Apartment and villa sales fell 38.7 percent to 33,627 transactions in Q3 2026
Apartment and villa sales fell 38.7 percent to 33,627 sales in Q3 2026, while same-homes prices excluding the leading contributor fell 5.87 percent.
Apartment and villa sales
33,627
down 38.7% against Q3 2025down 0.1% against Q2 2026
Apartments
29,580 sales
down 37.7% against Q3 2025, from 47,480
Villas
4,047 sales
down 45.0% against Q3 2025, from 7,361
First sales (primary)
22,778 sales
down 44.8% against Q3 2025, from 41,233
Resales (secondary)
10,849 sales
down 20.2% against Q3 2025, from 13,602
- First sales 22,778, 67.7%
- Resales 10,849, 32.3%
- Off plan 24,320, 72.3%
- Ready 9,307, 27.7%
Off plan was 77.4% in Q3 2025
Based on 33,627 recorded sales, Q3 2026.
Headline median (the midpoint) price per square foot appeared flat at 0.1 percent growth. Same-homes prices fell 2.00 percent across all developers and 5.87 percent excluding the leading contributor. The same-homes measure compares homes of the same type and size sold the same way.
The market in Q3 2026
10 measures of Q3 2026 at a glance
| Measure | This quarter | Versus a year ago | Versus last quarter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apartment and villa sales | 33,627 | down 38.7% | down 0.1% |
| Total value | AED 72.68 billion | down 46.8% | down 13.1% |
| Median price per square foot | AED 1,710 | up 0.1% | down 1.3% |
| Same homes, excluding the leading contributor | down 5.87% | already mix adjusted | already mix adjusted |
| Same homes, all | down 2.00% | already mix adjusted | already mix adjusted |
| Median size sold | 758 sq ft | down 7.7% | down 3.8% |
| Off plan share of sales | 72.3% | down 5.1 pts | down 4.8 pts |
| Apartment and villa first sales (primary) | 22,778 | down 44.8% | down 8.9% |
| Apartment and villa resales (secondary) | 10,849 | down 20.2% | up 25.2% |
| Sales above USD 10 million | 86 | down 20.4% |
A blank entry: not available for this period.
Same-homes prices compare the same types and sizes of home, sold the same way, with a year earlier, so a change in what sold cannot move them. Median means the middle sale: half sold for more and half for less. Off plan means sold before the home is built.
The register also recorded instalment sales (unclassified): 6 in Q3 2025, and none in Q3 2026.
Apartments sold off plan were 54.1 percent of last year's value and 62.0 percent of the fall. Without them, value fell 38.8 percent.
Why it may have moved.
Why it may have moved.Fewer sales and lower prices.
6 things happened at once that may each explain part of this move.
- Economy
Lower tourism and hospitality activity
This might be caused by lower tourism and hospitality activity (visitor numbers and hotel demand) (1).
Sales and prices moved as it predicts, and the parts it should reach moved most.
How we knowHow we know
This might be caused by lower tourism and hospitality activity (visitor numbers and hotel demand).
This may account for part of it, and so may other things
- Source
- Gulf News
- Tier
- Established press
- Happened
- Not recorded
- Reported
- 30 Jun 2026
- Read by us
- Not recorded
- Agreement
- 1 independent publisher
- What would change our mind
- Villas and family homes moved by the same amount (visitors do not rent 4-bedroom family homes).
- Came before the move: Passed. Reported 3 months before the move, inside the 1 to 14 month window this kind of factor is expected to take. The order of events works.
- Pushes the way the market moved: Passed. The market moved down and this factor pushes the same way.
- Fits which side of the market moved: Passed. Sales and prices together moved exactly the way this factor should move them (volume down, price down).
- Hits the parts it should hit hardest: Passed. The parts of the market this should reach moved more than the parts it should not. The gap was 7.6. That is what this factor predicts.
- Large enough for a move this size: Passed. It can move the market by 6 percent at most; same-homes apartment and villa prices moved 2 percent, so it is large enough to matter.
- Has done this here before: Passed. We have no recorded case of this happening here before, so there is no track record either way. That is not evidence against it.
- New supply
Fewer new projects going on sale
This might be caused by fewer new projects going on sale (2).
It could be large enough for this move, and it points the same way the market moved.
How we knowHow we know
This might be caused by fewer new projects going on sale.
This may account for part of it, and so may other things
- Source
- Khaleej Times
- Tier
- Established press
- Happened
- Not recorded
- Reported
- 20 Aug 2026
- Read by us
- Not recorded
- Agreement
- 1 independent publisher
- What would change our mind
- The number of new projects going on sale was normal.
- Came before the move: Passed. Reported 1 month before the move, inside the 0 to 5 month window this kind of factor is expected to take. The order of events works.
- Pushes the way the market moved: Passed. The market moved down and this factor pushes the same way.
- Fits which side of the market moved: Not measured. This factor does not predict a particular shape for sales against prices, so there was nothing to compare.
- Hits the parts it should hit hardest: Not measured. This quarter's figures do not split the market by offplan, apartment, ready. We could not check whether it hit where it should.
- Large enough for a move this size: Passed. It can move the market by 40 percent at most; same-homes apartment and villa prices moved 2 percent, so it is large enough to matter.
- Has done this here before: Passed. We have no recorded case of this happening here before, so there is no track record either way. That is not evidence against it.
- Rents
Lower market rents
This might be caused by lower market rents (tenants paying less) (3).
Sales and prices moved as it predicts.
How we knowHow we know
This might be caused by lower market rents (tenants paying less).
This may account for part of it, and so may other things
- Source
- Gulf News
- Tier
- Established press
- Happened
- Not recorded
- Reported
- 29 Jul 2026
- Read by us
- Not recorded
- Agreement
- 1 independent publisher
- What would change our mind
- Rent as a share of price moved a lot, so prices moved apart from rents rather than with them.
- Came before the move: Passed. Reported 2 months before the move, inside the 1 to 20 month window this kind of factor is expected to take. The order of events works.
- Pushes the way the market moved: Passed. The market moved down and this factor pushes the same way.
- Fits which side of the market moved: Passed. Sales and prices together moved exactly the way this factor should move them (volume down, price down).
- Hits the parts it should hit hardest: Not measured. This quarter's figures do not split the market by apartment, plot, offplan. We could not check whether it hit where it should.
- Large enough for a move this size: Not measured. How large a move this factor can produce depends on how far the factor itself moved. This quarter's reporting does not say. We could not check whether it is big enough.
- Has done this here before: Passed. We have no recorded case of this happening here before, so there is no track record either way. That is not evidence against it.
