🏙️ 📈 Key Highlights on Dubai / UAE Real Estate
🏙️ 📈 Key Highlights on Dubai / UAE Real Estate
Record Q3 2025 Real Estate Sales in Dubai / UAE
The UAE’s real estate market continues to surge. In Q3 2025, there were 54,028 residential sales transactions across Dubai, worth AED 134.6 billion (~US$ 36.6 billion).
This marks a 15.3 % year-on-year increase in transaction value (vs Q3 2024), and a 14.8 % increase in volume (i.e. number of deals) over the same period.
Compared with Q2 2025, transaction numbers rose by ~9.4 %, while values “stabilised." The growth is being driven especially by mid-market properties/new launches ( not just ultra-luxury).
New Large-Scale Mall / Mixed-Use Project Announced
Majid Al Futtaim revealed a US$4.2 billion “Ghaf Woods Mall” in Dubai, integrated with a surrounding residential / community development.
The project is designed as a “forest-integrated retail space,” combining nature/biophilic elements with shopping, dining, entertainment, in a new flagship mall concept.
It complements a larger AED 15.4 billion residential & community scheme in the same master-development area. arabianbusiness.com
Infrastructure Upgrade to Support Real Estate / Access
Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), in partnership with Majid Al Futtaim, opened a new 300 m single-lane bridge connecting Sheikh Zayed Road directly to the Mall of the Emirates’ car parks. This cuts travel time for motorists arriving from Abu Dhabi / Jebel Ali from 10 minutes to 1 minute.
The bridge is part of broader upgrades: expanded access points, improved intersections, enhanced pedestrian walkways, new cycling tracks.
Policy / Economic Enablers that Affect Real Estate Sentiment
Dubai launched a Free Zone Mainland Operating Permit, enabling free zone companies to operate in the mainland more easily. This reduces barriers for business expansion, potentially stimulating demand for commercial / mixed-use space.
Elsewhere in the UAE, policies such as visa programmes, incentives, etc., contribute to demand and investor confidence in property markets.
