Dubai Real Estate Data: Official Sources & Platforms Compared
Dubai real estate data comes from one register and many retellings. The Dubai Land Department records every sale transfer, every Ejari rental contract and every project's status; everything else - free dashboards, portal lookups, enterprise research platforms, and our own product - is a different way of accessing, cleaning and analysing that record, plus the separate universe of advertised listings. This guide maps all of it: what each source actually contains, what each platform is built for, and the drawbacks each one carries, ours included.
We build PropertyIndex, so read its entries as first-person. Statements about other providers describe their data sources and access models as publicly positioned in July 2026; we make no claims about their data quality, and free/paid status may change. Drawbacks listed for each platform - including our own - are structural consequences of what each product is, not judgements of how well it does it.
What counts as Dubai real estate data?
Six record types cover nearly every question asked of this market. Each has one authoritative home:
What did buyers actually pay - by date, price, size and price per sqft?
What do tenants actually sign for - the basis of every honest yield figure?
What is selling before completion, and at what registered prices?
What exists: project status, completion progress, unit counts, handover?
What are sellers and landlords asking right now - current supply and sentiment?
How are prices moving once you hold constant what sold?
The single most consequential distinction runs between the registered records and the fifth card: registered records state what happened; advertised listings state what someone hopes will happen. An asking price can sit unmet for months while registered sales in the same tower complete far below it - which is why pricing research that starts from listings starts from the wrong number. Listings still matter: they are the only view of current supply, competing stock and seller expectations. The error is not using them; it is confusing them for evidence of value.
The official sources, before any platform
Every commercial platform in this guide sits downstream of channels you can use directly:
Dubai Land Department & Dubai REST
The register itself and its digital service platform. This is where a specific transaction, a title, or a project's official status is verified rather than reported. Its limits are the mirror of its authority: record-level access, built for administration, with no analytical layer on top.
Ejari
The mandatory registration system for tenancy contracts. Registered rents are the only rental figures that describe agreed contracts rather than advertisements, and they underpin the DLD's official rental index - the reference used for permissible rent-increase calculations.
Dubai Pulse
The city's open-data platform, through which DLD datasets have been published as raw files. The honest description of working with it: powerful, free, and entirely self-service - cleaning, joining and interpreting the data is your job.
Project status enquiry
The DLD publishes official project status - registration, escrow, completion percentage - through its channels. For off-plan decisions this record matters more than any price chart, because it is the difference between a project and an announcement.
The platforms, compared
| Platform | Sales data basis | Rentals | Granularity | Access | Best suited to |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dubai Land Department / Dubai REST | The official register itself - sales and rental records | Rental index and registered contracts | Individual records | Free | Verifying a specific transaction against the source of truth |
| Dubai Pulse | Open government datasets, including DLD data | Dataset-dependent | Raw datasets | Free (open data) | Analysts who want raw files to process themselves |
| DXBinteract | DLD-sourced transactions | DLD-sourced | Market dashboards and transaction search | Free (per its public site) | Free browsing of market-wide transaction activity |
| Property Finder - transaction tools | DLD-sourced transactions, alongside its listings | Alongside advertised rents | Building and area lookups | Free (per its public site) | Quick sold-price checks while browsing listings |
| Bayut - transaction tools | DLD-sourced transactions, alongside its listings | Alongside advertised rents | Building and area lookups | Free (per its public site) | Quick sold-price checks while browsing listings |
| Property Monitor | DLD-sourced data with proprietary analytics | Covered per its public positioning | Professional valuation and market products | Paid / enterprise (per its public site) | Brokerages and valuers on institutional workflows |
| REIDIN | Transactions plus supply, listings and indices | Covered per its public positioning | Research-grade series and APIs | Paid / enterprise (per its public site) | Banks, developers and research teams |
| PropertyIndex (us) | DLD registered sales + Ejari rental contracts, updated daily | Registered Ejari contracts, not asking rents | Project-level: history, PSF, yields, PIX© estimates · ChatGPT/Claude MCP connectors · PIX© Panel Chrome extension · PIX© Alerts | Free city-level index · Pro 500 AED/mo | Pricing decisions on a specific project or unit type |
Platform by platform: strengths and drawbacks
Most comparison pages stop at features. The more useful question is what each product is structurally good and bad at - consequences of what it is, before any judgement of how well it executes.
Dubai Land Department & Dubai REST
The Dubai Land Department operates the register every other source in this guide ultimately derives from: sales transfers, Ejari rental contracts, Oqood off-plan registrations, project status and the unit registry. Dubai REST is its digital service platform.
