Data sources
Where the figures come from.
Skyline Index is built on open data of the Dubai Land Department and the Dubai Statistics Center, published on Dubai Data, and on asking prices read only in aggregate. These are the data sets, and the figures each one feeds.
Read the methodologyDubai open data
Real estate transactions
Dubai Land Department, on Dubai Data
Registered sales since 2020: sales counts and values, medians, trends, price spreads and comparables, launch prices, the step around completion, turnover, price bands and the latest sales lists.
This data set on Dubai DataRent contracts
Dubai Land Department, on Dubai Data
New rent contracts: median rents, gross and net yields, the most rented home types and, in the area report, rents by home type and their change.
This data set on Dubai DataProjects
Dubai Land Department, on Dubai Data
The project register: status, progress, start, end and completion dates, units, upcoming supply and the finished homes behind turnover.
This data set on Dubai DataService charges
Dubai Land Department, on Dubai Data
Owners’ association budgets: service charges per sq ft by budget year, the area median and net yields.
Residential price index
Dubai Statistics Center, on Dubai Data
Used to bring earlier registered prices to today’s level in the asking-price comparison, and to take Dubai’s market move out of the step around completion.
Market aggregates
Asking prices
A property portal
Portal listings seen in the last 30 days, read only as medians of at least 10 per group and set against registered sales.
Why other figures differ
Press and dashboard totals count every property type, and property portals show asking prices. The methodology explains how our figures compare.
Why our figures differCredit
Source: Dubai Land Department and Dubai Statistics Center open data, published on Dubai Data (data.dubai) under the Dubai Data Open Data Licence. Our figures are aggregates of it, credited at the foot of every page.
Skyline Index is not affiliated with or endorsed by Dubai Land Department or the Dubai Data and Statistics Establishment.
Dubai Data Open Data LicenceWhat we never show
No page shows a person, a contact, a party to a sale, a single listing or the group it came from.
Figures are statistics computed from Dubai Land Department open data for the period shown. They describe past registered transactions and contracts; they are not investment, financial or legal advice, not a recommendation to buy, sell or rent any property, and not a valuation of any property. Past price changes do not predict future ones. Gross yield is the median new rent divided by the median ready price; net yield also deducts the owners’ association service charge and nothing else (no vacancy, maintenance, fees, financing or tax). Projects are ordered by the rule stated in each table, not by merit.