Luxury Property in Dubai: AED 10 Million and Above

Most property websites in Dubai use the word luxury as decoration. We use it as a number.

On this page luxury means one thing. A home that changed hands at AED 10,000,000 or more, registered with the Dubai Land Department. Not an asking price. Not a listing. A completed sale that a buyer paid for and a registrar recorded.

Across the communities we track, 3,183 sales cleared that floor in the last twelve months, in 27 communities. Every figure below comes from registered transactions.

Data verified 28 August 2026. Dubai Land Department registered transactions via Bayut TruView, rolling 12 months to August 2026.

Every Dubai community with sales above AED 10 million

Sorted by how many sales cleared the floor. A community only appears here if it registered at least five sales above AED 10,000,000. Below five, an average price is a story about one or two houses, not about a market.

Luxury apartments in Dubai

The apartment list is short and it is mostly on the water. Palm Jumeirah, Dubai Harbour, Bluewaters Island, Dubai Marina, Jumeirah Beach Residence, Dubai Islands and Jumeirah between them account for the large majority of Dubai apartment sales above the floor. In Dubai, an apartment gets to eight figures by having a view of the sea.

There are two inland exceptions and both are worth understanding. Downtown Dubai clears the floor on the Burj Khalifa address rather than on water. Business Bay clears it in volume, which surprises people who think of the district as a studio market. Business Bay is two markets in one postcode. A very large supply of small units at the bottom and a genuine penthouse market at the top. The average price across all Business Bay apartments hides that completely. Filtering to AED 10 million and above is what makes it visible.

Look at the price per sqft column and not just the average price. Average price tells you what people spend. Price per sqft tells you what they are buying. A community can post a high average simply because the units are enormous.

Luxury villas in Dubai

More Dubai communities clear AED 10 million on villas than on apartments. That is the single most useful fact on this page. If your budget starts at eight figures and you want an apartment, your choice is narrow and coastal. If you want a villa, the map opens up.

The villa list splits into three groups. Established prime, where the land is scarce and the addresses are decades old. This is Emirates Hills, Palm Jumeirah, Jumeirah, Al Barari and Jumeirah Islands, and it produces the highest averages in the country. Then modern master planned prime, where a developer built a large luxury community in one go. Mohammed Bin Rashid City, Dubai Hills Estate, Jumeirah Golf Estates and Tilal Al Ghaf sit here and they carry the volume. Then established family communities that have grown into the bracket. Arabian Ranches, The Meadows, The Lakes and Jumeirah Park were not built as luxury addresses. Villa price growth has pushed their larger plots through AED 10 million anyway.

The third group matters if you already own there. A house bought as a family home eight or ten years ago may now be a luxury asset by transacted value. The table tells you whether your community is registering sales in that bracket at all.

Price per sqft is the number that compares communities

Average price cannot compare a 12,000 sqft Emirates Hills villa with a 2,000 sqft Palm apartment. Price per sqft can. Read the two columns together.

A high average with a moderate price per sqft means you are buying size. That is most of the villa market. A high price per sqft means you are buying location, view or building. That is the waterfront apartment market. Neither is better. They are different purchases and they behave differently when you sell.

Where this data comes from

Every number on this page is built from Dubai Land Department registered transactions for the rolling twelve months, filtered to sales at or above AED 10,000,000, grouped by community and property type.

These are transactions, not listings. A listing price is what a seller hopes for. A transaction price is what a buyer actually paid. The gap between the two is the reason so much Dubai market commentary is wrong.

The data refreshes on a schedule. New communities are added as they cross the threshold. The capture date sits at the top of this page so you always know how old the numbers are.

What is not on this page

Off plan launches are excluded from the way we read the market elsewhere on this site, because you cannot rent an unbuilt apartment and a launch price is not a resale price.

A community missing from the tables above has not registered at least five sales above AED 10,000,000 in the communities we currently cover. Coverage expands every night. If a community you care about is not listed yet, it may be added shortly rather than absent from the bracket.

We do not publish a luxury inventory list on this page. Any property we market is published with its Trakheesi permit number, as UAE law requires. A price table and a listing are two different things and mixing them is how buyers get misled.

Common questions

What counts as a luxury property in Dubai?

There is no official definition. On this site the line is AED 10,000,000 and above, measured by registered sale price. We chose a transacted number rather than an adjective so the claim can be checked.

Which Dubai community has the most sales above AED 10 million?

The tables above are sorted by volume, so the top row answers it for apartments, villas and both combined. It changes as the data refreshes, which is why we render it from the database rather than typing it into the text.

Is AED 10 million a lot for Dubai?

It is well above the market. The average registered apartment sale across Dubai sits in the low seven figures. Ten million puts a buyer in a small fraction of annual transactions.

How often is this updated?

The dataset refreshes monthly and coverage expands nightly. The capture date is printed above the first table.

Buying or selling above AED 10 million

Cresco Real Estate is a RERA registered brokerage in Dubai, ORN 34288. If you are buying in this bracket we will show you the transaction record for the building or the community before you make an offer, not after. If you are selling, the same data tells you what your neighbours actually achieved rather than what they are asking.

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