Dubai property market, Q3 2026
Dubai recorded 31,703 filtered residential sales in Q3 2026, 2.4% lower than Q2 and 36.9% lower than Q3 2025. The median was AED 1,709 per sq ft across the homes sold in July to September. These are completed registrations, not asking prices or a forecast.
How did sales and prices compare with earlier quarters?
The filtered residential sales value was AED 49,402,760,269. Compare the counts and total values. Then look at medians. A larger total can mean more sales or larger homes. A change in locations can also move the total.
Q3 2025 | 50,211 | 96,650,319,277 | 1,709 | 76.0% |
Q2 2026 | 32,495 | 56,825,575,723 | 1,725 | 78.2% |
Q3 2026 | 31,703 | 49,402,760,269 | 1,709 | 73.8% |
Source: DLD open data. Each row gives its quarter.
Source: DLD open data. Sales periods are stated in each table. File date: 5 Oct 2026.
Ready and off-plan below are DLD registration categories. They do not identify how many homes finished construction during the quarter.
Q3 2025: Ready | 12,042 | 24,042,317,659 | 1,330 |
Q3 2025: Off-Plan | 38,169 | 72,608,001,618 | 1,842 |
Q2 2026: Ready | 7,084 | 12,368,766,526 | 1,450 |
Q2 2026: Off-Plan | 25,411 | 44,456,809,197 | 1,768 |
Q3 2026: Ready | 8,308 | 14,858,334,102 | 1,429 |
Q3 2026: Off-Plan | 23,395 | 34,544,426,167 | 1,748 |
Source: DLD open data. Sales periods are stated in each table. File date: 5 Oct 2026.
What happened in July, August and September?
The chart and table show how qualifying residential sales and median prices varied across the three months.
Source: DLD open data. Months: July to September 2026.
2026-07 | 12,119 | 18,044,838,407 | 1,718 |
2026-08 | 10,182 | 15,716,123,030 | 1,709 |
2026-09 | 9,402 | 15,641,798,832 | 1,695 |
Source: DLD open data. Sales periods are stated in each table. File date: 5 Oct 2026.
The quarter median is calculated from all qualifying transactions in the quarter. It is not an average of these three monthly medians.
Where were the most qualifying sales?
The ten busiest registry areas in this filtered Q3 file are shown below. Each has at least 50 qualifying sales. Area medians blend different homes; they are not a ranking of comparable flats.
| 4,911 | 4,760,504,078 | 1,714 | 97.3% | |
| 2,569 | 2,633,085,715 | 1,732 | 98.8% | |
| 2,357 | 2,641,895,651 | 1,426 | 50.9% | |
| 1,931 | 1,889,468,149 | 1,718 | 99.0% | |
| 1,390 | 2,174,515,452 | 1,585 | 69.4% | |
| 1,347 | 1,394,576,829 | 1,436 | 88.6% | |
| 1,206 | 2,996,319,833 | 2,097 | 33.6% | |
| 1,176 | 1,203,742,739 | 1,392 | 87.2% | |
| 832 | 2,100,813,715 | 2,238 | 60.3% | |
| 765 | 2,210,946,186 | 2,536 | 68.0% |
Source: DLD open data. Sales periods are stated in each table. File date: 5 Oct 2026.
What can you compare on rent?
These one-bedroom community comparisons come from the rent publisher snapshot through 22 Oct 2026. They are not Q3-only lease records. Individual lease periods are not supplied. Use the actual flat’s lease and approved service charges before calculating its net income.
Source: Dubai Data (datadubai.ae), Continental Club Property. Snapshot: 22 Oct 2026, not Q3-only leases.
Compare the home you are considering
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- Open the location’s registered sales and transaction counts.
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- Use the actual purchase quote and lease to calculate costs and cash flow.
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How do the external reports compare?
Read the Savills property figures and IMF economic projection alongside their different periods and samples.
Savills: distinguish quarterly and annual changes
Savills counted about 34,500 Q3 home sales, down 38% year on year. Publication date: 12 Oct 2026. Its ready-property sales value rose from AED 21.3 billion in Q2 to AED 25.1 billion in Q3. That is approximately 18% quarter on quarter, calculated from its rounded figures, not an annual increase.
Our tables exclude flagged sales and extreme values within each area and year. Savills uses a different sales sample. Keep the two sets of counts and values separate.
IMF: UAE macroeconomic context
The IMF UAE country page projects 3.1% real GDP growth for 2026. Reference date: 21 Oct 2026. It is a national annual projection, not a measured Q3 result or a Dubai property-price forecast. The country page does not identify that figure as an October forecast vintage.
Questions about Q3 2026
These answers explain the quarter’s sale counts, registration categories and limits on price and rent comparisons.
How many Dubai homes sold in Q3 2026?
Our filtered residential file contains 31,703 registered sales from 1 July to 30 September. July contributed 12,119, August 10,182 and September 9,402. The monthly table uses the same population as the quarterly total.
Did ready registrations increase from Q2?
Yes, in this filtered file: 8,308 ready registrations in Q3, compared with 7,084 in Q2. Their combined value was AED 14,858,334,102, compared with AED 12,368,766,526. A ready registration is a registration category, not a newly completed home.
Are these figures the same as a house price index?
No. The median describes the homes sold in each period. A change in location, home size or off-plan share can move that median. It does not measure the price change of the same home.
Does the rent table describe Q3 leases?
No. It is a publisher snapshot through 22 Oct 2026. Individual lease and matched-sale periods are not supplied, so it cannot establish Q3 rent growth.
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Sources and data limits
Sales counts and values here cover quality-filtered residential Unit and Villa records only. Land, commercial property, flagged rows, missing price-per-sq-ft values and transactions outside one quarter to four times their area’s annual median per sq ft are excluded. These figures are therefore not Dubai’s total registered sale count or value. Medians reflect the stock sold, not matched-property appreciation.
The quarterly and monthly tables use the same sales filters. Medians come from the sales themselves. These figures do not forecast sales or rents.
Source update: 26 Oct 2026. Source for rents, yields and project records: Dubai Data (datadubai.ae), Continental Club Property, based on Dubai Land Department open data, data to 22 Oct 2026, licensed CC BY 4.0. Publisher contract sample, register data to 22 Oct 2026; the lease period is not stated. Publisher-reported gross yields use the publisher matched-segment sale-price denominator, not this page’s sale median; the matched-sale reporting period is not stated.
Dubai Land Department real-estate data, republished in the Dubai Real Estate Data transaction file under CC BY 4.0, aggregated and filtered as described above. · Savills Q3 report and linked full report · IMF country projection