Dubai property market update for October 2026: sales registered with Dubai Land Department (DLD) came to AED 33.08 billion, 11.9% more than in September 2026 and 43.3% less than in October 2025. From January to October 2026, sales add up to AED 411.7 billion, against AED 559.0 billion in the same ten months of 2025: a fall of 26.3%. October's last working day was 30 October 2026, and these figures are from DLD's public daily counter as it stood on 11 November 2026.
Last checked: 11 November 2026. We update this page in the first week of each month, when the month's figures are complete.
Dubai property market update: the figures month by month
Value registered each month from January 2025 to October 2026, in AED billion, with the first days of November as a part-month row:
| Month | Sales (AED bn) | Mortgages (AED bn) | Total (AED bn) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2025 | 44.28 | 10.85 | 58.20 |
| Feb 2025 | 50.93 | 14.88 | 69.74 |
| Mar 2025 | 46.06 | 14.51 | 62.97 |
| Apr 2025 | 62.14 | 15.47 | 81.68 |
| May 2025 | 66.77 | 14.45 | 85.25 |
| Jun 2025 | 54.77 | 12.81 | 71.21 |
| Jul 2025 | 71.31 | 16.37 | 96.07 |
| Aug 2025 | 50.16 | 21.22 | 75.47 |
| Sep 2025 | 54.23 | 12.26 | 73.05 |
| Oct 2025 | 58.36 | 15.99 | 80.81 |
| Nov 2025 | 63.51 | 15.07 | 82.23 |
| Dec 2025 | 64.23 | 16.81 | 88.36 |
| Jan 2026 | 70.02 | 32.74 | 108.70 |
| Feb 2026 | 61.67 | 15.95 | 84.62 |
| Mar 2026 | 44.35 | 11.91 | 58.73 |
| Apr 2026 | 47.89 | 14.55 | 68.79 |
| May 2026 | 29.34 | 17.57 | 51.69 |
| Jun 2026 | 32.51 | 10.50 | 47.94 |
| Jul 2026 | 34.78 | 17.50 | 56.02 |
| Aug 2026 | 28.52 | 15.08 | 47.77 |
| Sep 2026 | 29.56 | 16.85 | 50.75 |
| Oct 2026 | 33.08 | 12.73 | 51.27 |
| 2–10 Nov 2026 (part month, 7 working days) | 11.89 | 7.39 | 22.56 |
| January–October 2025 | 559.00 | 148.81 | 754.44 |
| January–October 2026 | 411.73 | 165.38 | 626.28 |
Number of procedures (sales, mortgages and gifts counted together) and the change in sales value on the same month a year earlier:
| Month | Procedures | Sales vs the same month a year earlier |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 2025 | 17,758 | +27.0% |
| Feb 2025 | 19,809 | +38.7% |
| Mar 2025 | 18,771 | +25.6% |
| Apr 2025 | 22,455 | +91.7% |
| May 2025 | 23,324 | +45.7% |
| Jun 2025 | 20,678 | +18.2% |
| Jul 2025 | 28,714 | +39.2% |
| Aug 2025 | 22,496 | +6.6% |
| Sep 2025 | 24,855 | +22.0% |
| Oct 2025 | 24,710 | −4.5% |
| Nov 2025 | 23,320 | +59.5% |
| Dec 2025 | 23,354 | +53.2% |
| Jan 2026 | 21,274 | +58.1% |
| Feb 2026 | 21,291 | +21.1% |
| Mar 2026 | 17,240 | −3.7% |
| Apr 2026 | 18,112 | −22.9% |
| May 2026 | 13,556 | −56.1% |
| Jun 2026 | 17,802 | −40.6% |
| Jul 2026 | 18,695 | −51.2% |
| Aug 2026 | 16,273 | −43.1% |
| Sep 2026 | 16,078 | −45.5% |
| Oct 2026 | 16,517 | −43.3% |
| 2–10 Nov 2026 (part month, 7 working days) | 5,760 | Part month: see the November section |
| January–October 2025 | 223,570 | +28.0% |
| January–October 2026 | 176,838 | −26.3% |
How we got these numbers: we added up the daily rows of DLD's public transactions counter for each calendar month, as pulled on 11 November 2026 (January 2025 to October 2026 at 01:05 Dubai time, November at 11:57). "Total" is sales plus mortgages plus gifts, and "procedures" counts all three together. Source: Dubai Land Department, Real Estate Transactions.