- Economy
Higher consumer price inflation
This might be caused by higher consumer price inflation (living costs rising faster) (4).
Sales and prices moved as it predicts.
How we knowHow we know
This might be caused by higher consumer price inflation (living costs rising faster).
This may account for part of it, and so may other things
- Source
- US Federal Reserve
- Tier
- Official statistics and regulators
- Happened
- Not recorded
- Reported
- 29 Jul 2026
- Read by us
- Not recorded
- Agreement
- 1 independent publisher
- What would change our mind
- Prices after removing inflation moved as much as before removing it (then inflation is not doing the work).
- Came before the move: Passed. Reported 2 months before the move, inside the 0 to 62 month window this kind of factor is expected to take. The order of events works.
- Pushes the way the market moved: Passed. The market moved down and this factor pushes the same way.
- Fits which side of the market moved: Passed. Sales and prices together moved exactly the way this factor should move them (volume down, price down).
- Hits the parts it should hit hardest: Not measured. This quarter's figures do not split the market by ready, cash, mortgage. We could not check whether it hit where it should.
- Large enough for a move this size: Not measured. What this factor can produce is measured in different terms from the move itself, so the two cannot be compared. Its size was not checked either way.
- Has done this here before: Passed. We have no recorded case of this happening here before, so there is no track record either way. That is not evidence against it.
- Money from abroad
A weaker currency in buyers' home countries
This might be caused by a weaker currency in buyers' home countries (5).
Sales and prices moved as it predicts.
How we knowHow we know
This might be caused by a weaker currency in buyers' home countries.
This may account for part of it, and so may other things
- Source
- Khaleej Times
- Tier
- Established press
- Happened
- Not recorded
- Reported
- 4 Jun 2026
- Read by us
- Not recorded
- Agreement
- 1 independent publisher
- What would change our mind
- That nationality's share of buyers did not move.
- Came before the move: Passed. Reported 3 months before the move, inside the 1 to 14 month window this kind of factor is expected to take. The order of events works.
- Pushes the way the market moved: Passed. The market moved down and this factor pushes the same way.
- Fits which side of the market moved: Passed. Sales and prices together moved exactly the way this factor should move them (volume down, price down).
- Hits the parts it should hit hardest: Not measured. This quarter's figures do not split the market by cash, mortgage. We could not check whether it hit where it should.
- Large enough for a move this size: Not measured. How large a move this factor can produce depends on how far the factor itself moved. This quarter's reporting does not say. We could not check whether it is big enough.
- Has done this here before: Passed. We have no recorded case of this happening here before, so there is no track record either way. That is not evidence against it.
- Economy
A weaker non-oil economy
This might be caused by a weaker non-oil economy (business outside oil growing more slowly) (1).
Sales and prices moved as it predicts.
How we knowHow we know
This might be caused by a weaker non-oil economy (business outside oil growing more slowly).
This may account for part of it, and so may other things
- Source
- Gulf News
- Tier
- Established press
- Happened
- Not recorded
- Reported
- 30 Jun 2026
- Read by us
- Not recorded
- Agreement
- 1 independent publisher
- What would change our mind
- Rents did not move at all (a change in incomes reaches rents first).
- Came before the move: Passed. Reported 3 months before the move, inside the 3 to 26 month window this kind of factor is expected to take. The order of events works.
- Pushes the way the market moved: Passed. The market moved down and this factor pushes the same way.
- Fits which side of the market moved: Passed. Sales and prices together moved exactly the way this factor should move them (volume down, price down).
- Hits the parts it should hit hardest: Not measured. This quarter's figures do not split the market by apartment. We could not check whether it hit where it should.
- Large enough for a move this size: Not measured. How large a move this factor can produce depends on how far the factor itself moved. This quarter's reporting does not say. We could not check whether it is big enough.
- Has done this here before: Passed. We have no recorded case of this happening here before, so there is no track record either way. That is not evidence against it.
These may also have played a part.
- New supply
More completion delays
More completion delays (homes finishing later than scheduled) (6)(7).
Two publishers report this, both in time to play a part.
How we knowHow we know
More completion delays (homes finishing later than scheduled) is a possible factor.
This is possible and we cannot put a number on it
- Source
- Khaleej Times
- Tier
- Established press
- Happened
- Not recorded
- Reported
- 30 Jul 2026
- Read by us
- Not recorded
- Agreement
- 2 independent publishers
- What would change our mind
- Completions matched the schedule.
- Came before the move: Passed. Reported 2 months before the move, inside the 0 to 26 month window this kind of factor is expected to take. The order of events works.
- Pushes the way the market moved: Not measured. The reporting on this factor cuts both ways, so we could not say whether it pushed with the move or against it.
- Fits which side of the market moved: Not measured. This factor does not predict a particular shape for sales against prices, so there was nothing to compare.
- Hits the parts it should hit hardest: Not measured. This quarter's figures do not split the market by ready, plot. We could not check whether it hit where it should.
- Large enough for a move this size: Passed. It can move the market by 5 percent at most; same-homes apartment and villa prices moved 2 percent, so it is large enough to matter.
- Has done this here before: Passed. We have no recorded case of this happening here before, so there is no track record either way. That is not evidence against it.
- Money from abroad
People and money moving here from abroad
Wealthy households relocating to Dubai and buying homes (8).
It was reported in time to play a part.
How we knowHow we know
People and money moving here from abroad (wealthy households relocating to Dubai and buying homes) is a possible factor.
This is possible and we cannot put a number on it
- Source
- AGBI
- Tier
- Established press
- Happened
- Not recorded
- Reported
- 17 Aug 2026
- Read by us
- Not recorded
- Agreement
- 1 independent publisher
- What would change our mind
- The mix of buyer nationalities did not change.
- Came before the move: Passed. Reported 1 month before the move, inside the 0 to 20 month window this kind of factor is expected to take. The order of events works.
- Pushes the way the market moved: Not measured. The reporting on this factor cuts both ways, so we could not say whether it pushed with the move or against it.
- Fits which side of the market moved: Not measured. This factor does not predict a particular shape for sales against prices, so there was nothing to compare.
- Hits the parts it should hit hardest: Not measured. This quarter's figures do not split the market by cash, mortgage. We could not check whether it hit where it should.
- Large enough for a move this size: Passed. It can move the market by 30 percent at most; same-homes apartment and villa prices moved 2 percent, so it is large enough to matter.
- Has done this here before: Passed. We have no recorded case of this happening here before, so there is no track record either way. That is not evidence against it.
- New supply
More new homes finished at once
More new homes finished at once (6).
