Duna Market Intelligence
The parts of the market no one talks about.....
Verified Dubai Land Department transaction records — not asking prices, headlines or opinion. Built so a Duna agent can open this mid-conversation and answer the question that actually matters.
Where Dubai's capital is actually moving in 2026.
Verified against DLD's official monthly summary. Mapped by area, project and property type, and split by off-plan versus resale activity — built for investors deciding where to place capital next.
Bars show total recorded Sale transactions per month; the line traces the 3-month moving average. Hover any bar for exact figures. Period: Jan 2025 – Jul 2026.
Calculated from DLD monthly totals: off-plan value ÷ total value, and ready value ÷ total value, per month.
Comparable seven-month periods (January–July) for both years, using DLD monthly totals.
Most sellable areas per unit type
Top areas for Apartments, Villas, Townhouses and Commercial — off-plan and resale, ranked by transaction count or total worth. June and July are from Duna's detailed DLD export.
The Dubai South – Jabal Ali corridor
Six areas along the southwest growth axis — from Dubai South up through the Jabal Ali industrial and port zone to Palm Jabal Ali — are pulling a disproportionate share of off-plan demand and, in Jabal Ali's case, commercial activity. One project, RAW District by IMTIAZ, is doing a lot of that heavy lifting on its own — shown alongside the areas below, since its transactions span two of them. This side of the city is clearly attracting investor attention. Rebuilt from Duna's own Jan 1 – Aug 17, 2026 extraction.
Year on year, month by month
DLD's full monthly series for 2025 against 2026 to date. This uses total sale volume and value (all sequences combined), not the first/second split used elsewhere in this report.
Off-plan vs. ready, Jan–Jul 2025 vs 2026
Same comparison, split by off-plan and ready/resale — both by transaction count and by value.
By transaction count
By value
Off-plan vs. ready, July 2026
The same split isolated to the most recent full month, rather than the Jan–Jul aggregate above.
By transaction count
By value
Annual transacted value, split off-plan versus resale. 2026 is a partial year (January–July).
First sale vs. second sale
Off-plan (first sale) against resale (second sale), by transaction count and total recorded value, Jan–Jul 2026.
Property type breakdown
Total transaction value by property type, split between off-plan and resale activity.
Every community ranked
Top 15 by recorded value, then the full ranked, searchable list — every community with a registered Sale in Duna's Jan 1 – Aug 17, 2026 extraction.
| # | Community | Transactions | Total value | Avg AED/sq.ft | First sale % | Second sale % |
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First sale / second sale reflects DLD's own transaction-sequence tagging (broadly, off-plan versus resale). Click a row to look up that community.
Every project ranked
Top 15 by recorded value, then the full ranked, searchable list of every project with a registered Sale this year.
| # | Project | Community | Type | Transactions | Total value | Avg AED/sq.ft |
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Most sellable — by volume
Leading communities and projects by transaction count rather than value, Jan–Jul 2026.
Communities
Projects
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Where the market is moving before it's obvious
The Dubai communities, buildings and segments showing the strongest momentum in transaction volume, value, price/sq.ft and activity this month — rising, cooling, accelerating, or worth watching.
Communities leaning most heavily off-plan (first sale) versus resale (second sale) this month, by share of transactions.
Leaning off-plan
Leaning resale
Indicative estimated gross yield, combining this month's average sale price/sq.ft with this month's average lease rate/sq.ft in the same area. Not a substitute for a property-specific yield calculation.
🔒 Price / Sq.ft Growth
Unlocks next month. Reliable price/sq.ft growth tracking needs two consecutive months of building-level data — this release has one. It arrives automatically once August closes.
What changed, and what's worth watching
Sales-side alerts below are generated directly from the DLD monthly series. Lease-side signals underneath are built from July's lease registrations.
Areas with the most new lease registrations this month.
Highest tenant renewal rate — where tenants are staying put.
Lowest tenant renewal rate — where tenants are moving on.
Sales-side anomaly alerts, coming soon
Spike detection and above/below-trend flags on individual sales need DLD's row-level transaction detail file. Once that is ingested monthly alongside the lease file, this goes live.
Dubai Pulse — the market right now
Every building's supply, demand and price trend, pulled straight from this month's DLD sale transactions.
The building leaderboard above is this month only. This search checks the full Jan–Jul 2026 cumulative record for any community.
Compare two periods
Building-, project- and community-vs-community comparisons arrive with the next data phase. For now, compare any two months (or year-to-date) citywide, using verified DLD totals.
Patterns the data actually supports
Four citywide signals, recalculated every time new DLD data lands. Community- and project-level signals follow once building-level ingestion is complete.
Source, period, calculation, limitations
Every number in Duna Market Intelligence traces back to one of these. If a screen can't show its source and period, treat it as unfinished, and tell us.
Dubai Land Department (DLD) transaction records, supplied to Duna Lumina via its connected data library and refreshed monthly. This is recorded transaction activity, not asking prices, listings, or portal data.
Citywide monthly and annual Sale-transaction totals (volume, value, off-plan/ready split) are fully verified against DLD's own summary figures. Community-level Sale activity is live for every community and area with a registered Sale, extracted directly from DLD's per-month transaction exports for Jan 1 – Aug 17, 2026 (August is partial — 1st to 17th only). Project-level rankings cover every project with a registered Sale this year. Both lists include low-count entries (as few as one recorded transaction) — treat those rows as directional, not a reliable average. The Dubai South – Jabal Ali corridor section is rebuilt from this same dataset; see below for how one figure was substituted. A separate, higher-fidelity July-only snapshot (buildings, communities, off-plan/resale splits, indicative rental yields) powers The Pulse and this month's Movers panels.
Community and project figures come from an automated extraction of DLD's monthly transaction pivot files, a complex, bilingual, non-tabular export format. Depending on the month, it captures roughly 65–95% of citywide transaction volume. Treat community- and project-level figures as directionally reliable and useful for comparison, not as an exact, audited DLD total. Average price/sq.ft is total recorded value ÷ total recorded area for the period, blending all property types and unit sizes — a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation.
DLD transaction data reflects what has been recorded, not total market demand, current supply, available inventory, or asking-price behaviour. A gap in a given month can reflect Duna's own extraction coverage for that month's file, not necessarily a real drop in activity. August 2026 activity is not yet finalised by DLD and is excluded until the month closes. A small number of community/month combinations where one community's activity implausibly dominates its month's citywide total are suppressed from community-level rollups as likely extraction artefacts. Duna Market Intelligence is not live in the sense of a real-time feed; it updates on a monthly cadence until the DLD API integration goes live.
Nothing on this page is a formal valuation, a guarantee of future performance, or financial or legal advice. Figures described as estimates or indicative are Duna's calculations from available transaction data, not official appraisals. Speak with a Duna agent, and your own independent advisers, before acting on anything here.