Dubai Islands

نخلة ديرة

officially Palm Deira

Median per sqft

AED 2,507/sqft

August 2026 · 129 sales

Change

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Annualised pace · ready homes

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Sold off-plan

100%

Last 12 months · 4,841 sales

Gross rental yield

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Mortgages per 100 resales

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Registered DLD sales · medians, not estimates · how we compute this

A typical residential sale here is AED 2,832,000 for about 1,168 sqft in the last 12 months (4,841 sales); across all 8,844 recorded sales the median is AED 2,749,800.

Why no price-change figure?

This area's recorded sales are too few or too uneven to measure a price direction honestly — any figure we printed would be month-to-month noise rather than a trend.

Nearly all recorded sales in Dubai Islands are off-plan, so the median above describes under-construction stock rather than the area as a whole.

What each size costs in Dubai Islands

Median size and price for every bedroom count with at least 15 recorded sales. Dubai Land Department records a room count on nearly every sale, so this is a breakdown of real transactions rather than an estimate. The headline price is the last 12 months; the median across every sale on record sits under it.

Size	Typical home	Price, last 12 months · ready and off-plan	Per sqft, all years	Sales, all years
1 bed	862 sqft	AED 2,300,000 2,203 sales all years AED 2,218,877	AED 2,490/sqft	4,052
2 beds	1,348 sqft	AED 3,451,214 1,994 sales all years AED 3,380,691	AED 2,460/sqft	3,648
3 beds	2,033 sqft	AED 5,508,889 568 sales all years AED 5,434,500	AED 2,636/sqft	1,030
4 beds	3,369 sqft	AED 8,807,639 72 sales all years AED 8,906,500	AED 2,520/sqft	108

What exists here, and who may own it

Every other figure on this page is about homes that sold. This is the standing stock, from the Land Department’s unit register.

Registered units

13,571

In Dubai Islands, from the Land Department's register of flats.

Freehold

100%

Every unit in Dubai Islands with a recorded type is freehold, so foreign ownership is permitted throughout.

Typical size

1,226 sqft

Median of the 13,571 units that record one.

By size of home

2 B/R5,839

1 B/R5,521

3 B/R1,934

4 B/R258

5 B/R16

Studio2

Apartments, stacked townhouses and commercial units. Villas are not in this dataset.

Rental market

Fewer than 20 registered tenancies for Dubai Islands in the last 12 months — too few for a median that would mean anything.

Common questions about Dubai Islands

How much do properties cost in Dubai Islands?

The median residential sale price in Dubai Islands was AED 2,507/sqft in August 2026, from 129 sales registered that month. Over the last 12 months a typical home here sold for about AED 2.83M and measured about 1,168 sqft (4,841 sales). These are medians of sales actually registered with the Dubai Land Department, not of asking prices.

Is Dubai Islands freehold?

Yes. Every unit in Dubai Islands whose tenure is recorded in the Land Department's register is freehold, so foreign nationals may own property here outright. The register holds 13,571 units for the area.

Is Dubai Islands mostly off-plan or completed homes?

100% of the 4,841 sales registered in Dubai Islands in the last 12 months were off-plan, and the rest were completed homes. The two trade at different prices, so a single blended price per square foot for the area would describe neither.

Prices by quarter, Q3 2024 to Q2 2026

Median registered sale price per sqft in Dubai Islands, by calendar quarter of the transaction date, ready homes and off-plan registrations kept apart. Complete quarters only; a quarter's median prints on 60 or more sales.

Quarter	Ready homes · median per sqft	vs a year earlier	Off-plan · median per sqft
Q3 2024	—0 sales	—	AED 2,015/sqft376 registrations
Q4 2024	—0 sales	—	AED 2,143/sqft494 registrations
Q1 2025	—0 sales	—	AED 2,278/sqft689 registrations
Q2 2025	—0 sales	—	AED 2,413/sqft1,201 registrations
Q3 2025	—0 sales	—	AED 2,331/sqft931 registrations
Q4 2025	—0 sales	—	AED 2,591/sqft1,398 registrations
Q1 2026	—0 sales	—	AED 2,778/sqft1,637 registrations
Q2 2026	—0 sales	—	AED 2,978/sqft1,251 registrations

A median is not an index: it moves when the mix of what sold moves, and a single quarter's move against the one before it reverses the next quarter about half the time on this register. Read the level, its sample, and the change against the same quarter a year earlier.

Median price per sqft trend

Every registered residential sale in this area by month, ready homes and off-plan together, so this is the history of what sold rather than a rate. The newest month is still being registered and will move. The rates on this page read ready homes alone.

Areas at a similar price

Closest to Dubai Islands on median price per square foot. Areas with fewer than 10 recorded sales are left out, because a median drawn from a handful of deals is not worth comparing against.

Dubai Creek Harbour

25,029 sales

AED 2,491/sqft

-1%

Bukadra

10,052 sales

AED 2,529/sqft

+1%

Al Safouh First

832 sales

AED 2,468/sqft

-2%