Market notes · Dubai
Dubai’s new supply: what H1 2026 tells us
More completed projects make the local question more useful: what else will a buyer or tenant be able to choose near the home you are considering?
What was reported
Dubai Land Department reported these project-completion and new-unit figures for the first half of 2026. The value is reported project investment value. It is not a total of residential sales, a price index or money earned by property owners.
Percentage change in three separate measures. They are not shares of one total.
DLD states new-unit growth as more than 36%. Its bar ends at that lower bound; the exact rate was not supplied.
What a buyer can do with this
Use the figures as a reason to investigate competing supply around a particular home. Look at nearby projects, the homes they offer and their expected completion dates. A city-wide total cannot tell you how many comparable apartments will compete with a specific building.
For a planned letting, test a slower start and a lower rent alongside your base case. For a home to live in, consider whether surrounding construction or new facilities could affect daily life. These are Navani’s suggested checks, not conclusions established by the report.