It was reported in time to play a part.
How we knowHow we know
More new homes finished at once is a possible factor.
This is possible and we cannot put a number on it
- Source
- Khaleej Times
- Tier
- Established press
- Happened
- Not recorded
- Reported
- 30 Jul 2026
- Read by us
- Not recorded
- Agreement
- 1 independent publisher
- What would change our mind
- Fewer homes stood empty.
- Came before the move: Passed. Reported 2 months before the move, inside the 0 to 14 month window this kind of factor is expected to take. The order of events works.
- Pushes the way the market moved: Not measured. The reporting on this factor cuts both ways, so we could not say whether it pushed with the move or against it.
- Fits which side of the market moved: Not measured. This factor does not predict a particular shape for sales against prices, so there was nothing to compare.
- Hits the parts it should hit hardest: Not measured. This quarter's figures do not split the market by apartment, ready, plot. We could not check whether it hit where it should.
- Large enough for a move this size: Not measured. How large a move this factor can produce depends on how far the factor itself moved. This quarter's reporting does not say. We could not check whether it is big enough.
- Has done this here before: Passed. We have no recorded case of this happening here before, so there is no track record either way. That is not evidence against it.
- Money from abroad
The region feeling riskier
The region feeling riskier (9).
It was reported in time to play a part.
How we knowHow we know
The region feeling riskier is a possible factor.
This is possible and we cannot put a number on it
- Source
- Khaleej Times
- Tier
- Established press
- Happened
- Not recorded
- Reported
- 16 Jul 2026
- Read by us
- Not recorded
- Agreement
- 1 independent publisher
- What would change our mind
- Rents moved too (regional risk changes prices, not what tenants pay).
- Came before the move: Passed. Reported 2 months before the move, inside the 0 to 14 month window this kind of factor is expected to take. The order of events works.
- Pushes the way the market moved: Not measured. The reporting on this factor cuts both ways, so we could not say whether it pushed with the move or against it.
- Fits which side of the market moved: Not measured. This factor does not predict a particular shape for sales against prices, so there was nothing to compare.
- Hits the parts it should hit hardest: Not measured. This quarter's figures do not split the market by the parts this factor should and should not reach. We could not check whether it hit where it should.
- Large enough for a move this size: Not measured. How large a move this factor can produce depends on how far the factor itself moved. This quarter's reporting does not say. We could not check whether it is big enough.
- Has done this here before: Passed. We have no recorded case of this happening here before, so there is no track record either way. That is not evidence against it.
Home sizes moved by very different amounts.
This may also have played a part.
- Rules and fees
A looser off plan sales and escrow rule
A looser off plan sales and escrow rule (rules on selling homes before they are built and on protecting buyers' money) (10).
It was reported in time to play a part.
How we knowHow we know
A looser off plan sales and escrow rule (rules on selling homes before they are built and on protecting buyers' money) is a possible factor.
This is possible and we cannot put a number on it
- Source
- AGBI
- Tier
- Established press
- Happened
- Not recorded
- Reported
- 23 Jul 2026
- Read by us
- Not recorded
- Agreement
- 1 independent publisher
- What would change our mind
- Resale of finished homes moved by as much as off plan sales.
- Came before the move: Passed. Reported 2 months before the move, inside the 0 to 20 month window this kind of factor is expected to take. The order of events works.
- Pushes the way the market moved: Not measured. The reporting on this factor cuts both ways, so we could not say whether it pushed with the move or against it.
- Fits which side of the market moved: Not measured. This factor does not predict a particular shape for sales against prices, so there was nothing to compare.
- Hits the parts it should hit hardest: Not measured. This quarter's figures do not split the market by offplan, ready. We could not check whether it hit where it should.
- Large enough for a move this size: Passed. It can move the market by 30 percent at most; same-homes apartment and villa prices moved 2 percent, so it is large enough to matter.
- Has done this here before: Passed. We have no recorded case of this happening here before, so there is no track record either way. That is not evidence against it.
Whether 7 monthly moves held
- How unusual the move was: held in every month it was measured (August 2026, September 2026)
- Sales against prices: held in every month it was measured (August 2026, September 2026)
- Prices against rents: reversed within the period (August 2026, September 2026)
- Rate against size: held in every month it was measured (August 2026, September 2026)
- How the register filled: did not move the same way in every month of the period, so it did not hold (September 2026)
- What sold against what things cost: did not move the same way in every month of the period, so it did not hold (September 2026)
- How concentrated the period was: did not move the same way in every month of the period, so it did not hold (September 2026)
Sales
36,421 sales of every type in every use in Q3 2026. Median price AED 1,720 per square foot.
- Against Q3 2025down 37.2% up 0.5%
- Against Q2 2026up 0.1% down 1.6%
First sales
24,483 sales
down 42.5% against Q3 2025, from 42,586
Resales
11,938 sales
down 22.3% against Q3 2025, from 15,366
- First sales 24,483, 67.2%
- Resales 11,938, 32.8%
What might explain it.
- The headline price rose 0.1 percent. But the same-homes measure went the other way and fell 2.0 percent. That measure compares this quarter with the same quarter last year, for the same types and sizes of home, sold the same way. A change in what sold cannot move it. The two disagree because what sold changed, not because homes repriced the way the headline suggests.
Residential
35,545 sales of every type registered for Residential use in Q3 2026. Median price AED 1,720 per square foot.
- Against Q3 2025down 37.0% up 0.4%
- Against Q2 2026down 0.7% down 1.6%
First sales
24,208 sales
down 42.6% against Q3 2025, from 42,192
Resales
11,337 sales
down 20.4% against Q3 2025, from 14,246
- First sales 24,208, 68.1%
- Resales 11,337, 31.9%
Show the figures behind this chart
| Measure | Change on the year |
|---|---|
| Headline median | 0.1% |
| Same homes, all | -2% |
| Same homes, excluding the leading contributor | -5.87% |
Dubai Land Department registrations. Same-homes figures are already mix adjusted, so a change in what sold cannot move them.
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| Month | Off plan share of sales |
|---|---|
| Jul-25 | 75.3% |
| Aug-25 | 78.4% |
| Sep-25 | 78.6% |
| Oct-25 | 73.8% |
| Nov-25 | 74.2% |
| Dec-25 | 75.7% |
| Jan-26 | 73.4% |
| Feb-26 | 71.1% |
| Mar-26 | 77.8% |
| Apr-26 | 79.1% |
| May-26 | 76.3% |
| Jun-26 | 75.7% |
| Jul-26 | 73.2% |
| Aug-26 | 73% |
| Sep-26 | 70.5% |
Dubai Land Department registrations. Figures for earlier months can change as late registrations arrive; each edition prints what changed.
