Dubai house prices, quarter by quarter
The official index since 2019, updated each release. Villas have risen roughly two and a half times as far as apartments.
This page tracks Dubai's official Residential Property Price Index and is updated each time a new quarter is published. It is a record, not a forecast.
At the latest reading, 2025 Q4, the general index stood at 167.32 against a 2019 base of 100. Residential property has risen about 67% since 2019.
That headline hides the more interesting number.
Villas and apartments have not moved together
| 2020 Q1 | 2025 Q4 | Change | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Villas | 98.50 | 224.96 | +128.4% |
| General index | 98.30 | 167.32 | +70.2% |
| Flats | 98.23 | 147.06 | +49.7% |
Villas have risen roughly two and a half times as far as apartments over the same six years. Someone who bought a villa in early 2020 has seen the index more than double. Someone who bought an apartment has seen about half that.
This is the single most useful thing in the dataset, and it is invisible if you only read the headline index, which is what most reporting quotes.
The full series
Residential general index, 2019 = 100.
| Year | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 98.30 | 97.34 | 93.65 | 94.71 |
| 2021 | 96.38 | 98.32 | 106.88 | 109.68 |
| 2022 | 111.94 | 114.58 | 119.17 | 123.14 |
| 2023 | 128.00 | 131.34 | 135.42 | 135.59 |
| 2024 | 141.76 | 145.91 | 150.66 | 153.66 |
| 2025 | 158.77 | 162.00 | 161.96 | 167.32 |
Two details worth noticing.
The index fell first. It bottomed at 93.65 in 2020 Q3, more than 6% below its 2019 base, and did not clear that base again until 2021 Q3. Prices in Dubai have gone down within living memory, which is easy to forget six years into a rise.
2025 Q3 dipped. The index went 162.00, then 161.96, then 167.32. A single soft quarter inside a rising series is normal and is not a turn. It is worth remembering next time one quarter is reported as a trend.
What this index is and is not
- It measures prices, not what any individual property is worth. Your building, your floor and your view are not in it.
- It is quarterly and it lags. A market that turned last month will not show here for some time.
- It says nothing about yield. Prices rising faster than rents means yields compress, and this index cannot tell you that on its own. Our rent tracker covers the other half.
- A base of 100 is 2019, not the year you bought.
Method
Dubai Statistics Center, Residential Property Price Index, base year 2019, published February 2026. Every figure above is derived by a script kept with this site so the arithmetic can be checked rather than taken on trust.
Updated quarterly.