Dubai Price Per Square Foot by Community, in US Dollars

Most Dubai price data you will find online is advertised asking prices scraped from portals. This is not that.

These are prices buyers actually registered with the Dubai Land Department, converted to US dollars at the dirham peg of 3.6725. We pulled 18,587 residential sales between 30 June and 18 August 2026, removed mortgages and gift transfers because they are not arms length sales, and took the median per community.

Dubai price per square foot, in US dollars

Community	Registered sales	USD per sq ft	AED per sq ft
Dubai Sports City	290	$356	1,306
Al Furjan	245	$378	1,387
Jumeirah Village Circle	1,309	$388	1,426
Arjan	417	$431	1,584
Jumeirah Village Triangle	233	$443	1,628
Dubai South	3,302	$468	1,718
Sobha Hartland	113	$535	1,963
Business Bay	655	$578	2,121
Jumeirah Lakes Towers	550	$612	2,247
Dubai Hills Estate	201	$617	2,265
Dubai Marina	335	$627	2,304
Dubai Creek Harbour	253	$648	2,380
Downtown Dubai	270	$699	2,566
Dubai Islands	254	$721	2,649
Palm Jumeirah	101	$820	3,010

How to read this table

The market splits into three tiers and the gap between them is larger than most buyers expect.

Under $450 per square foot. Dubai Sports City, Al Furjan, Jumeirah Village Circle, Arjan and Jumeirah Village Triangle. These are the volume communities. Jumeirah Village Circle alone registered 1,309 sales in 50 days, more than Downtown, Dubai Marina, Palm Jumeirah, Dubai Hills and Business Bay combined.

$450 to $650. Dubai South, Sobha Hartland, Business Bay, Jumeirah Lakes Towers, Dubai Hills Estate, Dubai Marina and Dubai Creek Harbour. This is where most international money lands.

Above $650. Downtown Dubai, Dubai Islands and Palm Jumeirah. Prime, thin, and far more expensive per square foot than the mid market. Palm Jumeirah at $820 is 2.3 times Dubai Sports City at $356.

The number that matters more than price

Look at the sales column, not the price column.

Palm Jumeirah registered 101 sales in 50 days. Jumeirah Village Circle registered 1,309. That is not a statement about quality. It is a statement about how quickly you can sell.

Liquidity is the thing overseas buyers underweight. A community with thirteen times the transaction volume has thirteen times the buyer pool when you want out. In a thin market your exit price is whatever the one interested buyer that month decides it is.

Off plan pushes these numbers up

These medians mix off plan and ready. Across the same period, off plan registered a median 27% above ready per square foot in like for like comparisons matched on community and bedroom count.

So a community with heavy off plan activity reads higher here than its resale market actually is. Dubai South is 98% off plan in this period. Dubai Islands and Palm Jebel Ali are 100%. Read those three as launch pricing rather than market pricing.

What this data does not include

• Villas and townhouses are excluded. This is apartments and residential units only. Villa communities such as Arabian Ranches, Jumeirah Park and Tilal Al Ghaf registered too few sales in this window to publish a median we would stand behind.
• Building age is not controlled for. Ready stock in Jumeirah Lakes Towers and Dubai Marina includes towers completed 15 to 20 years ago sitting in the same median as new handovers.
• It is 50 days. A snapshot, not a trend. We rebuild it monthly.
• Palm Jumeirah and Sobha Hartland rest on around 100 sales each. Directionally sound, thinner than the rest.

Method

Source is the Dubai Land Department open data portal. We excluded mortgage registrations and gift transfers, kept residential units, and removed records with a value under AED 100,000, a size under 150 square feet or an implied price per square foot outside AED 200 to AED 20,000, which are data entry artefacts rather than real sales. That left 18,587 sales.

Sizes convert from square metres at 10.7639 square feet per square metre. Dirhams convert at the fixed peg of 3.6725, unchanged since 1997. All figures are medians, because averages get dragged around by a handful of very large sales in Downtown and on the Palm.

Frequently asked questions

What is the average price per square foot in Dubai in US dollars?

It depends heavily on the community. Registered Dubai Land Department sales between 30 June and 18 August 2026 ranged from a median of $356 per square foot in Dubai Sports City to $820 on Palm Jumeirah. Mid market communities such as Business Bay and Dubai Marina registered at $578 and $627.

Which Dubai community is cheapest per square foot?

Of the fifteen communities with enough registered sales to measure, Dubai Sports City was cheapest at a median $356 per square foot, followed by Al Furjan at $378 and Jumeirah Village Circle at $388.

Which Dubai community is most expensive per square foot?

Palm Jumeirah at a median $820 per square foot, followed by Dubai Islands at $721 and Downtown Dubai at $699.

Are these asking prices or actual sale prices?

Actual registered sale prices from the Dubai Land Department. They are not asking prices advertised on property portals, which are typically higher and are what most published Dubai price data uses.

How often is this updated?

Monthly. Each update uses a fresh Dubai Land Department transaction file and republishes every figure with its new date range.

Why do some communities show so many more sales than others?

Transaction volume reflects both community size and how much new supply is launching. Jumeirah Village Circle and Dubai South carry very high volumes because of active off plan launches. High volume also means deeper liquidity when you sell.

Source. Dubai Land Department open data portal, registered transactions 30 June to 18 August 2026, 18,587 qualifying residential sales after cleaning. Mortgages and gift transfers excluded. Medians, not averages. Converted at the fixed peg of AED 3.6725 to USD 1. Analysis by Cresco Real Estate LLC, RERA ORN 34288. Registered transaction prices, not advertised asking prices. Market research, not personal investment advice.