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 1,630
Median recorded sale price per built-up square foot, city-wide, over the last 12 months.
Quarter on quarter
-9.5%
Movement in the city median against the prior quarter.
Recorded sales · YTD
18,427
Registered residential sales across covered districts so far this year.
Districts covered
43
Districts with a large enough sample to report a reliable median.
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- -9.5% QoQ
- Fahid Island
- Al Reem Island · 5,371
- Al Hidayriyyat · +156.1%
City median price trend
ADREC · 12-month seriesMedian sale price · AED per built-up sqft
In plain terms — The city median is down 15.4% on its recent three-month average — momentum has cooled. Across the year it has moved through a 34.5% peak-to-trough range, so read any single month against the trend, not on its own.
Median vs average — the honest number
ADREC · composition-adjustedMedian unit (typical sale)
AED 1,630
Transaction-weighted average
AED 1,853
In plain terms — The transaction-weighted average is pulled above the median by a handful of trophy sales; the median is what a typical unit actually trades at. The gap between them is precisely how much a headline average price can mislead — so we lead with the median and show the skew rather than hide it.
District leaderboard
| District | Confidence | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Al Reem Island | 1,606 | 1,624 | 5,371 | High |
| Yas Island | 2,180 | 2,116 | 3,617 | High |
| Al Hidayriyyat | 1,150 | 1,227 | 2,322 | High |
| Al Saadiyat Island | 3,186 | 3,366 | 1,680 | High |
| Khalifa City | 1,230 | 1,228 | 729 | High |
| Al Rahah | 1,830 | 1,919 | 691 | High |
| Al Shamkhah | 1,124 | 1,034 | 679 | High |
| Zayed City | 1,490 | 1,471 | 640 | High |
| Fahid Island | 3,718 | 3,694 | 478 | Medium |
| Al Maryah Island | 1,932 | 2,591 | 317 | Medium |
| Al Bahyah | 500 | 806 | 294 | Medium |
| Al Reef | 1,014 | 1,064 | 212 | 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 districtIn 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 villaApartment 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
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.
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See the full picture inside Knownable.
This page shows a slice of what the registry holds. The Knownable hub gives you every recorded transaction, filterable and exportable as evidence, off-plan project data, branded client briefs, and the tools to act on all of it.
Go deeper
Every district and project has its own page.
This dashboard is the city-wide view. Below it, the same ADREC records broken out one entity at a time — median price, price per sqft, year-by-year volume and a bedroom split for each.
District prices
Al Reem, Yas, Saadiyat and every other district with enough recorded sales to publish a reliable median.
Browse districts
Project prices
What actually sold inside each development — not asking prices, and with phases rolled up into the community buyers search for.
Browse projects
Monthly market report
The whole market in one page, refreshed each month, free to quote with attribution.
Read the report