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Dubai, in registered figures.

Not asking prices and not agency sentiment. What actually changed hands, what it went for, and what it earns, taken from the register every sale and tenancy in Dubai is recorded in.

Median price per sqft
AED 1,702The middle registered sale, by area rather than by unit, so a studio and a villa compare.34,463 records · Q2 2026
Median registered sale
AED 1,300,000Half of registered sales were agreed below this figure and half above.34,463 records · Q2 2026
Gross rental yield
5.18%Rent per square foot over ready-property price. Before the service charge.8,338 records · Q2 2026
Registered sales
36,857How busy the quarter was. It measures activity, not price.36,857 records · Q2 2026

Source: Dubai Land Department open data, export 8 September 2026. DLX Properties is independent of the Dubai Land Department and is not endorsed by it.

Latest complete period · Q2 2026
Registered sale transactions

How many sales were registered with the Dubai Land Department in this period. It measures activity, not price.

Registered rental contracts

How many tenancy contracts were registered in this period, new and renewed together.

Median registered annual rent

The middle registered annual rent for the period: half were agreed below it and half above.

New contracts

The share of registered tenancies in the period that were signed for the first time rather than renewed.

Source: Dubai Land Department open data. Source export: 8 September 2026. DLX Properties is independent of the Dubai Land Department; this information is provided for information only.

Prices and yield · Q2 2026

What Dubai actually sold for, and what it earns.

The middle registered figures for the last complete quarter. A median is the middle of what was registered, so one tower of penthouses cannot pull it upward the way an average would.

Median registered sale price

The middle registered sale price for the period, whole property rather than per square foot.

Median price per sq ft

The middle registered sale price per square foot: half the registered sales were below it and half above.

Median rent per sq ft

The middle registered annual rent per square foot, which is how rent and purchase price are compared like for like.

Gross rental yield

Registered rent as a percentage of registered price, before service charges and other costs.

Median registered price per square foot

The middle registered sale price per square foot: half the registered sales were below it and half above.

Q1 2022 to Q2 2026 · 631,086 registered records · Higher confidence, a large number of records behind this figure · Scale AED 1,059 / sq ft to AED 1,824 / sq ft

Median registered price per square foot, Q1 2022 to Q2 2026. Full figures follow in the table below.Q1 2022: AED 1,133 / sq ft from 16,891 registered recordsQ2 2022: AED 1,168 / sq ft from 18,983 registered recordsQ3 2022: AED 1,182 / sq ft from 22,066 registered recordsQ4 2022: AED 1,409 / sq ft from 25,149 registered recordsQ1 2023: AED 1,294 / sq ft from 27,442 registered recordsQ2 2023: AED 1,366 / sq ft from 26,411 registered recordsQ3 2023: AED 1,440 / sq ft from 32,435 registered recordsQ4 2023: AED 1,462 / sq ft from 29,935 registered recordsQ1 2024: AED 1,505 / sq ft from 32,980 registered recordsQ2 2024: AED 1,522 / sq ft from 39,144 registered recordsQ3 2024: AED 1,517 / sq ft from 45,968 registered recordsQ4 2024: AED 1,561 / sq ft from 46,365 registered recordsQ1 2025: AED 1,567 / sq ft from 39,675 registered recordsQ2 2025: AED 1,638 / sq ft from 44,786 registered recordsQ3 2025: AED 1,678 / sq ft from 53,522 registered recordsQ4 2025: AED 1,736 / sq ft from 52,875 registered recordsQ1 2026: AED 1,750 / sq ft from 41,996 registered recordsQ2 2026: AED 1,702 / sq ft from 34,463 registered records
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Median registered price per square foot by quarter, with the number of registered records behind each figure.
PeriodMedian registered price per square footRecords
Q1 2022AED 1,133 / sq ft16,891
Q2 2022AED 1,168 / sq ft18,983
Q3 2022AED 1,182 / sq ft22,066
Q4 2022AED 1,409 / sq ft25,149
Q1 2023AED 1,294 / sq ft27,442
Q2 2023AED 1,366 / sq ft26,411
Q3 2023AED 1,440 / sq ft32,435
Q4 2023AED 1,462 / sq ft29,935
Q1 2024AED 1,505 / sq ft32,980
Q2 2024AED 1,522 / sq ft39,144
Q3 2024AED 1,517 / sq ft45,968
Q4 2024AED 1,561 / sq ft46,365
Q1 2025AED 1,567 / sq ft39,675
Q2 2025AED 1,638 / sq ft44,786
Q3 2025AED 1,678 / sq ft53,522
Q4 2025AED 1,736 / sq ft52,875
Q1 2026AED 1,750 / sq ft41,996
Q2 2026AED 1,702 / sq ft34,463

Gross rental yield

Registered rent as a percentage of registered price, before service charges and other costs.

