Dubai property glossary

Median price

The median is the middle value in a set of sales, and it describes a property market far better than an average does.

AED 1,346,000

median registered home price, last 12 months

Dubai Land Department register, through 2026-10-07

One penthouse at two hundred million pulls an average upwards and tells you nothing about what people are paying. The median is unmoved by it: half of sales were below, half above.

It is the right tool for comparing communities or tracking a market over time, which is why every headline figure on this site is a median rather than a mean.

The figures behind this

Dubai Diligence is an independent property-data service built on official Dubai Land Department records. We are not a brokerage and no developer pays us. This is general information, not legal, financial or tax advice.

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