Business Bay is a focal point in this reporting cycle.
The six-month view is anchored by Business Bay’s lead in both transaction count and value, while the monthly trend visual captures how activity evolved across the period.

Dubai’s unit and villa market over November 2025 to April 2026 is best read through concentration: Business Bay leads the area table on both transaction count and transaction value, and the monthly trend visual shows how the market moved across the six months, with April naturally carrying a partial-month caution. SOBHA L.L.C also features in the broader market context, giving the snapshot an identifiable developer reference without stretching beyond the evidence.
Market Snapshot
Nov 1, 2025 - Apr 30, 2026
Transaction Count
5,989
Top area by transactions: Business Bay
Transaction Value
AED 20.04B
Top area by transaction value: Business Bay
Dubai’s unit and villa market over November 2025 to April 2026 is best read through concentration: Business Bay leads the area table on both transaction count and transaction value, and the monthly trend visual shows how the market moved across the six months, with April naturally carrying a partial-month caution. SOBHA L.L.C also features in the broader market context, giving the snapshot an identifiable developer reference without stretching beyond the evidence.
Top areas by transaction value
Top areas by transaction count
Business Bay is the clearest fixed point in this snapshot, leading the area table with 5,989 transactions and AED 20,035,482,942 in transaction value. Taken together, those two measures show the same district sitting at the center of both deal flow and money flow in Dubai’s unit and villa market. That matters because it separates a simple volume story from a broader value story: here, the same area is prominent on both measures rather than relying on one alone.
The monthly_trend_transactions_value chart is the right framing device for this period because it tracks both transaction count and transaction value across the November-to-April span. It gives the market a time sequence rather than a static table, which is useful when reading a six-month market summary. The final month should be treated as partial when the period closes in April, so the visual is best read as a running path through the period rather than a completed full-month endpoint.
SOBHA L.L.C is one of the named developers in the broader market context for this period, which gives the snapshot an entity reference without requiring a project-led reading. In a market summary, that is useful because it keeps the article grounded in a recognizable market participant while the primary story remains the distribution of unit and villa transactions across Dubai. The emphasis here stays on market structure rather than on unsupported comparisons across metrics that are not expressly provided.
Top area by transactions: Business Bay
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Top area by transaction value: Business Bay
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How this report was built
This article uses a frozen publication-time snapshot, so charts and evidence remain stable even as live analytics change.
Data coverage
Figures are sourced from official real-estate transaction records and fact-checked before publication.
Median AED 1.2M · Off-Plan 65.0%
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May 2026
Dubai’s May 2026 unit and villa transactions were led by a small set of areas on both count and value, with Business Bay, Wadi Al Safa 3 and Palm Jumeirah carrying much of the visible activity. The latest slice also carries an explicit quality caution, so the clearest reading is descriptive: where transactions clustered, how value stacked up, and where the market mix was concentrated.
May 2026
Dubai’s May 2026 unit and villa transactions were concentrated in the middle price bands, with the 1M–2M bracket recording 284,043 transactions and the 500K–1M bracket close behind at 280,272. The same visual also shows a long tail at the upper end, where 5M–10M transactions numbered 22,595.
May 2026
Dubai’s May 2026 unit and villa transactions were led by a small cluster of developers. AVENEW Real Estate Development recorded 21 transactions, Damac Prime Development 14 and Marquis Home Developer 10, while the top three together totalled 45 transactions and $181,028,326 in transaction value.
May 2026
Madinat Al Mataar finished May 2026 with 1,060 unit and villa transactions, putting it ahead of the next-highest area by count in Dubai's monthly area table. The same ranking also shows that activity concentration did not move in lockstep with value concentration: some lower-volume areas carried larger transaction totals than the leader.