Median price per sqft and recent price movement for 74 Dubai areas, computed from real DLD sale transactions. Prices reflect residential stock — apartments, villas and townhouses.
The best-known residential areas, so you don’t have to scroll past a few hundred you weren’t looking for. This is a shortcut, not a ranking — nothing here is scored or recommended, and each card shows how many real sales sit behind its figures.
Grouped by how many residential sales DLD has recorded. More sales means a median that moves less on any one deal — it is a measure of how firm the number is, not of how good the area is.
1,000+ recorded residential sales. Between them these cover most of the market.
officially Marsa Dubai · also covers Dubai Harbour / Jumeirah Beach Residence · 99,874 sales
officially Al Barsha South Fourth · 84,978 sales

66,302 sales

officially Burj Khalifa · 46,288 sales
officially Al Warsan First · 43,673 sales

officially Wadi Al Safa 5 · also covers Villanova / Arabian Ranches Iii · 42,858 sales

officially Al Thanyah Fifth · also covers Jumeirah Park · 42,237 sales

officially Madinat Al Mataar · also covers Emaar South · 40,062 sales

officially Jabal Ali First · 35,048 sales
officially Al Merkadh · also covers Mbr District 1 / Sobha Heartland · 32,403 sales
officially Al Hebiah Fourth · 32,358 sales

officially Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid · 30,242 sales

officially Al Khairan First · 25,012 sales

24,080 sales
officially Nadd Hessa · 23,869 sales
officially Al Barshaa South Third · 23,393 sales
officially Me'Aisem First · also covers Dubai Production City · 23,245 sales

officially Al Yelayiss 2 · 19,353 sales
officially Al Thanyah Third · 19,139 sales
officially Al Hebiah First · 17,818 sales

officially Wadi Al Safa 3 · also covers Living Legends · 17,125 sales
officially Al Barsha South Fifth · 14,407 sales

officially Madinat Dubai Almelaheyah · 14,220 sales

officially Al Hebiah Fifth · 12,878 sales
officially Al Jadaf · also covers Jaddaf Waterfront · 11,338 sales

officially Al Yelayiss 1 · 11,015 sales
officially Al Thanayah Fourth · 10,710 sales
officially Al Barshaa South Second · 10,648 sales
officially Wadi Al Safa 2 · 10,250 sales

officially Al Wasl · 10,244 sales

10,052 sales

9,891 sales
officially Al Hebiah Third · 9,682 sales

9,121 sales
officially Wadi Al Safa 7 · 9,051 sales

officially Palm Deira · 8,844 sales

7,314 sales

7,301 sales
officially Nad Al Shiba First · 6,222 sales
officially Warsan Fourth · 5,031 sales
officially Al Hebiah Second · 4,961 sales

4,840 sales
officially Wadi Al Safa 6 · 4,748 sales
4,137 sales
3,485 sales
officially Jumeirah First · 3,107 sales
2,988 sales

2,780 sales
officially Al Hebiah Sixth · 2,774 sales

2,700 sales
2,404 sales
2,226 sales
2,174 sales
officially Al Thanyah First · 1,731 sales
1,703 sales
1,581 sales
300 to 999 sales — enough activity for medians to be dependable.
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50 to 299 sales. Figures are real but move more on individual deals.
Fewer than 50 recorded sales, so treat any median here as indicative only.
Karama, Naif, Mankhool and the city's older heart. No apartment, villa or townhouse sale is registered in these areas — what does register is land and commercial — so they are listed on their tenancies rather than a home price that does not exist in the record.
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Industrial and logistics zones, and areas where the Land Department records no residential sale at all. Nothing is hidden here that has a figure attached — a place DLD files under a second name appears once, under the name people use for it, not twice.

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