- +The source of truth - a record here is the transaction, not a report of it
- +Free, and the only place a specific record can be authoritatively verified
- +Covers dimensions no aggregator adds: project status, official procedures, title verification
- −Built for administration and verification, not analysis - answering "what have 2-beds in this tower done over three years?" means assembling records yourself
- −No analytical layer: no trends, no comparisons, no yields
Dubai Pulse
Dubai Pulse is the city’s open-data platform, through which government datasets - including DLD data - have been published as raw downloadable files.
- +Raw, bulk and free - the right starting point for independent analysis and research
- +No platform between you and the data: your cleaning rules, your definitions
- −Everything is on you: cleaning, deduplication, joining sales to buildings, geocoding
- −Freshness and coverage vary by dataset, and schemas can change between publications
DXBinteract
DXBinteract publishes free dashboards and transaction search built on DLD-sourced data, oriented to market-wide reading of Dubai real estate activity.
- +Free access to registered-transaction breadth across the whole market
- +Good for orientation: volumes, headline movements, area-level activity
- −A dashboard you read rather than a dataset you interrogate - the prepared views are the product, and questions outside them need another tool
- −Market-wide orientation over asset-level economics: a specific tower’s unit-type pricing and registered-rent yield is not what the free dashboards are organised around, per its public site
Property Finder (transaction tools)
Property Finder is a listings portal that also offers DLD-sourced transaction lookups beside its listings, so browsers can check sold prices without leaving the site.
- +The fastest route from "I am looking at a listing" to "what did units here actually sell for?"
- +Free, and it states that its transaction data is cleaned of identified outliers
- −An adjunct to listings, not a research workflow - depth of history and analysis is what the portal chooses to expose
- −Asking prices and registered prices sit side by side, and it is easy to read one as the other
- −Its core business is advertising property, which shapes what the free tools are built to do
Bayut (transaction tools)
Bayut, the other major UAE listings portal, similarly offers DLD-sourced transaction checks alongside its listings.
- +Same virtue as Property Finder’s tools: quick registered-price checks in the flow of browsing
- +Free
- −Same structural limits: listing-first product, portal-chosen depth, asking and achieved prices in adjacent columns
Property Monitor
Property Monitor is a professional real-estate intelligence platform - DLD-sourced data with proprietary analytics, valuation products and AVMs, positioned at brokerages, valuers and institutions.
- +Institutional workflows: valuation instruction, AVMs, market reports
- +Long-standing presence in the professional Dubai market
- −Enterprise access: pricing is not public and the product is contract-based, per its public site
- −Individual buyers, investors and small agencies sit outside the core proposition
REIDIN
REIDIN is a research-grade data company covering transactions, supply, listings, occupancy and indices across markets including Dubai, serving banks, developers and research teams.
- +Breadth beyond the register: supply pipeline, listings data, cross-market series, APIs
- +Built for portfolio and market research at institutional depth
- −Enterprise-priced and contract-based, per its public site - proportionate for a research desk, not for a single pricing decision
- −Breadth-first: the product is the research layer, not a quick answer about one building
PropertyIndex (us)
PropertyIndex is our platform: Dubai real estate data built exclusively from DLD registered sales and Ejari rental contracts, updated daily, organised around the question professionals actually price against - what is this specific project’s unit type worth, on registered evidence? It is also the only platform in this comparison whose data travels to where you already work: your AI assistant, your browser, and your inbox.
- +Project depth: every registered sale in a project - date, price, size, PSF - with per-unit-type PIX© price estimates
- +Rentals from registered Ejari contracts, so yields divide real rents by real prices, never asking by asking
- +AI-native, uniquely here: MCP connectors for ChatGPT and Claude, so you can ask questions of the register conversationally inside your AI assistant
- +PIX© Panel Chrome extension: the registered sales history, PIX© price tiers, rents and yield appear beside every Property Finder and Bayut listing you open - the direct fix for the asking-vs-achieved confusion the portals create
- +PIX© Alerts: notifications when new sales or rental contracts register against a project, community or area you follow
- +The PIX© city index is free, with a published methodology, permanent monthly releases and a downloadable CSV
- −Dubai residential only - no offices, no other emirates
- −Project-level analytics are paid (Pro, 500 AED/month); only the city-level index layer is free
- −Registered data only - to browse what is currently for sale, you still need the portals (which is exactly where the Chrome extension meets you)
Which platform for which job?
Go to the source: the Dubai Land Department's own channels. Nothing downstream outranks the register itself.
DXBinteract's dashboards and the portals' transaction tools together cover headline movement and quick sold-price checks without spending anything.
This is the job we built PropertyIndex Pro for: the project's full registered history, unit-type estimates and Ejari-based yield in one view. A DLD-accredited valuer remains the right call where the valuation must be legally defensible.
