DXBinteract · Dubai Weekly Residential Market Report · ISO Week 21
Dubai residential sales fall 7% in 18–24 May 2026
Apartment and villa transactions fell 6.6% against 11–17 May 2026; category prices are reported separately.
By Fateh Al Msaddi, Founder, DXBinteract. Updated 1 November 2026; source retrieved 1 November 2026.
Dubai apartments and villas: 18–24 May 2026 versus 11–17 May 2026. Source: DXBinteract analysis of Dubai Land Department (DLD) records| Measure | Reporting week | Previous week | Weekly change |
|---|
| Apartment + villa sales | 2,973 | 3,183 | -6.6% |
| Apartment sales | 2,814 | 3,003 | -6.3% |
| Villa sales | 159 | 180 | -11.7% |
| Apartment median AED/sqft | 1,683 | 1,555 | +8.2% |
| Villa median AED/sqft | 1,690 | 1,769 | -4.5% |
| Primary share of residential count | 72.7% | 78.3% | -5.6 percentage points |
Dubai recorded 2,973 apartment and villa sales in 18–24 May 2026, down 6.6% from 11–17 May 2026, according to DXBinteract analysis of Dubai Land Department records. Apartments contributed 2,814 sales and villas 159. Apartment and villa medians were AED 1,683/sqft and AED 1,690/sqft respectively.
Apartment transactions lead the weekly decline
Dubai apartment transactions fell 6.3% to 2,814 in 18–24 May 2026, while villa transactions fell 11.7% to 159. Apartments changed by -189 sales and villas by -21, producing a combined change of -210 transactions.
Apartment transactions made the larger contribution to the net change in count. This is a statement about the number of recorded sales, not an estimate of how many unique buyers entered Dubai or how the value of an unchanged property moved.
Separate apartment and villa medians give a clearer pricing picture
Dubai apartment sales recorded a median AED 1,683/sqft in 18–24 May 2026, compared with AED 1,555/sqft in 11–17 May 2026, a change of +8.2%. The category recorded 2,814 transactions this week.
Dubai villa sales recorded a median AED 1,690/sqft in 18–24 May 2026, compared with AED 1,769/sqft in 11–17 May 2026, a change of -4.5%. The category recorded 159 transactions this week.
A median describes the middle observation among the properties sold. Changes in location, size, specification or sales channel may influence it. Apartment and villa medians are not averaged into a residential price index, and a weekly median change is not like-for-like appreciation of the same home.
Primary purchases represent 72.7% of residential count
Dubai recorded 2,160 primary apartment and villa sales and 813 resales in 18–24 May 2026. Primary purchases accounted for 72.7% of residential transactions, compared with 78.3% in 11–17 May 2026. The split is calculated from apartment and villa category counts, rather than the broader market summary.
Dubai apartment and villa sales by channel, 18–24 May 2026. Source: DXBinteract analysis of Dubai Land Department (DLD) records| Channel | Apartments | Villas | Residential count | Previous week | Count change |
|---|
| Primary | 2,106 | 54 | 2,160 | 2,491 | -13.3% |
| Resale | 708 | 105 | 813 | 692 | +17.5% |
Primary means a purchase directly from a developer; resale means a secondary-market purchase. These are seller channels. Their price populations can differ in location, specifications and project mix, so a difference between channel medians would not by itself establish a discount on a comparable home.
The leading apartment and villa areas are measured separately
In Dubai during 18–24 May 2026, Dubai South led the supplied apartment-area table with 666 sales; Madinat Hind 4 led the villa table with 20. These are category-specific volume rankings using the source’s recorded geographic names.
Top reported areas for apartment sales, 18–24 May 2026. Source: DXBinteract analysis of Dubai Land Department (DLD) records| Listed position | Area as recorded | Sales count |
|---|
| 1 | Dubai South | 666 |
| 2 | Al Barsha South Fourth | 171 |
| 3 | Wadi Al Safa 5 | 158 |
| 4 | Warsan Fourth | 153 |
| 5 | Jabal Ali First | 135 |
Top reported areas for villa sales, 18–24 May 2026. Source: DXBinteract analysis of Dubai Land Department (DLD) records| Listed position | Area as recorded | Sales count |
|---|
| 1 | Madinat Hind 4 | 20 |
| 2 | Al Hebiah Fifth | 19 |
| 3 | Wadi Al Safa 3 | 13 |
| 4 | Me'Aisem First | 11 |
| 5 | Al Yelayiss 5 | 10 |
Where counts tie, their listed order is not a claim that one area has more sales than another. Source districts can contain several communities, and no unverified mapping to a smaller community is applied. The two top-five lists are not complete area datasets and cannot be added together to reconstruct a combined residential ranking.
Residential project counts are drawn from the supplied shortlist
Dubai’s supplied project shortlist for 18–24 May 2026 records 365 apartment and villa transactions at Azizi Venice 14, the largest residential count within that shortlist. The table below reorders the available projects using only their apartment and villa counts.
Five highest residential counts within the supplied project shortlist, 18–24 May 2026. Source: DXBinteract analysis of Dubai Land Department (DLD) records| Project as recorded | Area as recorded | Apartments | Villas | Residential count |
|---|
| Azizi Venice 14 | Dubai South | 365 | 0 | 365 |
| Bond | Warsan Fourth | 101 | 0 | 101 |
| Azizi Milan | Wadi Al Safa 4 | 84 | 0 | 84 |
| The Meriva Collection (All Buildings) | Dubai Islands | 62 | 0 | 62 |
| Verdana Residence 3 | Dubai Investment Park First | 42 | 0 | 42 |
The source selected this shortlist using a wider property population. Removing other categories and reordering the remaining counts does not produce an independently verified citywide residential top five. A complete residential-only project leaderboard would remove that limitation.
Methodology and reporting window
Source: DXBinteract analysis of Dubai Land Department (DLD) records.
This report covers Monday 18 May 2026 through Sunday 24 May 2026, in Asia/Dubai time, compared with 11–17 May 2026. ISO reporting year 2026 is used; ISO Week 1 can begin in December 2025. Source figures were retrieved on 1 November 2026, which is the extraction date rather than a confirmed transaction cutoff.
Only the source categories Apartment and Villa enter the residential totals, price measures, channel shares and rankings. Townhouse is a separate source category and is excluded, as are other property types. The source does not specify the exact data cutoff or sale-versus-registration date basis. Recorded counts are not described as unique homes or buyers.
Weekly changes are recalculated from raw values. The preceding week’s separately stored report is used consistently across this batch wherever it is available; for Week 1 the embedded prior-week figures are used. Medians come from the relevant category and are never averaged across days or property types. Figures may be revised as the underlying records and snapshots change.
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