December 2025 in Dubai property

More homes sold than a year ago. Resale apartment prices are at their high.

The month in 3 numbers

Every deal registered to 31 Dec 2025
Homes sold in December17,45031% more than Dec 2024

Up 3% on November. 15,529 apartments and 1,921 villas.

Resale apartments+6.2%on Dec 2024, same buildings

At the high for the last two years.

Off-plan share75%of homes sold were off-plan

70% in Dec 2024.

December 2025 in Dubai property

What does December mean for you?

If you're buying

An apartment that sold for AED 1.1M in Dec 2024 would sell for about AED 1.17M now.

If you own

Same-building prices are at their high, so a sale now catches the top of the last two years.

How busy was December?

4,249 resales

and 13,087 off-plan sales. Against Dec 2024, resales rose 7% and off-plan rose 40%. With land and offices, AED 64.9B changed hands, against AED 43.5B a year earlier.

ResalesOff-plan, bought from the developerBulk registrationsThis month and a year ago
05,00010,00015,00020,00020242025Dec 2024: 13,360Dec 2025: 17,450

72 sales at Kriscon Tower, all at about AED 600 per sq ft, were registered within 3 days. 42 sales at South Residence 2 were registered on one day. Those are bulk registrations, so we keep them apart from resales and prices.

Did prices fall, or did different homes sell?

Resale apartments in the same buildings cost about 6% more than in December 2024. A plain typical apartment price rose about 8% over the same year, in line with that.

Resale apartmentsOff-plan apartmentsVillas
−10%0%+10%+20%+30%+40%20242025VillasResale apartmentsOff-plan apartments

Change in price since January 2024, comparing each project and bed count with itself.

Which areas moved?

All 20

busy areas have dearer apartments than a year ago, in the same buildings, over the last 3 months. Dubai Silicon Oasis rose the most.

Where did buyers go?

Majan sold the most, 1,664 homes. 5 of the top 8 sold more than a year ago, and 3 sold less.

  1. MajanBinghatti Vintage: 8831,664246 a year ago
  2. Jumeirah Village Circle67% off-plan1,4951,576 a year ago
  3. Dubai Investment Park SecondGrand Polo - Equiterra: 4201,33042 a year ago
  4. Dubai South84% off-plan1,006875 a year ago
  5. Business Bay72% off-plan9491,271 a year ago
  6. Dubai Land Residence Complex86% off-plan848988 a year ago
  7. Dubai Maritime CityBreez by Danube: 238671206 a year ago
  8. Jabal Ali First77% off-plan651445 a year ago

What launched?

49

new projects made their first sale, against 38 in Dec 2024. Binghatti Vintage sold the most, 883 homes at about AED 715k each.

  • Binghatti VintageMajan883 sold · AED 715k
  • Binghatti TitaniaMajan447 sold · AED 707k
  • Grand Polo - EquiterraDubai Investment Park Second420 sold · AED 3.64M
  • Grand Polo - Equiterra 2Dubai Investment Park Second290 sold · AED 3.58M
  • Grand Polo - EquestraDubai Investment Park Second224 sold · AED 3.88M

What's happening to rents?

Our DLD lease records start in January 2026, so rents appear from the March 2026 report.

Questions people ask

Quick answers, from the same deals as the rest of this page.

Did Dubai property prices fall in December 2025?

Against a year earlier, resale apartment prices in the same buildings rose. The trend chart above shows each month, and hovering gives the figure.

Why do your prices differ from a typical price?

A typical price moves when cheaper or dearer buildings sell more. We compare each project and bed count with itself, so a change in what sold can't look like a change in price.

Why did the market move?

Deal records show what moved, and they can't show why. We report what was registered and leave the reasons out.

Why are there no rents before January 2026?

The DLD lease records we hold start in January 2026, so rents compare with January until a full year has passed.

When does the next report come out?

Once the next month's deals are in.

About our data

Where our numbers come from

Every number on this page comes from a real deal registered with the Dubai Land Department. Here's how we turn them into prices you can use.

Sources
Sales come from every sale registered with DLD since January 2024, based on Dubai Real Estate Data (CC-BY-4.0) and DLD open data. Leases come from DLD's Ejari records since January 2026.
Homes
Apartments, hotel apartments, villas and townhouses. Prices and rents cover apartments unless we say villas. Land, offices and shops are counted only where we say so.
Same-building prices
A "building" here means a DLD project and its bed count, such as the 1-beds in one project, because DLD stopped filling in building names on 18 Feb 2026. Each one is compared with itself across months, so a change in which homes sold can't look like a change in price. Sales without a project name aren't used. Past months can shift a little as new deals arrive.
Area moves
Resales in the last 3 months against the same 3 months a year earlier, in buildings that sold in both.
Sales by area
Counted by DLD's legal area, which every deal carries. Some community names have been blank in DLD's feed since 18 Feb 2026, and we don't compare volumes where that matters.
New projects
A project's first off-plan sale since our records start. New phases count as new projects when DLD names them apart.
Rents
Residential apartment leases for one home. New and renewed rents are compared within the same area and size.
Mortgages
Every mortgage DLD registers on any property, from January 2026.
Bulk registrations
Many sales in one building on the same few days, often at one price per sq ft, aren't separate buyers setting a price. They stay in homes sold and stay out of resales and prices.

We update with every data release. This page was last updated on 3 Nov 2026.

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