Dubai property prices: what buyers really paid, district by district
What genuine buyers actually paid in Dubai over the last four complete months: the typical total price of a home, in dirhams and US dollars, and the price per square foot — typical, and where the cheapest deals closed. Built from Dubai Land Department sale records, with gifts, unreal prices and bulk deals taken out first.
Dubai Land Department sales · 1 May – 31 August 2026 · analysis by distress.ae
genuine sales of ready apartments, 1 May – 31 August 2026
typical price of a ready apartment in Dubai
the cheapest 25% of sales closed at or below this; the typical is AED 1,411 per sq ft
Typical and lowest prices, district by district
Ready 1-bedroom apartments in the 12 districts with the most genuine sales. The total price is what a home typically sold for; the columns after it are prices per square foot. The typical price is the median: half the sales closed above it, half below. “Cheapest 25%” means one sale in four closed at or below that price per square foot; “Cheapest 10%”, one sale in ten.
| District | Sales4 months | Total price | Price per sq ft, AED | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Typical | Typical | Cheapest 25% | Below typical | Cheapest 10% | ||
| Jumeirah Village Circle (JVC)DLD: Al Barsha South Fourth | 683 | AED 990,000USD 270,000 | 1,251 | 1,066 | −15% | 861 |
| Dubai Marina, JBR, Dubai Harbour, BluewatersDLD: Marsa Dubai | 293 | AED 1,725,000USD 470,000 | 2,044 | 1,499 | −27% | 1,275 |
| Business Bay | 251 | AED 1,450,000USD 395,000 | 1,835 | 1,437 | −22% | 1,230 |
| Meydan One, Sobha Hartland, MBR City District OneDLD: Al Merkadh | 184 | AED 1,352,000USD 368,000 | 1,964 | 1,796 | −9% | 1,634 |
| International City (Phase 1)DLD: Al Warsan First | 157 | AED 440,000USD 120,000 | 596 | 552 | −7% | 493 |
| Downtown DubaiDLD: Burj Khalifa | 150 | AED 2,000,000USD 545,000 | 2,175 | 1,817 | −16% | 1,597 |
| ArjanDLD: Al Barshaa South Third | 130 | AED 1,000,000USD 272,000 | 1,364 | 1,181 | −13% | 1,021 |
| Al Furjan, Discovery Gardens, Wasl Gate, DMCC-EZ2DLD: Jabal Ali First | 129 | AED 795,000USD 216,000 | 900 | 813 | −10% | 774 |
| Dubai Hills EstateDLD: Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 125 | AED 1,460,000USD 398,000 | 2,167 | 2,011 | −7% | 1,813 |
| Dubai Silicon OasisDLD: Nadd Hessa | 119 | AED 696,000USD 190,000 | 881 | 765 | −13% | 670 |
| Dubai Production City (IMPZ)DLD: Me'Aisem First | 108 | AED 605,000USD 165,000 | 840 | 727 | −14% | 674 |
| Dubai Sports City, Tilal Al GhafDLD: Al Hebiah Fourth | 99 | AED 730,000USD 199,000 | 943 | 798 | −15% | 742 |
Total prices are rounded to the nearest 1,000. US dollars at the dirham’s fixed rate: 3.6725 AED = 1 USD (Central Bank of the UAE). A big gap between the typical price and the cheapest 25% can mean motivated sellers accepting well under the going rate — or simply older, cheaper buildings in the same district. Our building pages show which.
Dubai ready apartments by bedroom
All of Dubai together. A city-wide figure blends every district, so read it for scale and the district table for a price.
| Bedrooms | Sales4 months | Total price | Price per sq ft, AED | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Typical | Typical | Cheapest 25% | Below typical | Cheapest 10% | ||
| Studio | 1,812 | AED 565,000USD 154,000 | 1,336 | 1,033 | −23% | 833 |
| 1 bedroom | 3,507 | AED 1,060,000USD 289,000 | 1,358 | 1,026 | −24% | 764 |
| 2 bedrooms | 2,328 | AED 2,000,000USD 545,000 | 1,533 | 1,135 | −26% | 867 |
| 3 bedrooms | 629 | AED 3,350,000USD 912,000 | 1,830 | 1,317 | −28% | 962 |
Total prices are rounded to the nearest 1,000. US dollars at the dirham’s fixed rate: 3.6725 AED = 1 USD (Central Bank of the UAE).
