Dubai residential transactions, 13 to 19 September 2026: the DLD week
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DLD's official open-data response returned 2,277 residential sale records worth AED 5,236,112,243.28 for 13 to 19 September 2026, extracted at 04:16 GST on 20 September. The filter includes ready and off-plan residential sales across all Dubai areas and property types, while excluding mortgages, gifts and non-residential usage.
The complete-week query returned 2,277 residential sales
The latest fully elapsed calendar-week range available after 00:00 UTC on 20 September was 13 to 19 September 2026 inclusive. DLD returned 2,277 rows and reported TOTAL: 2277, so the requested 5,000-row page captured the full response for this filter.
The neutral read: the second row is a like-for-like seven-day registry comparison. It does not establish a price movement because transaction value also reflects which properties were registered in each period.
This report sits beside the earlier 7 June transaction pulse, but the populations should not be spliced into one series. The June report used DXBinteract's direct-sales definition. This report uses the DLD response to a saved residential-sales query.
Off-plan and ready are registration-type cuts
DLD's registration field divides the latest weekly response into 1,449 off-plan records and 828 ready records. Off-plan refers to records returned with IS_OFFPLAN=1; ready refers to IS_OFFPLAN=0.
The neutral read: off-plan supplied more records in both queried weeks, while the exact AED totals preserve the different mix registered in each category.
Registration type is not the same thing as property type. A record can be an off-plan Unit or a ready Building. Keeping those fields separate prevents an apartment, villa or land narrative from being inferred before the registry labels support it.
Units, buildings and land make up the property-type cut
DLD labelled 2,030 records as Unit, 141 as Building and 106 as Land in the 13 to 19 September response. These are the official property-type labels returned by the endpoint, not bedroom or asset-class estimates.
The neutral read: Unit records form most of the count, but Land and Building records remain inside the residential usage filter and contribute to the weekly value.
For longer-period context, the H1 2026 property scorecard keeps its own periods and source definitions. Its figures should be compared only after those definitions align with this weekly population.
The saved query fixes the population before the arithmetic
The query sets transaction type to Sales and usage to Residential. It leaves registration type, freehold status, area and property type open, so those fields retain all values returned within the residential-sales population.
The neutral read: this is a residential-sales query, not DLD's total for all real estate procedures. A press-release number that combines sales, mortgages and gifts would answer a different question.
A weekly pulse measures registrations, not a forecast
The weekly count is best read as a dated registry observation. It can show how many records met one defined filter and how their transaction amounts summed. It cannot, by itself, show a citywide home-price change or predict the next period.
The neutral read: use the weekly query for a current transaction pulse and a matched index or local comparable set for price analysis.
FAQ, checked 20 September 2026
What is the current volume of Dubai residential sale transactions?
For the latest fully elapsed week queried on 20 September 2026, DLD returned 2,277 residential sale records for 13 to 19 September, worth AED 5,236,112,243.28 under the stated filters. The access time matters because registry populations can be revised.
How can I check property transactions in Dubai?
Use DLD Real Estate Data, then record the date range, transaction type, registration type, freehold status, area, usage and property type. Save the access time and confirm that the rows returned equal DLD's reported total.
Does this DLD weekly total include mortgages and gifts?
No. The saved 20 September 2026 query sets Transaction Type to Sales and Usage to Residential. Mortgages, Gifts, Commercial and Other usage are outside this report's population.
Are off-plan and ready sales counted separately?
Yes. For 13 to 19 September 2026, DLD returned 1,449 off-plan records worth AED 2,950,115,691.67 and 828 ready records worth AED 2,285,996,551.61. Those labels come from the registry's registration-type field.
Lida MoghaddamArchitect-turned-real-estate-specialist based in Dubai. She helps buyers, sellers, and investors read property with a designer's eye — structure, location, and long-term value.