Q1 2022 to Q2 2026 · 232,907 registered records · Higher confidence, a large number of records behind this figure

Gross rental yield, Q1 2022 to Q2 2026. Full figures follow in the table below.Q1 2022: 4.8% from 9,165 registered recordsQ2 2022: 4.9% from 10,887 registered recordsQ3 2022: 5.1% from 10,875 registered recordsQ4 2022: 5.2% from 11,358 registered recordsQ1 2023: 5.0% from 12,071 registered recordsQ2 2023: 5.1% from 12,455 registered recordsQ3 2023: 5.2% from 13,419 registered recordsQ4 2023: 5.3% from 13,015 registered recordsQ1 2024: 5.2% from 13,708 registered recordsQ2 2024: 5.4% from 14,248 registered recordsQ3 2024: 5.6% from 15,223 registered recordsQ4 2024: 5.5% from 15,774 registered recordsQ1 2025: 5.2% from 14,918 registered recordsQ2 2025: 5.2% from 15,359 registered recordsQ3 2025: 5.5% from 14,689 registered recordsQ4 2025: 5.5% from 15,060 registered recordsQ1 2026: 5.2% from 12,345 registered recordsQ2 2026: 5.2% from 8,338 registered records
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Gross rental yield by quarter, with the number of registered records behind each figure.
PeriodGross rental yieldRecords
Q1 20224.8%9,165
Q2 20224.9%10,887
Q3 20225.1%10,875
Q4 20225.2%11,358
Q1 20235.0%12,071
Q2 20235.1%12,455
Q3 20235.2%13,419
Q4 20235.3%13,015
Q1 20245.2%13,708
Q2 20245.4%14,248
Q3 20245.6%15,223
Q4 20245.5%15,774
Q1 20255.2%14,918
Q2 20255.2%15,359
Q3 20255.5%14,689
Q4 20255.5%15,060
Q1 20265.2%12,345
Q2 20265.2%8,338

Source: Dubai Land Department open data. Source export: 8 September 2026. DLX Properties is independent of the Dubai Land Department; this information is provided for information only.

The read

What the quarter actually says.

36,857

29.0%lower than the same quarter a year earlier

Registered sale transactions

Sales registered with the Land Department were down 29.0% against the same quarter a year earlier. This counts how busy the market was, not what anything cost.

73%

15.2%higher than the same quarter a year earlier

Of registered sales were off-plan

More than half of what changes hands is bought from a developer rather than from an owner, up from 58% a year ago. It tells you which market you are competing in before you start looking.

-58%

57.8%lower than the same quarter a year earlier

New tenants pay over renewing ones

New tenancies and renewals are registering close together, which is what a rental market looks like when the pressure has come out of it.

AED 53,000

2.9%lower than the same quarter a year earlier

Median registered annual rent

The middle registered rent across Dubai was down 2.9% year on year. Half of contracts were agreed below this and half above, so your building may sit either side of it.

Every figure above covers Q2 2026, the latest quarter the registry has finished, and is compared with the same quarter a year earlier rather than with the quarter before it, so a seasonal dip is not reported as a market turning.

Price against yield

Al Hebiah First and Al Thanayah Fourth cost the same. One earns nearly twice what the other does.

Price per square foot
AED 1,693Al Thanayah Fourth is AED 1,702, inside 5% of it.
Al Hebiah First yields
7.27%527 registered sales this quarter.
Al Thanayah Fourth yields
3.96%66 registered sales this quarter.
40 Dubai communities plotted on median price per square foot against gross rental yield, Q2 2026. Price runs from AED 1,054 to AED 3,516 and yield from 3.96% to 9.09%. Price sets a ceiling on yield but not a floor: the cheapest communities include both the highest and the lowest yields in the city. Every figure plotted here is in the sortable table above.

Point at a community for its figures. A bigger circle registered more sales this quarter, and the dashed line is the Dubai median yield of 5.79%.

