Dubai Property Price Index - Monthly Releases
The Property Index (PIX©) is a chained, mix-adjusted price index for Dubai residential property, computed monthly from sales registered with the Dubai Land Department. As of July 2026 it stands at 206.0, 106% above its January 2012 base of 100, on 9,583 registered sales in the month.
Each release below is a permanent, dated record of one month of the index. Releases begin with June 2026; the series history back to January 2012 is published below and in the CSV. Figures carry their base month and sample basis so they can be cited and checked. Read the methodology or download the full series (CSV).
| Segment · July 2026 | Index level | MoM | YoY |
|---|---|---|---|
| Residential (headline) | 206.0 | -2.1% | -2.6% |
| Apartments | 200.6 | -2.0% | -3.3% |
| Villas | 264.1 | -2.5% | +1.7% |
| Ready | 175.0 | +0.0% | +1.9% |
| Off-plan | 232.7 | -1.9% | +0.6% |
All segments are expressed against January 2012 = 100 and are mix-adjusted, so a month with a different composition of sales does not read as a price change.
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What is the Dubai Property Price Index?
PIX© is a monthly price index for Dubai residential property, computed entirely from sales registered with the Dubai Land Department - the transfer record, not listings, asking prices or broker estimates. It answers one question with discipline: how did prices move, holding constant what sold.
That discipline is the difference between an index and a headline average. Dubai's sales mix swings hard month to month - an off-plan launch can flood a month with studios, a handover can tilt it toward villas - and a raw average or median follows the mix as much as the market. PIX© instead compares each area, property type and bedroom cell with itself over time and chains the movements together, so the published curve measures price rather than composition.
The index is one instrument in a wider dataset: every level ultimately traces back to individual registered transactions, which - along with Ejari rental contracts, yields and per-project analytics - live in PropertyIndex Pro. The city-level index layer on this page is free and citable by design.
How to read an index level
Every PIX© level is a position against a base month set to 100 - currently January 2012 = 100. The latest headline level of 206.0 therefore reads: Dubai residential prices are +106.0% above their January 2012 level, like for like. The level itself is not a price in dirhams - it is a measured position on a curve, and the movements between positions are the facts worth quoting.
Three readings cover most uses: month on month for direction right now (noisy, treat single months with care), year on year for trend (the figure most worth citing), and since base for the long arc. Each release publishes all three, per segment.
Releases, revisions and how to cite
A release is a publication event, not a data point. Each month's release lives at a permanent dated URL, states its own basis, and is never silently rewritten - late registrations may revise the most recent month of the series, and where that is possible the release says so on its face. Releases exist from June 2026 forward; the computed series reaches back further and is published in full in the CSV.
To cite the index generally: PropertyIndex, PIX© Dubai Residential Price Index (base January 2012 = 100). https://www.propertyindex.ae/dubai-real-estate-price-index. To cite a specific month, use that month's release page - each carries its own suggested citation. The methodology is versioned and published in full.
Common questions
PIX© is computed nightly from Dubai Land Department registrations, and a new monthly release is published once a month completes. Only complete months are published - a half-month of registrations is not a measurement.
The index is expressed against a base of 100 in January 2012, so a level of 206.0 means Dubai residential prices are +106.0% above that base, holding constant the mix of what sold. The level itself is not a price - it is a position on a measured curve.
Because averages move when the mix of what sold moves. A month heavy with studio sales drags a raw average down without a single home getting cheaper. PIX© compares like with like - the same area, property type and bedroom cells over time - so its movements measure price, not composition.
Yes. The headline series covers all residential, and four sub-indices are computed the same way over their own cells: apartments, villas, ready and off-plan. Villa and apartment prices genuinely diverge in Dubai, which is why the segments are published rather than blended away.
The PIX© series is computed from January 2012 onward. Monthly release documents exist from June 2026 forward - a release is a publication event, so we do not retro-mint dated documents for years before publication began. The full series back to January 2012 is in the free CSV and on the homepage chart.
Yes, free. The full series - every segment, every month, index level and year-on-year change - is available as a CSV download, and the methodology is published in full so any figure can be checked against its stated method.
Dubai residential prices have fallen -2.6% over the last 12 months. PIX© reads 206.0 in July 2026, against a January 2012 base of 100.
Dubai residential prices are +68.0% over five years on PIX©, and +106.0% since the January 2012 base. Both are mix-adjusted, so they measure price rather than a change in what sold.
The median registered price was AED 1,672 per sqft in July 2026, across 9,583 registered sales. The index level tracks the mix-adjusted change; this median is the raw price in the month.
PIX© is a mix-adjusted price index built from Dubai Land Department registered sales rather than asking prices. It holds the mix of what sold constant, so a month with more studios does not read as a price fall.
Every point is computed from sales registered with the Dubai Land Department — the transfer record, not listings or valuations. The series starts in January 2012 and only complete months are published.