Dubai Real Estate Market Report

DXBinteract · Dubai Weekly Residential Market Report · ISO Week 29

Dubai residential sales rise 16% in 13–19 July 2026

Apartment and villa transactions rose 15.9% against 6–12 July 2026; category prices are reported separately.

By Fateh Al Msaddi, Founder, DXBinteract. Updated 1 November 2026; source retrieved 1 November 2026.

Dubai recorded 2,938 apartment and villa sales in 13–19 July 2026, up 15.9% from 6–12 July 2026, according to DXBinteract analysis of Dubai Land Department records. Apartments contributed 2,803 sales and villas 135. Apartment and villa medians were ⃃ 1,730/sqft and ⃃ 1,407/sqft respectively.

Apartment sales rise while villa activity eases

Dubai apartment transactions rose 19.2% to 2,803 in 13–19 July 2026, while villa transactions fell 26.2% to 135. Apartments changed by +451 sales and villas by -48, producing a combined change of +403 transactions.

The two categories moved in opposite directions. The residential total therefore conceals a different activity picture for apartments and villas; a single citywide volume change should not be read as evidence that every segment strengthened or weakened together.

Separate apartment and villa medians give a clearer pricing picture

Dubai apartment sales recorded a median ⃃ 1,730/sqft in 13–19 July 2026, compared with ⃃ 1,710/sqft in 6–12 July 2026, a change of +1.2%. The category recorded 2,803 transactions this week.

Dubai villa sales recorded a median ⃃ 1,407/sqft in 13–19 July 2026, compared with ⃃ 1,618/sqft in 6–12 July 2026, a change of -13.0%. The category recorded 135 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 74.0% of residential count

Dubai recorded 2,174 primary apartment and villa sales and 764 resales in 13–19 July 2026. Primary purchases accounted for 74.0% of residential transactions, compared with 70.6% in 6–12 July 2026. The split is calculated from apartment and villa category counts, rather than the broader market summary.

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 13–19 July 2026, Dubai South led the supplied apartment-area table with 576 sales; Al Hebiah Fifth led the villa table with 20. These are category-specific volume rankings using the source’s recorded geographic names.

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 13–19 July 2026 records 345 apartment and villa transactions at Azizi Venice 6, the largest residential count within that shortlist. The table below reorders the available projects using only their apartment and villa counts.

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 13 July 2026 through Sunday 19 July 2026, in Asia/Dubai time, compared with 6–12 July 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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