UAE residential price index
21 years of quarterly price data from the Bank for International Settlements. Track market cycles, booms, and corrections.
Current index
175.38
2024-Q1
YoY change
+22.8%
Latest quarter
From COVID low
+111.8%
Since Q2 2020
All-time high
175.38
2024-Q1
Property Price Index Over Time
Base year: 2010 = 100. Source: BIS via FRED
Market Cycles
Pre-GFC Boom
Speculative boom driven by oil wealth and global liquidity. Prices tripled in 5 years.
GFC Crash
Global financial crisis. Prices fell 41% from peak in just over a year.
Recovery & Expo Rally
Recovery driven by Expo 2020 announcement and returning confidence.
Correction
Prolonged correction due to oversupply, oil price crash, and VAT introduction.
Post-COVID Boom
Record-breaking rally driven by visa reforms, remote workers, Russian capital flows, and limited supply.
Current Top Performers
Abu Dhabi communities with the highest year-over-year price growth, from published portal and consultancy benchmarks — not ADREC registered-transaction medians, which are still pending.
Construction costs rose in Q1 2026
SCAD tracks the cost of a fixed basket of materials and construction services. This index measures costs; housing completions remain unavailable.
Cost index
111.04
2021 = 100
Year-on-year
7.04%
Q1 2026 vs Q1 2025
Quarter-on-quarter
3.79%
Q1 2026 vs Q4 2025
Coverage
Q1 2026
Provisional
Abu Dhabi property stock — Q1 2026
SCAD’s published emirate-wide counts cover existing units and rental contracts. Rental totals include residential and other uses; they do not measure vacant homes, occupancy or newly completed housing.
Residential units
526,704
Q1 2026
Commercial units
286,588
Q1 2026
Units for rent
542,044
All unit uses
Rental contracts
449,609
All unit uses
Data pending
Rent index and supply pipeline are still pending
This page shows the series we can source today. The city-wide rent index and the under-construction pipeline are not among them for Abu Dhabi yet, so those panels are absent rather than filled with figures from elsewhere.
What this metric needs
- The official Abu Dhabi Residential Rent Price Index series, by segment and month
- Abu Dhabi Statistics Centre building-completion and under-construction counts for the emirate
Data Source & Methodology
UAE Residential Property Price Index from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), published via FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data). Index base year: 2010 = 100. Quarterly data, not seasonally adjusted. This index tracks nominal residential property prices across the UAE as a whole, so it is national context rather than an Abu Dhabi-specific series.
Community-level PSF and YoY figures are published portal and consultancy benchmarks with a cited source and as-of date. Per-transaction ADREC medians, the Residential Rent Price Index and the Abu Dhabi construction pipeline are pending their respective data agreements — see data sources.