DXBinteract indicator

What share of Dubai property sales are off-plan?

Off-plan to ready ratio: The split of sales between units sold before completion (off-plan) and completed (ready) units. Off-plan units were 67.4% of Dubai's 215,608 property sales in 2025 — an off-plan to ready ratio of 2.06.

Data to: 16 Oct 2026Updated: 17 Oct 2026
Off-plan share, 2025
67.4%
145,254 off-plan of 215,608 sales
Off-plan : ready ratio, 2025
2.06
145,254 ÷ 70,354
Off-plan median per sq ft, 2025
⃃ 1,794
ready: ⃃ 1,403

What does off-plan to ready ratio mean?

An off-plan sale is the sale of a unit that is not yet completed; a ready sale is the sale of a completed unit. The off-plan to ready ratio compares the two, by number of sales.

It measures how much of the market is buying future supply. It is not the primary/secondary split: off-plan units are resold too.

Formula: Off-plan share = off-plan sales ÷ all sales × 100; ratio = off-plan sales ÷ ready sales

What is the off-plan to ready ratio in Dubai?

Dubai, all property types. Current year is year to date.
YearOff-plan salesReady salesOff-plan shareOff-plan medianReady median
2026 YTD91,57839,27170%⃃ 1,391,675⃃ 1,500,000
2025145,25470,35467.4%⃃ 1,584,000⃃ 1,475,206

What should you watch out for?

  • A few transactions have no off-plan flag and are counted only in the total.

How these figures are calculated

Method
Uses the off-plan flag on each registered sale.
Also
Calendar years; the current year is year to date.

Full definitions: DXBinteract methodology · market indicators explained

Source and how to cite

DXBinteract analysis based on Dubai Land Department transaction data.

Data to
(latest registered transaction)
Last updated
— figures refresh hourly from the live dataset
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