Market insights
The whole Abu Dhabi residential record, read as medians: how many homes changed hands, what they sold for, and which districts carried the volume.
The market in numbers
Eight years of registered residential sales, year by year. The current year is still running, so its bar covers part of a year only.
Homes sold each year
Registered residential sales
Total value each year
Sum of the recorded sale prices
The last twelve months
Every sale recorded since 1 October 2025
Since 2019
101,155 homes changed hands in Abu Dhabi between 2019 and 30 October 2026, and every one of them sits behind the estimate above.
Prices right now
The city-wide median price per square foot over the last twenty-four months, the volume behind it, and how the market split.
City median price
Median AED per square foot, by month
Homes sold each month
Registered sales, last 24 months
Off-plan and ready
Share of the last 12 months, with each median
- Off-plan81%1,871 AED / sqft
- Ready19%1,353 AED / sqft
Apartments and villas
Share of the last 12 months, with each median
- Apartments75%1,867 AED / sqft
- Villas25%1,623 AED / sqft
Which areas did best
The last three months of sales against the same three months a year earlier, district by district — a description of what was registered, not a projection.
Change on a year earlier
Median AED/sqft, last 3 months vs the same 3 months last year
- Abu Dhabi, city-wide+19.9%1,871 AED / sqft · 8,955 sales
- Al Reem Island+11.8%1,656 AED / sqft · 1,715 sales
- Yas Island+40.8%2,387 AED / sqft · 1,431 sales
- Al Hidayriyyat+18.0%1,924 AED / sqft · 2,065 sales
- Al Saadiyat Island−2.4%2,278 AED / sqft · 703 sales
- Zayed City+8.6%1,618 AED / sqft · 271 sales
Busiest districts
Sales in the last 12 months, with each median
- Al Reem Island8,272median 1,647 AED / sqft
- Yas Island5,376median 2,256 AED / sqft
- Al Hidayriyyat4,349median 1,924 AED / sqft
- Al Saadiyat Island2,416median 3,110 AED / sqft
- Zayed City1,417median 1,507 AED / sqft
- Al Rahah1,202median 1,927 AED / sqft
- Khalifa City1,163median 1,246 AED / sqft
- Al Bahyah997median 1,136 AED / sqft
Dearest and cheapest district
All-time medians, districts with 50 sales or more
Building of the year
The single building with the most sales in the last 12 months
What the data knows
Patterns that only show up once every sale is in one place — by bedroom count, by floor area, by the same flat sold twice, and by the day it was registered.
Price by bedroom
Median AED/sqft, apartments, all years
Price by floor area
Median AED/sqft by size band, apartments, all years
The smallest and the largest apartments carried the highest price per square foot; the middle of the market sat lowest.
The same flat, sold twice
Repeat sales matched on building, layout and floor area
The headline median moved +19.9% on a year earlier, but the 9,668 flats that sold twice moved +2.4% a year. The gap is the mix: new launches entered the record at new prices and changed what "the market" was made of.
The day sales were registered
Every registered sale, by weekday
Why you can trust it
Where the numbers came from, what was taken out of them, and how close the estimates landed when they were tested.
How fresh it is
A sale reached this record about 76 days after it happened.
Clean data only
263 court-ordered sales, 8,761 non-residential records, and records with no recorded size or price were left out. Homes only, sold on the open market.
Buildings we price with confidence
347 buildings traded in the last twelve months, and 227 of them had 20 sales or more — enough for a building-level median rather than a district guess.
How close the estimates landed
76% of test estimates landed within 10% of the price the home actually sold for, measured on 1,488 sales between 21 July 2026 and 27 October 2026.
- Off-plan, same building89%250 sales
- Off-plan, wider market68%248 sales
- Ready homes72%243 sales
- Off-plan, same building93%208 sales
- Ready homes72%127 sales
- Off-plan, wider market77%123 sales
- Off-plan, wider market57%94 sales
- Ready homes85%60 sales
- Ready homes57%56 sales
- Off-plan, wider market61%31 sales
- Off-plan, same building79%28 sales
- Off-plan, same building65%20 sales