Dubai Property Deals AED 15.98bn Last Week: Dubai REST

Dubai's property registry closed last week at about AED 15.98 billion across 4,236 deals. The figure covers sales, mortgages and gifts together — what Dubai Land Department (DLD) calls property dispositions — and it comes from Dubai REST, DLD's official property-services app. For investors, the useful split is ready versus off-plan sales value. For agents, it is which areas printed the most sale value and how to brief the week without collapsing every deal type into one vague "hot market" line.

Primary source: Emarat Al Youm, 7 November 2026, reporting Dubai REST / Dubai Land Department figures (reporter: Ahmed Al Demerdash – Dubai). Our earlier piece on how to read a weekly Dubai REST tape covers the same literacy method on a prior week.

First, the words

Dubai REST: the Dubai Land Department's official app for property services, including the daily and weekly transaction prints many desks use to check the registry.
Disposition: any registered property deal in the wider DLD total — sales, mortgages and gifts counted together, not sales alone.
Ready (completed) sale: a sale of a finished home, building or plot that already exists, as opposed to buying from plan.
Off-plan: buying a unit or building from the developer before it is finished, usually paid in construction-linked instalments.
Mortgage: a loan secured against the property and registered at DLD; it is financing activity, not a sale price.
Gift (hiba): a registered transfer of ownership without a sale price; it sits inside dispositions but is separate from sales value.

What Dubai REST printed for the week

Total property dispositions last week: about AED 15.98 billion via 4,236 deals. Inside that total, sales came to AED 7.51 billion. Sales by asset type totalled 2,709 sale deals: 2,171 residential units, 199 buildings and 339 lands.

Ready (completed) sales: about AED 4.5 billion via 1,159 deals (740 residential units, 80 buildings, 339 lands). Off-plan sales: about AED 3.01 billion via 1,550 deals (1,431 residential units, 119 buildings). Ready value led; off-plan deal count led. That split is the first line an investor should hear before anyone talks about "the market" as a single mood. Our paper on ready homes gaining ground as off-plan cools explains why the two lanes should stay separate in a brief.

Mortgages: 1,166 deals worth AED 5.73 billion (770 residential units, 129 buildings, 267 lands). Gifts: about AED 2.74 billion via 361 deals (264 units, 19 buildings, 78 lands). Mortgages and gifts sit inside the wider dispositions total; they are not the same as sale value, and mixing them is a classic brief error. Fee context for those deal types lives in our guides to the mortgage registration fee and the gift registration fee.

Where the sale value concentrated

Top areas by sales value last week, as printed:

Palm Deira — about AED 897.28 million
Business Bay — about AED 429.09 million
Nadd Al Shiba 1 — about AED 347.45 million
Airport City — about AED 319.31 million
Jumeirah Village Circle — about AED 244.38 million
Burj Khalifa area — about AED 241.04 million
Dubai Maritime City — about AED 229.47 million
Al Yelayiss 1 — about AED 198.51 million
Al Hebiah 5 — about AED 171.3 million
Jumeirah Lakes Towers — about AED 156.35 million

Palm Deira led by a wide margin. The rest of the top ten spreads across established freehold districts and newer clusters, which is a diversified tape rather than a single-tower story. A district leading one week does not mean every building in that district is liquid.

One recent daily print in the same article

The same Emarat Al Youm piece also prints one recent daily reading: about AED 1.65 billion via 544 deals (sales about AED 1.21 billion; mortgages AED 364.22 million; gifts AED 79.6 million). On that day, sales were about 73.14% of disposition value, mortgages about 22.04%, and gifts about 4.82%. A single day is a snapshot inside the week — useful for tempo, weak as a standalone market call. Our guide Dubai REST: one day is not a market is the longer version of that caution.

What it means for you

If you are an investor

Use the week to answer three capital questions, not to invent a forecast. First, is activity concentrated or spread? This top ten is spread, with Palm Deira ahead and Business Bay, Nadd Al Shiba 1, Airport City, JVC, the Burj Khalifa area, Dubai Maritime City, Al Yelayiss 1, Al Hebiah 5 and JLT still printing meaningful sale value. Second, are buyers putting more value into ready stock or off-plan tickets? Ready value (about AED 4.5bn) led off-plan value (about AED 3.01bn) even while off-plan deal count was higher — useful when someone claims everything is off-plan. Third, how large are financing and gift flows beside sales? Mortgages at AED 5.73bn and gifts at AED 2.74bn sit next to AED 7.51bn of sales; leverage and non-sale transfers are part of the week, not a footnote. Pair volumes with a named price index only when that index prints; this tape does not give you yields or asking prices. For a longer horizon read, see our piece on Dubai's nine-month sales tape.

If you are an agent

Open the client brief with one calm primary sentence: Emarat Al Youm, 7 November 2026, Dubai REST / DLD — weekly dispositions about AED 15.98 billion across 4,236 deals, sales AED 7.51 billion. Then separate ready versus off-plan in numbers a first-time buyer can repeat. Then name the top areas without turning the list into a brochure. Finally, keep the process words defined when the client asks what comes next: Form F is the broker sale-agreement form under RERA (the Real Estate Regulatory Agency, DLD's regulatory arm); Oqood is the interim off-plan registration step; escrow is the regulated account that holds buyer funds on off-plan projects. None of those process rules change because a weekly total is large — the total simply updates how busy the registry was.

Printed now — dispositions ~AED 15.98bn / 4,236 deals; sales AED 7.51bn (ready ~AED 4.5bn / 1,159 vs off-plan ~AED 3.01bn / 1,550); mortgages AED 5.73bn / 1,166; gifts AED 2.74bn / 361; top areas as listed above.
Still to watch — next week's REST print for continuity; district-level price medians from a named index if the client needs pricing, not only volumes.
Not in this print — unit-level asking prices, rental yields, or Golden Visa eligibility for a specific purchase (visa pathways sit with ICP / GDRFA / DLD services, not inside a weekly dispositions summary).

What we did not claim

We used only the Dubai REST / DLD figures as reported by Emarat Al Youm on 7 November 2026. A weekly print is a snapshot of registry activity, not a price index, not a forecast, and not proof that every community in the top ten will outperform. We have not invented absorption rates, yields or asking prices from these volumes. This is general market orientation, not personalised investment, tax or legal advice. Always verify live figures on Dubai REST / DLD before a client decision.