The Dubai real estate market reached a new milestone in Q3 2025, recording its highest ever quarterly transaction volume and the second-largest sales value on record, driving total sales for the first nine months of the year to nearly AED500bn ($136bn).
A market update from fäm Properties revealed that Q3 produced 59,228 transactions totalling AED170.7bn ($46.5bn), marking year-on-year increases of 17.2 per cent in volume and 19.9 per cent in value.
Data from DXBinteract showed the full extent of the surge, with January–September 2025 sales reaching AED498.8bn ($136bn) across 158,200 transactions – up 32.33 per cent in value and 20.46 per cent in volume compared with the same period in 2024.
Dubai real estate market 2025
Apartments dominated activity, with 49,370 sales worth AED94.3bn ($25.7bn), up 25.9 per cent year on year in volume.
Commercial sales rose 41.9 per cent to 1,565 deals worth AED4.2bn ($1.1bn).
Plot sales climbed 25.7 per cent to 1,214 transactions valued at AED36.1bn ($9.8bn).
By contrast, villa sales fell 23.3 per cent in volume to 7,078 units worth AED43.1bn ($11.7bn).
However, the median price per square foot across all property types increased 11.4 per cent year on year to AED1,685 ($459), continuing an upward trajectory from AED858 ($233) in 2020.
Firas Al Msaddi, CEO of fäm Properties, said: “The Q3 figures again underline the lasting strength of the market, and Dubai’s growing appeal to local, regional and global investors and buyers as one of the world’s prime real estate investment hubs”.
Dubai’s Q3 property sales over the past five years have risen steadily from AED17.9bn ($4.9bn) across 8,500 deals in 2020, to AED42.5bn ($11.6bn) in 2021, AED69.1bn ($18.8bn) in 2022, AED109.4bn ($29.8bn) in 2023 and AED142.3bn ($38.8bn) in 2024.
The most expensive property sold in Q3 was a luxury villa in Jumeirah Second at AED250m ($68m). The priciest apartment was AED174m ($47.4m) at Aman Residences Dubai – Tower 1.
Sales distribution showed properties worth more than AED5m ($1.36m) accounted for 10 per cent (5,991) of deals. The majority – 38 per cent (22,785) – were between AED1–2m ($272,000–$545,000), 25 per cent (15,065) below AED1m ($272,000), 15 per cent (9,128) between AED2–3m ($545,000–$817,000) and 11 per cent (6,258) between AED3–5m ($817,000–$1.36m).
First sales from developers significantly outnumbered re-sales in the secondary market, comprising 73 per cent of volume and 66 per cent of value.
Best-selling projects in Q3 2025
First sale apartments (by volume)
- Binghatti Skyrise (1,393 units, AED2.2bn / $599m)
- Binghatti Hillviews (724 units, AED825.5m / $225m)
- Binghatti Aquarise (634 units, AED1.1bn / $299m)
- Sobha Solis (624 units, AED765.2m / $208m)
- Sobha Orbis (477 units, AED652.5m / $178m)
First sale villas
- Wadi Al Safa 3 (849 units, AED5.9bn / $1.6bn)
- Al Yelayiss 1 (755 units, AED2.3bn / $626m)
- Dubai Investments Park 2 (635 units, AED3.5bn / $953m)
- Madinat Al Mataar (392 units, AED1.6bn / $436m)
- Madinat Hind 4 (376 units, AED705.4m / $192m).
Re-sale apartments
- Azizi Riviera (238 units, AED205.4m / $56m)
- Elite Sports Residence (143 units, AED83.7m / $23m)
- DIFC Heights Tower (137 units, AED593.4m / $162m)
- Mediterranean Cluster (103 units, AED65.3m / $18m)
- Sobha Hartland – The Crest (94 units, AED187.2m / $51m)
Re-sale villas
- Wadi Al Safa 5 (323 units, AED1.3bn / $354m)
- Al Hebiah Fifth (298 units, AED829.6m / $226m)
- Madinat Al Mataar (199 units, AED759.3m / $207m)
- Wadi Al Safa 7 (161 units, AED562.6m / $153m)
- Jabal Ali First (158 units, AED781.2m / $213m)
