Dubai Property Market Q3 2026: DLD Home Sales Report

Dubai registered 34,002 home sales worth AED 67.42bn in the third quarter of 2026. Sales were 1.8% lower than in Q2, but their value fell 15.3% as off-plan activity slowed and a larger share of homes sold below AED 1m.

Completed homes had a stronger quarter. Ready-home sales rose 25.4%, with value increasing 32.5% to AED 22.82bn. Their growth kept the overall fall in transaction numbers modest.

Q3 at a glance

• Ready homes gained market share: 9,378 sales, representing 27.6% of transactions, up from 21.6% in Q2.
• Homes below AED 1m made up 41.4% of sales, compared with 35.1% in the previous quarter.
• Activity remained below last year: sales fell 38.2% and registered value fell 49.5% from Q3 2025.

Q3 covers July–September; Q2 covers April–June. Home sales exclude plots and whole residential assets. Data as at 16 October 2026.

Completed homes offset much of the off-plan slowdown

Dubai recorded 1,900 more ready-home sales than in Q2, offsetting three-quarters of the 2,519-sale decline in off-plan registrations. Off-plan sales fell 9.3% to 24,624, while their combined value declined 28.4% to AED 44.61bn.

Ready homes accounted for 33.8% of total sales value, up from 21.6%. Off-plan homes still supplied nearly three-quarters of transactions, but fewer sales and a lower average transaction value reduced their contribution to the quarter’s total.

More sales below AED 1m

14,067 homes sold for less than AED 1m, compared with 12,150 in Q2. Activity at higher price points was quieter. Sales at AED 10m or more fell from 825 to 619, and their combined value declined from AED 19.44bn to AED 13.66bn.

The reduction in sales value at AED 10m or more accounted for 47.6% of the market’s total quarterly decline in value.

Azizi Venice and Dubai South led transaction numbers

Azizi Venice recorded 3,972 home sales worth AED 3.25bn, accounting for 11.7% of Dubai’s transactions. Its median registered price was AED 699,000, placing much of its activity towards the lower end of the city’s price range.

Dubai South led locations with 5,322 home sales, ahead of Jumeirah Village Circle with 2,430 and Downtown Jebel Ali with 1,830. Apartments supplied 30,365 registrations, or 89.3% of Dubai’s home sales.

Dubai home prices: the median fell 10.2%

The median registered price fell 10.2% from Q2 to AED 1.17m, alongside the larger share of sales below AED 1m. Median price per square foot declined by a smaller 1.4% to AED 1,673.

These medians describe the homes sold during each quarter. They do not show that an individual property lost 10.2% of its value. For a buyer or seller, recent sales of similar homes in the same development provide a closer comparison.

The first nine months of 2026

Across January–September, Dubai recorded 111,018 home sales worth AED 261.43bn. That was 24.0% fewer sales and 32.8% less value than in the same nine months of 2025.

About the data

Projectory analysed DLD home sales for 1 July–30 September 2026, using data available on 16 October. Comparisons cover Q2 2026 and Q3 2025, with matching January–September periods for year-to-date figures. Plots, whole residential assets and non-sale transactions are excluded. See our research methodology.

Calculation notes

DLD’s downloadable records take precedence for transaction dates, values and registration status; sales absent from those records use DLD’s API facts. Eligible villa sales recorded under land categories remain included. Homes without a project name are also counted. All comparison periods use the latest available records, so totals can differ from earlier monthly reports. Price-per-square-foot medians cover 32,859 Q3 homes with usable size information. Further registrations or corrections may revise the figures.

The AED 10m-or-more contribution is that band’s change in sales value divided by the change in total home-sale value. Both inputs are included in the aggregate CSV.

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Projectory Research, Dubai Property Market Q3 2026: DLD Home Sales Report, 16 October 2026, dataset version 1.0. Link to this report. Please include the reporting period and data date when quoting figures.

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Sources

• Dubai Land Department: Real Estate Data