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| Month | Sales | Median price per square foot |
|---|---|---|
| Jul-25 | 18,755 | AED 1,670 |
| Aug-25 | 17,110 | AED 1,743 |
| Sep-25 | 18,976 | AED 1,717 |
| Oct-25 | 18,262 | AED 1,710 |
| Nov-25 | 17,386 | AED 1,769 |
| Dec-25 | 17,778 | AED 1,811 |
| Jan-26 | 15,298 | AED 1,812 |
| Feb-26 | 15,355 | AED 1,764 |
| Mar-26 | 12,930 | AED 1,740 |
| Apr-26 | 12,256 | AED 1,851 |
| May-26 | 9,173 | AED 1,691 |
| Jun-26 | 12,229 | AED 1,701 |
| Jul-26 | 12,505 | AED 1,712 |
| Aug-26 | 11,056 | AED 1,714 |
| Sep-26 | 10,066 | AED 1,697 |
Dubai Land Department registrations. Figures for earlier months can change as late registrations arrive; each edition prints what changed.
These figures count apartments and villas only, so they differ from the register's Residential line.
Apartments (built area)
| Segment | Sales | Price per square foot a year ago | Price per square foot now | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studio apartment | 10,929 | 1,805 | 1,748 | down 3.2% |
| 1-bedroom apartment | 11,321 | 1,649 | 1,635 | down 0.9% |
| 2-bedroom apartment | 5,755 | 1,888 | 1,706 | down 9.6% |
| 3-bedroom apartment | 1,375 | 2,296 | 1,932 | down 15.9% |
| 4-bedroom apartment | 173 | 2,984 | 2,812 | down 5.8% |
Villas (plot area)
| Segment | Sales | Price per square foot a year ago | Price per square foot now | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2-bedroom villa | 168 | 1,345 | 1,285 | down 4.4% |
| 3-bedroom villa | 1,137 | 1,519 | 1,557 | up 2.5% |
| 4-bedroom villa | 1,661 | 1,607 | 1,677 | up 4.4% |
| 5-bedroom villa | 773 | 1,512 | 1,724 | up 14.0% |
| 6-bedroom villa | 155 | 1,347 | 1,786 | up 32.6% |
Apartment communities (built area)
| Community | Sales | Price per square foot | On the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dubai Water Canal (Jumeirah Second) | 32 | 8,135 | up 7.9% |
| Meydan Racecourse Community (Nad Al Shiba First) | 329 | 3,396 | up 46.7% |
| Business Park (Zaabeel Second) | 92 | 3,160 | up 12.1% |
| Dubai Maritime City (Madinat Dubai Almelaheyah) | 278 | 3,111 | up 2.0% |
Villa communities (plot area)
| Community | Sales | Price per square foot | On the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dubai Hills Estate (Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid) | 74 | 2,403 | up 7.6% |
| Meydan Racecourse Community (Nad Al Shiba First) | 73 | 2,262 | down 2.0% |
| Dubai Sports City (Al Hebiah Fourth) | 114 | 2,103 | down 1.4% |
| The Valley (Al Yufrah 1) | 461 | 2,060 | up 49.7% |
| Off plan | This quarter | A year ago | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share of sales, by count | 72.3% | 77.4% | down 5.1 pts |
| Share of value | 66.5% | 77.0% | down 10.5 pts |
| Off plan deals | 24,320 |
A blank entry: not available for this period.
Communities by value transacted (apartments and villas together)
| Community | Sales | Value | Share of value | Median price per square foot |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dubai World Central (Madinat Al Mataar) | 5,252 | AED 6.27 billion | 8.6% | 1,708 |
| Palm Jumeirah | 205 | AED 3.41 billion | 4.7% | 3,364 |
| The Valley (Al Yufrah 1) | 685 | AED 2.83 billion | 3.9% | 1,930 |
| Jabal Ali First | 1,373 | AED 2.69 billion | 3.7% | 1,603 |
| International Media Production Zone (Me'Aisem First) | 782 | AED 2.67 billion | 3.7% | 1,465 |
| Dubai Marina (Marsa Dubai) | 787 | AED 2.65 billion | 3.6% | 2,188 |
| Jumeirah Village Circle (Al Barsha South Fourth) | 2,419 | AED 2.54 billion | 3.5% | 1,424 |
| Business Bay | 931 | AED 2.44 billion | 3.4% | 2,087 |
- The register holds 3,834 sales dated 1 July 2026 to 12 July 2026, an estimated 100 percent of what will register. It holds 29,793 dated 13 July 2026 to 30 September 2026, an estimated 100 percent. Per working day, and allowing for rows still to arrive, the two stretches differ by no more than ordinary variation at these counts. The dividing date is the one AGBI reported.
Other property types ("Other"): 2 sales, not shown separately.
Apartment
29,580 sales of apartment property registered for Residential use in Q3 2026. Median price AED 1,717 per square foot.
- Against Q3 2025down 37.7% down 2.9%
- Against Q2 2026up 0.3% down 1.4%
First sales
21,329 sales
down 42.6% against Q3 2025, from 37,186
Resales
8,251 sales
down 19.8% against Q3 2025, from 10,288
Off plan
22,078 sales
down 41.1% against Q3 2025, from 37,492
Ready
7,502 sales
down 24.9% against Q3 2025, from 9,988
- First sales 21,329, 72.1%
- Resales 8,251, 27.9%
- Off plan 22,078, 74.6%
- Ready 7,502, 25.4%
355,197 apartment units are registered and not yet finished, as read on 12 October 2026. That is the count now, not at the close of the quarter. Taken together they are 14 percent built.
| Largest pipelines | Units | Built |
|---|---|---|
| Jumeirah Village Circle (Al Barsha South Fourth) | 30,775 | 17% |
| Dubai World Central (Madinat Al Mataar) | 30,762 | 9% |
| Business Bay | 22,051 | 20% |
| Dubai Land Residence Complex (Wadi Al Safa 5) | 19,576 | 5% |
| Dubai Maritime City (Madinat Dubai Almelaheyah) | 14,680 | 9% |
Villa
4,047 sales of villa property registered for Residential use in Q3 2026. Median price AED 1,614 per square foot.
