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Dubai's property sales in November jump 30.9% YoY

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December 05, 2025

The Dubai real estate market continued on its record-breaking surge in 2025, with November pushing the total number of property deals past the previous full-year peak, with a month still remaining.

- Somshankar Bandyopadhyay somshankar@khaleejtimes.com

A market report issued by fam Properties on Wednesday shows that last month produced 19,019 transactions, a 30.9 per cent increase year on year. It took the total for the year to 197,263, eclipsing the all-time annual high of 180,900 deals set in 2024.

After last year’s record of Dh522.1 billion in annual real estate sales value was surpassed in October, November’s Dh64.7 billion worth of deals - a 49.6 per cent year on year leap - took the total for 2025 so far to Dh624.1 billion.

Data from DxXBinteract revealed that 15,905 apartment sales worth Dh32.1billion last month represented a 37.4 per cent leap in volume, while villa sales worth Dh13.2 billion were 6.6 per cent down in volume to 2,078.

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