Silicon Oasis: 2,094 Sales and a Real Resale Market

Silicon Oasis registered 2,094 apartment sales in the last twelve months at a median price of AED 900,000. The median unit measured 75.9 square metres. Only 47.4% of those sales were off-plan.

That last figure is the interesting one. In most active Dubai communities the off-plan share sits far higher. Here, the majority of buyers bought an existing apartment from an existing owner. Which means the thing you will one day need to do, sell a used unit to a real buyer, is something that demonstrably happens here every week.

| Figure | Value |

| Registered sales, last 12 months | 2,094 |

| Median price | AED 900,000 |

| Off-plan share | 47.4% |

| Median unit size | 75.9 sqm |

| Studio sales | 436 |

| One-bedroom sales | 971 |

| Two-bedroom sales | 500 |

Source: registered Dubai Land Department sale transactions, apartments only, priced between AED 200,000 and AED 2,500,000, over a 12 month window. Completed registrations, not listings.

When you buy off-plan in a community where nearly everything is off-plan, your future competition is the developer. Developers offer payment plans, incentives, and a unit nobody has used. A private seller offers none of that, so resale usually means pricing underneath the launch price.

At 47.4%, that pressure is roughly halved here. A large share of the demand in Silicon Oasis is already pointed at existing stock. Buyers come looking for a finished apartment they can move into or rent out next month. That is exactly the buyer you will need.

It also means the price record is built from real completed apartments rather than from contracts on units that do not exist yet. Off-plan prices and resale prices are not the same market, and a valuer assessing your buyer's mortgage cares about the second one.

Transaction depth is just the number of people who actually bought here in the past year. It is the honest measure of how easy the exit will be.

2,094 registered sales is solid volume for a single community. Practically, that gives you comparables for a valuation, a visible market price rather than a broker's opinion, and a reasonable expectation that a correctly priced unit finds a buyer without a year on the market.

What depth does not tell you is direction. Nothing in these figures says prices rise or fall from here. Depth tells you the door out is open. That is worth knowing on its own.

One-bedroom apartments led with 971 sales, followed by 500 two-bedrooms and 436 studios.

No single size dominates the way it does in a pure investor community. That balance is a signal about who lives here. Two-bedroom demand at this level usually points to households rather than short-stay tenants, and a community with a mix of sizes tends to attract a mix of buyers on resale: end users as well as investors.

For you, the practical read is that all three sizes trade. You are not forced into the one liquid product. Pick the unit on its own merits, then check that the specific building has its own recent registered sales rather than relying on the community average.

The median apartment sold at 75.9 square metres for AED 900,000. Carry both numbers into every viewing.

If a broker shows you something well under the median size and asks near the median price, the burden is on them to explain it. Newer building, better tower, better floor, lower service charge. Any of those can be a real answer. No answer means you are paying the middle price for less than the middle product.

The reverse is also worth chasing. A unit above the median size at or below the median price usually means something: an older building, a high service charge, a poor layout, a difficult landlord history. Find out which before you assume you found a bargain.

In a resale-led market you also inherit a building's history. Ask for the service charge record, the state of the reserve fund, and whether the owners association has any live disputes. These do not show up in a price and they absolutely show up in your net return.

Oliva is a Dubai brokerage with no paid placements. We will underwrite one specific unit for you at no charge: the building, the floor, the service charge, the owners association, and what registered comparable sales in that tower say your exit looks like. Sometimes the honest conclusion is do not buy this unit, and we say so.