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Market Insights

The Abu Dhabi market, read straight from the registry.

A live analytics view of Abu Dhabi's residential market — pricing, transaction volume, and market structure, every figure computed from official ADREC records. Not a portal's asking prices. The registry, measured.

City median

AED 1,632

Median recorded sale price per built-up square foot, city-wide, over the last 12 months.

Quarter on quarter

-1.6%

Movement in the city median against the prior quarter.

Recorded sales · YTD

16,714

Registered residential sales across covered districts so far this year.

Districts covered

Districts with a large enough sample to report a reliable median.

Market pulse

City median price trend

ADREC · 12-month series

Median sale price · AED per built-up sqft

In plain terms — The city median is down 3.5% on its recent three-month average — momentum has cooled. Across the year it has moved through a 34.6% peak-to-trough range, so read any single month against the trend, not on its own.

Median vs average — the honest number

ADREC · composition-adjusted

Median unit (typical sale)

AED 1,632

Transaction-weighted average

AED 1,605

High-end skew-1.7%

In plain terms — Here the transaction-weighted average sits below the median — a sign that the emirate's highest-volume districts are also its more affordable ones, pulling the weighted average down while half of all individual sales still clear the higher median price. Either direction is a real, computable signal, which is why we show both numbers rather than a single blended one.

District leaderboard

ADREC · sortable

District leaderboard
District				Confidence
Al Reem Island	1,338	1,406	4,793	High
Yas Island	1,724	1,769	3,294	High
Al Hidayriyyat	1,175	1,258	2,222	High
Al Saadiyat Island	2,249	2,628	1,474	High
Khalifa City	1,153	1,133	706	High
Al Rahah	1,426	1,538	638	High
Zayed City	1,386	1,376	622	High
Al Shamkhah	1,106	986	579	High
Fahid Island	3,699	3,674	457	Medium
Al Maryah Island	1,851	2,298	276	Medium
Ghantout	2,087	2,052	196	Medium
Al Reef	830	857	190	Medium

In plain terms — Each district carries a confidence tier set by how many sales sit behind its median, so you can tell a firmly-priced market from a thin one at a glance — instead of trusting one blended number for all of them.

Primary vs resale premium

ADREC · matched by district

Al Hidayriyyat+162%

Ghadeer Al Tayr+118.6%

Bani Yas+97.7%

Al Shamkhah+80.3%

Rabdan+71.7%

Al Sa`adah+46.1%

Al Reem Island+37.9%

Yas Island+20%

In plain terms — Where new-build prices sit well above resale, buyers are paying a launch premium; where they don't, the secondary market is holding its own. It is a fast read on how much of a district's price is developer pricing versus proven demand.

Median by unit type

ADREC · apartment vs villa

Fahid Island3,654—

Nourai Island—3,064

Al Kasir2,4032,488

Al Saadiyat Island2,5631,412

Ghantout—2,158

Al Maryah Island1,882—

Yas Island1,7921,387

Ghadeer Al Tayr2,9981,599

Apartment Villa

In plain terms — Apartments and villas move on different clocks within the same district — a single blended area price hides which one you are actually buying.

Why you can trust these numbers

Every figure on this page is computed from official Abu Dhabi Real Estate Centre (ADREC) transaction records — recorded sales, not advertised asking prices. Where a district or a split has not traded enough to be reliable, we say so rather than print a shaky number.

Source: ADREC official records
Basis: Recorded sales, not listings
Price: Median, per built-up sqft
Window: Rolling 36-month sample
Sample floor: 10+ sales per district
Refresh: Live from the hub

District confidence, right now

8 high10 medium42 low

Confidence reflects how many recorded sales sit behind each district's median: High is 500 or more this year, Medium 100 to 499, Low under 100. We publish the tier for every district rather than a single blended accuracy score — because a market is only as measurable as the district you are standing in.

Volume & value

Transaction Overview

Volume, value, and momentum — the market at a glance

Total sales value

AED 82.5B

Sum of registered sale prices, year to date.

Transactions

16,993

Registered sales, year to date.

Off-plan value

AED 63.6B

Sale value on off-plan (pre-handover) transactions, year to date.

