- Dubai Q4 2025 Market Report
- Market overview
- Key market metrics
- Price trends and market interpretation
- Primary vs secondary market composition (Off-plan vs Ready)
- Configuration distribution: what buyers are choosing
- Unit size trends and market signals
- Top projects and developer activity
- Affordability snapshot: where buyers are spending
- Buyer profile and demand lens
- Rental trends and yield outlook
- Configuration spotlight: project-wise breakdown
- Risks and watchpoints
- Supply snapshot: what is in the pipeline
- Final observations and buyer takeaways
- Data source attribution
This Dubai Q4 2025 apartment market report decodes what actually moved in the city’s freehold apartment market between October and December 2025. Using registered DLD sale transactions, it breaks down the off-plan versus ready split, pricing in AED per square foot, ticket-size affordability bands, unit-size signals, and the projects that absorbed the most demand. This is a sales-led edition, written to help buyers and observers understand market structure, not chase headlines.
Dubai Q4 2025 Market Report
Scope and method
Scope: Residential, Freehold, Unit, Flats only, Sales-only procedures
Period: Q4 2025 (Oct 1 to Dec 31, 2025)
Price metric: Median AED/psf using TRANS_VALUE / (ACTUAL_AREA x 10.7639)
Market overview
Dubai’s Q4 feels less like a finale and more like a steady closing chapter. Volume softened as the quarter progressed, but the market did not lose its shape. What changed was not the direction, but the emphasis.
The quarter stayed firmly off-plan led. That matters because off-plan behaviour is not just a pricing story. It is a patience story. Buyers are choosing a delivery timeline, a promise, a developer, and a future version of a neighbourhood.
At the same time, the most traded part of the market remained compact. Studios and 1BRs kept the wheels turning, quietly doing what they always do in Dubai. They act as the liquidity layer. Easy to enter, easier to exit, and familiar to investors who value velocity over volume.
Larger apartments moved too, but more selectively. In Q4, they behave like ballast. They hold lifestyle value, but they do not drive the count.
Monthly activity (core scope):
- Oct 2025: 15,211 transactions
- Nov 2025: 14,860
- Dec 2025: 14,240
Off-plan share by month:
- Oct: 76.87%
- Nov: 78.32%
- Dec: 78.92%
Interpretation
Q4 is not screaming a new narrative. It is reinforcing an existing one: a market where off-plan carries breadth, and compact inventory carries liquidity.
Key market metrics
Citywide snapshot (Q4 2025)
| Metric | Overall | Off-plan | Ready |
| Transactions | 44,311 | 34,568 | 9,743 |
| Share of transactions | 100% | 78.01% | 21.99% |
| Median price (AED/psf) | 1,773.56 | 1,860.19 | 1,364.68 |
| Median ticket (AED) | 1,304,000 | 1,356,579 | 1,077,534 |
| Median unit size | 73.23 sqm (788 sqft) | 72.12 sqm (776 sqft) | 78.35 sqm (843 sqft) |
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