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UAE market·30-day window · as of 2026-10-10
The UAE distress index.
How hard UAE sellers are actually cutting, in one number from 0 to 100. Built only from asking-price reductions we watched a seller make — not estimates, not depreciation. Decisions.
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Current reading
Firm
Sellers are holding their asking prices.
▼ 36 vs 07-19
Headline tracks real estate
01·Trend
Five months of direction.
Weekly readings since March. A number is a snapshot; the line is what makes it an index.
02·By asset class
Where the pressure sits.
Each class scored on the same three components over the last 30 days.
Real estate
Firm
- Breadthweight 0.45
- 0.0%
- Depthweight 0.35
- 0.0%
- Persistenceweight 0.2
- 0.0%
0 of 0 live listings were reduced.
AED 0 off asking prices across 0 sale listings
Cars
Firm
- Breadthweight 0.45
- 0.0%
- Depthweight 0.35
- 0.0%
- Persistenceweight 0.2
- 0.0%
0 of 0 live listings were reduced.
AED 0 off asking prices across 0 sale listings
03·Methodology
How it's calculated.
Published in full so anyone can reproduce or challenge the number. An index you can't check is worth nothing.
weight 0.45
Breadth
Share of live listings reduced at least once in 30 days.
scores 100 at 20%
weight 0.35
Depth
Median size of those reductions.
scores 100 at 12%
weight 0.2
Persistence
Share of reduced listings cut more than once — a seller chasing the market.
scores 100 at 40%
Each component is scaled 0-100 against a fixed ceiling representing a genuinely extreme market, then combined using the weights above. The ceilings are set once and held constant — tuning them to current data would make every reading look average forever.
Only observed reductions count.A listing enters the index when a seller lowers a price we previously recorded. Estimated “below retail” gaps are tracked separately and never feed this number — depreciation is not a seller decision.
Watches are excluded. Our UAE watch source does not reprice, so a watch reading would sit at zero and imply a frozen market rather than a silent source.
Sources: PropertyFinder, Bayut, DubiCars, Dubai Chrono and OpenSooq. Rolling 30-day window, recomputed on every load from sources re-scanned 3× daily. Last updated 2026-10-10.
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