Cheapest third

AED 1,054 – AED 1,460 per sqft

Yields anywhere from

4.25% to 9.09%

Middle third

AED 1,473 – AED 1,806 per sqft

Yields anywhere from

3.96% to 7.27%

Dearest third

AED 1,822 – AED 3,516 per sqft

Yields anywhere from

4.30% to 6.66%

Read it left to right and the cloud tilts down, which is the rule everyone repeats: pay more, earn less. Read it up and down and the rule only half holds. Price sets a ceiling: nothing in the dearest third of Dubai pays above 6.66%. It does not set a floor. The cheapest third of the city runs from 4.25% to 9.09%, so a low price tells you almost nothing about the income. A low price per square foot is not, on its own, a reason to buy anything. Q2 2026, 40 communities, every one of them in the table above.

What it costs to own, community by community.

Price, rent, gross yield, the service charge that comes off it, and what is left. Select any column to reorder.

Dubai communities ranked on registered price, rent, gross yield and service charge for Q2 2026. Select a column heading to reorder.
Community
Al Hebiah ThirdAED 1,590AED 936.53%AED 85.37%
Al Barsha South FourthAED 1,489AED 886.87%AED 144.98%
Al Hebiah FourthAED 1,330AED 777.54%AED 134.78%
Al Warsan FirstAED 1,054AED 589.09%AED 104.57%
Nadd HessaAED 1,194AED 677.01%AED 134.52%
Wadi Al Safa 2AED 1,342AED 697.38%AED 114.34%
Marsa DubaiAED 2,153AED 1045.61%AED 193.95%
Madinat Al MataarAED 1,678AED 746.67%AED 143.55%
Business BayAED 2,350AED 1065.84%AED 273.37%
Palm JumeirahAED 3,516AED 1204.91%AED 262.69%
Nad Al Shiba FirstAED 3,411AED 895.34%AED 152.16%
Al Barsha South FifthAED 1,697AED 786.06%not publishednot published
Al Barshaa South SecondAED 1,717AED 866.32%not publishednot published
Al Barshaa South ThirdAED 1,612AED 835.98%not publishednot published
Al Hebiah FifthAED 1,806AED 795.09%not publishednot published
Al Hebiah FirstAED 1,693AED 727.27%not publishednot published
Al Hebiah SecondAED 1,517AED 1007.16%not publishednot published
Al Hebiah SixthAED 1,512AED 775.11%not publishednot published
Al JadafAED 2,041AED 814.30%not publishednot published
Al Khairan FirstAED 2,603AED 1245.37%not publishednot published
Al KifafAED 2,186AED 101not publishednot publishednot published
Al MerkadhAED 2,044AED 1266.37%not publishednot published
Al Safouh SecondAED 2,515AED 88not publishednot publishednot published
Al SatwaAED 2,350AED 88not publishednot publishednot published
Al Thanayah FourthAED 1,702AED 673.96%not publishednot published
Al Thanyah FifthAED 2,527AED 956.66%not publishednot published
Al Thanyah ThirdAED 1,929AED 1075.72%not publishednot published
Al WaslAED 3,021AED 1224.57%not publishednot published
Al Yelayiss 1AED 1,822AED 615.08%not publishednot published
Al Yelayiss 2AED 1,454AED 785.74%not publishednot published
Al Yufrah 1AED 1,335AED 684.91%not publishednot published
BukadraAED 2,488not publishednot publishednot publishednot published
Burj KhalifaAED 2,654AED 1275.36%not publishednot published
Dubai Investment Park FirstAED 1,213AED 728.04%not publishednot published
Dubai Investment Park SecondAED 1,442AED 108not publishednot publishednot published
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin RashidAED 2,320AED 1305.74%not publishednot published
Jabal Ali FirstAED 1,535AED 776.96%not publishednot published
Jabal Ali Industrial SecondAED 1,656AED 99not publishednot publishednot published
Jumeirah FirstAED 2,762AED 835.69%not publishednot published
Madinat Dubai AlmelaheyahAED 3,084AED 66not publishednot publishednot published
Madinat Hind 4AED 1,068AED 625.85%not publishednot published
Me'Aisem FirstAED 1,337AED 827.47%not publishednot published
MirdifAED 1,176not publishednot publishednot publishednot published
Palm DeiraAED 2,978not publishednot publishednot publishednot published
Ras Al Khor Industrial FirstAED 2,397not publishednot publishednot publishednot published
Saih Shuaib 1AED 2,712AED 54not publishednot publishednot published
Saih Shuaib 2AED 1,312AED 96not publishednot publishednot published
Trade Center FirstAED 3,332AED 78not publishednot publishednot published
Um Suqaim ThirdAED 2,592AED 129not publishednot publishednot published
Wadi Al Safa 3AED 1,460AED 654.49%not publishednot published
Wadi Al Safa 4AED 1,720not publishednot publishednot publishednot published
Wadi Al Safa 5AED 1,473AED 665.58%not publishednot published
Wadi Al Safa 6AED 1,417AED 604.25%not publishednot published
Wadi Al Safa 7AED 1,310AED 715.44%not publishednot published
Warsan FourthAED 1,130AED 697.85%not publishednot published
Zaabeel SecondAED 3,218AED 142not publishednot publishednot published
Every community with enough registered activity to publish is here, in Q2 2026, not a shortlist. A blank is a figure the registry did not publish for that community and period, not a zero. The last column is gross yield with the service charge taken off, and it is the one worth sorting by. Ranked on gross alone, a community with a 27 AED charge can outrank one with an 8 AED charge and still leave an owner worse off. It is still not a take-home figure: management, maintenance and the weeks a home sits empty come off after this.
Composition

