This is a year-to-date snapshot, not a completed 2026 annual review. The precise coverage end date is not provided. The aggregate equals the stored Q1–Q3 totals; that reconciliation does not establish a transaction cutoff.

Dubai’s stored 2026 year-to-date report records 115,989 property sales worth AED 359.35 billion across all property types, with a median price of AED 1,694/sqft. Developer sales account for 71.6% of transactions. DXBinteract analysis of Dubai Land Department (DLD) records underpins these figures; the exact cutoff is unspecified, and the annual aggregate differs from the monthly snapshots.

Developer sales lead the YTD aggregate

The stored year-to-date aggregate is dominated by developer sales. It matches the sum of the stored Q1–Q3 totals, but not the sum of January–September monthly snapshots. The precise transaction cutoff is not supplied, so this page does not present a full-year result or an annual growth rate.

Developer purchases account for 71.6% of sales

Dubai developer sales numbered 83,003 in 2026 year to date, or 71.6% of all-property-type transactions, according to DXBinteract analysis of DLD records. Resales numbered 32,986. Primary means bought directly from a developer; it is not a synonym for off-plan, and resales can include homes still under construction.

Apartment sales lead with 93,307 transactions

Dubai recorded 93,307 apartment sales in 2026 year to date, the largest count among the property categories in this report. Category medians describe the properties sold; they are not valuations of an unchanged home.

Categories with fewer than 50 sales have small samples: their medians can move sharply when the mix changes. Total medians are calculated for the full population; they are not averages of category medians.

Business Bay leads the reported area ranking by value

Dubai’s 2026 year to date area table puts Business Bay first by sales value at AED 19.67 billion, for apartments, villas and commercial property only. This ranking excludes townhouses, plots and buildings, so its values and counts are not the basis for shares of the all-property headline.

Area names are reproduced as recorded. A DLD land district can contain several communities; the figures have not been reassigned to a narrower community name.

New apartment leases have a median annual rent of AED 68,500

Dubai recorded 106,983 new apartment rental contracts in 2026 year to date, with median annual rent of AED 68,500; 127,452 apartment renewals had a median of AED 58,000. These are separate groups of recorded contracts, not a measure of the increase faced by an individual renewing tenant.

The rental section covers the listed apartment, villa and commercial categories. The contract date basis is not specified in the stored report, so rental year-on-year changes are not reproduced here without underlying comparison values. Gross or net rental yields cannot be inferred by dividing unrelated citywide rent and sale medians.

66,391 units launched and 33,025 delivered

Dubai’s 2026 year to date supply summary records 66,391 launched units across 219 projects and 33,025 delivered units across 134 projects. Source: DXBinteract analysis of DLD records. Launches and deliveries describe different stages of supply; their difference is not unsold inventory.

Launched units are not necessarily sold in the same period, and delivered units may have sold in earlier years. These figures do not establish an absorption rate or a forecast of future completions.

The highest listed apartment sale was AED 422,000,000

Dubai’s 2026 year to date notable-sale list is led by an apartment transaction of AED 422,000,000 at Aman Residences Tower 2. The villa list is led by AED 350,000,000 in Jumeirah First. These are the highest entries in the supplied lists, not claims about all-time records.

The historical series uses a narrower property scope

Dubai’s 2026 historical-series row records 113,823 sales of apartments, villas and commercial property. This differs from the all-property-type headline. Historical annual rows are context only: the incomplete 2026 row must not be ranked against full years or used to calculate annual growth.

Stored component periods show how activity changed

Dubai’s component-period snapshots are shown below alongside the 2026 year to date aggregate. Each row retains its own stored figures; medians are not averaged across periods.

The Q1–Q3 counts and values reconcile with the yearly aggregate. However, the January–September monthly counts total 123,579, compared with 115,989 in the yearly aggregate. Monthly snapshots must not be substituted into this aggregate without resolving the difference.

What these figures mean for buyers, landlords and market observers

Buyers

The Dubai-wide median of AED 1,694/sqft in 2026 year to date is a context figure. Location, building, condition, size and the sales channel can all differ from this population. A change in the median is not a like-for-like valuation.

Tenants and landlords

New apartment contracts at a median AED 68,500 a year and renewals at AED 58,000 describe different groups. Their gap is not an individual tenant’s rent increase or a property’s net rental yield.

Developers and market observers

Developer purchases represent 71.6% of transaction count, while the supply summary records 66,391 launched units. Transaction counts, launched units and completed units measure different events, so they cannot alone establish how much new supply has been absorbed.

Methodology and definitions

Source: DXBinteract analysis of Dubai Land Department (DLD) records.

Figures are taken from the stored 2026 year to date report, retrieved on 2026-10-16. The retrieval date is not a confirmed registration cutoff. Sales count, value and median AED/sqft in the headline cover every property type. Area rankings and the historical series cover apartments, villas and commercial property only; they exclude townhouses, plots and buildings.

Sales are recorded transactions rather than listings or asking prices. Values are in AED and areas in sqft. Primary is a purchase directly from a developer; resale is a secondary-market purchase. Neither category establishes construction status. A median is the middle recorded value and cannot be averaged across segments.

Year-on-year sales comparisons, where shown, are recalculated from the corresponding stored 2025 and 2026 period rows on the same property-type basis. Monthly changes use the previous stored month and quarterly changes use the previous stored quarter. Figures may be revised as registrations and stored snapshots change; separately rounded category or channel values can differ slightly from totals.

The 2026 yearly row is incomplete and lacks a precise cutoff. No annual year-on-year percentage, full-year record claim, matched-window historical ranking or annualised forecast is asserted. Rental percentage changes are omitted where prior raw values or date definitions are not supplied. Named supply-project forecasts and rental yields are omitted because this report does not establish their basis.

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