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Price change for the same home
Most price charts move when the mix of what sold changes. One month sells more villas, the next month more studios, and the average jumps around even if no home became more expensive. This index fixes that. It holds the size, the floor, the number of bedrooms, the type, the off-plan or ready state and the exact building fixed, so only the year changes. Holding the building fixed matters more here than anywhere else: most of what sells in a recent year sits in a project that had no sales at all in the base year, so a chart that only holds the area fixed counts the gap between an old building and a brand new one as price growth. This one does not. It also covers homes only, apartments, villas and townhouses, because a land plot or a shop is not a home. Pick Land plot or Commercial in the type box if you want to see those. The first point is 100. If the line reaches 130, prices went up 30% since the start of your selected period. Each point is averaged with the 2 points before it so one strange month does not shake the line. If a period has too few sales, the line shows a gap. For thin slices, like villas only or a single area, switch to Quarterly: each point then pools 3 months of sales and one big launch cannot bend the line the way it can bend a single month. Use Combined for one line across your whole selection, or split it By type or By bedrooms to see a separate index line for each, rebased to 100 at a shared start so you can compare how each one grew. Click a name in the legend to hide or show that line.
Top areas by price index
Every area gets its own hedonic index, built from all of its sales, year by year, with the same method as the big index above: size, bedrooms, type, off-plan state and primary or resale held constant. This list ranks areas by how much that index moved in the year you pick compared with the year before. An area needs at least 30 usable sales in both years to appear, so no number here stands on a handful of deals.
Top projects by price index
The same ranking, project by project: each project gets its own hedonic index from all of its sales, and the list ranks them by the change in the year you pick versus the year before. It is a price index: it shows how the price level of the same kind of home moved, not the profit owners made when they sold. A project needs at least 30 usable sales in both years to appear.
How much of the market is resale
A resale is a home sold by its owner rather than by the developer. Count mode shows how many happened each year. Share mode shows what portion of every sale that year was a resale, which is the more telling one: it says whether the market is being fed by new launches or by owners selling to each other. A market that is nearly all developer sales is a market where most buyers have not yet had the chance to sell. The last year is part filled, because a sale reaches the registry after it is signed.
Resale capital gain
This is different from every other chart here. When a home is resold, the registry now records how much its price changed versus the same home's own previous sale. So this is not a model and not a mix comparison, it is the real gain the seller booked on that exact property. Each bar is the middle (median) gain across every resale in that period, so one lucky flip cannot lift it. Only resales where the earlier sale is known are counted. A negative bar means the typical seller in that period sold for less than they paid. Use the filters to focus on off-plan flips, a single area, a property type or a bedroom count.
Median gain by how long they held it
One bar for each length of ownership. It answers the question every owner asks: does sitting on it longer actually pay? Each bar is the middle (median) gain of every resale in that band, measured against that same home's own earlier price, so it is money people really booked and not a model. A band needs at least 20 resales to get a bar. Read the first two views together. The gain over the whole hold nearly always climbs the longer people held, because more years is simply more time for prices to move. The gain for each year held is the honest test, and it often does the opposite. A taller bar is not the same as a better decision. The yearly rate is left blank under a year, because turning a three month gain into a yearly rate pretends the owner could repeat it four times over. Every filter here is the same as on the list below, so you can ask, for example, what off-plan apartments bought in 2022 in one area made at each length of hold. The one filter this chart cannot have is the holding period itself, because that is the bottom of the chart.
Top areas by resale gain
Which areas put the most money back in sellers' pockets. Every resale's gain versus its own previous sale is turned into a gain per year (the gain divided by the years the seller held the home; under six months counts as six months), collected per area, and the list ranks areas by the middle (median) gain a year. The total gain sits small under each number. An area needs at least 20 resales with a known prior sale to appear, so no number rests on a couple of flips. Set the date range to focus on resales that happened in a specific window.
Top projects by resale gain
The same ranking, project by project: the median gain a year sellers booked when reselling a home versus their own purchase price, with the total gain under it. This is the closest honest answer to which projects have actually made resellers money. A project needs at least 20 resales with a known prior sale to appear.
Top developers by resale gain
The same ranking again, a year at a time, this time by who built the place. Every resale is credited to the developer of that exact building, not to whoever master-planned the community, so a tower in Jumeirah Village Circle counts for the firm that put it up. A developer needs at least 30 resales with a known prior sale AND at least 3 buildings to appear, because a company with one building is that project wearing a company name. Read it with the note underneath: this is what resellers booked, and a builder who sells cheap off plan can top a list like this without being the better home. Pick developers to compare a few head to head instead of reading them off a list of ninety. The rest of the boxes ask the same questions as the list further down: what they paid, how long they held it, what kind of resale it was, and when they sold. It opens on sales since 2022. Picking a selling year puts the period box back to all time, because all three of those boxes narrow the same date.
Biggest developers by sales
How many registered sales each developer has in the slice you pick, and the middle price of them. This is size, not quality: it counts every sale the Land Department recorded, off plan and ready, first sale and resale. Pick developers in the bar above to compare only those.
Every resale, home by home
Every resale where the registry records the same home's own earlier sale, so the profit sits between two real prices and the holding period is a real number, not a guess at which older sale this one refers to. Each line shows what the seller paid, what they sold for, how long they held it and the gain per year. Tap any row to see that home's full history. A home that sold three times appears twice, because those are two different owners with two different holdings. Each line is one buy and one sell, never a whole chain collapsed into a single figure. The filters: Bought in, Sold in and Held for are three ways of asking the same thing, and any two of them settle the third. Pick Bought in 2022 and Held 3 to 4 years to see what someone who bought in 2022 and sat on it for three years walked away with. Picking a selling year sets the period box back to all time, because both of them are about the selling date. Flipped before handover means both the earlier sale and this one were off plan. Sold after handover means they bought off plan and sold once it was ready. A yearly rate is only shown once a home has been held about a year, because annualising a three month gain pretends the owner could repeat it four times over.
Median price
Middle sale price per period. Extreme prices per sqft are excluded.
Median price change
How much the median price moved, in percent. Vs last year: each bar compares a period with the same period one year earlier. Vs previous: each bar compares a period with the one right before it.
Median price per sqft
The fair comparison measure. Only sales with a registered size count here.
Sales volume: off-plan vs ready
How much of the market is homes still under construction.
Top areas
Every area ranked, most active first. Top 5 highlighted, scroll for the rest. Volume ranks by number of sales, Value by total AED, Share by each area's slice of the whole market. The change figure compares the selected period with the one before it, in the same measure.
Sales by price tier
Where the money actually goes: under 1M to above 10M AED.
Price per sqft by bedrooms
Median AED per sqft by layout for the selected slice.
Most sold projects
Every named project in the selected slice, ranked by registered sales, with its median sale price. Scroll for the full list.
Numbers first, then the deal.
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