Explore a comprehensive, full-year analysis of Dubai’s residential real estate market in 2025, a year defined by exceptional transaction volumes, deepening buyer participation, and the market’s transition into a more mature and selective growth phase.
This full-year report delivers a comprehensive view of Dubai’s residential real estate market in 2025, supported by verified transaction data and on-the-ground market insight. It captures how the market performed across the year, where momentum strengthened or moderated, and how demand, pricing, supply, and liquidity evolved as Dubai entered a more mature growth phase.
Dubai’s residential market delivered another year of exceptional growth in 2025, underpinned by sustained population growth, business relocation, and continued global capital inflows. Transaction volumes remained elevated across both off-plan and secondary markets, while pricing growth began to moderate in the second half of the year, signalling a transition toward more balanced and sustainable conditions.
Demand broadened across property types and locations, with apartments driving volume, family housing gaining depth, and the luxury segment continuing to attract international wealth. At the same time, rental yields remained among the most competitive globally, reinforcing Dubai’s appeal to income-focused investors. This report examines how these forces came together in 2025 and what they indicate for market performance in 2026.
The Dubai Residential Market Report 2025 provides a comprehensive, full-year analysis of the city’s real estate market. It covers residential sales and leasing performance, pricing trends, supply dynamics, buyer profiles, rental yields, and luxury market activity. The report combines verified data with expert commentary to explain not just what happened in 2025, but why.
This report is suited to buyers, investors, landlords, developers, and anyone tracking Dubai’s real estate market at a strategic level. Whether you are actively transacting or simply monitoring market conditions, the report offers clear insight into demand drivers, pricing behaviour, and market maturity across residential segments.
Dubai recorded its strongest years on record in 2025, with 202,349 residential transactions totalling AED 546.8 billion. Growth was broad-based across apartments, villas, and townhouses, supported by population expansion, business relocation, and sustained investor confidence. While price growth moderated toward year-end, overall market activity remained exceptionally strong.
Yes. The report analyses performance across both off-plan and ready properties. In 2025, off-plan transactions accounted for 64.8% of all residential sales, reflecting confidence in Dubai’s development pipeline, while the secondary market remained highly active but increasingly constrained by limited ready stock rather than lack of demand.
Yes. The report includes gross rental yield analysis, with average yields of 6.8% across residential properties, rising to 7.1% for apartments, alongside community-level yield examples. It also reviews leasing trends, tenant behaviour, renewal activity, and how rental performance evolved alongside rising sales prices.
The report does not recommend individual properties, but it provides the market context investors need to make informed decisions. By analysing transaction volumes, pricing trends, yields, supply pipelines, and buyer behaviour across communities, it helps identify where demand is deepening and where selectivity becomes more important.
Yes. The 2025 report is particularly valuable for understanding where the market sits in the cycle. As Dubai transitions from rapid acceleration into a more mature and selective growth phase, the insights are useful for forward planning, portfolio review, and long-term strategy, even if you are not transacting immediately.