Abu Dhabi Weekly Market Brief

Week of 27 July – 2 August 2026

Volume ran at 115% of the trailing eight-week average and 4% above the same week a year ago — or 83% of that average and 25% below last year once the Reem Hills batch is set aside. Owners reselling made up 46% of all sales of homes not yet built, against 20% without it.

The Chart

Weekly transactions split by sale type (bars, left) and median rate in AED/sqm (line, right), last 16 weeks.

Project Watch

Reem Hills bends the chart

Reem Hills sold nothing new this week and still bent the emirate's price chart. It registered 120 resales, all but one in two days — more than a quarter of everything Abu Dhabi sold — taking Al Reem's median to 12,549 AED/sqm and the emirate's to 16,449.Both are artefacts. Resales of unbuilt homes are recorded by ADREC at the original developer price, not at what buyer and seller agreed, so a batch like this enters at contract levels set years ago. One plausible reading is a backlog cleared in a single sitting. Strip it out and Al Reem's median was 19,261, the emirate's 19,584.The community itself is worth a look. Modon's gated development on Al Reem Island runs to seven phases of villas, townhouses and apartments; the villas were due by mid-year, the apartments not until 2027. It sold out largely between 2022 and 2024, and only 11 new homes have gone this year — the developer's book is all but closed.

Following Up

A block release takes Saadiyat with it

Saadiyat Beach Residences — Aldar's 495-apartment complex, developed back in 2014 — has been opening one block at a time. Blocks 1 and 3 made their first sales in mid-July and have now sold 11 completed homes each, 9 of the 22 in this week alone, all from the developer.Block 5 opened the same way in June last year and has sold 70. Blocks 4 and 6 have barely sold new at all — three developer sales between them, all before 2022.Those nine sales ran straight through the district. Saadiyat sold 25 homes at a median of 19,750 AED/sqm, with unbuilt homes only 52% of the total. Set the two blocks aside and the median was 30,433 and the unbuilt share back at 81%, in line with its eight-week average.

Price Signal

Al Raha Beach comes back to earth

Last week Al Raha Beach's median of 31,117 AED/sqm rested on a single address. This week that address slowed — Hilton Residences sold 2 homes after 15 — and the district's median came back to 20,786 on 18 sales.Luluat Marina supplied 9 of the week's sales at 21,210, and 5 more were completed homes at Lamar Residence, at 15,236. A district this small prices whatever happened to sell.

District Snapshot — Week of 27 July

The table covers the five districts we report in detail each week and the total sales in Abu Dhabi.

Elsewhere

Among districts with at least 5 sales, Ramhan Island printed the dearest median — 36,052 AED/sqm on 5 sales — and Al Reef the cheapest, 10,335 on 7. Al Shamkha sold 28 homes, 13 of them at Reeman Residence 01 from just under AED 577,000. Yas Island's 25,335 is largely one address: Yas Park Place supplied 58 of its 88 sales. Hudayriyat's 18,766 rests on 25 sales, not one of them yet built, 11 at Al Naseem.

Methodology. Transaction figures are computed from ADREC registration data for residential sales in the week of 27 July – 2 August 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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