Market Pulse

Connecting rhythm with reason.

The rhythms that move Dubai real estate.


The FIO Index sits behind every analytical surface at Fndation. This page tracks its direction in real time across daily, weekly, and monthly structures so each move is read with price, volume, trend, and momentum in one forward frame.

Transactions Rentals
Period
Whole measured population — does not follow the chart's series or timeframe
Transactions
Total value
Median PSF
All measured population
By type sums to All
Off-plan primary market
Apartments
Villas
Offices
Other
Secondary resale market
Apartments
Villas
Offices
Other
By usage
Residential homes
Commercial offices, retail
Trailing windows ending at the last complete month, not calendar periods. Each figure is compared with the immediately preceding window of the same length.
Latest complete month: · Source: Dubai government open data · Methodology
CUMULATIVE STOCK
ANNUAL DELIVERIES
Volume
Supply (units)
FIO Base Case
FIO Conservative Case
60mo SMA forecast
120mo MA forecast
Timeframe
Price Series
Moving Average
Panels
Supply Pipeline

Contracted against observed delivery

The supply chart above counts what developers have committed to deliver. This view walks the same projects forward at the build rates observed in inspection history — when contracted handover meets observed pace.

Delivery field
2026 delivers against contracted schedule
2028 forecast vs contracted
Contracted 2025 or earlier, still undelivered

Each project is walked forward through its remaining build stages at the rate observed for its use class and scheme size, calibrated from 815 completed inspection histories. Rather than a single delivery date, each project carries a window — the range between its fast and slow completion cases — and its units are distributed across that window. Intensity is confidence: it falls with distance to completion, with the age of the last inspection, and with how few readings sit behind the project’s build rate. Projects under 5% complete are excluded; there is no basis to extrapolate. Unclassified use classes are grouped with residential, consistent with the project spine. The band shows the total if every project ran fast against the total if every project ran slow — the model’s own scenarios, not a statistical standard deviation. It widens with distance because the evidence thins.

What is this?

FIO Index

What it is. Monthly Dubai price index from the cleansed public transaction record since 2008.

What it tells you. Dirhams per square foot now — the market’s current price level.

SMA (Simple Moving Average)

What it is. Average FIO Index close over your selected number of periods.

What it tells you. Smoothed trend; index above the line means rising momentum.

RSI (Relative Strength Index)

What it is. A 0–100 score of recent upward versus downward index moves.

What it tells you. Above 70 is overheated; below 30 is oversold (defaults adjustable).

Volume

What it is. Cleansed unit-level secondary and off-plan transactions in the period.

What it tells you. Whether turnover supports the price move; off-plan vs secondary mix.

Price and capital deployed

Average PSF
Average PSF, community mix held constant
Capital deployed, AED bn

Where capital is deployed

Community Nov 2025 – Apr 2026 (AED bn) May 2026 onward (AED bn) Txns (recent) PSF (recent) Change
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