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.
| Quarter | Purchases | Monthly average |
|---|---|---|
| Q1 2026 | 31,163 | 10,388 a month |
| Q2 2026 | 27,766 | 9,255 a month |
| Q3 2026 | 22,630 | 7,543 a month |
Source: DLD open transaction register, read 2026-09-22. Off-plan sales only.
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 2026-09-22.
| Unit type | Purchases | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 B/R | 28,459 | 36.2% |
| Studio | 24,512 | 31.2% |
| 2 B/R | 15,412 | 19.6% |
| 3 B/R | 4,572 | 5.8% |
| 4 B/R | 4,062 | 5.2% |
| 5 B/R | 1,531 | 1.9% |
| Office | 89 | 0.1% |
Source: DLD open transaction register, read 2026-09-22. Rooms as recorded; unclassified rows excluded.
| Completion year | Units |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 |
| 2027 | 13,903 |
| 2028 | 23,879 |
| 2029 | 29,124 |
| 2030 | 19,026 |
| 2031 | 5,907 |
| 2032 | 684 |
Source: DLD open project register, read 2026-10-16. Filed completion dates, which are not contractual dates.
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.
Source: DLD open project register. Multi-year index covers registrations from 2013 onward.
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.
Source: DLD open project register, read 2026-10-16, combined with filed completion dates and recorded construction percentage. Method: how we read the register.
| District | Purchases | Projects | Median AED/sqft |
|---|---|---|---|
| Madinat Al Mataar | 11,654 | 69 | AED 1,596 |
| Dubai Land Residence Complex | 4,300 | 77 | AED 1,377 |
| Jumeirah Village Circle | 4,289 | 150 | AED 1,499 |
| Al Yelayiss 1 | 3,415 | 10 | AED 1,822 |
| Majan | 3,380 | 36 | AED 1,396 |
| Palm Deira | 2,933 | 80 | AED 2,246 |
| City Of Arabia | 2,355 | 11 | AED 1,714 |
| Business Bay | 2,279 | 45 | AED 2,785 |
| Jabal Ali First | 2,216 | 26 | AED 1,450 |
| Al Hebiah Fifth | 1,901 | 13 | AED 1,706 |
| Al Khairan First | 1,867 | 13 | AED 2,508 |
| Dubai Production City | 1,743 | 22 | AED 1,412 |
| Jumeirah Village Triangle | 1,741 | 38 | AED 1,572 |
| Business Park | 1,597 | 5 | AED 3,517 |
| Arjan | 1,569 | 34 | AED 1,475 |
Source: DLD open transaction register, read 2026-09-22. District names as recorded (cadastral), which differ from marketing names.
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, 2026-09-22. 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 33 days long that cannot be reconstructed retrospectively by anyone.
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