Dubai off-plan property statistics, 2026

Every figure on this page is computed from the Dubai Land Department’s open registers. Nothing is typed in by hand and nothing is repeated from a press release. The page rebuilds itself from the latest snapshot, so it is current on the day you read it.

Transactions read 2026-09-07 · project register read 2026-09-08 · free to cite under CC BY 4.0

One caveat that applies to every recent figure. The Land Department backfills transactions for weeks after a month ends, so the most recent month always understates itself and will rise. We learned this the hard way: we once published August at 7,591 purchases and called it complete, and it later settled 7,973. Quarterly figures are the reliable unit of comparison; treat the newest month as provisional.

Market size

77,970Recorded off-plan purchases in 2026

1,405Projects with at least one recorded sale

114Districts with recorded sales

Purchases by quarter. The current month is excluded because it is incomplete.
Quarter	Purchases	Monthly average
Q1 2026	31,171	10,390 a month
Q2 2026	27,771	9,257 a month
Q3 2026	17,415	8,708 a month

Source: DLD open transaction register, read 2026-09-07. Off-plan sales only.

Prices actually paid

AED 1,697Median price per sqft, across all projects

AED 1,565,000Median project-level purchase price

These are medians of per-project medians, not of individual transactions — they describe the typical project rather than the typical buyer. Prices are those recorded at the Land Department, not asking prices. Medians are never averaged or summed across projects.

Source: DLD open transaction register, read 2026-09-07.

What people are buying

Unit type	Purchases	Share
1 B/R	27,144	36.1%
Studio	23,352	31.0%
2 B/R	14,814	19.7%
3 B/R	4,380	5.8%
4 B/R	3,942	5.2%
5 B/R	1,497	2.0%

Source: DLD open transaction register, read 2026-09-07. Rooms as recorded; unclassified rows excluded.

Supply registered this year

374Projects on the 2026 register

90,214Units registered

AED 107.2bnDeclared project value

71.9%Logged at 0% construction

Registered units by filed completion year.
Completion year	Units
2027	13,673
2028	22,694
2029	28,161
2030	18,453
2031	5,907
2032	1,326

Source: DLD open project register, read 2026-09-08. Filed completion dates, which are not contractual dates.

Escrow accounts

An escrow account is the legal gate before units may lawfully be sold, and the mechanism that ring-fences a buyer’s payments. A project absent from a given year’s file has not necessarily failed to open one — it is usually registered in a different year.

274 of 374With escrow open, 2026 register

582 of 691With escrow open, all years indexed

Source: DLD open project register. Multi-year index covers registrations from 2013 onward.

Delivery outlook

Comparing each project’s filed completion date against the time its remaining construction normally takes for a scheme of its size. This measures the gap between a filed date and a normal build; it is not a prediction that any project will be late, and developers do compress schedules.

332Filed date consistent with work remaining

24Tight against normal build time

18Filed date short of normal build time

12,782Units in that last group

Source: DLD open project register, read 2026-09-08, combined with filed completion dates and recorded construction percentage. Method: how we read the register.

Districts by recorded demand

District	Purchases	Projects	Median AED/sqft
Madinat Al Mataar	11,316	69	AED 1,596
Dubai Land Residence Complex	4,182	76	AED 1,387
Jumeirah Village Circle	4,072	150	AED 1,499
Al Yelayiss 1	3,376	10	AED 1,822
Majan	3,116	36	AED 1,396
Palm Deira	2,882	80	AED 2,246
Business Bay	2,208	45	AED 2,747
City Of Arabia	2,205	11	AED 1,714
Jabal Ali First	2,122	25	AED 1,421
Al Hebiah Fifth	1,777	13	AED 1,706
Al Khairan First	1,732	13	AED 2,508
Jumeirah Village Triangle	1,683	38	AED 1,572
Dubai Production City	1,655	22	AED 1,412
Business Park	1,570	4	AED 3,581
Arjan	1,503	34	AED 1,446

Source: DLD open transaction register, read 2026-09-07. District names as recorded (cadastral), which differ from marketing names.

Citing this page

Free to use with attribution under CC BY 4.0. If you are writing about Dubai property and need a figure checked, or want a cut of the data we have not published, the underlying CSVs are on the open data page.

Certified Poor, “Dubai Off-Plan Property Statistics 2026”, computed from Dubai Land Department open data, 2026-09-07. https://certifiedpoor.com/statistics/

All figures derive from the Dubai Land Department’s open data gateway and are recomputed rather than taken from any market report. We publish the underlying CSVs at /open-data/, including a daily register history now 14 days long that cannot be reconstructed retrospectively by anyone.