Dubai Price per Sq Ft in Rupees: Area-wise Rates for 2026

What is the average price per sq ft in Dubai in rupees?

The median Dubai apartment sold for AED 1,404 per sq ft in September 2026, which is ₹36,326 at the FBIL reference rate of ₹25.8734 per dirham. Villas and townhouses sold for a median AED 1,638, or ₹42,381. Both are Dubai Land Department figures published by betterhomes, and both are above their level a year earlier, by 2.2% and 4.1%.

Other trackers give higher averages because they measure differently. REIDIN's average transacted apartment price for Q2 2026 was AED 1,791 per sq ft and villas AED 2,325. Anarock puts the all-residential average at about AED 1,900 in H1 2026. A median is pulled less by a handful of Palm Jumeirah or Downtown penthouses, so we lead with it, but the gap tells you how much the expensive end lifts the average.

Prices are not uniform across a community either. Around three quarters of the communities betterhomes tracks sold for less per sq ft in Q3 2026 than in Q2, while around two thirds were still above their level of a year ago.

Dubai price per sq ft by area, AED and INR

Downtown Dubai and Palm Jumeirah apartments sit near AED 2,450 to 2,500 per sq ft on median sale prices, about ₹63,000 to ₹65,000. Dubai Hills Estate and Dubai Creek Harbour follow at AED 2,250 to 2,275. Dubai Marina is at AED 1,883 and Meydan at AED 1,711. The mid-market starts in JVC at AED 1,259 and DAMAC Hills at AED 1,318, and DAMAC Hills 2 is the cheapest community in the table at AED 1,011 for apartments and AED 852 for villas.

The year-on-year column is where 2026 shows up. Meydan apartments rose 13.4%, Dubai Marina 5.7% and DAMAC Hills apartments 5.0%. Palm Jumeirah apartments fell 3.7%, Dubai Hills villas 10.0% and DAMAC Hills 2 apartments 2.7%. Downtown and JVC were roughly flat. Palm Jumeirah Garden Homes, a small villa sub-market, jumped 31.3% to AED 8,792 per sq ft, or ₹2,27,479.

Business Bay, Dubai South, Al Furjan, DAMAC Lagoons and Sobha Hartland

These communities are not in the DLD median table above, so we use the next best published sources and say which is which. Business Bay apartments averaged AED 2,058 per sq ft in REIDIN's transaction data for Q2 2026 (₹53,247), down 6.9% on the previous quarter. Bayut's asking price there was AED 2,124 in H1 2026.

Bayut's H1 2026 asking prices put Dubai South apartments at AED 1,190 per sq ft (₹30,789), up 3.27% on the previous half, and Dubai South villas at AED 1,368. Al Furjan villas were AED 1,677 (₹43,390), up 6.91%, and DAMAC Lagoons villas AED 1,603 (₹41,475), up 7.54%. Al Furjan apartments averaged AED 1,290 for 2025 on Property Monitor data, a 27% rise in that year.

Sobha Hartland is part of Mohammed Bin Rashid City in DLD records. REIDIN's Q2 2026 average for MBR City apartments was AED 2,180 per sq ft (₹56,404), down 3.39% on the quarter. We could not find a published 2026 sale price for Sobha Hartland on its own, so treat MBR City as a guide, not a quote for a specific tower.

Asking prices are what sellers list at, not what buyers pay. Bayut's own report says its figures reflect advertised listing prices only, and in every community where we can compare the two they sit above the DLD median. Downtown is the clearest case: AED 3,179 asking against a median of AED 2,497. JVC is AED 1,470 asking against AED 1,259.

How have Dubai prices moved since 2020?

The citywide average sale price doubled between 2020 and 2025. Property Monitor data shows AED 833 per sq ft in 2020, AED 1,281 in 2023, AED 1,493 in 2024 and AED 1,673 in 2025, a fifth straight year of double-digit growth. In rupees at today's rate that is ₹21,553 rising to ₹43,286 per sq ft.

2026 is different. REIDIN recorded quarterly declines of 4.3% for apartments and 2.2% for villas in Q2 2026, though prices stayed 1.2% and 5.7% above Q2 2025. The September medians are still up on the year, but only just. Anyone buying on a 2021 to 2025 growth story is now buying at the top of that curve, and the extra return has to come from rent.

Is Dubai property cheaper than Gurgaon per sq ft?

No, not per sq ft. Anarock puts Gurugram's average residential capital value at ₹13,350 per sq ft in Q2 2026. Even DAMAC Hills 2 apartments, the cheapest community above, cost about ₹26,000, and the Dubai median apartment is ₹36,326, close to three times the Gurugram average.

The 'Dubai is cheaper' line works only on ticket size at the bottom of the market, in outer communities such as Dubai South, where Bayut's average 1-bedroom asking price was AED 827,000 in H1 2026, about ₹2.14 crore. Gurgaon's luxury corridors are a fairer comparison; see our Gurgaon property rates per sq ft for those numbers. Dubai's case rests on yield, which we cover in Dubai rental yields by area.

How to read these rupee figures

Every rupee number here uses one rate: the FBIL reference rate of ₹25.8734 per dirham on 14 October 2026, as published by the RBI. The dirham is pegged to the US dollar, so the rupee cost of a Dubai home moves with the rupee-dollar rate, not with anything in Dubai. Your bank's remittance rate will be slightly worse than the reference rate.

Remember also that a per sq ft rate is only comparable when the area basis matches. Check whether a Dubai listing quotes the DLD title deed area and whether a Gurgaon quote is on carpet or super area before you compare the two. Our Dubai project pages show current prices for specific towers in both currencies.