Follow an index with a stated methodology rather than headline medians. The PIX© monthly releases are free, dated and citable.
Property Monitor and REIDIN are built for this depth - AVMs, supply pipelines, APIs and cross-market series at enterprise scale.
Add the PIX© Panel Chrome extension: every Property Finder or Bayut listing you open shows its DLD-registered history, PIX© price tiers, rents and yield beside the asking price - no tab-switching.
Connect the PropertyIndex MCP connector - the only one in this comparison - and ask the register directly in conversation: project histories, prices, yields and the PIX© index, answered from official data instead of the model's memory.
Dubai Pulse's raw datasets, with your own processing - supplemented by the PIX© series CSV as a mix-adjusted reference curve.
A practical research stack
DLD sales and Ejari contracts - the achieved prices and signed rents. This layer decides what something is worth; everything else is context.
Active listings and asking prices on the portals. They do not tell you value, but they tell you competing supply and seller expectations right now.
View, floor, condition, layout, payment status, seller urgency. No dataset carries these; for a defensible valuation of one unit, instruct a DLD-accredited valuer.
For free research, the DLD's own channels plus the portals' transaction tools cover layers one and two. Institutional teams tend to sit on Property Monitor or REIDIN. PropertyIndex's place in the stack is layer one at project depth: registered sales and registered rents for the specific project you are pricing, with the PIX© index as the market-level reference and its methodology published in full.
Common questions
The Dubai Land Department register. A registered transfer records what a buyer actually paid and a registered Ejari contract records what a tenant actually signed for, while a listing records what a seller or landlord hopes to receive. Every platform in this guide that is built on DLD registrations is working from achieved prices; platforms built on listings are working from asking prices.
Yes. The Dubai Land Department publishes registered transaction data through its own channels, including the Dubai REST platform, and open datasets have been distributed through Dubai Pulse. Several commercial platforms repackage this registered data with search, analytics and history on top - that repackaging, not the raw data, is what they differ on.
No. An asking price is the advertised figure on a listing; the sale price is what was registered when the transfer completed. The gap between the two varies by project and market conditions, which is why price research based only on listings can mislead. Both major UAE portals also offer separate DLD-sourced transaction tools alongside their listings.
A real estate index tracks how prices move over time while holding constant what sold. The Property Index (PIX©) is a mix-adjusted index for Dubai residential property computed monthly from DLD registered sales - published free with a stated methodology and a downloadable series, so a month with more studios changing hands than penthouses does not read as a price fall.
Three routes. The Dubai Land Department’s own channels let you verify individual registered records. Property Finder and Bayut both offer free DLD-sourced lookups beside their listings, suited to quick checks. PropertyIndex publishes the full registered sales history of each project - every sale with date, price, size and price per sqft - as a research view rather than a record-by-record lookup.
Yes. The Dubai Land Department publishes an official rental index, used among other things for permissible rent-increase calculations, and registered Ejari contracts are the underlying record of what tenants actually pay. Platforms differ in whether their rental figures come from those registered contracts or from advertised asking rents - the two can differ materially.
Because each makes different editorial decisions on the same register: which outliers to remove, whether to separate off-plan from ready sales, whether to mix-adjust or publish raw medians, and how to handle late registrations that land weeks after the sale. None of these choices is wrong, but they mean two honest platforms can publish different figures for the same month - which is why a stated methodology matters more than any single number.
Verification and market-level reading are broadly free: the DLD’s own record channels, Dubai Pulse open datasets, DXBinteract’s dashboards, the portals’ transaction lookups, and PropertyIndex’s city-level PIX© index with its CSV download. What is generally paid, across the industry, is the analysis layer: project-level history, yields from registered rents, valuations and APIs.
Yes - PropertyIndex is, as of July 2026, the only platform in this comparison offering MCP connectors for ChatGPT and Claude. Once connected, you ask in plain language and the assistant answers from the registered data itself: a project’s transaction history, current price per sqft, yields and the PIX© index, rather than from the model’s training memory.
PropertyIndex publishes Dubai real estate data built from DLD registered sales and Ejari rental contracts: project-level transaction history, price per square foot, registered rents and gross yields across 4,000+ projects, plus the PIX© price index computed monthly from registered sales. It travels with you: MCP connectors bring the data into ChatGPT and Claude, the PIX© Panel Chrome extension shows registered history beside Property Finder and Bayut listings, and PIX© Alerts notify you of new registrations in projects you follow. The city-level index, its methodology and its CSV are free; project-level analytics are part of PIX© Pro at 500 AED/month.