Dubai Chambers put a number on Indian company registration worth logging as a property demand proxy: 85,841 active Indian members as of end of June 2026, after 7,579 new registrations in the first half of the year alone. Membership is growing 15 percent year on year, per Dubai Chambers president Mohammad Ali Rashed Lootah, speaking at the Economic Times World Leaders Forum on 24 August.
The useful part of this dataset is the sector split. Trade and services make up 45 percent of the 85,841 firms, real estate, leasing and business services take 27.3 percent, and construction another 19 percent. Combine the last two and you get roughly 46 percent of all Indian-owned Dubai Chamber members whose business is buildings: brokering, leasing, managing or constructing them.
The capital series behind the headcount
Three related series accompany the membership figure. Indian investment into Dubai totals AED 32.3 billion for 2016 to 2025, with AED 8.4 billion of that as 2025 FDI. Dubai companies have put AED 34.1 billion into 147 projects in India over the same decade. And non-oil trade between Dubai and India reached AED 222.5 billion in 2025, up 15 percent year on year and 136.2 percent over ten years, with the UAE-India CEPA adding 35 percent to bilateral trade since 2022.
Read together, company formation, capital flow and trade volume give you three independent series to check against each other, and a sector tag that lets you isolate the property-linked share of Indian business activity in Dubai. Doment maps where that activity lands by area.
Originally published on Doment, Dubai property intelligence.
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