Are you buying from a developer, or from an owner?

Two very different purchases sit inside one word. Off-plan is bought from a developer on a payment plan against a handover date. Existing property is bought from an owner and can be occupied, or let, the week it transfers. Which of the two dominates decides how you should be negotiating.

Share of registered activity that was Off-plan, Q1 2022 to Q2 2026, moving between 40% and 73%. The figures follow in the table.

Off-plan, against Existing property. Dashed line is half the market.

Q1 2022 to Q2 2026

The share of registered sale transactions that were off-plan, quarter by quarter. Both counts come from the same registry and the same period, so the share is a fact about the mix rather than a comparison across sources.
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Share of registered activity that was Off-plan, by period, with both counts.
PeriodOff-planExisting propertyShare
Q2 202626,81010,04772.7%
Q1 202630,99615,91166.1%
Q4 202539,01017,71068.8%
Q3 202539,74218,11268.7%
Q2 202529,86822,05757.5%
Q1 202525,30119,27856.8%
Q4 202431,08118,13363.2%
Q3 202431,15817,77763.7%
Q2 202425,49716,50160.7%
Q1 202419,59915,76555.4%
Q4 202317,48916,78551.0%
Q3 202319,71215,68555.7%
Q2 202314,51614,92449.3%
Q1 202315,69114,42452.1%
Q4 202214,03713,93550.2%
Q3 202211,54813,02347.0%
Q2 20228,54512,89639.9%
Q1 20228,21311,42841.8%
Apartments against villas

Which kind of home is actually changing hands.

Share of registered activity that was Apartments, Q1 2022 to Q2 2026, moving between 84% and 95%. The figures follow in the table.

Apartments, against Villas and townhouses. Dashed line is half the market.

Q1 2022 to Q2 2026

Villa demand and apartment demand move on different cycles in Dubai, and a headline transaction count hides which one is carrying the quarter.
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Share of registered activity that was Apartments, by period, with both counts.
PeriodApartmentsVillas and townhousesShare
Q2 202629,8812,07293.5%
Q1 202634,9524,79787.9%
Q4 202545,9964,11491.8%
Q3 202547,4392,42695.1%
Q2 202538,6902,80993.2%
Q1 202531,5784,31288.0%
Q4 202437,4504,90088.4%
Q3 202437,0085,26087.6%
Q2 202432,1233,19091.0%
Q1 202426,9842,68990.9%
Q4 202324,1623,14988.5%
Q3 202325,1813,30988.4%
Q2 202321,3962,39589.9%
Q1 202321,1843,01787.5%
Q4 202220,0222,47289.0%
Q3 202216,4492,21988.1%
Q2 202213,4432,22785.8%
Q1 202211,6422,14884.4%
Off-plan against ready

The same community, two prices.

Every price on this page until now blends off-plan and resale into one figure, which is the number least useful to somebody choosing between them. These are the two, apart, wherever the register publishes both.

