Area profile
Dubai South
Dubai World Central · Dubai
In the 12 months to 3 November 2026, the ready price per sq ft of the same home types rose 9.1% (Dubai +6.5%), and registered sales rose 75.9% to 16,132.
In DLD records: Dubai South Residential District, Dubai World Central, Madinat Al Mataar
- Median ready pricePer sq ft
- AED 1,131
- Ready price, 1-year changeSame home types, n ≥ 5 · 100% of ready sales
- +9.1% Dubai +6.5%
- Ready price, 3-year changeSame home types, n ≥ 5 · 98% of ready sales
- +49.8% Dubai +31.4%
- Registered salesLast 12 months
- 16,132
Data to 3 November 2026
In the last 12 months, Dubai Land Department registered 16,132 sales in Dubai South, worth AED 21.7B in total. The number of sales was 75.9% higher than in the 12 months before. The median price was 1,672 AED/sqft off-plan and 1,131 AED/sqft for ready homes.
Source: Dubai Land Department open data, published on Dubai Data under the Dubai Data Open Data Licence: registered sales and new rent contracts. Medians use at least 5 transactions.
Prices, over time.
Median registered price, AED per sq ft
- Ready (registered sales)
- Off-plan (registered sales)
Show the figures
| Month | Ready (registered sales) | Off-plan (registered sales) |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 2023 | 805 AED/sqft 67 sales | 1,701 AED/sqft 102 sales |
| Dec 2023 | 783 AED/sqft 56 sales | 1,635 AED/sqft 87 sales |
| Jan 2024 | 785 AED/sqft 62 sales | 1,630 AED/sqft 145 sales |
| Feb 2024 | 778 AED/sqft 60 sales | 1,655 AED/sqft 54 sales |
| Mar 2024 | 812 AED/sqft 74 sales | 1,980 AED/sqft 127 sales |
| Apr 2024 | 745 AED/sqft 61 sales | 1,860 AED/sqft 45 sales |
| May 2024 | 831 AED/sqft 101 sales | 1,901 AED/sqft 113 sales |
| Jun 2024 | 883 AED/sqft 88 sales | 1,900 AED/sqft 96 sales |
| Jul 2024 | 879 AED/sqft 96 sales | 1,865 AED/sqft 128 sales |
| Aug 2024 | 749 AED/sqft 151 sales | 1,670 AED/sqft 212 sales |
| Sep 2024 | 900 AED/sqft 95 sales | 1,471 AED/sqft 729 sales |
| Oct 2024 | 939 AED/sqft 79 sales | 1,626 AED/sqft 693 sales |
| Nov 2024 | 933 AED/sqft 52 sales | 1,613 AED/sqft 252 sales |
| Dec 2024 | 931 AED/sqft 61 sales | 1,658 AED/sqft 596 sales |
| Jan 2025 | 1,002 AED/sqft 64 sales | 2,029 AED/sqft 722 sales |
| Feb 2025 | 992 AED/sqft 64 sales | 1,554 AED/sqft 531 sales |
| Mar 2025 | 1,016 AED/sqft 47 sales | 2,023 AED/sqft 683 sales |
| Apr 2025 | 966 AED/sqft 58 sales | 1,722 AED/sqft 584 sales |
| May 2025 | 1,027 AED/sqft 71 sales | 1,725 AED/sqft 523 sales |
| Jun 2025 | 1,034 AED/sqft 73 sales | 1,921 AED/sqft 418 sales |
| Jul 2025 | 1,027 AED/sqft 88 sales | 1,787 AED/sqft 456 sales |
| Aug 2025 | 1,092 AED/sqft 59 sales | 1,476 AED/sqft 517 sales |
| Sep 2025 | 1,015 AED/sqft 98 sales | 1,475 AED/sqft 572 sales |
| Oct 2025 | 899 AED/sqft 138 sales | 1,638 AED/sqft 382 sales |
| Nov 2025 | 1,120 AED/sqft 54 sales | 1,689 AED/sqft 600 sales |
| Dec 2025 | 1,009 AED/sqft 123 sales | 1,675 AED/sqft 770 sales |
