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Dubai Real Estate Market Review 05-Dec-2025
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December 05, 2025
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Dubai’s property market is booming, with record apartment sales and forecast 2025 growth of ~20–27%. But executives warn many small new developers may struggle to survive against well-capitalised majors. Success will hinge on reputation, customer focus, and Dubai’s long-term appeal boosted by policies like the Golden Visa.
Read the full article on Khaleej Times
The Dubai real estate market recorded one of its strongest months on record in November 2025, with sales volume and value rising sharply across apartments, villas, plots and commercial assets.
Read the full article on Arabian Business
UAE homebuying appetite remains strong, with about 69% planning to buy despite only slight shifts in price expectations. Dubai is heading for record 2025 transactions and values, driven by migration, capital inflows and broad-based demand across mid-market, luxury and off-plan communities.
Read the full article on Gulf News
Dubai Residential REIT, a Shariah-compliant, income-generating closed-ended real estate investment trust and one of the largest owners and operators of residential real estate in Dubai, reported another period of strong operational performance for the nine-month period ended September 30 2025.
Read the full article on Arabian Business
Dubai’s luxury villa market is booming on tight land supply and rising global HNWI demand. Strategists like Sanjeev Vig use early land acquisition and high-end redevelopment to turn villas into “lifestyle assets” that blend sanctuary, status and strong capital appreciation.
Read the full article on Gulf News
Global rate cuts are slowly easing borrowing costs, but Dubai’s property market is already resilient, driven by cash buyers (54% of H2 2025 deals), strong regulation and digital systems. With confidence replacing leverage, analysts expect steady, disciplined growth as global liquidity returns in 2026.
Read the full article on Biz Today
Nearly half of Dubai homeowners say their properties outperform overseas investments, with 87% satisfied with rental yields. A maturing, multi-property ownership base, global investor mix, and confidence that Dubai will rival London and New York reinforce its status as a resilient, world-class real estate market.
Read the full article on Economy Middle East
Meraas has launched Crestlane 4 and 5 at City Walk, adding 360 premium residences in mid-rise towers with wellness-focused amenities, green spaces and skyline views. Centrally located and highly connected, they reinforce City Walk’s position as a modern, design-led urban address for residents and investors.
Read the full article on Zawya
H&H’s Dubai Peninsula is an ultra-luxury waterfront enclave on the Jumeirah coastline, anchored by new Aman and Rosewood hotels and residences, a superyacht marina, beach clubs, parkland and high-end retail. Designed by leading global architects, it aims to set a new benchmark for resort-style living in Dubai.
Read the full article on Trade Arabia
Sharjah has announced significant reductions in property transaction fees for ACRES 2026, a move expected to stimulate market activity, attract new investor segments and accelerate high-value project launches across the emirate.
Read the full article on Arabian Business
Dubai’s prime market has exploded, with Dh10m+ deals rising from 469 in 2020 to nearly 6,000 by Nov 2025, led by off-plan villas and branded waterfront projects. European and Asian HNWIs dominate demand, favouring large, wellness-focused homes, keeping ultra-luxury villas and super-prime assets resilient and highly sought after.
Read the full article on Khaleej Times
The Dubai office market continued its upward trajectory in Q3 2025, recording AED3.1bn ($843m) in sales, a rise of nearly 90 per cent compared with the same period last year, according to Cavendish Maxwell.
Read the full article on Arabian Business
Dubai’s office market hit a record AED 3.1bn in Q3 2025, with off-plan sales quadrupling and prices up 25% amid tight supply. Transactions surged in Business Bay and JLT, while prime areas like DIFC and Downtown led rental growth in an increasingly tiered office market.
Read the full article on Zawya
Dubai has rebounded strongly since the 2008–09 crash, with lower real estate leverage, healthier banks, and a Dh302.7bn 2026–28 budget in surplus. Debt-to-GDP is just 20.8%, growth is forecast at 3.4% in 2025, and Dubai’s credit profile is now closer to Abu Dhabi’s.
Read the full article on Khaleej Times
Dubai Real Estate Transactions as Reported on the 4th of December 2025
On 4 December 2025, the total transacted value in Dubai’s property market reached AED 1.84 billion. Off-plan once again led the market with AED 1.15 billion (62.4%), while ready properties contributed AED 693.9 million (37.6%).
Category | Off-Plan (AED millions) | Ready (AED millions) |
|---|---|---|
Flats | 1,020.3 | 503.5 |
Villas | 52.8 | 128.5 |
Hotel Apts & Rooms | 9.1 | 9.7 |
Commercial | 68.5 | 52.2 |
Total | 1,150.7 | 693.9 |
Off-Plan Market Performance
Total Value: AED 1.15 billion (62.4% of daily total)
Flats: AED 1.02 billion (88.7% of off-plan value)
Villas: AED 52.8 million (4.6%)
Hotel Apts & Rooms: AED 9.1 million (0.8%)
Commercial: AED 68.5 million (6.0%)
This profile underlines a decisively apartment-led off-plan market, with smaller but meaningful contributions from villa and commercial launches. The data suggests developers are still successfully placing mid-ticket apartment product, while niche hospitality and commercial stock remain a thin but steady slice of off-plan trading.
Ready Market Performance
Total Value: AED 693.9 million (37.6% of daily total)
Flats: AED 503.5 million (72.6% of ready value)
Villas: AED 128.5 million (18.5%)
Hotel Apts & Rooms: AED 9.7 million (1.4%)
Commercial: AED 52.2 million (7.5%)
Ready flats remain the core of end-user and investor demand, while ready villas continue to command a notable share, reflecting ongoing interest in established communities and move-in-ready family homes. Commercial and hospitality assets form a modest but stable share of daily liquidity.
On The Micro Level
Today’s trading pattern is relatively balanced, with no single asset class or sub-category distorting the market. Instead, it shows a healthy spread: robust flows into off-plan apartments, backed by solid, broad-based demand for ready flats and villas across multiple communities.
Market Insights & Outlook
The 62.4% share of off-plan value confirms that Dubai’s market is still firmly in a development-led growth phase, with buyers willing to commit capital to projects under construction, particularly apartment schemes. At the same time, the strong ready segment (37.6%) indicates that this is not a speculative-only market: there is consistent depth in move-in-ready stock, especially for end-users and yield-focused investors.
Taken together, apartments remain the backbone of daily liquidity, while villas provide an important higher-ticket layer on the ready side. As long as developers maintain pricing discipline and focus on livable layouts and well-chosen micro-locations, this blend of off-plan momentum and steady ready demand points to a market that is active, diversified, and still attracting capital across the risk spectrum.
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