Is the Dubai property market down in 2026?
By DLD's own counter, yes, in both value and number. Sales registered from January to October 2026 total AED 411.7 billion, 26.3% less than in the same months of 2025, and the number of procedures is down 20.9%, from 223,570 to 176,838. January and February were above 2025; every month since March has been below it.
The year splits in two. In January and February 2026, sales came to AED 131.7 billion, 38.3% more than in the same two months of 2025. From March to October they came to AED 280.0 billion against AED 463.8 billion, a fall of 39.6%. The widest gap was in May (down 56.1%), and the lowest month of the 22 in the table is August 2026, at AED 28.52 billion.
The comparison year was a high one: Dubai Media Office called 2025 the sector's strongest year to date. Total value, which includes mortgages and gifts, is down by less than sales: 17.0% over the ten months, at AED 626.3 billion against AED 754.4 billion.
What happened in October 2026?
October 2026 was the highest month for sales since July. Sales came to AED 33.08 billion, up 11.9% on September's AED 29.56 billion, and the number of procedures rose 2.7% to 16,517. Total value barely moved, at AED 51.27 billion against AED 50.75 billion, because mortgage value fell 24.4% in the same month.
| Measure | October 2026 | September 2026 | October 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sales (AED bn) | 33.08 | 29.56 | 58.36 |
| Mortgages (AED bn) | 12.73 | 16.85 | 15.99 |
| Gifts (AED bn) | 5.47 | 4.35 | 6.47 |
| Total (AED bn) | 51.27 | 50.75 | 80.81 |
| Procedures | 16,517 | 16,078 | 24,710 |
| Working days in the counter | 22 | 22 | 23 |
| Sales per working day (AED bn) | 1.50 | 1.34 | 2.54 |
Against October 2025 the comparison runs the other way: sales were 43.3% lower, total value 36.6% lower and procedures 33.2% lower. October 2025 had one more working day; per working day, sales were AED 1.50 billion against AED 2.54 billion, down 40.7%. The largest single sale the counter shows for October 2026 is AED 600 million, registered on 29 October.
Are mortgages falling too?
Not over the ten months. Mortgages registered from January to October 2026 are worth AED 165.4 billion, 11.1% more than the AED 148.8 billion of the same months of 2025, while sales are down 26.3%. In October itself, mortgage value was AED 12.73 billion, 24.4% below September and 20.4% below October 2025.
One month accounts for the rise. January 2026 shows AED 32.74 billion of mortgages, about three times January 2025, and the largest single mortgage the counter shows for that month is AED 10.35 billion, registered on 28 January. From February to October, mortgage value is AED 132.6 billion against AED 138.0 billion a year earlier, down 3.9%.
Read this column for what it is: the value of mortgages registered with DLD in the month. Press breakdowns of DLD data split it between units, buildings and land, and single registrations can run to hundreds of millions of dirhams, so it is not a measure of home loans alone. We state the numbers and draw no conclusion from them. For a loan of your own, start with our mortgage calculator and our guide to EIBOR and Dubai mortgages.
What do the first days of November 2026 show?
The counter has seven complete working days for November so far, from 2 to 10 November 2026. They show AED 11.89 billion of sales, AED 7.39 billion of mortgages and 5,760 procedures. That is AED 1.70 billion of sales per working day, against AED 1.50 billion per working day in October.
Set against the first seven working days of November 2025 (3 to 11 November), sales are 42.3% lower, at AED 11.89 billion against AED 20.59 billion, and procedures are 31.7% lower, at 5,760 against 8,431. Seven days is a small sample, and two of the seven are Mondays, the counter's busiest weekday on average. The row for 11 November was still filling when we pulled the data, so it is left out.
Does this mean Dubai property prices are falling?
These figures cannot tell you. A value total is not a price: it is the sum of everything registered in the month, so it moves with the number of deals and with the kind of property changing hands, as well as with prices. The counter gives no price per square foot and no average price.
