The dataset behind this piece: Dubai Land Department transaction records for January to June 2026, released via the Emirates News Agency, totaling AED 419.9 billion across 112,850 transactions. The breakdown below is what makes the number useful, not just the top line.
The top-line figure splits into two series worth keeping separate: sales, AED 286.4 billion across 86,000 deals, and a second bucket of AED 133.5 billion covering mortgages and gifted property. Conflating the two overstates organic buying activity. Sales value is down about 12 percent from AED 326.6 billion in H1 2025, while the combined total slipped under 3 percent, a gap visible only once the series are separated.
Ready versus off-plan as two distinct series
The data separates completed and off-plan stock by both value and volume: AED 146.7 billion across 27,160 ready deals against AED 139.8 billion across 58,840 off-plan deals. Dividing value by volume gives average deal sizes of roughly AED 5.4 million for ready and AED 2.4 million for off-plan, a cleaner signal than either metric alone.
A segment with almost no baseline
Off-plan office transactions are broken out separately: AED 13.1 billion across 1,668 deals in H1 2026 alone, against AED 5.48 billion for the entire 2019 to 2025 period combined. There is almost no historical baseline for this series, so each new data point carries more weight than it would in an established category.
Originally published on Doment, Dubai property intelligence.
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