Weekly Dubai Apartment Market Overview — 15 Sept 2026

This week at a glance

Dubai apartment prices are running at a median AED 1,636/sqft, with 75.4% of activity off-plan across ~13,882 sales in the trailing 30 days.

Pricing

The median apartment sale in Dubai cleared at AED 1,636 per square foot in the week ending 15 Sept 2026. The median ticket size across the same sample was AED 1,162,035.

Medians are computed from a live sample of 800 of the most recent DLD-registered apartment sales, cleaned of obvious outliers.

Activity

Dubai recorded 13,882 apartment sale transactions over the trailing 30 days.

Off-plan purchases accounted for 75.4% of that activity, leaving 24.6% in the secondary (completed) market — a continuation of the developer-led launch cycle that has dominated volume in recent years.

Longer-term context

Against the historical DLD baseline, citywide apartment pricing has compounded at 5.2% a year over three years and 11.1% a year over five years — cumulative moves of 16.4% and 69.4% respectively.

These longer-term figures come from the historical DLD baseline, not from this week's live sample, and are the more reliable guide to trend. Weekly readings are best used to spot inflection, not to extrapolate.

Methodology

Volume and off-plan share are taken from full transaction counts for the trailing 30 days; medians from a cleaned sample of 800 of the most recent apartment sales (rows outside AED 100–20,000/sqft or under AED 100,000 are discarded). Per-sqm values are converted at 10.7639 sqft per sqm.

Source: DLD-registered transactions. Medians from a live sample of the most recent apartment sales; longer-term figures from the historical DLD baseline. Not financial advice.