Total trading reached AED 8.66B in Week 13, compared to AED 5.82B last week, marking a strong 48.7% rebound. The comparison should be viewed in context, however, as Week 12 was shortened by the Eid Al Fitr holiday, while Week 13 reflects a full working week. Off-plan continued to dominate market activity, contributing AED 6.74B (77.8%), while ready transactions accounted for AED 1.92B (22.2%).

Total Value: AED 6.74B
Share of Weekly Total: 77.8%

Off-plan remained the clear engine of the market, with flats making up 81.0% of the segment’s value. Villas contributed 11.3%, while commercial assets represented 7.3%, showing that the week’s momentum was still largely driven by apartment-led launches and broad investor demand across major master-planned communities.

The top 10 off-plan areas generated AED 3.61B, equivalent to 53.5% of total off-plan value, underlining how concentrated activity was in a handful of launch-heavy districts. Jumeirah Second led the market with AED 591.4M, followed closely by Al Yelayiss 1 and Madinat Al Mataar, confirming that high-value master developments continued to attract the bulk of capital.

Total Value: AED 1.92B
Share of Weekly Total: 22.2%

The ready market remained meaningfully smaller than off-plan, but still showed healthy depth. Flats accounted for 67.3% of ready value, with villas contributing 27.0%, which means the resale market was also overwhelmingly residential in nature. Hotel apartments and commercial assets played only a minor role in the overall weekly mix.

The top 10 ready areas recorded AED 948.3M, or 49.4% of the ready segment. Business Bay led the way with AED 187.8M, followed by Jumeirah Village Circle and Burj Khalifa, showing that secondary market demand remained concentrated in established, liquid urban locations.

Off-plan was almost entirely sales-led, with sales contributing 97.9% of total off-plan value. Mortgages represented only 1.3%, while gifts accounted for 0.9%. This is consistent with the nature of the off-plan market, where buyers typically enter through direct developer sales rather than financed resales.

The ready market presented a very different profile. Sales made up 55.0% of ready value, while mortgages accounted for a significant 38.3%, and gifts represented 6.7%. This highlights how much more financing-dependent and transfer-driven the secondary market remains compared with the off-plan segment.

Across the total ex-land market, sales dominated at 88.4%, followed by mortgages at 9.5% and gifts at 2.2%.

The highest-value transactions of the week also reinforced where pricing strength was concentrated:

The AED 356.2M off-plan flat deal in Jumeirah Second was especially notable, equivalent to roughly 4.1% of the entire week’s ex-land trading value on its own.

Week 13 showed a strong recovery in transaction value, but the gain needs to be interpreted carefully because the prior week was shortened by Eid. Even so, the scale of the rebound is significant. A full working week immediately pushed trading back toward a much stronger range, with off-plan once again carrying the market through large apartment-led transactions in key districts such as Jumeirah Second, Al Yelayiss 1, and Madinat Al Mataar.

The structure of activity also remains telling. Off-plan continues to dominate total value, and does so with an overwhelmingly sales-driven profile, which points to sustained appetite for new launches and developer inventory. Meanwhile, the ready segment remains more financing-heavy and centered on mature, liquid neighborhoods such as Business Bay, JVC, Burj Khalifa, and Dubai Marina.

Overall, Week 13 suggests that last week’s softer headline was more a function of a holiday-compressed trading window than any material weakening in underlying demand. The return to a full week quickly restored momentum, with the market once again showing a familiar pattern: off-plan driving the headline numbers, and ready transactions providing depth through mortgage-backed resale activity.

Data Source: Dubai Land Department

Only freehold transactions are included