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 2026-09-01 · project register read 2026-09-01 · 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 7,975. Quarterly figures are the reliable unit of comparison; treat the newest month as provisional.

Market size

76,384
1,402
114
Purchases by quarter. The current month is excluded because it is incomplete.
QuarterPurchasesMonthly average
Q1 2026 31,174 10,391 a month
Q2 2026 27,774 9,258 a month
Q3 2026 17,418 8,709 a month

Source: DLD open transaction register, read 2026-09-01. Off-plan sales only.

Prices actually paid

AED 1,703
AED 1,573,078

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 2026-09-01.

What people are buying

Unit typePurchasesShare
1 B/R26,56536.1%
Studio22,79030.9%
2 B/R14,55619.8%
3 B/R4,3025.8%
4 B/R3,9035.3%
5 B/R1,4732.0%

Source: DLD open transaction register, read 2026-09-01. Rooms as recorded; unclassified rows excluded.

Supply registered this year

373
88,926
AED 107.0bn
72.7%
Registered units by filed completion year.
Completion yearUnits
202713,374
202822,153
202927,713
203018,453
20315,907
20321,326

Source: DLD open project register, read 2026-09-01. 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.

272 of 373
582 of 691

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.

332
24
17
12,483

Source: DLD open project register, read 2026-09-01, combined with filed completion dates and recorded construction percentage. Method: how we read the register.

Districts by recorded demand

DistrictPurchasesProjectsMedian AED/sqft
Madinat Al Mataar 11,174 69 AED 1,596
Dubai Land Residence Complex 4,132 76 AED 1,387
Jumeirah Village Circle 3,998 149 AED 1,495
Al Yelayiss 1 3,371 10 AED 1,822
Majan 2,935 36 AED 1,395
Palm Deira 2,860 80 AED 2,246
Business Bay 2,166 45 AED 2,762
City Of Arabia 2,134 11 AED 1,714
Jabal Ali First 2,091 25 AED 1,421
Al Hebiah Fifth 1,749 13 AED 1,706
Jumeirah Village Triangle 1,654 38 AED 1,572
Al Khairan First 1,629 13 AED 2,508
Dubai Production City 1,621 22 AED 1,412
Business Park 1,559 4 AED 3,580
Arjan 1,485 34 AED 1,452

Source: DLD open transaction register, read 2026-09-01. 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, 2026-09-01. 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 10 days long that cannot be reconstructed retrospectively by anyone.