Off-plan vs ready, community by community
What a 1-bedroom apartment typically sold for in the same community, ready and off-plan, over the same four months — in the busiest communities where the two can be fairly compared. Anyone selling an off-plan flat before handover is competing with both.
| Community | Total price | Price per sq ft, AED | Off-plan costs moreper sq ft | Salesready / off-plan | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ready | Off-plan | Ready → off-plan | |||
| Jumeirah Village Circle (JVC) | AED 990,000USD 270,000 | AED 1,154,000USD 314,000 | 1,251 → 1,506 | +20% | 683 / 698 |
| Dubailand Residence Complex (DLRC)DLD: Dubai Land Residence Complex | AED 650,000USD 177,000 | AED 1,073,000USD 292,000 | 770 → 1,356 | +76% | 51 / 594 |
| Business Bay | AED 1,444,000USD 393,000 | AED 2,000,000USD 545,000 | 1,844 → 2,334 | +27% | 238 / 212 |
| Majan | AED 1,121,000USD 305,000 | AED 1,137,000USD 310,000 | 1,300 → 1,460 | +12% | 46 / 325 |
| Arjan | AED 1,000,000USD 272,000 | AED 1,256,000USD 342,000 | 1,377 → 1,671 | +21% | 126 / 244 |
| Jumeirah Village Triangle (JVT) | AED 912,000USD 248,000 | AED 1,209,000USD 329,000 | 1,193 → 1,640 | +37% | 46 / 256 |
| Dubai Creek Harbour | AED 1,650,000USD 449,000 | AED 1,963,000USD 534,000 | 2,223 → 2,611 | +17% | 98 / 159 |
| Dubai Sports City | AED 730,000USD 199,000 | AED 1,080,000USD 294,000 | 943 → 1,343 | +42% | 99 / 120 |
| Dubai Hills Estate | AED 1,500,000USD 408,000 | AED 1,783,000USD 485,000 | 2,221 → 2,292 | +3% | 118 / 75 |
| Downtown Dubai | AED 2,000,000USD 545,000 | AED 2,625,000USD 715,000 | 2,175 → 2,894 | +33% | 150 / 40 |
| Jumeirah Lake Towers (JLT)DLD: DMCC Master Community | AED 1,121,000USD 305,000 | AED 1,642,000USD 447,000 | 1,331 → 2,047 | +54% | 98 / 62 |
| Dubai Silicon Oasis | AED 696,000USD 190,000 | AED 1,220,000USD 332,000 | 881 → 1,608 | +83% | 119 / 39 |
| Sobha Hartland | AED 1,418,000USD 386,000 | AED 1,482,000USD 404,000 | 1,980 → 2,003 | +1% | 107 / 28 |
| Dubai Studio City | AED 810,000USD 221,000 | AED 1,015,000USD 276,000 | 1,266 → 1,456 | +15% | 32 / 100 |
| Al Furjan | AED 1,100,000USD 300,000 | AED 1,167,000USD 318,000 | 1,285 → 1,574 | +23% | 51 / 73 |
| LiwanDLD: Liwan1 | AED 615,000USD 167,000 | AED 1,067,000USD 291,000 | 857 → 1,346 | +57% | 65 / 46 |
| Town Square | AED 840,000USD 229,000 | AED 1,072,000USD 292,000 | 1,364 → 1,626 | +19% | 46 / 50 |
| City Walk | AED 2,250,000USD 613,000 | AED 2,727,000USD 742,000 | 2,652 → 3,363 | +27% | 26 / 54 |
Read the gap with care: “off-plan” here is mostly new launches, and “ready” mostly existing buildings, many of them years older. So the gap is new-build against older stock as much as off-plan against ready.
Total prices are rounded to the nearest 1,000. US dollars at the dirham’s fixed rate: 3.6725 AED = 1 USD (Central Bank of the UAE). A community is shown only when the comparison is fair: at least 20 genuine sales and 3 different buildings on each side, no single building with more than half of either side’s sales, and typical flat sizes within 15% of each other. Communities are the master projects DLD records for each sale; DLD’s own name is under ours where the two differ.
The supply wave: homes due to be finished, year by year
Dubai Land Department’s register of off-plan projects records when each unfinished project is due to be finished, and how far built it is. When many homes in one community are finished in the same year, the investors who bought them to resell or to rent out compete for the same buyers and tenants.
