Dubai Property Market October 2026: DLD Home Sales Report

Dubai recorded 9,999 home sales worth AED 21.27bn in October 2026, almost level with September. Registrations fell 1.0%, while sales value slipped just 0.2%.

More completed homes changed hands, offsetting much of the decline in off-plan registrations. Ready-home sales rose 13.8%, and their value increased by AED 517.7m—almost enough to absorb the AED 558.8m fall in off-plan value.

October at a glance

• Ready homes took a larger share: 3,606 sales, representing 36.1% of registrations, up from 31.4% in September.
• Most sales remained below AED 2m: 6,829 homes, or 68.3% of the total.
• Activity remained well below last year: sales were 45.5% lower than October 2025, with registered value down 52.6%.

Home sales only; excludes plots and whole residential buildings. Data as at 2 November 2026.

Ready homes offset weaker off-plan sales

Ready-home registrations increased by 436, from 3,170 to 3,606, while off-plan registrations fell by 537 to 6,393. Off-plan still accounted for almost two-thirds of sales, but completed homes supplied a greater share of October’s activity.

Ready-home value rose 5.6% to AED 9.68bn, compared with a 4.6% decline to AED 11.58bn for off-plan homes. With ready-home sales increasing faster than their combined value, the average ready-home sale value was lower than in September.

Fewer AED 10m-plus sales, more between AED 5m and AED 10m

The upper end of the market also changed shape. Sales of AED 10m or more fell to 160 from 184, reducing their combined value by AED 416.3m. In the AED 5m–10m band, sales rose to 466 from 399, adding AED 409.9m. Those opposing movements almost cancelled each other out.

October’s largest home sale was a six-bedroom ready villa at Eden Hills for AED 97m. Across the market, apartments supplied 8,697 registrations and villas 1,300; another two homes were classified as townhouses.

Dubai South and JVC led locations

Dubai South recorded 856 home sales, followed by Jumeirah Village Circle with 822. Azizi Venice was the busiest named development, with 526 sales worth AED 431.6m, ahead of Binghatti Skyterraces with 208.

The citywide median registered price eased 2.2% to AED 1.25m, while median price per square foot rose 0.8% to AED 1,650. Changes in the mix of locations, sizes and property types can move these figures in different directions. Neither measures how much an unchanged home gained or lost in value; recent sales of comparable properties remain the more useful benchmark for an individual purchase.

The year-to-date comparison

January–October produced 121,015 home sales worth AED 282.68bn, down 26.4% and 34.9% respectively from the same ten months of 2025.

Ready-home gains were enough to keep monthly sales value close to September, but the wider comparison remains subdued. October recorded 8,345 fewer home sales than a year earlier, a much larger gap than its 101-sale decline from September.

About the data

Projectory analysed Dubai Land Department home sales for 1–31 October 2026, using data available on 2 November. Comparisons cover September 2026 and October 2025; year-to-date figures use January–October in each year. Home totals exclude plots, whole residential buildings and non-sale transactions. See our research methodology for definitions.

Comparison updates and calculation notes

September now totals 10,100 homes worth AED 21.31bn, compared with 10,108 worth AED 21.30bn in the original report. All comparisons here use the updated figures.

DLD’s downloadable records take precedence where available, with verified source corrections retained; additional sales use DLD’s API records. Villa sales recorded under land categories are included where matched to villa inventory. Homes without project names remain included, and matching development names are combined. Off-plan totals include initial sales and resales. The price-per-square-foot median covers 9,209 October homes with usable size information. Later registrations or corrections may revise the figures.

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Projectory Research, Dubai Property Market October 2026: DLD Home Sales Report, 2 November 2026, dataset version 1.0. Link to this report. Please include the reporting period and data date when quoting these figures.

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Sources

• Dubai Land Department: Real Estate Data