Dubai · Units + Villas · May 2026 → May 2026 · Official Records
Why this matters
Business Bay is a focal point in this reporting cycle.
A ranked developer view of unit and villa activity shows AVENEW, Damac Prime and Marquis Home together accounting for 45 transactions, with value and median deal size diverging sharply across the trio.
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.
Market Snapshot
May 1, 2026 - May 31, 2026
Median Value
AED 5.35M
Verified DLD analytics row from the frozen visual "Top developers by transactions".
Total Value
AED 51.29M
Verified DLD analytics row from the frozen visual "Top developers by transactions".
Tx Count
21
Verified DLD analytics row from the frozen visual "Top developers by transactions".
Tx Count
14
Verified DLD analytics row from the frozen visual "Top developers by transactions".
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.
The hero chart, Top developers by transactions, shows a tight cluster at the head of Dubai’s unit and villa market in May 2026. AVENEW Real Estate Development logged 21 transactions, Damac Prime Development 14 and Marquis Home Developer 10, which together represents 45 of 11,032 total transactions, or roughly 0.4% of monthly activity. That makes the visible leader set important for reading developer-level activity, even though the wider market remains much broader than the top three names alone.
Transaction counts did not line up neatly with value. AVENEW generated 21 transactions worth 116,095,980, Damac Prime posted 14 transactions worth 51,294,120, and Marquis Home delivered 10 transactions worth 13,638,226. Median values also stepped down across the same trio, from 5,347,000 at AVENEW to 3,077,500 at Damac Prime and 1,314,935 at Marquis Home, which points to a materially different deal profile across the three developers.
The May 2026 slice should be read as a month-end view of unit and villa transactions rather than a broader trend series. The market-level context is also marked as a cautious reporting set, so the cleanest reading is structural: a concentrated group of developers dominated the top of the ranking, but the mix of count, value and median price shows that activity intensity and ticket size were not moving in lockstep across the field.
Verified DLD analytics row from the frozen visual "Top developers by transactions".
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5347000
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Verified DLD analytics row from the frozen visual "Top developers by transactions".
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51294120
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Verified DLD analytics row from the frozen visual "Top developers by transactions".
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21
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Verified DLD analytics row from the frozen visual "Top developers by transactions".
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14
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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.
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
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.
November 2025 – April 2026
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.
Business Bay and Wadi Al Safa 3 Led Dubai Unit and Villa Transactions in May 2026
Jun 15, 2026
Dubai unit and villa transactions cluster in the 1M–2M and 500K–1M bands
Jun 15, 2026
Dubai South (Madinat Al Mataar) leads Dubai areas by unit and villa transactions in May 2026
Jun 15, 2026
Dubai unit and villa transactions stay concentrated in Business Bay over Nov 2025 to Apr 2026
May 26, 2026
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May 26, 2026
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