- Against Q3 2025down 45.0% up 4.7%
- Against Q2 2026down 3.2% down 2.1%
Resales
2,598 sales
down 21.6% against Q3 2025, from 3,314
First sales
1,449 sales
down 64.2% against Q3 2025, from 4,047
Off plan
2,242 sales
down 54.8% against Q3 2025, from 4,956
Ready
1,805 sales
down 24.9% against Q3 2025, from 2,405
- Resales 2,598, 64.2%
- First sales 1,449, 35.8%
- Off plan 2,242, 55.4%
- Ready 1,805, 44.6%
Residential, commercial and other uses, counted rather than read one by one
| Kind of property | Records, Q3 2026 | Against Q2 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Registered for Residential use, other than apartments and villas | 1,918 | |
| Hotel Apartment | 899 | down 17.0% |
| Office | 693 | down 7.8% |
| Retail | 324 | up 1.9% |
| Smaller groups: Other | 2 | |
| Registered for Commercial use | 570 | up 47.7% |
| Office | 421 | up 79.1% |
| Land | 57 | down 28.8% |
| Building | 52 | up 36.8% |
| Retail | 40 | up 21.2% |
| Registered for Other use | 306 | up 67.2% |
| Land | 249 | up 68.2% |
| Building | 57 | up 62.9% |
A blank entry: not available for this period.
Each group's first line is its total, and the lines beneath it add up to that total. These are other kinds of property, or uses where other property makes up most of the records. They are counted here, not given a section of their own.
The 10 largest sales recorded in Q3 2026
| Project | Community | Type | Price | Size (square feet) | Price per square foot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EOME | Palm Jumeirah | Villa | AED 260.0 million | 26,552 | 9,792 |
| DUBAI HILLS - HILLS VIEW | Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | Villa | AED 252.0 million | 34,188 | 7,371 |
| Aman Residences Dubai | Jumeirah Second | Apartment | AED 166.1 million | 10,021 | 16,572 |
| Villa in Al Merkadh | Al Merkadh | Villa | AED 160.0 million | 17,408 | 9,191 |
| Emirates Hills | Al Thanayah Fourth | Villa | AED 127.5 million | 42,071 | 3,031 |
| Palm Jumeirah | Palm Jumeirah | Villa | AED 125.0 million | 15,896 | 7,864 |
| Palm Jumeirah | Palm Jumeirah | Villa | AED 117.0 million | 12,673 | 9,232 |
| Palm Jumeirah | Palm Jumeirah | Villa | AED 110.0 million | 16,336 | 6,733 |
| Jumeirah Golf Estates | Me'Aisem First | Villa | AED 110.0 million | 15,874 | 6,930 |
| Palm Jumeirah | Palm Jumeirah | Villa | AED 110.0 million | 14,686 | 7,490 |
The largest residential sales the register recorded in the quarter. Project and community are printed as the register holds them. No sale is left out for being unusual, and price divided by size gives the last column, so any row can be checked against itself. One sale sits far outside the rest on price per square foot. Emirates Hills in Al Thanayah Fourth: AED 3,031 per square foot on the 42,071 square feet the register records. The others run from AED 6,733 to 16,572. A whole building sold as one unit, or a size recorded short, reads this way. So that rate is not what any one home sold for.
Rents
186,843 leases of every type in every use in Q3 2026. Median annual rent AED 78 per square foot.
- Against Q3 2025down 11.6% up 1.7%
- Against Q2 2026up 8.7% up 7.6%
Residential
156,555 leases of every type registered for Residential use in Q3 2026. Median annual rent AED 76 per square foot.
- Against Q3 2025down 8.5% up 4.5%
- Against Q2 2026up 20.1% up 7.0%
These figures count apartments and villas in every use the register records them under (Residential and Commercial), so they differ from the register's Residential line.
Moving in against staying put
| Lease | Median rent (AED) | Median, one year | Same homes, one year | Contracts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New lease | 72,000 | down 4.0% | down 5.62% | 75,619 |
| Renewal | 65,000 | up 1.6% | up 4.28% | 84,206 |
What a new tenant pays over a sitting one: 17.3% a year ago, 10.8% now.
Other property types ("Penthouse", "Office" and "Hotel Apartment"): 34 leases, not shown separately.
Apartment, registered for Residential use
138,945 leases of apartment property registered for Residential use in Q3 2026. Median annual rent AED 78 per square foot.
- Against Q3 2025down 8.8% up 4.2%
- Against Q2 2026up 18.7% up 7.3%
Renewal
73,348 leases
down 19.0% against Q3 2025, from 90,539
New
65,597 leases
up 6.2% against Q3 2025, from 61,781
- Renewal 73,348, 52.8%
- New 65,597, 47.2%
Villa, registered for Residential use
17,576 leases of villa property registered for Residential use in Q3 2026. Median annual rent AED 66 per square foot.
- Against Q3 2025down 6.0% up 6.5%
- Against Q2 2026up 32.4% up 5.6%
New
9,055 leases
up 12.7% against Q3 2025, from 8,034
Renewal
8,521 leases
down 20.1% against Q3 2025, from 10,667
- New 9,055, 51.5%
- Renewal 8,521, 48.5%
Residential and commercial uses, counted rather than read one by one
| Kind of property | Records, Q3 2026 | Against Q2 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Registered for Residential use, other than apartments and villas | 34 | |
| Smaller groups: Office, Penthouse and Hotel Apartment | 34 | |
| Registered for Commercial use | 30,288 | down 27.0% |
| Office | 16,528 | down 32.8% |
| Retail | 9,334 | down 22.3% |
| Apartment | 3,210 | down 23.3% |
| Hotel Apartment | 1,122 | up 82.4% |
| Villa | 94 | down 19.7% |
A blank entry: not available for this period.
Each group's first line is its total, and the lines beneath it add up to that total. These are other kinds of property, or uses where other property makes up most of the records. They are counted here, not given a section of their own.
What it means for developers, investors and others
Developer
- New launches face slower conversion as buyers turn toward completed homes and off plan options become more competitive.
- Larger family villas retain pricing strength, while apartment pricing requires more flexible payment terms to attract buyers.
Investor
- Rental growth on existing leases continues to provide income stability even as new letting rates ease.
- Yields are compressing in select apartment segments because purchase prices have fallen less than new tenant rents.
Analyst
- Headline price stability masks underlying price softening once developer concentration and unit mix shifts are removed.
- The divergence between villa and apartment capital values highlights a split between family homes and smaller units.
How PropertyDynamix clarifies property market trends
We analyse official Dubai Land Department transaction records directly to provide transparent pricing intelligence across every community.
- We separate pure property price movement from changes in what types of homes sold.
- We publish figures without the largest seller to remove the distortion of single developer launches.
- MOIRA answers specific questions about individual buildings, master communities and rental trends with all underlying data shown.
