Dubai luxury property sales: the twelve months to August 2026

Every figure on this page is computed from the Dubai Land Department’s register of real estate transactions, exported on 3 September 2026; the newest sale in it is dated 2 September 2026. The report covers the twelve full calendar months from 1 September 2025 to 31 August 2026 and sets them against the twelve months before, from 1 September 2024 to 31 August 2025. The part month the export was cut in is not counted.

A sale is a registration of a home changing hands: completed sales, off-plan sales (registered when the contract is signed, not at handover), delayed sales and sales on a payment plan. Lease-to-own registrations, mortgages, gifts and a developer’s own development registrations are not sales to a buyer and are left out. A home is an apartment (the register’s “flat”) or a villa; plots, whole buildings, offices, shops and hotel apartments are left out. A sale counts at AED 10 million or more of registered price, unadjusted for inflation.

Registrations whose area or price per square foot cannot belong to one home, outside 150 to 50,000 square feet or AED 100 to 30,000 per square foot, are removed, as they are on the sold-price pages. Over the twelve months that removed 7 registrations at this price level, and the procedure rule above another 24.

A community is the master community the register names on the sale, such as Dubai Harbour, Jumeirah Islands or La Mer. Where it names none, the sale is counted in the community the sold-price pages use for its Land Department area. The Land Department’s own areas are wider survey districts (Marsa Dubai holds Dubai Harbour, Bluewaters Island and Dubai Marina), so a community’s figure here can differ from its sold-price page, which also covers every price and a different period. A community name links to its sold-price page only where both describe the same sales, and otherwise to its area guide where one is written.

Price per square foot divides the registered price by the registered area. Medians are used throughout, so one unusual sale cannot move a figure, and a median per square foot is printed only with at least 10 sales behind it. A registered price is what the parties declared to the Land Department, not a valuation. The register is a live record, so a later export can differ, most of all in its latest months. Figures describe what sold; they do not forecast.

Figures are computed from the register as exported on 3 September 2026. The page is a snapshot: it changes only when the figures are recomputed from a newer export.