Ready propertyOff-plan36 communities · median gap +35%

  • Marsa Dubai

    AED 1,854 ready, AED 4,480 off-plan · 492 and 139 registered sales

    +142%

  • Palm Jumeirah

    AED 2,455 ready, AED 5,815 off-plan · 136 and 75 registered sales

    +137%

  • Nad Al Shiba First

    AED 1,662 ready, AED 3,544 off-plan · 114 and 404 registered sales

    +113%

  • Dubai Investment Park Second

    AED 700 ready, AED 1,463 off-plan · 33 and 182 registered sales

    +109%

  • Al Warsan First

    AED 640 ready, AED 1,281 off-plan · 236 and 275 registered sales

    +100%

  • Al Thanyah Fifth

    AED 1,421 ready, AED 2,624 off-plan · 167 and 554 registered sales

    +85%

  • Al Hebiah First

    AED 995 ready, AED 1,811 off-plan · 135 and 392 registered sales

    +82%

  • Nadd Hessa

    AED 955 ready, AED 1,576 off-plan · 180 and 120 registered sales

    +65%

  • Wadi Al Safa 2

    AED 937 ready, AED 1,522 off-plan · 117 and 178 registered sales

    +62%

  • Madinat Al Mataar

    AED 1,103 ready, AED 1,694 off-plan · 247 and 5,057 registered sales

    +54%

  • Al Yelayiss 1

    AED 1,200 ready, AED 1,822 off-plan · 42 and 428 registered sales

    +52%

  • Jabal Ali First

    AED 1,101 ready, AED 1,662 off-plan · 464 and 1,341 registered sales

    +51%

This is what buyers paid, not a verdict on whether they overpaid. Off-plan is new construction and the ready property beside it can be fifteen years old, so part of every gap here is simply what new costs anywhere, and the published figures cannot separate the two. Read it as the question to take into the room: in Q2 2026, a square foot of off-plan in these communities registered a median +35% against a square foot of something you could walk through. In 2 of them it registered below the ready-property price, which is worth asking about. Both sides of every row cleared thirty registered sales on their own; communities where only one side did are not shown, because a ratio against three transactions is not a figure.
Rental pressure

What a new tenant pays, against what a renewing one pays.

Both medians are published separately and almost nobody puts them side by side. The distance between them is the clearest read on rental pressure there is, and it is the figure that decides whether a tenanted apartment is already earning what it should.

Median registered annual rent on new tenancies against renewals, Q1 2022 to Q2 2026. In the latest period a new tenancy registered AED 27,000 against AED 64,000 on a renewal, a difference of -57.8%. The figures follow in the table.

New tenancies

Renewals

Latest: AED 27,000 against AED 64,000, a discount of 57.8%

Both lines are medians across the whole of Dubai, so they describe the market rather than any one building. The gap is the useful part: while a new tenancy registers above a renewal, sitting tenants are below the market and an owner’s income moves at the next re-let, not at renewal.
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Median registered annual rent on new tenancies and on renewals, by period.
PeriodNew tenancyRenewalDifference
Q2 2026AED 27,000AED 64,000-57.8%
Q1 2026AED 48,000AED 64,000-25.0%
Q4 2025AED 49,000AED 63,000-22.2%
Q3 2025AED 48,000AED 64,400-25.5%
Q2 2025AED 40,775AED 60,720-32.8%
Q1 2025AED 42,000AED 60,000-30.0%
Q4 2024AED 44,188AED 60,000-26.4%
Q3 2024AED 41,920AED 60,900-31.2%
Q2 2024AED 40,000AED 57,880-30.9%
Q1 2024AED 41,000AED 56,604-27.6%
Q4 2023AED 40,456AED 55,440-27.0%
Q3 2023AED 46,154AED 57,000-19.0%
Q2 2023AED 45,000AED 54,027-16.7%
Q1 2023AED 45,000AED 53,130-15.3%
Q4 2022AED 42,000AED 52,000-19.2%
Q3 2022AED 44,000AED 54,873-19.8%
Q2 2022AED 43,000AED 52,000-17.3%
Q1 2022AED 42,000AED 52,000-19.2%
Over time

How much changes hands, month by month

Two counts, drawn from the registry itself. Both axes start at zero and no period is filled in where the registry has too few records to report.

Registered sale transactions

How many sales were registered with the Dubai Land Department in this period. It measures activity, not price.