This review is built the way our platform works every day: MOIRA, our market intelligence assistant, answers questions about any building or community in Dubai with the working shown; the Market Terminal puts the registry behind every figure here at your fingertips; and pricing tools turn it into unit-by-unit pricing. Start free or read every edition.
What MOIRA expects next
MODERATE CONFIDENCE
MOIRA is the engine that read the registry behind every figure above. What follows is a projection from that evidence, not a record of it.
Transaction volumes lean toward a seasonal rebound in Q4 2026 following the quieter summer period. Historical third-quarter activity typically captures 27.71 percent of annual sales, setting a high baseline for comparison. A single developer accounted for 32.0 percent of Q3 2026 sales, which concentrates activity in specific sub-markets. Central bank interest rates remained unchanged, keeping borrowing costs steady for mortgage buyers. A pipeline of 355,197 unfinished units registered with the Dubai Land Department points toward expanding market choice. Regional shipping disruptions reported by The National on 12 July 2026 continue to inject caution into money moving in or out of the market. On balance, the market points toward steady transaction activity alongside continued price dispersion between apartments and villas.
In plain words. We expect buying activity to pick up slightly in the coming months as cooler weather arrives. Home sales fell 38.7 percent over the summer, meaning fewer people bought properties. Prices lean toward staying split, with larger family houses holding their value better than smaller flats.
Market sentiment: Soft, 31 of 100 (measured from 5 registry figures: 1 rose, 3 fell, 1 steady; outside conditions moved it up 1). The score is measured from the period itself: five registry figures, each counting plus one when it rose on the year, minus one when it fell, and zero inside a deadband so rounding cannot vote. Outside conditions the review weighed adjust that reading by at most ten points either way, so the same period scores the same however it is written up.
| What we weighed | Ground | Leans | On what evidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sales volume contraction | registry | restraining | apartment and villa sales fell 38.7 percent Year on year (compared with the same period a year earlier) | Dubai Land Department register |
| Autumn seasonal pickup | seasonality | supportive | third quarter sales historically account for 27.71 percent of annual volume | Dubai Land Department register |
| Upcoming home handovers | supply | restraining | roughly 47,000 homes were scheduled for delivery in H2 2026 as reported by Khaleej Times on 30 July 2026 | (6) |
| Central bank policy rate | financing | mixed | the base rate (the central bank's main interest rate) remained unchanged as reported by Gulf News on 29 July 2026 | Gulf News on 29 July 2026 |
| US Federal Reserve rate stance | macro | restraining | federal funds rate target was held at 3.5 to 3.75 percent as reported by US Federal Reserve on 29 July 2026 | (4) |
| Strait of Hormuz shipping closure | geopolitical | restraining | tanker traffic fell and war-risk insurance prices rose to 5 percent of vessel value as reported by The National on 12 July 2026 | (11) |
| Off plan mortgage financing tie-ups | policy | supportive | banks offer up to 75 percent financing on off plan projects as reported by AGBI on 23 July 2026 | (10) |
| Net population growth | demand | supportive | population grew by nearly 227,000 people since January 2026 as reported by Gulf News on 29 September 2026 | (12) |
| DIFC company registrations | demand | supportive | active registered companies rose 30 percent to 10,018 as reported by Gulf News on 28 July 2026 | (13) |
This outlook represents a projection rather than a guaranteed forecast. Future market direction can shift with new project launches, policy updates or unexpected changes in broader economic conditions.
Methodology and assumptions
- What we read. Dubai Land Department registrations for Q3 2026, as recorded by 11 October 2026: 36,421 sales and 186,843 leases.
- How the sections are cut. By the register's own labels, in this order: 1. the register: sales, then leases; 2. what the property is used for, as the register records it; 3. the type of property, as the register records it; 4. off plan or ready for a sale, new or renewed for a lease. The biggest groups come first. A group with too few records to read on its own is counted with the rest rather than read alone.
- Prices. A few sales far above or below the rest are left out of prices but kept in counts. Apartment prices use built area and villa prices use plot area, so the two are not compared.
- Who sold. Sales are split as the register files them. For Q3 2026: 22,778 first sales and 10,849 resales. First sales are homes the register records as sold for the first time, usually by their developer. The register often records an off plan home resold before it is built the same way, so some are resales. Resales are homes the register records as sold on by an owner after their first sale. Same-homes prices are matched by property type, bedroom count and kind of sale, so a shift from one kind of sale to another cannot move them.
- How we compare. Each figure is compared with Q2 2026 and Q3 2025.
- How reasons are weighed. First the register's own figures are asked, in this order: 1. Is the register still filling, or has it restated a period it already printed? 2. Did prices move, or did the mix of homes sold move? 3. Is the comparison distorted by the calendar? 4. Is the move larger than this market's ordinary variation? Each answer can end the question. Only what is left goes to dated news. Each report faces these checks, in order: 1. Came before the move. 2. Pushes the way the market moved. 3. Fits which side of the market moved. 4. Hits the parts it should hit hardest. 5. Large enough for a move this size. 6. Has done this here before. A report from after the move cannot explain it, so the first check decides alone. A check we cannot run is left out, never counted as zero. The likelihood words are stored with this edition, so they never change later.
MOIRA read 36,421 sales and 186,843 leases registered with the Dubai Land Department for Q3 2026. It checked 44 dated news reports from 7 publishers, and tested 16 possible explanations: 7 fit, 4 did not and 5 could not be measured.
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How these figures were checked
Sales fell 38.7 percent as same-homes prices dropped 2.0 percent
- The number of sales fell 38.7 percent and prices for the same kinds of home fell 2.0 percent.
What might explain it.
- Lower visitor volumes reduce short-let (rented by the night or week) returns and hospitality hiring, trimming investor demand for rental homes.
- A slowdown in off plan launches lowers registered transaction totals and limits new developer inventory reaching the market.
What would change our mind
- Lower tourism and hospitality activity (1): Villas and family homes moved by the same amount (visitors do not rent 4-bedroom family homes).
- Fewer new projects going on sale (2): The number of new projects going on sale was normal.
- Lower market rents (3): Rent as a share of price moved a lot, so prices moved apart from rents rather than with them.
- Higher consumer price inflation (4): Prices after removing inflation moved as much as before removing it (then inflation is not doing the work).
- A weaker currency in buyers' home countries (5): That nationality's share of buyers did not move.
- A weaker non-oil economy (1): Rents did not move at all (a change in incomes reaches rents first).
These fit, but how much each accounts for could not be measured.