| Jan 2026 | 1,109 AED/sqft 88 sales | 1,566 AED/sqft 622 sales |
| Feb 2026 | 1,169 AED/sqft 84 sales | 1,547 AED/sqft 788 sales |
| Mar 2026 | 1,117 AED/sqft 63 sales | 1,584 AED/sqft 906 sales |
| Apr 2026 | 1,077 AED/sqft 53 sales | 1,650 AED/sqft 1,033 sales |
| May 2026 | 1,186 AED/sqft 57 sales | 1,699 AED/sqft 1,254 sales |
| Jun 2026 | 1,019 AED/sqft 94 sales | 1,708 AED/sqft 2,626 sales |
| Jul 2026 | 1,108 AED/sqft 56 sales | 1,715 AED/sqft 2,282 sales |
| Aug 2026 | 1,084 AED/sqft 32 sales | 1,739 AED/sqft 1,815 sales |
| Sep 2026 | 1,082 AED/sqft 40 sales | 1,698 AED/sqft 778 sales |
| Oct 2026 | 1,011 AED/sqft 73 sales | 1,669 AED/sqft 657 sales |
Where the change in sales came from.
Registered sales in the last 12 months against the 12 months before, by DLD registration type, beside all of Dubai.
- Off-plan+92.5%Off-plan sales rose by 92.5%, from 7,782 to 14,979.Dubai: -9.9%
- Ready-16.9%Ready sales fell by 16.9%, from 1,388 to 1,153.Dubai: -27.8%
The projects whose number of sales moved most
- Azizi Venice 142,046 sales, against 495
- Terra Heights40 sales, against 977
- Azizi Venice 15821 sales, against 83
Counts of registered sales, not prices: a project’s count follows its launches and how many homes it has left to sell.
What does each home type look like?
Apartment · Studio
- Ready median price
- AED 492.4K
- Median yearly rent
- AED 41K
- Gross yield
- 8.3%
Apartment · 1 bed
- Ready median price
- AED 745K
- Median yearly rent
- AED 56.5K
- Gross yield
- 7.6%
Apartment · 2 beds
- Ready median price
- AED 1.2M
- Median yearly rent
- AED 85K
- Gross yield
- 7.4%
Apartment · 3 beds
- Ready median price
- AED 1.9M
- Median yearly rent
- AED 120K
- Gross yield
- 6.2%
Apartment · 4 beds
- Ready median price
- —
- Median yearly rent
- —
- Gross yield
- —
Villa or townhouse · 2 beds
- Ready median price
- AED 2.2M
- Median yearly rent
- AED 126K
- Gross yield
- 5.9%
Villa or townhouse · 3 beds
- Ready median price
- AED 2.4M
- Median yearly rent
- AED 110K
- Gross yield
- 4.7%
Villa or townhouse · 4 beds
- Ready median price
- AED 3.9M
- Median yearly rent
- AED 175K
- Gross yield
- 4.5%
Villa or townhouse · 5 beds
- Ready median price
- AED 5.3M
- Median yearly rent
- AED 245K
- Gross yield
- 4.6%
Last 12 months. Medians of at least 5 registered sales or new rent contracts; the median price of all sales mixes ready and off-plan. Gross yield is the median new yearly rent over the ready median price, shown where a home type has at least 10 ready sales and 5 new rents (“rent only” otherwise), before service charges and other costs.
- Median service charge
- 15.81 AED/sqftA year · median of 29 developments’ owners’ association budgets, 2026Apartment and villa budgets together, so no net yield is worked from it.
After service charges
The area’s median service charge in 2026 is AED 15.81 per sq ft a year, across the owners’ association budgets of 29 developments.
Service charges by year and by project are in the area reportOff-plan or ready.