January 2023 to August 2026 · 624,955 registered records · Higher confidence, a large number of records behind this figure

Registered sale transactions, January 2023 to August 2026. Full figures follow in the table below.January 2023: 9,379 from 9,379 registered recordsFebruary 2023: 9,127 from 9,127 registered recordsMarch 2023: 11,609 from 11,609 registered recordsApril 2023: 7,819 from 7,819 registered recordsMay 2023: 11,373 from 11,373 registered recordsJune 2023: 10,248 from 10,248 registered recordsJuly 2023: 10,800 from 10,800 registered recordsAugust 2023: 11,478 from 11,478 registered recordsSeptember 2023: 13,119 from 13,119 registered recordsOctober 2023: 11,516 from 11,516 registered recordsNovember 2023: 11,834 from 11,834 registered recordsDecember 2023: 10,924 from 10,924 registered recordsJanuary 2024: 10,874 from 10,874 registered recordsFebruary 2024: 11,609 from 11,609 registered recordsMarch 2024: 12,881 from 12,881 registered recordsApril 2024: 11,306 from 11,306 registered recordsMay 2024: 16,907 from 16,907 registered recordsJune 2024: 13,785 from 13,785 registered recordsJuly 2024: 15,964 from 15,964 registered recordsAugust 2024: 15,621 from 15,621 registered recordsSeptember 2024: 17,350 from 17,350 registered recordsOctober 2024: 20,013 from 20,013 registered recordsNovember 2024: 14,001 from 14,001 registered recordsDecember 2024: 15,200 from 15,200 registered recordsJanuary 2025: 13,908 from 13,908 registered recordsFebruary 2025: 15,680 from 15,680 registered recordsMarch 2025: 14,991 from 14,991 registered recordsApril 2025: 17,510 from 17,510 registered recordsMay 2025: 18,235 from 18,235 registered recordsJune 2025: 16,180 from 16,180 registered recordsJuly 2025: 19,859 from 19,859 registered recordsAugust 2025: 18,030 from 18,030 registered recordsSeptember 2025: 19,965 from 19,965 registered recordsOctober 2025: 19,389 from 19,389 registered recordsNovember 2025: 18,435 from 18,435 registered recordsDecember 2025: 18,896 from 18,896 registered recordsJanuary 2026: 16,595 from 16,595 registered recordsFebruary 2026: 16,719 from 16,719 registered recordsMarch 2026: 13,593 from 13,593 registered recordsApril 2026: 13,601 from 13,601 registered recordsMay 2026: 9,874 from 9,874 registered recordsJune 2026: 13,382 from 13,382 registered recordsJuly 2026: 13,500 from 13,500 registered recordsAugust 2026: 11,876 from 11,876 registered records
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Registered sale transactions by month, with the number of registered records behind each figure.
PeriodRegistered sale transactionsRecords
January 20239,3799,379
February 20239,1279,127
March 202311,60911,609
April 20237,8197,819
May 202311,37311,373
June 202310,24810,248
July 202310,80010,800
August 202311,47811,478
September 202313,11913,119
October 202311,51611,516
November 202311,83411,834
December 202310,92410,924
January 202410,87410,874
February 202411,60911,609
March 202412,88112,881
April 202411,30611,306
May 202416,90716,907
June 202413,78513,785
July 202415,96415,964
August 202415,62115,621
September 202417,35017,350
October 202420,01320,013
November 202414,00114,001
December 202415,20015,200
January 202513,90813,908
February 202515,68015,680
March 202514,99114,991
April 202517,51017,510
May 202518,23518,235
June 202516,18016,180
July 202519,85919,859
August 202518,03018,030
September 202519,96519,965
October 202519,38919,389
November 202518,43518,435
December 202518,89618,896
January 202616,59516,595
February 202616,71916,719
March 202613,59313,593
April 202613,60113,601
May 20269,8749,874
June 202613,38213,382
July 202613,50013,500
August 202611,87611,876

Registered rental contracts

How many tenancy contracts were registered in this period, new and renewed together.

