An index of what was recorded

What this is

Dubai Wealth Index is an independent reference index for Dubai apartment, villa and commercial property evidence. It takes Dubai Land Department registered sale transactions, Ejari registered rental contracts and publicly listed Airbnb nightly rates, joins them at the level of a single building and a single bedroom type, and publishes the result as a stable, citable record page for every building that clears the publication gate. Villa figures are published by community and bedroom type; commercial office and shop records use separate sales, leases and registered-stock evidence at their published asset-class grain.

Dubai property, measured—not marketed. Sale prices and long-let rents are medians of registered transactions. Short-term figures separately use sampled Airbnb asking rates and a published model.

It is a reference product, not a portal. There are no listings, no agents and no lead forms selling your details onward. Every figure is free to read; a free account opens the transactions behind them, and a Pro subscription pays for the tools built on top. The index exists to make recorded market evidence legible, comparable and easy to cite.

The three-mode join

Dubai building records connecting registered sales and rents with forward Airbnb asking rates. Sale prices tell you what a unit costs. Ejari contracts provide a registered long-let rent benchmark at the published building, project or vicinity and bedroom grain. Airbnb search results tell you what it asks per night. Held apart, each is a partial answer; joined at building and bedroom grain, they answer the question an owner actually has — how the registered long-let benchmark compares with modelled short-term revenue under explicit assumptions. They do not identify the income or value of a specific unit.

The short-term side combines forward asking-rate observations with registered rental and sale evidence. Nightly rates are sampled forward across every month of the next twelve, then annualised through a published cost model whose constants are listed in full on the methodology page. The occupancy figure in that model is a stated assumption, never a measurement, and every page that uses it says so.

The publication gate

Not every building gets a page. A median computed from two sales is not a median, it is an anecdote with a decimal point, and publishing it would make the index look comprehensive at the cost of making it wrong. A building page needs 3 registered sales in the last 12 months. A building with fewer than 3 in 12 months but 3 or more in 24 keeps a smaller page priced on its 24-month median, with the window printed beside the figure and no yield, growth or bedroom figure; it is left out of rankings, the screener and area medians, which compare 12-month figures. Buildings below both thresholds are named on their area page with their transaction count, but carry no page and no figure of their own.

The same discipline applies inside a page. A yield is suppressed where the underlying price base is too thin to support one. A ranking is not published at all unless enough buildings qualify to make an ordering meaningful. Where a number is absent, the absence is deliberate — it means the evidence was not there, not that the building does not exist.

Freshness

Every release is date-stamped; short-term pricing samples every month of the next 12 months. Every analytical page carries an explicit "data to" date, and so does every JSON record and every response an agent gets from the index. A data-driven page's sitemap modification date, and its Last-Modified header, is the data edition it was rebuilt from, since nothing else changes it; prose pages an edition does not touch carry no date. "Fresh" on this site always resolves to a date you can read; it is never used as an adjective on its own.

Records keep their URL across refreshes. A building page published today has the same canonical address after the next data load — only its figures and its data date move. That is what makes a citation to this index stable enough to be worth making.

Sources and independence

Sale prices and rental contracts come from Dubai Land Department open data, which includes Ejari registrations. Short-term nightly rates are collected from public Airbnb search results. Nothing on this site is supplied by a developer, a brokerage or a listing portal, and no party pays to appear in a ranking or to have a figure presented differently.

When you ask about a property, we reply and can introduce a RERA-licensed agent, and may earn a referral fee if a deal follows. The figures are computed the same way for every building whether or not anyone enquires about it.

Who publishes it

Dubai Wealth Index is published independently and operated as a small, self-funded project. [email protected] reaches the people who build it; property enquiries go to our partner brokerage through Request info.

Corrections are taken seriously. If a figure on this site looks wrong, tell us which page and which data date and we will trace it back to the source records.

For AI agents

This index is built to be read by software as well as people. Every page answers to a Markdown request — send an Accept: text/markdown header to any URL here and you get that page as markdown. Every building also has a versioned JSON record at a stable address, and the whole site is summarised for agents at /llms.txt.

If you are an agent quoting a figure from here, carry its bedroom type, unit, period, data date and evidence count with it. A number from this index without those five is not a citation, and short-term occupancy in particular is a modelling assumption that must never be reported as measured.

• Agent index: /llms.txt — what this site covers and when to use it
• Skill document: /skill.md — how to call the index, and how to quote it
• Docs: /docs — every machine-readable surface and a field reference
• Method: /methodology — every definition and every model constant