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Market research built from the historical Dubai Land Department transaction record. Every figure below is derived from the same dataset the site's valuation and comparison tools run on.
Market researchWhat Dubai Land Department sales data covers, and what it leaves outThe fields a sale record carries, the ones it does not, and where the register is knowingly incomplete.4 min read · Market researchThe Dubai apartment price index, and what a three-month fall is worthHow the index is built, which periods are too thin to read, and whether the latest move is large enough to mean anything.2 min read · Market researchOff-plan is now most of Dubai's apartment market, and the rise is concentratedThe yearly off-plan share, how much of its rise is where sales happened, and which areas carry it.3 min read · Market researchWhat a Dubai apartment costs, by the budget you actually haveThe distribution of apartment prices, what each budget band buys, and the areas where the same figure buys most and least.2 min read · Market researchSmall Dubai apartments cost more per square metre, and the city-wide curve hides itThe pooled size curve, the same curve measured inside each area, and the size adjustment worth making before comparing a unit to its neighbourhood.3 min read · Market researchWhat a studio costs in Dubai, and why the off-plan one costs moreThe studio price distribution, the areas at each end of it, and the gap between off-plan and completed units measured area by area.2 min read · Market researchDubai prices per square foot, converted from the square metres actually recordedThe conversion, the medians in both units by area, and how much precision a rounded factor throws away.2 min read · Market researchDubai rental yields from registered leases, and why the published figure is too lowYields by area from two registers, the correction that completed-stock pricing makes, and what explains its size.3 min read · Market researchOne Dubai building, many prices: what a building median does not tell youHow much sold prices vary inside one building, and what to check before trusting its median.2 min read · Market researchDoes the building price above its neighbourhood? Usually not, and that is the wrong questionWhy the average building matches its area, why hundreds do not, and how the two medians get compared wrongly.3 min read · Market researchThe fastest growing Dubai areas by AED/sqm, and why the top of that list is not about pricesWhy area growth rankings measure the sales mix, which areas actually moved, and how to tell the two apart.3 min read · Market researchDubai sales fell in H1 2026, but the headline number counts a data outage as market behaviourThe first year-on-year decline in five years, separated from both seasonality and a month of missing records.3 min read · Market researchDubai property prices over the last 10 years, from the transaction recordA decade of Dubai sales volume and prices, area by area, and why the citywide average misleads.2 min read · Market researchThe off-plan premium in Dubai is smaller than the citywide number suggestsWhy the headline off-plan premium is a mix effect, and what the per-area median actually shows.1 min read · Market researchStudios cost more per square metre than one-beds, and less in totalPrice per square metre and total price rank studios and one-beds in opposite orders, in area after area. Which one to use, and when.2 min read · Market researchVilla AED/sqm often sits below apartments in the same area, and that is not the same as costing lessWhy lower villa AED/sqm does not mean a cheaper villa, and which area comparisons are too thin to trust.2 min read ·
Written by Soloren Lee