- More completion delays (homes finishing later than scheduled) (6)(7)
- People and money moving here from abroad (wealthy households relocating to Dubai and buying homes) (8)
- More new homes finished at once (6)
- Tighter rent rules (rules on how much rents may rise) (14)
- The region feeling riskier (9)
- A looser off plan sales and escrow rule (rules on selling homes before they are built and on protecting buyers' money) (10)
The causes weighed above also fit other moves. Home sizes moved by very different amounts: 11 of them. Prices ran ahead of rents: 8 of them.
No dated report was weighed against sales and rents on their own this quarter.
Whether 37 explanations survived
- Tourism and hospitality activity: not yet tested (August 2026, September 2026)
- Change in news attention: not yet tested (August 2026)
- Quick resales for profit: not yet tested (August 2026)
- Sales bunched around a launch: not yet tested (August 2026)
- Buyer groups moving together: not yet tested (August 2026)
- People and money moving here from abroad: not yet tested (August 2026)
- Buyers' wealth elsewhere rising or falling: not yet tested (August 2026)
- Jobs rising or falling in one sector: not yet tested (August 2026)
- Workers arriving for one industry: not yet tested (August 2026)
- Families moving for schools: not yet tested (August 2026)
- Many new projects going on sale: not yet tested (August 2026, September 2026)
- Market rent change: not yet tested (August 2026, September 2026)
- Change in rent as a share of price: not yet tested (August 2026)
- Buyers expecting recent price moves to continue: not yet tested (August 2026)
- Currency move in buyers' home countries: not yet tested (August 2026, September 2026)
- Home countries limiting money sent abroad: not yet tested (August 2026)
- Sanctions or compliance rule change: not yet tested (August 2026)
- Consumer price inflation: not yet tested (August 2026, September 2026)
- More people moving to Dubai: not yet tested (August 2026)
- Change in the home value that earns a visa: not yet tested (August 2026)
- Central bank borrowing limit change: not yet tested (August 2026)
- Developers holding back or releasing homes: not yet tested (August 2026)
- Uncertainty freeze: not yet tested (August 2026)
- Prices pulled by one widely reported sale: not yet tested (August 2026)
- People leaving Dubai: not yet tested (August 2026)
- Foreign ownership or freehold area change: not yet tested (August 2026)
- Off plan sales and escrow rule change: not yet tested (August 2026)
- Infrastructure or master plan announcement: not yet tested (August 2026)
- Change in buyers' nationalities: not yet tested (August 2026)
- Completion delays: not yet tested (August 2026, September 2026)
- Wave of completed homes: not yet tested (August 2026, September 2026)
- More or fewer empty homes: not yet tested (August 2026)
- Change in how risky the region feels: not yet tested (August 2026, September 2026)
- Transfer or registration fee change: not yet tested (August 2026)
- Rent regulation change: not yet tested (August 2026, September 2026)
- Tax change: not yet tested (August 2026)
- Unexpected change in the non-oil economy: not yet tested (September 2026)
Prices ran ahead of rents.
Prices for the same kinds of home fell 2 percent while new-lease rents fell 5.62 percent, a gap of 3.62 percentage points (the difference between the two percentages). Prices held up better than what a home earns from letting, so each dirham of rent now costs more to buy.
One to put to your own figures: How did your property's rent and sale price per square foot change compared with the wider area median (the midpoint) over the third quarter?
3 checks not measured this edition.
- Same-homes rent for new leases, the same months of 2024 and 2025: not measured (a single group of leases holding a sliver of the contracts moves it further than a group that size can with an ordinary change, so it is held back rather than printed)
- Median residential sales price and rate by area: not measured (its 77 figures run from 64 to 7,736 AED per sq ft and 6 sit far outside the rest, more spread than one measure of the same thing can credibly hold, so it is held back rather than printed)
- Median residential lease rate and rent by area: not measured (its 150 figures run from 7 to 920 AED per sq ft and 2 sit far outside the rest, more spread than one measure of the same thing can credibly hold, so it is held back rather than printed)
5 checks we ran on Q3 2026, 1 not measured
Before this report offers any reason for a move, it checks the register and then the quarter's own figures. Each one can end the question, and when one does we say so instead of reaching for a story.
The sections follow the register's own labels, in this order: 1. The register: sales, then leases. 2. What the property is used for, as the register records it. 3. The type of property, as the register records it. 4. Off plan or ready for a sale, new or renewed for a lease. This period gave 8 sections. 4 groups too thin to read alone are counted with the rest (36 records). 17 groups outside the review's own types of property are counted in one table.
Whether the register had finished filling.
Nothing here needs a reason- Between 26 August 2026 and 11 October 2026, 2,072 sale records dated in earlier months reached the register, against 3,564 to 6,487 expected from how 1 earlier month filled. Fewer arrived than the pattern expects: figures for those months may still move when the rest arrive, or the register, or our copy of it, fell behind.
- 3 earlier figures changed since first published, each within what late registrations explain or with no fill pattern to judge by.
Price change against the mix of homes sold.
Nothing here needs a reason- The move was mostly a change in what sold. The headline price rose 0.1 percent. But the same-homes measure went the other way and fell 2.0 percent. That measure compares this quarter with the same quarter last year, for the same types and sizes of home, sold the same way. A change in what sold cannot move it. The two disagree because what sold changed, not because homes repriced the way the headline suggests.
The calendar and the comparison.
Nothing here needs a reason- Neither this quarter nor the same quarter last year includes Ramadan, so the comparison with last year is not distorted by it.
- Part of the change against last quarter is the number of open days. The quarter had 66 working days against 61 the quarter before. About 8.2 percent of any change in the raw count is the calendar rather than the market.
The move against this market's ordinary variation.
Not measured- How unusual the quarter was. Only 5 whole quarters of history are available here. We need at least 13 before saying how unusual a move is. It is not saying the move was ordinary.
Outside explanations for what is left.
12 offered, 4 ruled out
Explanations we checked and rejected. We weighed 16 candidate explanations against this quarter's figures. 4 did not fit, and this is the one a reader is most likely to have already had in mind.
- A lower property value threshold for the visa (a new price threshold for residency changes what buyers aim for). This factor pushes up and the market went the other way. That is evidence against it.
Possible explanations are scored against our published factor library, version 1.2.0.
How to read the likelihood: "might be caused by" means the evidence here supports it up to about 65 percent. That is a ceiling set by the kind of evidence a cause rests on, not a measurement of each cause. Causes worded alike are not ranked against each other. These limits were set before the period began and are not yet checked against how earlier explanations held up.
Were our projections right, in 2 notes
- July 2026, "What the evidence leans toward for August": written before projections carried a checkable measure, so it cannot be graded.