Off-plan premium, same home type
Apartment · Studio: off-plan homes sold at 47.4% above ready ones per sq ft in the last 12 months (1,758 AED/sqft against 1,193 AED/sqft, medians of 6,700 and 197 sales).
Same home type, not the same buildings: off-plan stock is often newer, so the gap is not a forecast of resale prices. Not investment advice.
The middle half of prices
Middle half of Apartment · Studio · Off-plan sales: AED 1,646–1,927 per sq ft (AED 602,000–700,000), 6,700 sales in the last 12 months. The full spread by home type is in the area report.
A quarter of these sales were below the band and a quarter above it. Registered sales, not a valuation.
Off-plan to ready, around completion
For 11 of the 15 projects in this area completed between 2021 and 2025 (DLD project register), the median project’s ready price per sq ft in the 12 months after completion was 36.8% above its off-plan price per sq ft in the 12 months before.
Dubai’s price index rose by 13.3% over the same months (the median across these projects).
Dubai’s counted projects completed in those years, worked out the same way: 14.4% above.
This is history, not a forecast. These projects were completed in years when Dubai prices were rising, and the earliest windows start in the 2020–21 low. Only completed projects with at least 10 registered sales in each window count, and a project needs the full 12 months after completion first: one completed within the last 12 months is in the total but not yet counted. Projects not yet completed or cancelled are not included. DLD records do not separate a developer’s own sales from resales by earlier buyers, and the two windows cover different homes and unit mixes. The step and the index move are context for each other, not a difference to subtract: each is a median across the projects. Registered sale prices only, before fees, payment-plan terms, financing, service charges and rent: registered sales, not a valuation, and not investment advice.
Future supply
45,541
Homes under construction or planned, in 151 projects
- Finished8,869 homes33 projects
- Under construction33,655 homes93 projects
- Planned or on hold11,886 homes58 projects
- Pipeline per finished home
- 5.13×High pipeline pressure compared with Dubai as a whole (1.17×)
- Homes due in the next 24 months
- 19,103Under construction or planned, with a DLD end date in that time
21 projects (9,664 homes) are past their DLD end date.
The project-by-project handover calendar is in the area reportFrom the DLD project register for this area, counting apartments and villas. Records still not finished more than 5 years after their DLD end date are left out as stale.
Ready turnover, last 12 months
8.5%
Ready sales in the last 12 months came to 8.5% of the 8,869 homes in the area’s finished DLD register projects (756 sales). Dubai: 7.2%.
Ready sales count resales and a developer’s sales of finished homes alike. Not counted, homes or sales: buildings older than the DLD project register, and villa projects whose sales DLD mostly registers as land. DLD data only.
Sales of AED 2M or more.
15.5%
15.5% of the area’s home sales in the last 12 months were for AED 2M or more (2,492 of 16,127). Dubai: 33%.
AED 2M is the minimum total property value for the UAE’s 10-year Golden Residence (golden visa) for real-estate investors, according to ICP and GDRFA Dubai (rules checked on 5 November 2026). This count shows registered sale prices only; the authorities decide each application on their own conditions, such as the owner’s share, how the value is certified and how the home is financed.
- ICP: UAE Golden Residency, conditions for real-estate investors
- GDRFA Dubai: golden residence permit for investors
Home sales of the last 12 months, every home type together. The area report has every price band, by home type.
Projects in Dubai World Central
Browse all projects- Azizi Venice 142,541 sales in 24 monthsView project
- Azizi Venice 61,295 sales in 24 monthsView project
- Azizi Venice 71,173 sales in 24 monthsView project
- Azizi Venice 15904 sales in 24 monthsView project
- azizi venice 13795 sales in 24 monthsView project
- Azizi Venice 10760 sales in 24 monthsView project
- azizi venice 12750 sales in 24 monthsView project
- Azizi Venice 11695 sales in 24 monthsView project
The latest registered sales.
