Abu Dhabi Weekly Market Brief

Week of 13–19 July 2026

Volume ran at roughly 76% of the trailing 8-week average, and 21% below the same week a year ago.

The Chart

Weekly transactions split by sale type (bars, left) and median rate in AED/sqm (line, right), last 16 weeks. The near-empty week of 25 May was the Eid al-Adha holiday.

Following Up

Hudayriyat Island stayed in its owners' hands for a second week: of 8 sales, only 2 came from the developer. Modon has not gone quiet, though: its final release at Bashayer sold out in a day — more on that below.

Two-Speed Market

This week, the sellers were owners

Two in five homes sold across Abu Dhabi's main districts — 41% — passed from one owner to another rather than from a developer, the largest share in sixteen weeks. Among unbuilt homes the shift is sharper still: resales made up 27% of off-plan activity, a share last matched in April, while developers' own off-plan sales fell to 153.

The clearest case was Aldar's Gardenia Bay on Yas Island — the busiest project in the emirate this week at 24 sales, four times its recent pace. Eighteen of the 24 were owners selling on, at a median of 21,365 AED/sqm — above the 19,482 the developer itself was getting from its own six sales that week, with completion expected in June 2027.

Saadiyat told the same story more thinly: 22 sales spread across fifteen projects, of which just two unbuilt homes came from a developer.

Brand Watch

One building carries Al Raha Beach

Al Raha Beach turned in its dearest week since early May — a median of 27,862 AED/sqm on 22 sales, half again above its eight-week average. Half of that week was a single address. Hilton Residences Abu Dhabi, billed as the emirate's first standalone Hilton-branded address, sold 11 homes at a median of 31,297 — every one of them from the developer. The district's median is a statement about what happened to sell, not about what everything there is worth. Luluat Marina, the newcomer that doubled its launch week last time, cooled from 24 sales to 7.

Project Watch

Al Reem broadens instead of launching

Al Reem Island sold 101 homes, a second straight weekly gain — and the recovery belongs to no single tower. Those sales came from 33 different projects, the widest spread of the last sixteen weeks, with the largest managing just 16. A month earlier the shape was the reverse: on 15 June, one project accounted for 180 of the island's 255 sales. Al Reem is still running far below its June rhythm — 956 sales in June against 217 in the first three weeks of July — but it is running on more than one engine.

District Snapshot — Week of 13 July

Six of Saadiyat's 22 sales were the first ever recorded at Saadiyat Beach Residences Blocks 1 and 3 — new homes at a finished address, sold by the developer at a median of 19,375 AED/sqm. The neighbouring blocks have only ever changed hands second-hand since 2019, and Block 5 opened exactly this way in June 2025. One plausible reading is that long-held stock is being brought to market block by block. Al Raha Beach's and Hudayriyat's medians rest on 22 and 8 sales respectively.

Methodology. Transaction figures are computed from ADREC registration data for residential sales in the week of 13–19 July 2026, analysed by Guru Real Estate. Registration dates lag sale dates; recent weeks may revise upward. Market news items link to their sources. This brief is for information only and is not investment advice.

Prepared by Guru Real Estate · Abu Dhabi
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