Where Dubai property prices actually fell

The table on this page is the answer: 37 communities where the median resale price per square metre fell over the last 90 days compared with the 90 days before. Every row shows what it fell from, what it fell to, and how many real transactions stand behind each window.

Sold prices. Every figure here comes from completed Dubai Land Department transactions — the price recorded when a property actually changed hands. Listing asking-prices, which is what property portals show, can be cut without a single sale happening; they are not the same thing and we do not use them.

Because roughly three quarters of Dubai's transactions are off-plan, and off-plan pricing is the developer's launch pricing, not the market re-pricing an existing home. A single tower launching or completing would swing a community's median and read as a 'price drop' when no owned property changed hands at a lower price. Resale (secondary) transactions are the honest answer to 'are prices falling here?'.

Because a community only appears if it had enough real resale transactions in BOTH comparison windows. Where the sample is too thin, we omit the community rather than publish a percentage computed off a handful of sales — a price move measured on two transactions is noise, and publishing it would be worse than publishing nothing.