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Recorded sales over July – September 2026. Ready homes and off-plan sales are kept apart: they are different markets, and a typical price that mixes them moves when the mix moves.
Typical price per sqft · July – September 2026
Downtown Dubai
Business Bay
What the register shows
- Price. Ready homes over July – September 2026: Downtown Dubai AED 2,414/sqft and Business Bay AED 1,809/sqft. Downtown Dubai is 33% above Business Bay.
- Off-plan. Off-plan sales sit at 1.6× the ready-home typical price in Downtown Dubai and 1.3× in Business Bay, over the same July – September 2026.
- Three years. Since July – September 2023, ready-home typical prices moved +20% in Downtown Dubai and +12% in Business Bay.
- The four newest quarters. From Q4 2025 to Q3 2026, ready-home typical prices moved -6% in Business Bay and -7% in Downtown Dubai; the gap between Downtown Dubai and Business Bay was 35% in Q4 2025 and 33% in Q3 2026.
- Yield. Yield before costs on ready homes over October 2025 – September 2026, typical new-let rent over typical ready-home price: 6.6% in Business Bay and 5.4% in Downtown Dubai.
- Activity. Ready homes that changed hands in the twelve months to September 2026: 2,464 in Business Bay and 1,453 in Downtown Dubai.
| Downtown Dubai | Business Bay | |
|---|---|---|
| Ready homes · typical price per sqftJuly – September 2026 | AED 2,414/sqft · 346 sales | AED 1,809/sqft · 560 sales |
| Off-plan · typical price per sqftJuly – September 2026 | AED 3,769/sqft · 100 off-plan sales | AED 2,432/sqft · 355 off-plan sales |
| Three-year change · ready homesJuly – September 2023 to July – September 2026 | +20.5% · from AED 2,003/sqft, 596 sales | +12.4% · from AED 1,609/sqft, 693 sales |
| Yield before costs · ready homes, 12 monthsOctober 2025 – September 2026, typical new-let rent over typical ready-home price, the same months | 5.4% · 1,453 sales, 5,710 new lets | 6.6% · 2,464 sales, 10,990 new lets |
| Recorded salesOctober 2025 – September 2026 | 2,511 · 42% off-plan | 6,336 · 61% off-plan |
Typical prices from recorded residential sales, with ready homes and off-plan sales kept apart; a higher figure is a higher recorded price, not a recommendation. Where these figures come from.
Ready homes by quarter, Q4 2025 to Q3 2026
Typical recorded price per sqft of ready homes in each calendar quarter, by date of sale; complete quarters only. A quarter appears only with 60 or more sales behind it.
| Downtown Dubai | Business Bay | |
|---|---|---|
| Q4 2025 | AED 2,587/sqft · 481 sales | AED 1,918/sqft · 831 sales |
| Q1 2026 | AED 2,578/sqft · 381 sales | AED 1,913/sqft · 639 sales |
| Q2 2026 | AED 2,377/sqft · 245 sales | AED 1,815/sqft · 434 sales |
| Q3 2026 | AED 2,414/sqft · 346 sales | AED 1,809/sqft · 560 sales |
| Change across these quartersfrom the first of these four quarters to the last, when both quarters have enough sales | -6.7% · Q4 2025 AED 2,587/sqft → Q3 2026 AED 2,414/sqft | -5.7% · Q4 2025 AED 1,918/sqft → Q3 2026 AED 1,809/sqft |
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A quarter's move against the one before it is mostly a change in which homes sold, and on this register it reverses the next quarter about half the time; read the levels and the change across the whole span.
Recorded sales Sales on record · typical prices, not estimates. Half of the sales were above a typical price, half below. File dated 23 Oct 2026 · synced 24 Oct 2026.