Abu Dhabi Weekly Market Brief
Week of 3–9 August 2026
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A slower week by volume: 263 sales worth AED 986M. What changed was where the homes came from. More off-plan homes were flipped by their owners than were released by developers — only the third such week in seven and a half years. Below: the single new off-plan home Saadiyat sold all week, and how Yas ended up at its cheapest since March.
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263
Sales
▼ −39.7% w/w
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986M
AED Value
▼ −24.4% w/w
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19,375
Median AED/sqm
▲ +17.8% w/w
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76%
Off-plan
▼ −8.4 pts w/w
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Volume ran at 75% of the trailing eight-week average and 56% below the same week a year ago. Resales made up 54% of all off-plan sales, against an eight-week average of 25%.
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The Chart
Weekly transactions split by sale type (bars, left) and median rate in AED/sqm (line, right), last 16 weeks.
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Following Up
Last week Al Reem's median of 12,549 AED/sqm was an artefact: 120 Reem Hills resales were recorded at the developer's original prices, not at what the buyers paid. This week that community sold 8 homes, and the island's median came back to 19,454.
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Two-Speed Market
More off-plan homes flipped than launched
Abu Dhabi sold 200 off-plan homes this week. Developers released just 93 of them — the fewest of any week this year bar the near-shutdown in late May. The other 107 were flips: bought off-plan earlier, sold on before completion. Flips have outnumbered developer releases only twice before in seven and a half years, and never on this much off-plan volume. Saadiyat is where it was starkest. Of the island's 46 sales, 38 were off-plan and developers released exactly one of them; the other 37 were flips. What they did sell there was already built: Saadiyat Beach Residences opened two more blocks in July, a year after Block 5, and between them they sold 8 completed homes, 6 at Block 3 in its best week yet.
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Price Signal
Yas at its cheapest since March
Yas's median came in at 20,057 AED/sqm, its lowest since late March. Off-plan and completed homes each sold below their twelve-week medians, and resales took a bigger share of its off-plan sales than in any week since mid-March. Yas Park Place — by far the island's busiest project of the past twelve weeks, and one of its dearest at a median 27,342 AED/sqm — sold 8 homes after 58 the week before. What traded instead was second-hand: Gardenia Bay alone supplied 22 sales, every one from an owner, and 9 of the 11 completed homes sold were at Ansam. Developers sold just 11 homes on Yas, at a median 27,206 AED/sqm. The 53 resales went at 19,551.
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Market Watch
• A new land service: ADREC and the Abu Dhabi Housing Authority opened a digital service on 5 August letting citizens who have already had a housing benefit register to buy land in outlying areas they belong to, or where they have close family. Al Remah in Al Ain is the first area.
• Jumeirah lands on Al Maryah: Jumeirah Residences Al Maryah Island recorded its first 2 sales — the emirate's two dearest per square metre this week, at 52,003 and 57,388 AED/sqm. It is a 253-apartment tower by Emirates Developments, branded with Jumeirah and designed by Killa Design.
• Rates: The CBUAE base rate is unchanged at 3.65%. The Fed's next decision is 15–16 September.
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District Snapshot — Week of 3 August
| District |
Sales |
Value (AED M) |
Median AED/sqm |
Off-plan |
| Al Reem Island | 85 | 192.7 | 19,454 | 79% |
| Yas Island | 64 | 147.9 | 20,057 | 83% |
| Saadiyat Island | 46 | 166.6 | 23,186 | 83% |
| Hudayriyat Island | 17 | 346.8 | 19,589 | 100% |
| Al Raha Beach | 9 | 24.1 | 20,858 | 56% |
| All tracked districts | 263 | 985.7 | 19,375 | 76% |
The table covers the five districts we report in detail each week and the total sales in Abu Dhabi.
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Elsewhere
Hudayriyat sold only 17 homes but took AED 346.8M for them — the emirate's six largest sales of the week were all there, the biggest at AED 63.7M in Nawayef West A. Al Shamkha had the cheapest median of any district selling at least ten homes, 13,574 AED/sqm; Reeman Living sold 9 there from AED 400,000. And Al Reef 2 supplied all 10 of Al Samhah's sales, every one an owner reselling a completed home.
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Methodology. Transaction figures are computed from ADREC registration data for residential sales in the week of 3–9 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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