Official ADREC / DARI data for October 2025–September 2026 (1 October 2025–18 September 2026) sets average sale prices alongside average annual rents, while the wider sales record shows 60,295 transactions and a median rate of AED 17,476.6100463257 per m².
Key findings
- Apartment average sale price rose from AED 1,782,121.9039643083 in October 2025 to AED 1,935,575.761211247 in April 2026, while average annual rent moved from AED 66,377.05690521623 to AED 67,205.23178550949.
- Villa average sale price was AED 5,689,560.485357927 in October 2025 and AED 5,631,725.529432073 in April 2026, while average annual rent increased from AED 137,842.92409944872 to AED 142,187.63127539158.
- Among categories with recorded average sale prices, villas had the highest October 2025 figure at AED 5,689,560.485357927, followed by duplexes at AED 3,753,327.1458520424 and townhouses / attached villas at AED 3,073,384.5159945646.
- The overall sales record contains 60,295 transactions with a total value of AED 279,741,335,693.31 and a median sale price of AED 2,591,600.
- Al Reem Island recorded the highest district sale count at 15,468, while Al Hidayriyyat recorded the highest district total value at AED 63,556,785,899.79 among the listed districts.
Sale prices and annual rents side by side
The official sale-and-rent series provides three comparable points within the reporting window: October 2025, January 2026 and April 2026. It reports average sale prices and average annual rents by residential property type, rather than a single blended market figure. For apartments, the average sale price was AED 1,782,121.9039643083 in October 2025, AED 1,866,646.9129066782 in January 2026 and AED 1,935,575.761211247 in April 2026. The corresponding average annual rents were AED 66,377.05690521623, AED 67,297.4351246495 and AED 67,205.23178550949. For villas, the average sale price was AED 5,689,560.485357927 in October 2025, AED 5,670,169.783651261 in January 2026 and AED 5,631,725.529432073 in April 2026. Average annual rent was AED 137,842.92409944872 in October, AED 138,443.10455139095 in January and AED 142,187.63127539158 in April. These are separate official sale and rent series. They are not combined into an investment return measure, and no recommendation is attached to the comparison.
Differences across property categories
The October 2025 observations show a wide spread across the categories covered by the sale-and-rent series. Average sale price was AED 1,782,121.9039643083 for apartments, AED 3,753,327.1458520424 for duplexes, AED 0 for penthouses, AED 3,073,384.5159945646 for townhouses / attached villas and AED 5,689,560.485357927 for villas. The corresponding average annual rents were AED 66,377.05690521623 for apartments, AED 122,006.53111387133 for duplexes, AED 147,545.33188243597 for penthouses, AED 103,908.90752066369 for townhouses / attached villas and AED 137,842.92409944872 for villas. The penthouse sale-price field is recorded as AED 0 at each of the three sale-and-rent observation points. The annual-rent series records AED 147,545.33188243597 in October 2025, AED 147,323.7936134301 in January 2026 and AED 146,639.83896609195 in April 2026. The figures should therefore be read as the reported category values, without treating the penthouse sale-price field as a typical observed price.
Property-type sales mix
Monthly sales-rate record
The wider sales series contains 60,295 sales from 1 October 2025 through 18 September 2026, with a total value of AED 279,741,335,693.31. The overall median sale price was AED 2,591,600, and the median price-per-area KPI was AED 17,476.6100463257 per m². The monthly median rate was AED 14,854.2518086419 per m² in October 2025, AED 14,721.43316262 in November and AED 14,944.3561208267 in December. It then stood at AED 17,868.9644724042 in January 2026, AED 18,250.7602353992 in February and AED 20,304.6221400508 in March. The recorded rate was AED 19,457.2772250313 in April, AED 19,453.9503050141 in May, AED 19,202.5591463605 in June, AED 17,730.4964539007 in July, AED 19,704.6533548492 in August and AED 19,764.724840867 in September. Monthly sale count was 7,874 in October 2025, 4,963 in November, 5,552 in December, 5,802 in January 2026, 6,515 in February, 5,454 in March, 7,055 in April, 4,392 in May, 4,681 in June, 4,077 in July, 2,382 in August and 1,548 in September.
Abu Dhabi official sales snapshot
Monthly sales activity
District-level sales distribution
The district data shows different leaders depending on the measure. Al Reem Island recorded 15,468 sales and AED 46,952,087,621.77 in total value, the highest sale count among the listed districts. Yas Island recorded 9,459 sales and AED 25,851,434,537.69 in total value. Al Hidayriyyat recorded 9,307 sales and the highest listed district total value, AED 63,556,785,899.79. Al Saadiyat Island recorded 4,186 sales, AED 36,347,172,633.61 in total value and a median rate of AED 35,248.8151658768 per m². Fahid Island recorded a median rate of AED 40,721.4556520998 per m² across 1,640 sales, while Ramhan Island recorded AED 38,687.2513989643 per m² across 647 sales. The district figures are transaction and median-rate measures. They are shown alongside, rather than substituted for, the category-level average sale and annual-rent series.
Leading districts by sales value
Abu Dhabi official sales snapshot
Property mix in the sales record
Apartments accounted for 36,329 recorded sales and AED 95,119,754,786.84 in total value, with a median rate of AED 20,019.436345967 per m². Villas recorded 11,561 sales and AED 103,109,419,540.5 in total value, with a median rate of AED 16,192.7296642851 per m². Plots for villas recorded 5,167 sales and AED 16,360,515,836.07 in total value. Townhouses / attached villas recorded 3,299 sales and AED 9,461,573,335.76 in total value, while duplexes recorded 904 sales and AED 4,974,629,376.48 in total value. These property-type values describe the sales record for the stated period. The separate rent observations are rolling annual rent figures by property type and layout, not a matching rent total for the sale transactions.
Property-type sales mix
Methodology and reading notes
This report uses the frozen official ADREC / DARI evidence for the period from 1 October 2025 through 18 September 2026. The sale-and-rent comparison uses the three available observation dates: October 2025, January 2026 and April 2026. The detailed rolling annual-rent series extends through July 2026 for the listed property types and layouts. Sale-price and annual-rent values in the comparison are official averages. The wider market price-per-area measure is a median AED per m², and the overall sale-price figure is a median sale price. These measures are retained in their reported form and are not converted into averages or combined into a yield calculation. All monetary values are AED.
Abu Dhabi official sales snapshot
Methodology
Important notes
- Developer attribution is not available and is never inferred from project names.
- Recorded project rankings include only transactions with a project identifier and at least three sales.
- The analysis describes official observations and does not infer causes or provide investment advice.