from the typical sale, so Keyva prints a figure where enough sales stand under it, and leaves it out otherwise.

A change figure sets one window beside the window that precedes it. It describes two medians and says nothing about any single sale, about the homes that happened to be registered in either window, or about the cause of the difference.

What the data does not show

The register does not show asking prices, which are marketing figures, and it does not show what a particular home is worth. It records what was registered, and this page goes no further.

It says nothing about the condition, floor, view or finish of a home, and each of those moves a price. A figure for a group of homes cannot stand in for any single home in the group.

The newest days of a window may be thinly covered if DLD publishes some sales later. Keyva prints the date the data runs to so that the reach of each figure is plain.

Nothing here explains why a figure is what it is, who took part in a sale, or what the market does next. The page offers no outlook and no advice, and a figure is one input among several.

For the detail under a figure, use the pages linked above: they show the same register at the level of an area, a project or a building, each with its own sample size.

Source

Source: Dubai Land Department. This describes the register and is not financial or legal advice.