Dubai market this week: 11,900 sales, median AED 1,634 per sq ft

October closed with 11,900 registered sales worth AED 34.7 billion, and a market median of AED 1,634 per square foot — -2.2% on the month. Transaction volume was +5.3% against the previous month, and off-plan accounted for 58% of registered sales, against 65% the month before.

Where prices firmed

• Sufouh Gardens — AED 2,478 per sq ft, +50.5% over three months (71 deals)
• Al Yufrah 1 — AED 1,930 per sq ft, +31.5% over three months (847 deals)
• Saih Shuaib 1 — AED 3,089 per sq ft, +28.1% over three months (66 deals)

Where prices eased

• Tecom Site A — AED 3,492 per sq ft, -26.7% over three months (88 deals)
• Dubai Healthcare City - Phase 2 — AED 1,609 per sq ft, -17.8% over three months (116 deals)
• Liwan — AED 1,000 per sq ft, -14.7% over three months (276 deals)

Where the volume was

• Madinat Al Mataar — AED 1,773 per sq ft, +2.4% over three months (3,268 deals)
• Jumeirah Village Circle — AED 1,470 per sq ft, -1.1% over three months (2,414 deals)
• Business Bay — AED 2,037 per sq ft, -5.3% over three months (1,313 deals)

How to read this

These are count-weighted medians over registered Dubai Land Department sales, comparing the last three months with the three before them. Only communities with at least 60 registered sales in the period are included, because a handful of deals in a thin market can invent a trend that is not there.

A median moving is not the same as every property in that community moving. Age, floor, view, finish and the circumstances of a sale routinely push an individual price well away from the middle of the market. And this page reports what the numbers did — not why. A community can post a higher median because prices rose, or because the mix of what sold changed. Both look identical in the data.

This is market information, not investment advice, and not a valuation of any specific property. It updates weekly from the registry.