The Dubai ultra-luxury villa market has moved past its post-COVID surge to turn out to be a secure world asset class, with record-breaking gross sales of AED40m+ ($10.9m+) properties and rising demand for elite ‘trophy’ properties, in keeping with new evaluation from fäm Properties.
The consultancy studies sharp development in AED 70m–AED 100m ($19m–$27m) offers, resales overtaking new gross sales, and the emergence of a “Golden Triangle of Wealth” spanning Palm Jumeirah, Emirates Hills and MBR Metropolis.
Evaluation from fäm Properties highlights speedy enlargement in Dubai’s ultra-prime phase, with AED 70m–AED 100m ($19m–$27m) transactions climbing sharply and resales now forming nearly all of AED 40m+ ($10.9m+) villa exercise.
Dubai Golden Triangle of Wealth
Supporting knowledge from DXBinteract identifies Palm Jebel Ali, Tilal Al Ghaf and The Oasis as the following frontiers for AED 100m+ ($27m+) villas after handover over the following three years.
Firas Al Msaddi, CEO of fäm Properties, stated: “Dubai’s AED 40M+ villa market is now a sustained world wealth phase, not a post-COVID anomaly, with sturdy resale demand and a restricted provide of trophy properties driving costs larger.
“Over the past 5 years, there was explosive development on this sector, with transactions rising greater than ninefold, from 27 in 2020 to 210 in 2023, 242 in 2024, and a projected 199 in 2025.”
Transaction worth soared from AED890m ($242m) in 2020 to AED15.98bn ($4.35bn) in 2024 — a 1,700 per cent surge that successfully created Dubai’s ultra-prime villa class.
Progress has been fuelled by UHNW migration and severely constrained provide in key areas together with Palm Jumeirah, Jumeirah Bay and MBR Metropolis.
In response, fäm Properties has launched fäm Luxe, its new ultra-super-prime division, changing into the group’s seventeenth enterprise line devoted to UHNW shoppers.
Resales dominate the $10.9m+ phase
Resales overtook new gross sales from 2022 onward, accounting for 58 per cent of all AED 40m+ ($10.9m+) villa transactions in 2024.
Worth-wise, resales rose from AED 2bn ($544m) in 2021 to AED 10.8bn ($2.94bn) in 2024, surpassing developer gross sales, which totalled AED 5.96bn ($1.62bn) the identical 12 months.
Al Msaddi stated this shift confirms a mature investor cycle, with delivered ultra-prime inventory — significantly on Palm Jumeirah, Jumeirah Bay and Emirates Hills — buying and selling at liquidity ranges beforehand reserved for off-plan property.
Palm Jumeirah, Emirates Hills and MBR Metropolis
These three neighbourhoods accounted for 56 per cent of all AED 40m+ ($10.9m+) villa transactions:
- Palm Jumeirah: AED 19.38bn ($5.27bn) since 2015 (31 per cent)
- Emirates Hills: AED 9.04bn ($2.46bn) (15 per cent)
- MBR Metropolis: AED 6.40bn ($1.74bn) (10 per cent)
Dubai has additionally recorded a surge in AED 70m+ to AED 100m ($19m–$27m) transactions, which grew from negligible ranges between 2015–2019 to greater than 170 villas between 2023–2025.
Moreover, AED 100m–AED 200m ($27m–$54m) transactions reached 83, whereas AED 200m+ ($54m+) offers totalled 25 since 2021 — with Dubai now constantly registering AED 200m–AED 600m ($54m–$163m) trophy villa gross sales, a phase that hardly existed earlier than 2021.
Palm Jebel Ali, Tilal Al Ghaf and The Oasis
DXBinteract knowledge highlights the following wave of AED 100m+ ($27m+) villa places, pushed by handovers between 2026–2028:
- Palm Jebel Ali: AED 2.23bn ($606m) in AED 40m+ ($10.9m+) gross sales, primarily between 2024–2025
- Tilal Al Ghaf: AED 3.6bn ($979m) in offers since 2023
- The Oasis: AED 0.99bn ($269m) in its first cycle following final 12 months’s launch
These rising districts are anticipated to form Dubai’s subsequent section of ultra-prime villa development as provide in established trophy-home places tightens additional.