January 2023 to August 2026 · 3,463,859 registered records · Higher confidence, a large number of records behind this figure

Registered rental contracts, January 2023 to August 2026. Full figures follow in the table below.January 2023: 87,368 from 87,368 registered recordsFebruary 2023: 65,345 from 65,345 registered recordsMarch 2023: 67,394 from 67,394 registered recordsApril 2023: 61,772 from 61,772 registered recordsMay 2023: 59,250 from 59,250 registered recordsJune 2023: 59,397 from 59,397 registered recordsJuly 2023: 64,896 from 64,896 registered recordsAugust 2023: 69,199 from 69,199 registered recordsSeptember 2023: 73,978 from 73,978 registered recordsOctober 2023: 80,279 from 80,279 registered recordsNovember 2023: 77,732 from 77,732 registered recordsDecember 2023: 73,979 from 73,979 registered recordsJanuary 2024: 97,859 from 97,859 registered recordsFebruary 2024: 80,689 from 80,689 registered recordsMarch 2024: 75,705 from 75,705 registered recordsApril 2024: 69,178 from 69,178 registered recordsMay 2024: 74,602 from 74,602 registered recordsJune 2024: 66,829 from 66,829 registered recordsJuly 2024: 79,038 from 79,038 registered recordsAugust 2024: 80,781 from 80,781 registered recordsSeptember 2024: 86,495 from 86,495 registered recordsOctober 2024: 87,792 from 87,792 registered recordsNovember 2024: 83,541 from 83,541 registered recordsDecember 2024: 79,929 from 79,929 registered recordsJanuary 2025: 105,630 from 105,630 registered recordsFebruary 2025: 83,718 from 83,718 registered recordsMarch 2025: 82,266 from 82,266 registered recordsApril 2025: 78,713 from 78,713 registered recordsMay 2025: 79,054 from 79,054 registered recordsJune 2025: 72,872 from 72,872 registered recordsJuly 2025: 84,578 from 84,578 registered recordsAugust 2025: 85,788 from 85,788 registered recordsSeptember 2025: 89,953 from 89,953 registered recordsOctober 2025: 93,185 from 93,185 registered recordsNovember 2025: 87,849 from 87,849 registered recordsDecember 2025: 81,650 from 81,650 registered recordsJanuary 2026: 108,893 from 108,893 registered recordsFebruary 2026: 83,775 from 83,775 registered recordsMarch 2026: 72,238 from 72,238 registered recordsApril 2026: 77,927 from 77,927 registered recordsMay 2026: 68,421 from 68,421 registered recordsJune 2026: 75,359 from 75,359 registered recordsJuly 2026: 76,590 from 76,590 registered recordsAugust 2026: 72,373 from 72,373 registered records
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Registered rental contracts by month, with the number of registered records behind each figure.
PeriodRegistered rental contractsRecords
January 202387,36887,368
February 202365,34565,345
March 202367,39467,394
April 202361,77261,772
May 202359,25059,250
June 202359,39759,397
July 202364,89664,896
August 202369,19969,199
September 202373,97873,978
October 202380,27980,279
November 202377,73277,732
December 202373,97973,979
January 202497,85997,859
February 202480,68980,689
March 202475,70575,705
April 202469,17869,178
May 202474,60274,602
June 202466,82966,829
July 202479,03879,038
August 202480,78180,781
September 202486,49586,495
October 202487,79287,792
November 202483,54183,541
December 202479,92979,929
January 2025105,630105,630
February 202583,71883,718
March 202582,26682,266
April 202578,71378,713
May 202579,05479,054
June 202572,87272,872
July 202584,57884,578
August 202585,78885,788
September 202589,95389,953
October 202593,18593,185
November 202587,84987,849
December 202581,65081,650
January 2026108,893108,893
February 202683,77583,775
March 202672,23872,238
April 202677,92777,927
May 202668,42168,421
June 202675,35975,359
July 202676,59076,590
August 202672,37372,373

New tenants, or the same ones staying?

A market where most registered tenancies are renewals behaves differently from one where most are new. This is the composition of registered contracts, quarter by quarter, and beneath it the middle registered rent over the same periods.

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New and renewed registered rental contracts

The share of registered tenancy contracts that were signed for the first time, against those where an existing tenant stayed on.

  • Q3 202347% new
  • Q4 202349% new
  • Q1 202446% new
  • Q2 202448% new
  • Q3 202451% new
  • Q4 202449% new
  • Q1 202547% new
  • Q2 202551% new
  • Q3 202552% new
  • Q4 202551% new
  • Q1 202645% new
  • Q2 202651% new
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New and renewed registered rental contracts by quarter.
QuarterNew contractsRenewals
Q3 202398,331109,742
Q4 2023113,328118,662
Q1 2024116,153138,100
Q2 2024101,211109,398
Q3 2024125,805120,509
Q4 2024124,268126,994
Q1 2025126,546145,068
Q2 2025117,988112,651
Q3 2025134,781125,538
Q4 2025134,540128,144
Q1 2026118,916145,990
Q2 2026113,007108,700

Median registered annual rent

The middle registered annual rent for the period: half were agreed below it and half above.

