Business Bay is a focal point in this reporting cycle.
Across November 2025 to April 2026, Palm Deira recorded AED 250,000 in rent value, an 18.95 rental yield, 3,364 transactions, and AED 11.3957 billion in transaction value.

Palm Deira’s units-and-villas profile combines a defined rent marker with sizeable transaction activity over the November 2025 to April 2026 window. The area recorded AED 250,000 in rent value and an 18.95 rental yield, while also posting 3,364 transactions worth AED 11,395,703,928.41.
Market Snapshot
Nov 1, 2025 - Apr 30, 2026
Transaction Value
AED 16B
Area ranked #2 by transaction value: Palm Jumeirah
Transaction Value
AED 20.04B
Top area by transaction value: Business Bay
Transaction Count
405
Top developer by transactions: SOBHA L.L.C
Transaction Count
231
Top project by transactions: THE MERIVA COLLECTION
Palm Deira’s units-and-villas profile combines a defined rent marker with sizeable transaction activity over the November 2025 to April 2026 window. The area recorded AED 250,000 in rent value and an 18.95 rental yield, while also posting 3,364 transactions worth AED 11,395,703,928.41.
Palm Deira’s headline rent figure stands at AED 250,000, alongside an 18.95 rental yield, giving the area a clear rent-and-yield marker within the broader units-and-villas market. On the activity side, it logged 3,364 transactions and AED 11,395,703,928.41 in value, which places rent discussion against a sizeable flow of unit and villa transactions rather than against a small or thinly traded base. That combination matters because it frames Palm Deira as part of the same transaction ecosystem that is driving the wider Dubai market, even if the rent metric itself is shown as a level rather than a month-by-month series.
Across Dubai’s units-and-villas market, Business Bay led with 5,989 transactions and AED 20,035,482,942 in value, while Palm Jumeirah followed with 1,184 transactions and AED 15,998,882,288. That gap gives useful context for Palm Deira: its 3,364 transactions and AED 11,395,703,928.41 sit in a market where activity and capital are heavily concentrated in a few areas, rather than spread evenly across the city. The same pattern appears at project level, where THE MERIVA COLLECTION posted 231 transactions and AED 943,406,268 in value, with Sobha Central next on 171 transactions.
Top areas by transaction count
The six-month transaction trend peaked at 21,727 in December 2025 after 21,575 in November, then held above 19,000 in January and February before dropping to 15,613 in March and 15,282 in April 2026. Transaction value followed a similar pattern, rising to AED 52,497,524,283 in February before easing to AED 37,795,472,186 in March and AED 35,658,905,579.89 in April 2026. For rent-focused reading, that broader monthly backdrop matters because it shows the market moving through a softer end to the period after a stronger winter run, without attributing the change to any single cause.
This plan uses the supplied units-and-villas scope and the verified area relation for Palm Deira. Rent value and rental yield are reported as provided for Palm Deira, while the monthly trend section is used to place the period in market context rather than to infer a direct driver of rent movement.
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Top areas by transaction value
Area ranked #2 by transaction value: Palm Jumeirah
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Top area by transaction value: Business Bay
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Top developer by transactions: SOBHA L.L.C
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Top project by transactions: THE MERIVA COLLECTION
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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%
ColdMay 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.

Business Bay and Wadi Al Safa 3 Led Dubai Unit and Villa Transactions in May 2026
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Dubai unit and villa transactions cluster in the 1M–2M and 500K–1M bands
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Top three developers recorded 45 unit and villa transactions in Dubai in May 2026
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Dubai South (Madinat Al Mataar) leads Dubai areas by unit and villa transactions in May 2026
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Dubai unit and villa transactions stay concentrated in Business Bay over Nov 2025 to Apr 2026
May 26, 2026

Sobha and Binghatti define Dubai’s developer transaction-count race in November 2025 to April 2026
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