colour = price band · size = registered sales since 2022
What the map says, and what it refuses to say.
- Every figure is a median of registered sales. Not an asking price, not a valuation, not a portal average. Mortgages and gifts are excluded because a loan is not a sale, and land is excluded because a plot is not a home.
- A pin’s size is its sales volume. 556,973 registered sales sit behind the 72 priced areas on this map. It is there so you can see which medians rest on thousands of sales and which rest on a few hundred.
- Off-plan and resale are never mixed. They are two markets in the same postcode — on the Palm the off-plan median runs at roughly double resale, because what is launching there now is not the stock that is changing hands. Year-on-year is resale only, for the same reason: an off-plan median moves with whatever launched that year.
- A thin median says so. Under twenty registered resales in the reported year, the figure is marked thin on the card and in the ranking. Jumeirah Bay’s seven sales sort it to the top of the list, and it should not read as steady as Jumeirah Village Circle’s two and a half thousand. Twenty is our line, not the register’s — the same way the ten-storey line on the plot map is ours.
- The current year is a part year. It is labelled as such. Its medians are real; its counts are not a full twelve months and should not be compared to one.
- One pin per place. The register prices Maple 1, Sidra 2 and five more clusters that all sit inside Dubai Hills Estate. They count towards Dubai Hills’ own figures and do not get pins of their own, or the map would show the same place seven times at seven prices.
- Blank means blank. Dubai Design District has a pin and no numbers, because the register holds no name that maps to it. Dubai Islands shows off-plan only, because nothing there has been resold in volume yet. And the whole Abu Dhabi view is empty, because that emirate publishes no transaction register at all.
Six areas the register prices and the map does not show.
Every pin was geocoded from OpenStreetMap and then checked: it had to resolve to a named place inside the frame, and no two pins may land on top of each other unless the places really are neighbours. These six failed that check. They have medians we could publish and no point we would defend, so they are named here instead of dropped quietly — or worse, guessed at.
- International City Phase 3 — AED 882/sqft across 264 resales in 2026. The register's phase does not map to a place we could locate.
- Site A — AED 2,265/sqft across 63 resales in 2026. Not a place name.
- WARSAN FIRST DEVELOPMENT — AED 1,228/sqft across 37 resales in 2026. Overlaps International City without a separate centre we could verify.
- 800 Villas — AED 1,287/sqft across 50 resales in 2026. Not a place name.
- The Villa — AED 1,013/sqft across 45 resales in 2026. No match in the gazetteer.
- Al Waha Villas — AED 946/sqft across 14 resales in 2026. The only matches were in the Expo district, which is a different Al Waha.
Both halves of this map are public files.
The prices are the Dubai Land Department’s own Real Estate Transactions export, read to 4 August 2026. The coastline and motorways are © OpenStreetMap contributors, used under the ODbL.
Registered sales only (mortgages and gifts excluded), 2022 onward, land excluded. Median AED per square metre, with the 25th and 75th percentiles. Buckets with fewer than 5 sales are omitted. There is no rental data behind this map, so it says nothing about yield; nothing at the level of an individual building or unit; and nothing for Abu Dhabi. Drawn as server-rendered SVG rather than through a mapping service — no tile vendor, no API key and no third-party script following you around this page.
Each district has its own file.
A pin gives you the price. The district pages give you the drawing: every plot by what the planning register permits it to become, and how much of the place is actually built — Business Bay, Dubai Harbour, Downtown, Palm Jumeirah. The guides answer the questions that cut across all of them, and each project file states its own permit and escrow position.