- August 2026, "What the evidence leans toward for September": written before projections carried a checkable measure, so it cannot be graded.
How our method changed, in 1 note
- This run checked 0 past explanations against the register. Across every earlier edition, 160 explanations carry a test written in words the register cannot check.
How these figures were made, in 6 notes
Coverage. Residential figures cover freehold (you own it outright) apartment and villa transactions recorded by the Dubai Land Department. Commercial sales and land plots are excluded from these figures. Q3 2026 as recorded by 11 October 2026, while comparisons use earlier months as recorded now.
Prices. Outliers are excluded from price statistics but retained in transaction counts. A minimum sales threshold is required before a community price is published. Villa prices use plot area while apartment prices use built area, so the two never compare directly.
Rentals. Leases reach the register weeks after they begin, so the reviewed quarter lease count is what had been registered by the run and rises afterwards. A fall in the count against the same period a year earlier overstates the fall. The rental level is the midpoint of registered leases, which reached 90.8 percent of the prior year level.
Attribution. Sales with no bedroom recorded accounted for 0.3 percent of transactions in Q3 2026, identical to 0.3 percent a year earlier. Size shares and bedroom breakdowns are calculated on tagged sales only.
Off plan. An off plan resale registers in the same form as a developer first sale, so off plan figures cover both transaction types. Figures for earlier months can change as late registrations arrive over time.
Beyond residential. The headline figures leave out Other, Hotel Apartment, Office, Retail, Land and Building: 2,794 sales in Q3 2026. Each is reported apart, in its own section or in the counted groups. None is mixed into the headline figures or their prices.
1 table or chart no section above used
These figures count apartments and villas in every use the register records them under (Residential and Commercial), so they differ from the register's Residential line.
| Measure | A year ago | This quarter | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contracts registered | 175,998 | 159,825 | down 9.2% |
| Median annual rent (AED) | 68,355 | 68,250 | down 0.2% |
| Median rent per square foot (AED) | 74 | 77 | up 3.9% |
| 1-bedroom, median (AED) | 58,000 | 60,000 | up 3.4% |
| 2-bedroom, median (AED) | 77,000 | 80,000 | up 3.9% |
| New contracts, share of leases | 40.5% | 47.3% |
A blank entry: not available for this period.
Leases reach the register weeks after they begin, so the Q3 2026 count of 159,825 contracts reflects what had been registered by the run and will rise. Registrations stood at 90.8 percent of the prior year, while older months such as June 2026 reached 94.7 percent and January 2026 reached 100.1 percent. Rent levels are medians of registered leases and are compared with the same period last year, so they are not distorted by registration lag.
Sources
| No. | Publisher | Title | Date | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dubai Land Department | Sales and leases registers | Read 11 October 2026 | ||
| 1 | Gulf News | UAE GDP outlook | 30 June 2026 | Link |
| 2 | Khaleej Times | Full-year 2026 delivery forecast and construction progress | 20 August 2026 | Link |
| 3 | Gulf News | CBRE Q2 2026 rents and volumes | 29 July 2026 | Link |
| 4 | US Federal Reserve | US Fed rate decision | 29 July 2026 | Link |
| 5 | Khaleej Times | Indian rupee versus dirham | 4 June 2026 | Link |
| 6 | Khaleej Times | H1 2026 handovers and forward pipeline | 30 July 2026 | Link |
| 7 | Gulf News | Launch slowdown and H2 2026 delivery expectations | 30 July 2026 | Link |
| 8 | AGBI | Foreign capital flows in Gulf equities | 17 August 2026 | Link |
| 9 | Khaleej Times | Dubai property reaction to renewed tensions | 16 July 2026 | Link |
| 10 | AGBI | Off plan mortgage financing shift | 23 July 2026 | Link |
| 11 | The National | Hormuz closure and shipping collapse | 12 July 2026 | Link |
| 12 | Gulf News | Population growth | 29 September 2026 | Link |
| 13 | Gulf News | Business formation (DIFC) | 28 July 2026 | Link |
| 14 | Khaleej Times | Rental index for shared housing units | 6 August 2026 | Link |
Also read, not used for a reason
| Publisher | Title | Date | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Khaleej Times | Q2 2026 launches and handovers | 16 July 2026 | Link |
| Khaleej Times | DLD completed projects H1 2026 | 20 August 2026 | Link |
| Khaleej Times | Completions versus schedule | 21 July 2026 | Link |
| AGBI | Construction costs and contractor capacity | 20 July 2026 | Link |
| The National | Contractor cost absorption and project schedules | 1 July 2026 | Link |
| Khaleej Times | ValuStrat VPI July 2026 | 12 August 2026 | Link |
| Khaleej Times | July ready vs off plan mix | 12 August 2026 | Link |
| Khaleej Times | ValuStrat June 2026 reading | 15 July 2026 | Link |
| Khaleej Times | Savills Q2 2026 handovers and launches | 16 July 2026 | Link |
| Khaleej Times | Q2 correction and H2 supply (Cushman & Wakefield Core) | 9 August 2026 | Link |
| Gulf News | CBUAE base rate | 29 July 2026 | Link |
| Gulf News | US dollar, sterling and euro | 19 August 2026 | Link |
| Gulf News | UAE and Dubai PMI, July | 5 August 2026 | Link |
| Al Jazeera | Global equities | 5 August 2026 | Link |
| The National | Population | 4 August 2026 | Link |
| Gulf News | Airline seat capacity | 3 August 2026 | Link |
| Gulf News | Tourism and hotels H1 2026 | 18 August 2026 | Link |
| AGBI | Employment and hiring (PMI) | 6 August 2026 | Link |
| Dubai Media Office | Schools and family settlement | 22 May 2026 | Link |
| Gulf News | Developer-bank off plan mortgage terms | 29 July 2026 | Link |
| Gulf News | CBUAE base rate decision | 29 July 2026 | Link |
| Khaleej Times | Two-year property investor visa | 1 July 2026 | Link |
| Gulf News | First-Time Home Buyer Programme expansion | 8 June 2026 | Link |
| Gulf News | Shared housing law takes effect | 3 August 2026 | Link |
| AGBI | Dubai 2040 plan infrastructure milestone | 13 July 2026 | Link |
| Al Jazeera | US-Iran memorandum signed | 17 June 2026 | Link |
| The National | July escalation and Brent $90 | 20 July 2026 | Link |
| Al Jazeera | Memorandum expiry and Hormuz traffic | 20 August 2026 | Link |
| The National | International visitors and geopolitical resilience | 13 September 2026 | Link |
| Gulf News | International arrivals and tourism recovery | 14 September 2026 | Link |
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