Reports·Q3 2026

Quarterly report · UAE real estate·Final

Q3 2026. What sellers gave up.

Name: UAE Property Price Cuts — Q3 2026
Creator: UAEDrops
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

318 asking-price cuts on 295 sale listings between 1 Jul – 30 Sep 2026, a median −3.0% each and AED 64.8M in total. Leases are counted separately.

1 Jul – 30 Sep 2026·Final figures·Sale and lease reported apart

01·Headline·sale listings · 1 Jul – 30 Sep 2026

The quarter in five numbers.

Every figure is a count of observed asking-price reductions on the listings we track — never an estimate, never a sum across sale and lease.

Price cuts

318

Listings cut

295

18 cut twice or more

Median cut

−3.0%

7% were 10%+

Removed from asking

AED 64.8M

summed over the window

Distress Index · quarter end

34▼ 6 since 24 Jul

Softening

Leases · same window · reductions in annual rent

Lease reductions

535

Listings cut

474

55 cut twice or more

Median cut

−4.3%

11% were 10%+

Rent removed

AED 6.3M

per year, summed

02·Month by month·and week by week

July to September, week by week.

Three closed months.

Month	Sale cuts	Median	Removed	Lease cuts	Median
July	81	−2.9%	AED 23.7M	207	−4.7%
August	107	−3.1%	AED 15.7M	138	−4.3%
September	130	−3.2%	AED 25.5M	190	−4.3%
Q3 2026	318	−3.0%	AED 64.8M	535	−4.3%

Cuts per week · 14 ISO weeks

03·By area·sale · top 10 by number of cuts

Where sellers gave the most ground.

Ranked by how many times an asking price was lowered. The median beside each area is the typical size of one cut there, not the total.

Al Shamkha31median −2.2% · AED 3.8M Saadiyat Island10median −1.2% · AED 1.3M Yas Island10median −2.2% · AED 625K Zayed City (Khalifa City C)9median −3.2% · AED 925K Al Jaddaf9median −4.0% · AED 615K Al Ghadeer9median −2.6% · AED 555K Bloom Living9median −1.2% · AED 280K Al Jubail Island8median −3.0% · AED 1.6M Al Hudayriat Island5median −2.0% · AED 1.1M The Valley5median −1.5% · AED 365K

n = distinct listings cut in the area. Rows link to the live feed for that area.

Deepest typical cut · areas with 5+ cuts

−4.0%

Al Jaddaf

9 cuts · 7 listings

−3.2%

Zayed City (Khalifa City C)

9 cuts · 8 listings

−3.0%

Al Jubail Island

8 cuts · 5 listings

−2.6%

Al Ghadeer

9 cuts · 8 listings

−2.2%

Al Shamkha

31 cuts · 29 listings

04·City and type

Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and what was cut.

Dubai

Sale cuts

136

129 listings

Median

−3.5%

Removed

AED 38.7M

Lease cuts

289

median −4.8%

Abu Dhabi

Sale cuts

182

166 listings

Median

−2.6%

Removed

AED 26.1M

Lease cuts

246

median −4.3%

Sale cuts by property type

05·Distress Index·weekly · 30-day window · real estate

Open the index

Where the index ended the quarter.

Softening

Start · 24 Jul: 40
Latest · 26 Sep: 34
High · 2 Aug: 44
Low · 6 Sep: 30

11 live weekly snapshots · 3 reconstructed (dashed), not cited

06·The five deepest sale cuts·single reductions · by percentage

The cuts that moved the most.

Single reductions on sale listings, ranked by percentage. Each opens the listing's own price history.

07·Method, and how to cite

How this was counted.

Window. 1 Jul – 30 Sep 2026, UTC. The quarter is closed; these figures are final.
What counts. An asking price observed lower than the same listing's previous asking price, on PropertyFinder, Bayut, DubiCars, Dubai Chrono and OpenSooq. Estimated discounts against retail are never included.
Sale and lease. Kept apart throughout. A lease reduction is AED per year and is never added to a capital price cut.
Exclusions. Reductions of 60% or more are treated as listing errors and dropped: 0 this quarter.
Medians, not averages. One mistyped price cannot move a median.
Distress Index. Published weekly from a rolling 30-day window; methodology on the index page. Reconstructed readings are shown but not cited.

Cite as

UAEDrops, "UAE Property Price Cuts — Q3 2026", uaepricedrops.com/reports/2026-q3, data 1 Jul – 30 Sep 2026.

The data

Every number on this page as JSON, free to reuse with a link: /api/reports/2026-q3

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