January 2026 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 30 Jan 2026
Homes sold in January14,38228% more than Jan 2025

Down 18% on December. 12,112 apartments and 2,270 villas.

Resale apartments+7.3%on Jan 2025, same buildings

At the high for the last two years.

Off-plan share72%of homes sold were off-plan

65% in Jan 2025.

January 2026 in Dubai property

What does January mean for you?

If you're buying

An apartment that sold for AED 1.1M in Jan 2025 would sell for about AED 1.18M 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 January?

3,958 resales

and 10,355 off-plan sales. Against Jan 2025, resales rose 1% and off-plan rose 42%. With land and offices, AED 70.2B changed hands, against AED 44.3B a year earlier.

ResalesOff-plan, bought from the developerBulk registrationsThis month and a year ago
05,00010,00015,00020,000202420252026Jan 2025: 11,206Jan 2026: 14,382

26 sales at Dg-Mes-256 were registered within 3 days. 23 sales at Miracle Residence, all at about AED 1,245 per sq ft, were registered within 2 days. 20 sales at Mog 225, all at about AED 1,190 per sq ft, were registered within 2 days. 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 7% more than in January 2025. 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%+50%202420252026VillasResale 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.

What launched?

51

new projects made their first sale, against 40 in Jan 2025. Binghatti Cullinan sold the most, 168 homes at about AED 875k each.

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 January 2026?

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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