It cannot even give an average sale value, because it has one count for all procedures, not a count of sales alone, and it has no split by area or property type. DLD publishes price indexes separately, on its real estate indexes page. We could not open that series in a form we could check ourselves, so this post quotes no price figure.
Why do other reports give slightly different October figures?
Published totals differ a little by source and by the day the figures were taken. Emirates 24|7, citing DLD data on 31 October 2026, reported October sales of AED 34.12 billion and ten-month sales of AED 411.98 billion. Our pull of 11 November 2026 gives AED 33.08 billion and AED 411.73 billion.
The same report puts October's total at a little over AED 52.27 billion across about 17,150 transactions, where the counter shows AED 51.27 billion and 16,517 procedures. Across these comparisons the values agree to within about 3% and the counts to within about 4%. We cannot see from outside how each source counts a transaction.
The year 2025 shows the same pattern: Dubai Media Office announced AED 917 billion in January 2026, and the counter's daily rows for 2025 add up to AED 925.0 billion today. The counter is a live feed and its figures may be revised, which is why every number on this page carries its pull date.
How we worked this out
DLD's Real Estate Transactions page is fed by a public daily counter: one row for each weekday, with the value of sales, mortgages and gifts registered that day and a single count of procedures. We requested it one month at a time, added up the rows for each calendar month with a script and kept the raw files.
- When: January 2025 to October 2026 at 01:05 Dubai time on 11 November 2026, and November again at 11:57. The rows for 2 to 10 November were the same in both pulls.
- The check: the rows for 2025 add up to 270,244 procedures worth AED 925.0 billion. Dubai Media Office's release of 12 January 2026 gave more than 270,000 transactions worth AED 917 billion, so the count matches and the value is within 1%.
- The 2025 rows' changes use the counter's 2024 rows, which come within 2% of the 226,000 transactions and AED 761 billion DLD announced for 2024. Treat those percentages as a little less firm.
- Not in the counter: weekend rows, areas, property types, ready against off-plan, the number of sales alone, and prices. The months in the table have 20 to 23 weekday rows each.
- Rounding: percentages are worked out from the unrounded figures.
常见问题
How much property was sold in Dubai in October 2026?
AED 33.08 billion of sales, by DLD's public counter as pulled on 11 November 2026. With mortgages and gifts, the total registered was AED 51.27 billion across 16,517 procedures.
Is the Dubai property market down in 2026?
By value and by number, yes. January to October 2026 sales total AED 411.7 billion, 26.3% below the same months of 2025, and procedures are down 20.9%. January and February were above 2025; March to October were below.
Was October 2026 better than September 2026?
For sales, yes: AED 33.08 billion against AED 29.56 billion, up 11.9% and the highest month since July 2026. Procedures rose 2.7% and total value 1.0%.
How does October 2026 compare with October 2025?
Sales were 43.3% lower, at AED 33.08 billion against AED 58.36 billion. Procedures were 33.2% lower, at 16,517 against 24,710. October 2025 had one more working day.
Are Dubai property prices falling?
This data cannot say. A value total is not a price: it depends on how many properties were registered and of what kind, as well as on prices. This page quotes no price index.
Are mortgages down in Dubai in 2026?
Mortgage value registered from January to October 2026 is AED 165.4 billion, 11.1% above 2025. January alone was AED 32.74 billion; from February to October the value is 3.9% below the same months of 2025.
来源
- Dubai Land Department: Real Estate Transactions (the public daily counter behind every monthly figure here; pulled 11 November 2026 at 01:05 and 11:57 Dubai time)
- Dubai Media Office: Dubai's real estate market records new historic milestone, 12 January 2026 (2025 totals; checked 11 November 2026)
- Dubai Land Department: Dubai's real estate sector records AED 761 billion in transactions in 2024, 26 January 2025 (2024 totals; checked 11 November 2026)
- Emirates 24|7: Dubai real estate reaches Dh625 billion in 10 months, 31 October 2026 (press figures for October and the ten months; mortgages split between units, buildings and land; checked 11 November 2026)
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