February 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 28 Feb 2026
Homes sold in February14,99513% more than Feb 2025

Up 4% on January. 13,302 apartments and 1,693 villas.

Resale apartments+7.6%on Feb 2025, same buildings

At the high for the last two years.

Off-plan share70%of homes sold were off-plan

The lowest since May 2025.

February 2026 in Dubai property

What does February mean for you?

If you're buying

An apartment that sold for AED 1.09M in Feb 2025 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 February?

4,235 resales

and 10,491 off-plan sales. Against Feb 2025, resales fell 3% and off-plan rose 19%. With land and offices, AED 63.1B changed hands, against AED 50.8B a year earlier.

ResalesOff-plan, bought from the developerBulk registrationsThis month and a year ago
05,00010,00015,00020,000202420252026Feb 2025: 13,233Feb 2026: 14,995

124 sales at Paradise View 1 were registered within 3 days. 95 sales at Seventh Heaven - Ashjar, all at about AED 1,738 per sq ft, were registered within 2 days. 30 sales at Sobha Creek Vistas, all at about AED 1,622 per sq ft, were registered on one day. 1 smaller lot too. 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 8% more than in February 2025. A plain typical apartment price rose about 11% over the same year.

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.

Where did buyers go?

Jumeirah Village Circle sold the most, 1,139 homes. 5 of the top 8 sold more than a year ago, and 2 sold less.

  1. Jumeirah Village Circle62% off-plan1,1391,220 a year ago
  2. Dubai South87% off-plan986785 a year ago
  3. Al Yelayiss 198% off-plan96553 a year ago
  4. Dubai Land Residence Complex89% off-plan9271,265 a year ago
  5. Business ParkMaybach Six: 447730124 a year ago
  6. Majan59% off-plan726340 a year ago
  7. Dubai IslandsHado by Beyond: 226635278 a year ago
  8. Jabal Ali First62% off-plan614Not comparable

Not comparable: DLD stopped tagging some of this area's buildings in February 2026.

What's happening to rents?

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

Are people borrowing?

3,798

mortgages were registered, down from 4,049 in January. This counts every property loan DLD registers, refinancing included.

Questions people ask

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

Did Dubai property prices fall in February 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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