Launch and resale prices compared
Launch prices use every recorded off-plan sale; resale prices use ready sales from the last 12 months. They are different groups of buyers, so the difference is before costs, counts only buildings that resold, and is not an individual buyer’s return.
- Median price difference
- +19.6%
- ≈ +2.4%/yr over 7.6 yrs · across 1,444 buildings
- Buildings below launch median
- 284
- Of 1,444 in the cohort
- Registered sales behind it
- 250,317
- Launch sales, 2004–2026 · 25,285 resales in 12 months
Every building, ranked
Ranked by the difference between resale and launch price per sq ft. Sorting a column reorders this page only; the rank stays with the difference.
Launch sales and resales are the samples behind the two medians a row divides. Cohort date interval is the gap between the two legs’ own median dates, and is blank where they overlap in time.
What the comparison includes
Every building on these pages cleared all of these. The last one is why the figures read better than the market as a whole.
- Both legs, one building
- The launch median and the resale median are the same building's own registered sales. Nothing is pooled across buildings to fill a gap.
- At least five launch sales
- The off-plan leg is an all-time median over the building's registered off-plan sales, and needs five of them.
- A resale page to link to
- The building must also clear the sale-page gate — five registered sales in the last 12 months — so every row opens onto its own record.
- Launch median above AED 300,000
- Below that the denominator is usually a share transfer rather than a flat, and the percentage it produces is meaningless.
- Survivors only
- A building appears only if it has both a launch history and current resales. Stock that never resold, or whose project was cancelled, cannot appear — so the cohort reads better than the market as a whole.
Dubai off-plan resale outcomes
- Record type
- City-level off-plan outcome record
- Data date
- Evidence base
- 1,444 buildings across 69 areas, from 250,317 registered launch sales (2004–2026) and 25,285 resales in the last 12 months
- Sources
- Dubai Land Department sale transactions
- Canonical record
- /off-plan/apartments/dubai/page/15
Cite as: Dubai Wealth Index. “Dubai off-plan resale outcomes.” Data to 2026-10-12. https://dubaiwealthindex.com/off-plan/apartments/dubai/page/15