Dubai Land Residence Complex registered 5,510 apartment sales, and 88.9% were off-plan

The Dubai Land Department registered 5,510 apartment sale transactions in Dubai Land Residence Complex over the last 12 months, inside the AED 200,000 to AED 2.5 million band. Off-plan made up 88.9% of them. The median price paid was AED 783,390, and the median unit measured 66.4 sqm.

That median is worth a second look precisely because it is not a round number. AED 783,390 is the midpoint of what buyers actually signed and registered, not what anyone advertised. Asking prices are opinions. Registered transactions are the record.

Transaction depth is a technical phrase for a simple question: how many people bought here recently, because those are the people who buy from you later.

5,510 registered sales in a year answers it well. Buyers are arriving steadily, so a correctly priced unit is not waiting for a miracle. That is genuine protection. The community is not a place where a sale means finding the one person in Dubai who wants your exact apartment.

But depth and maturity are not the same thing. An 88.9% off-plan share tells you this volume is being driven by new stock rather than by owners trading with each other. The secondary market exists, it is just much smaller than the headline count suggests, and it is the secondary market you will one day be part of.

Here is the mechanic that catches people. When you resell a completed unit in an area where developers are still launching, the buyer looking at your apartment is also looking at a new one nearby. The new one comes with a staged payment plan, a handover date in the future, and in many cases a fee waiver. Yours comes with a completion certificate and a request for the balance.

That is a real advantage for some buyers, especially anyone who wants rental income from month one. It is a disadvantage against anyone who is buying on a budget and cares about cash flow today. Expect to meet the second type more often at this price point.

The second effect is timing. Off-plan volume at 88.9% means handovers arrive in waves. When a wave lands, a batch of owners get their keys at the same time and a share of them list immediately. If your exit falls in that window, you are one of many sellers with near-identical units. Nothing about that is fatal. It is simply a cost, and the way you pay for it is by buying well rather than by hoping.

| Dubai Land Residence Complex, registered DLD sales, last 12 months | Value |

| Sale transactions (apartments, AED 200,000 to AED 2.5 million) | 5,510 |

| Median transaction value | AED 783,390 |

| Off-plan share of transactions | 88.9% |

| Median unit size | 66.4 sqm |

| Studio transactions | 2,584 |

| One bedroom transactions | 1,952 |

| Two bedroom transactions | 790 |

Sales figures are registered Dubai Land Department transactions over the last 12 months, apartments only. The unit type counts cover the common types and do not add up to the total.

Studios recorded 2,584 transactions, one bedroom units 1,952, and two bedroom units 790.

That mix defines who you sell to. At a median of AED 783,390, this is an entry-price market, and the buyer on the other side of your future sale is most likely an investor running the rental numbers or a first-time owner leaving a rented apartment. Both of them are price sensitive and both of them can walk to the next building.

So the details that hold value here are unglamorous. A layout without wasted corridor. A service charge that has not climbed every year. A building with working lifts, allocated parking and an owners association that pays its bills. None of that shows up in the median, and all of it shows up in the price a buyer will pay you.

The two bedroom deserves its own caution. 790 transactions in twelve months is a functioning market, not a deep one. If you buy it, plan for a longer sale, and negotiate the entry price to reflect that instead of assuming the wider area's depth applies to your unit type.

Get the handover quarter in writing. Ask how many units in your tower are still with the developer, because unsold developer stock competes with you the day you list. Ask for the projected service charge and who calculated it. Then compare the price on your contract against registered transactions for the same layout, not against a portal listing and not against a projection of future value.

A median of AED 783,390 across 5,510 deals means a lot of buyers did better than the middle and a lot did worse. Which side you land on is decided at the moment you agree a price.

Send us the project, the unit number, the size and the price you have been quoted. Oliva checks it against registered comparables, against the off-plan supply still due to hand over nearby, and against the service charge, then gives you a straight view of what it is worth and what could go wrong. Sometimes the verdict is do not buy. Oliva is a Dubai brokerage with no paid placements, so no developer pays us to steer you anywhere. The underwriting is free.