Q1 2022 to Q2 2026 · 4,076,670 registered records · Higher confidence, a large number of records behind this figure · Scale AED 45,620 to AED 59,880

Median registered annual rent, Q1 2022 to Q2 2026. Full figures follow in the table below.Q1 2022: AED 47,000 from 202,587 registered recordsQ2 2022: AED 48,000 from 162,410 registered recordsQ3 2022: AED 50,000 from 188,519 registered recordsQ4 2022: AED 48,000 from 208,258 registered recordsQ1 2023: AED 50,000 from 220,107 registered recordsQ2 2023: AED 50,000 from 180,419 registered recordsQ3 2023: AED 52,800 from 208,073 registered recordsQ4 2023: AED 50,000 from 231,990 registered recordsQ1 2024: AED 50,400 from 254,253 registered recordsQ2 2024: AED 51,725 from 210,609 registered recordsQ3 2024: AED 54,000 from 246,314 registered recordsQ4 2024: AED 54,376 from 251,262 registered recordsQ1 2025: AED 55,000 from 271,614 registered recordsQ2 2025: AED 54,575 from 230,639 registered recordsQ3 2025: AED 58,000 from 260,319 registered recordsQ4 2025: AED 57,750 from 262,684 registered recordsQ1 2026: AED 58,500 from 264,906 registered recordsQ2 2026: AED 53,000 from 221,707 registered records
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Median registered annual rent by quarter, with the number of registered records behind each figure.
PeriodMedian registered annual rentRecords
Q1 2022AED 47,000202,587
Q2 2022AED 48,000162,410
Q3 2022AED 50,000188,519
Q4 2022AED 48,000208,258
Q1 2023AED 50,000220,107
Q2 2023AED 50,000180,419
Q3 2023AED 52,800208,073
Q4 2023AED 50,000231,990
Q1 2024AED 50,400254,253
Q2 2024AED 51,725210,609
Q3 2024AED 54,000246,314
Q4 2024AED 54,376251,262
Q1 2025AED 55,000271,614
Q2 2025AED 54,575230,639
Q3 2025AED 58,000260,319
Q4 2025AED 57,750262,684
Q1 2026AED 58,500264,906
Q2 2026AED 53,000221,707
Methodology

What these figures are, exactly

Registered, not advertised

Every figure counts something that was registered with the Dubai Land Department. Nothing here is drawn from listings, asking prices or agency reporting.

Complete periods only

A period appears only once it has finished, so a partial month never masquerades as a trend. The record count behind each figure is published alongside it.

Left out rather than estimated

Where too few records exist to report a period without describing individual transactions, we publish nothing for it and say so. Not published for this period: too few registered records to report without identifying individual transactions.

Source: Dubai Land Department open data. Source export: 8 September 2026. DLX Properties is independent of the Dubai Land Department; this information is provided for information only.

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Where do these numbers come from?

Dubai Land Department open data, the registry every sale and every tenancy contract in Dubai is recorded in. We publish counts of registered activity, registered prices and rents and the yield they imply, each with the number of records behind it and the period it covers. DLX Properties is independent of the Dubai Land Department and is not endorsed by it.

Do you publish prices as well as activity?

Yes. Alongside counts of registered activity we publish the middle registered sale price, the middle registered price per square foot, the middle registered rent per square foot and the gross rental yield those two imply, each with the number of records behind it. Every one is derived from what was registered with the Dubai Land Department, never from asking prices, and where a period has too few records we leave it out rather than estimate it.

What does the median registered annual rent mean?

The middle figure among the tenancy contracts registered in that period: half were agreed below it, half above. It is the rent that was actually registered, not an asking rent, and it covers the whole period rather than a single day.

Why is a community or period sometimes missing?

Because too few records were registered for us to publish a figure without describing individual transactions. Periods that are still running are also left out, so every figure covers a period that has finished. Where that happens the page says so instead of estimating.

How current is this?

Every page states the source export date it was built from. Figures are recomputed when a new official export is published; nothing on this page is generated between exports.

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