14–19 September 2026: Dubai and Abu Dhabi Property Transactions Report

Abu Dhabi registered 593 home sales worth AED 3.12bn during 14–19 September 2026. Value rose 19.2% against the revised previous week, despite a 1.0% reduction in sales. Homes priced at AED 10m or more supplied 45.0% of the week’s value.

Dubai registered 2,099 home sales worth AED 4.33bn. Sales fell 18.5% and registered value declined 11.7% against the revised previous week.

The week at a glance

• Abu Dhabi’s upper end lifted value: 65 homes registered at AED 10m or more, worth AED 1.40bn, including an AED 350m Four Seasons villa.
• Yas Island led Abu Dhabi by volume: 175 home sales; The Canopies at Yas Point alone recorded 152.
• Dubai’s sales remained predominantly off-plan: 1,402 homes, or 66.8% of registrations.

14–19 September versus 7–12 September, using the corrected 21 September snapshot. Homes exclude separately registered plots and whole residential assets.

Comparison revisions: Dubai’s previous week now contains 2,574 homes worth AED 4.90bn, versus 2,961 and AED 5.47bn in the earlier publication. Abu Dhabi’s revised comparison is 599 homes worth AED 2.62bn, versus 250 and AED 1.22bn. The percentages above use these revised totals, reflecting registrations added or corrected since that release.

Dubai: sales and registered value declined

Dubai recorded 1,402 off-plan homes worth AED 2.59bn and 697 ready homes worth AED 1.74bn. Off-plan accounted for 66.8% of sales and 59.8% of registered value.

Jumeirah Village Circle led location totals with 199 homes, followed by Dubai South with 167. Azizi Venice and Raw District 2 by Imtiaz jointly led named projects with 51 sales each, ahead of Valia with 49.

Homes below AED 2m supplied 1,402 registrations, or 66.8% of the total. Thirty homes registered at AED 10m or more, worth AED 671.7m. The largest registration was an eight-bedroom villa at Lanai Island for AED 91.0m, dated 16 September.

Abu Dhabi: larger sales lifted value

Homes at AED 10m and above increased from 44 to 65, and their registered value rose from AED 770.1m to AED 1.40bn. Value below that threshold fell from AED 1.85bn to AED 1.71bn, explaining why the headline increase is concentrated at the upper end.

The largest registration was a six-bedroom off-plan villa at Four Seasons Private Residences on Saadiyat Island for AED 350m, dated 16 September. It represented 11.2% of the emirate’s weekly home-sale value.

The Canopies at Yas Point led named projects with 152 home sales worth AED 415.0m. Yas Island recorded 175 sales overall, Hudayriyat 132 and Al Reem Island 104. Hudayriyat supplied AED 1.19bn in registered value, including AED 856.8m across the Golf Estates Townhomes and Villas project groups.

Off-plan accounted for 495 homes, or 83.5% of registrations, comprising 462 initial sales and 33 resales. Ready-home sales rose from 86 to 98. Separately, 26 residential plots registered AED 53.0m and three whole residential assets AED 31.9m; neither is included in the home totals.

Projectory’s take: Abu Dhabi’s value increase was concentrated in high-value homes. Dubai recorded fewer sales and lower registered value, with off-plan still supplying two-thirds of transactions. These totals describe the mix of sales; they do not measure broad price movements.

How these figures are built

Projectory analysed DLD and ADREC home-sale registrations for Monday 14 through Saturday 19 September, with 7–12 September as the comparison. Each transaction is counted once. The snapshot was taken on 21 September 2026.

Dubai uses DLD CSV transaction dates, values and registration status wherever a CSV record exists. Transactions absent from the CSV use API dates and facts; API enrichment does not overwrite CSV facts. Valid home sales without project names remain included. Abu Dhabi uses the audited 21 September refresh, covering through 19 September and reconciled to the live register.

Homes comprise apartments, duplexes, penthouses, townhouses and villas. DLD land records matched to villa inventory are counted as homes; separately registered plots and whole residential assets remain separate. Commercial and mixed-use property, mortgages, gifts and other non-sale transactions are excluded. Dubai’s source does not reliably distinguish initial off-plan sales from resales.

Registered values and dataset medians describe the transaction mix. Price-per-square-foot medians use positive display areas: 1,994 Dubai homes and 590 Abu Dhabi homes this week. Previous articles remain dated releases. See the full methodology and data dictionary.

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Projectory Research, “14–19 September 2026: Dubai and Abu Dhabi Property Transactions Report”, 21 September 2026, dataset version 1.0. Link to this research. Retain the reporting period and snapshot date when citing figures.

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Continue exploring Projectory Research

• Previous weekly report: 7–12 September 2026
• Dubai’s August 2026 home-sales report
• Abu Dhabi’s August 2026 home-sales report
• Explore Dubai transactions and Abu Dhabi transactions.

Sources

• Dubai Land Department: Real Estate Data
• Abu Dhabi Real Estate Centre: Market Data