DLD projects register as of 15 June 2026 · sale records to 8 September 2026
homes due to be finished in 2027 — 2.3 times the most handed over in any year on record (40,646, in 2025)
homes past their planned finish date. At least 21,348 of them already sell as finished homes
homes due by the end of 2028 is at least half built (19,267 of 231,762)
| Planned finish | Homes | At least half built | Already selling as finished homes | At least half built |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date already passed | 91,390 | 47,015 (51%) | 21,348 | |
| 15 June – 31 December 2026 | 50,468 | 16,626 (33%) | 5,563 | |
| 2027 | 95,019 | 2,641 (3%) | 453 | |
| 2028 | 86,275 | 0 (0%) | – | |
| 2029 | 38,039 | 0 (0%) | – | |
| 2030 and later | 10,153 | 0 (0%) | – | |
| No date in the register | 76,042 | 8,006 (11%) | 4,586 | |
| All unfinished projects | 447,386 | |||
For scale — homes handed over each year: 2023: 37,531 · 2024: 34,074 · 2025: 40,646 · 2026 so far (to 8 September 2026): 26,445.
Community by community
The 12 communities with the most homes due between 15 June 2026 and the end of 2028, busiest first.
| Community | 2026from 15 June | 2027 | 2028 | Total | At least half built | Off-plan costs more1-bed, per sq ft, table above |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jumeirah Village Circle (JVC) | 4,651 | 6,582 | 5,568 | 16,801 | 6% | +20% |
| Dubai World Central (Dubai South) | 308 | 10,887 | 4,274 | 15,469 | 0% | – |
| Dubailand Residence Complex (DLRC)DLD: Dubai Land Residence Complex | 1,867 | 7,211 | 3,783 | 12,861 | 2% | +76% |
| Business Bay | 7,541 | 2,616 | 245 | 10,402 | 10% | +27% |
| City of Arabia | 0 | 6,518 | 2,852 | 9,370 | 0% | – |
| Dubai IslandsDLD: Palm Deira | 1,559 | 4,633 | 2,529 | 8,721 | 0% | – |
| Motor City | 46 | 1,375 | 7,215 | 8,636 | 0% | – |
| Jumeirah Village Triangle (JVT) | 631 | 3,130 | 2,868 | 6,629 | 2% | +37% |
| Dubai Science Park | 1,708 | 1,640 | 2,246 | 5,594 | 21% | – |
| Dubai Hills Estate | 1,685 | 792 | 3,053 | 5,530 | 31% | +3% |
| Majan | 916 | 1,719 | 2,679 | 5,314 | 2% | +12% |
| Arjan | 1,212 | 1,605 | 2,087 | 4,904 | 0% | +21% |
In projects DLD files without a community, due in the same years: 38,822 more homes. They are counted in the totals above, not in this table. “Off-plan costs more” repeats the 1-bedroom figure from the off-plan table above, for the communities that passed its rules.
A large number of homes due is the shape of the market, not a verdict on any community, project or developer. The pressure it creates sits with individual sellers.
How this is counted: homes are the flats and villas DLD records for each project; a villa project that lists only plots counts one home per plot. Projects that record no count: 131, so every figure is a minimum. “Planned finish” is the end date in DLD’s register, and these dates move — a date that has passed does not mean the homes are ready. “At least half built” is DLD’s own completion figure. “Already selling as finished homes” means DLD’s sale records show a finished flat or villa sold in that project by 15 June 2026. Homes handed over in a year are all of a project’s homes, counted in the year its first finished home sold. Source: Dubai Land Department projects register as of 15 June 2026, and DLD sale records to 8 September 2026. Analysis: distress.ae.
How these figures are made
- The last four complete months only: 1 May – 31 August 2026. A month joins once it is complete, and nothing older is mixed in — so there are no year-on-year comparisons.
- Genuine sales only. Our price register holds 44,839 sales for the window — homes and commercial units; land, whole buildings and hotel units are left out on purpose. These were taken out before any figure was computed (914 in all):
- priced under half their own building’s typical price — 99
- far below the rest of their district, with no building of their own to compare with — 1
- bulk deals — several units in one building, sold on one day at one rate, well under that building’s other days — 287
- repeat units of one purchase — 3 or more units in one building, registered on one day at one rate, counted as one sale — 527
- A price needs enough sales behind it: 5 genuine sales for the typical price and the cheapest-25% price, 11 for the cheapest-10% price. A district with fewer is left out, never estimated.
- The district tables follow the Land Department’s own district boundaries, named under each row; the everyday names are the main communities DLD records inside that district. The off-plan comparison follows the community DLD records for each sale instead.
- What this data cannot show: whether a particular flat resold below its original launch price. DLD’s records carry no unit number, so nothing on this page states or implies it.
- A low price describes what some individual sellers accepted. It says nothing about a community, a building or a developer.
Go further
- Building price registers — what units sold for, tower by tower
- Area guides — where below-market stock comes from in each district
- Data methodology — how the Land Department register is compiled and refreshed