| Date | Project | Unit | Size | Price | AED/sqft |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Nov 2026 | Hayat 7 | Villa · 4 beds · Off-plan | 3,122 sqft | AED 4,870,000 | 1,560 |
| 3 Nov 2026 | Terra WoodsBuilding 1 | Apartment · 2 beds · Off-plan | 1,126 sqft | AED 2,457,888 | 2,183 |
| 3 Nov 2026 | The Collective | Apartment · 2 beds · Off-plan | 1,092 sqft | AED 2,025,000 | 1,854 |
| 3 Nov 2026 | Terra WoodsBuilding 3 | Apartment · 1 bed · Off-plan | 761 sqft | AED 1,672,888 | 2,198 |
| 3 Nov 2026 | Terra WoodsBuilding 3 | Apartment · 1 bed · Off-plan | 753 sqft | AED 1,651,888 | 2,194 |
| 3 Nov 2026 | Terra WoodsBuilding 3 | Apartment · 1 bed · Off-plan | 745 sqft | AED 1,638,888 | 2,200 |
| 3 Nov 2026 | Terra WoodsBuilding 3 | Apartment · 1 bed · Off-plan | 745 sqft | AED 1,630,888 | 2,189 |
| 3 Nov 2026 | Elinor | Apartment · 2 beds · Off-plan | 824 sqft | AED 1,259,647 | 1,529 |
| 3 Nov 2026 | Elinor | Apartment · 2 beds · Off-plan | 819 sqft | AED 1,250,000 | 1,526 |
| 3 Nov 2026 | Elinor | Apartment · 2 beds · Off-plan | 819 sqft | AED 1,249,300 | 1,525 |
3 Nov 2026
Villa4 bedsOff-plan3,122 sqft
AED 4,870,0001,560 AED/sqft
3 Nov 2026
Apartment2 bedsOff-plan1,126 sqft
Building 1AED 2,457,8882,183 AED/sqft
3 Nov 2026
Apartment2 bedsOff-plan1,092 sqft
AED 2,025,0001,854 AED/sqft
3 Nov 2026
Apartment1 bedOff-plan761 sqft
Building 3AED 1,672,8882,198 AED/sqft
3 Nov 2026
Apartment1 bedOff-plan753 sqft
Building 3AED 1,651,8882,194 AED/sqft
3 Nov 2026
Apartment1 bedOff-plan745 sqft
Building 3AED 1,638,8882,200 AED/sqft
3 Nov 2026
Apartment1 bedOff-plan745 sqft
Building 3AED 1,630,8882,189 AED/sqft
3 Nov 2026
Apartment2 bedsOff-plan824 sqft
AED 1,259,6471,529 AED/sqft
3 Nov 2026
Apartment2 bedsOff-plan819 sqft
AED 1,250,0001,526 AED/sqft
3 Nov 2026
Apartment2 bedsOff-plan819 sqft
AED 1,249,3001,525 AED/sqft
Questions about Dubai South
What is the price per sq ft in Dubai South?
In the 12 months to 3 November 2026, the median registered sale price was 1,131 AED/sqft for ready homes and 1,672 AED/sqft off-plan. The two medians mix different home types.
How did prices and sales in Dubai South change over the last year?
In the 12 months to 3 November 2026, the ready price per sq ft of the same home types rose 9.1% (Dubai +6.5%), and registered sales rose 75.9% to 16,132.
What are the service charges in Dubai South?
The area’s median service charge in 2026 is AED 15.81 per sq ft a year, across the owners’ association budgets of 29 developments. Apartment and villa budgets together, so no net yield is worked from it.
How many homes are under construction or planned in Dubai South?
As of 3 November 2026, the DLD project register lists 45,541 homes under construction or planned in Dubai South, 19,103 of them in projects with a DLD end date in the next 24 months. An end date is the date in the DLD register, not a handover forecast.
Where do these figures come from?
From Dubai Land Department open data, published on Dubai Data, to 3 November 2026: registered sales, new rent contracts and the project register. They are registered sales, not a valuation, and not investment advice.
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