Average deal size

AED 4.9M

Total sales value divided by transaction count, year to date.

Transaction value trend

ADREC · monthly

In plain terms — Total AED transacted each month — the clearest read on whether capital flowing into the market is growing or slowing. -66.3% last month vs. the one before.

Deal volume

ADREC · monthly

In plain terms — How many sales registered each month — volume tends to lead value, since price moves follow a run of strong or weak months. -58.0% last month vs. the one before.

Composition

Market Structure

Transaction types, asset classes, and off-plan vs ready

Sales by asset class

ADREC · quarterly value by sector

In plain terms — The overwhelming majority of transacted value is residential — commercial and other asset classes are a small, steady slice.

Off-plan vs ready

ADREC · quarterly deals by sale type

In plain terms — Most deals in Abu Dhabi right now are off-plan — developer-driven demand is setting the pace of the market.

Project market share — Jun 2026

ADREC · latest complete month

In plain terms — Which named projects drove the most deal volume last month — a fast read on where developer launches and handover waves are concentrating activity.

Price trend

Price Performance

How prices have moved across property types since 2020

Sale price index

ADREC · base 100 = Q1 2020

Base Q1 2020 = 100

In plain terms — The headline index, indexed to Q1 2020 — the standard way to compare how far the market has moved without getting lost in absolute AED figures.

Cross-sectional vs repeat-sales index

ADREC · matched pairs

The composition gap is 66.2 index pointsBuilt from 10,845 matched buy/sell pairs.

In plain terms — The published index mixes in new luxury supply entering the market every quarter — units that never existed before are pulling the headline number up. The repeat-sales line only tracks units that sold more than once, anchored to units held through Q1 2020: it is the closer read on what an existing owner's unit is actually worth today.

Market maturity signals

ADREC · quarterly

In plain terms — When resale prices sit close to or above new-launch pricing, it signals a market end-users trust enough to pay up for proven, existing stock rather than only chasing developer launches.

By district

Districts & Property Types

Top districts, property types, and price momentum

Top districts by transaction volume

ADREC · rolling 36 months

In plain terms — Where the money is actually moving — ranked by total AED transacted, not headline price.

Property type breakdown

ADREC · rolling 36 months

apartment

71.7%

AED 1,562

villa

18.2%

AED 1,315

townhouse

8.6%

AED 1,297

duplex

1.5%

AED 1,514

In plain terms — Apartments dominate deal count, but villas and townhouses carry a materially different price profile per unit.

Price change by district — 2026-Q2

ADREC · YoY and QoQ, latest complete quarter

High signal (100+ deals)Medium (50–99)Low (30–49)

In plain terms — Every district here carries a confidence tier set by its own sample size this quarter — a thin-sample swing is noise, not signal, so we hide it rather than print it. 7 low-sample districts hidden.

By project

Project Performance

Real, project-level performance — not a developer scorecard

We do not publish a developer scorecard: ADREC's feed has no field linking a project to its developer, so a developer-level grade or risk score cannot be computed from real data. This ranks named projects directly instead.

Project Performance
Project	Deals	Share of deals	Resale vs primary	Confidence
Al Naseem	929	1.54%	-1.6%	high
Wadeem (Plots)	1,795	2.97%	+5.7%	high
Saadiyat Lagoons - Phase 2 - Al Sidr	712	1.18%	-5.5%	high
Nawayef East B	469	0.78%	—	high
Saadiyat Lagoons - Wilds - Phase 1	582	0.96%	-15.3%	high
Nawayef West B	345	0.57%	-0.2%	high
Gardenia Bay	2,706	4.47%	+6.8%	high
Jubail Island - Phase 2	509	0.84%	+15.2%	high
Shams Abu Dhabi (Plots)	43	0.07%	-9.5%	low
The Row Saadiyat	547	0.9%	—	high
Four Seasons Private Residences	67	0.11%	—	medium
Bal Ghaiylam	1,306	2.16%	—	high

In plain terms — Where resale trades above primary, the secondary market is validating the launch price. Where it trades below, early buyers are giving back some of their launch premium on exit.

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