Dubai Property Open Data
Five datasets built from the Dubai Land Department's open data, published as plain CSV. Free to use for anything, including commercially, with attribution. No signup, no email, no API key. Everything here is reproducible from the government source by anyone who reads the method — that is the point of publishing it.
CC BY 4.0 Updated 2026-09-01 5 datasetsLand sales by project
Plot transactions grouped by project, separating developer site acquisition from communities selling individual plots to buyers. Land is 7.8% of Dubai transactions and 36.2% of the money, and this split is not reported anywhere we could find.
Download dubai-land-sales-by-project-2026.csvOff-plan transactions aggregated by development
Recorded purchases, median price paid, median price per square foot and unit mix for every development with at least one recorded off-plan sale this year. Prices paid, not prices asked.
Download dubai-offplan-transactions-by-project-2026.csvDubai project register
Every off-plan project registered with the Dubai Land Department this year: developer, area, status, escrow status, construction percentage, registered units, declared value and the completion date filed with the government.
Download dubai-project-register-2026.csvProjects without an open escrow account
The subset that has not yet cleared the legal gate to sell. Under Dubai off-plan law a developer must open a dedicated trust account before units can lawfully be sold. Usually a timing artefact rather than misconduct — most accounts open within weeks — but not published anywhere else.
Download dubai-projects-without-escrow.csvDaily register history
One row per day: projects registered, projects without an open escrow account, and the percentage. The DLD feed exposes current state only, so this history cannot be reconstructed after the fact by anyone who did not save it daily. It is the only genuinely irreplaceable file here.
Download dubai-register-daily-history.csvLicence and attribution
Everything on this page is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Use it commercially, republish it, build products on it, quote it in an article — all fine. The only condition is credit. Something like:
Data: Certified Poor (certifiedpoor.com), from Dubai Land Department open data
A machine-readable manifest of every file, with row counts and update times, is at /open-data/manifest.json.
What this data cannot tell you
Stated plainly, because the value of open data is that it can be checked rather than trusted.
- No buyer information. The register carries no nationality field and no way to distinguish a developer from an investor. Any claim splitting Dubai property purchases by nationality is not supported by this data, whoever is making it.
- Prices paid, not asked. There is no way to see what discount was negotiated.
- First sales and resales are indistinguishable. Each off-plan row carries one procedure type, so a developer sale cannot be separated from an investor reselling before handover.
- Current registration year only. The DLD feed returns an empty result for earlier years. That is the constraint the daily archive exists to work around.
- Nothing about build quality. Construction percentage is a filed figure, not an inspection.
The full method, including how names are matched between the two registers and where that matching can fail, is at how we read the DLD register.
Why publish this
The Dubai Land Department already publishes this data and deserves the credit for it. What it does not do is process it — the raw feed returns tens of thousands of rows per month in a shape that is impractical unless you write code against it. Everything here is that work, done once and given away.
We run an independent analysis site rather than a listing portal, earn no commission, and publish figures portals will not — the escrow gap, the difference between advertised and actually-paid prices, the developers whose filed completion dates keep moving. Open data is the same instinct: if a number is worth quoting, it should be checkable.
Found an error? It matters more to us than to you — tell us and we will correct it and say what changed.
If you want the headline numbers rather than the raw rows, the Dubai off-plan statistics page presents them with a source and a date beside every figure, recomputed from the same registers each day.