The Ridge Dubai Resale Index eased 0.1% month-on-month in May 2025; the mix-controlled median (2014 = 100) printed 146.7, up 14.4% year-on-year. 14,496 residential transactions were registered in the month — 4,583 secondary resales and 9,913 off-plan sales — at a secondary median of AED 1,401.6/sqft. The headline is a median of registered ready resales and is sensitive to sales mix; the stratified RDRI companion below controls composition explicitly.
RDRI 100.00 — ready-resale, Laspeyres fixed basket over 207 strata, 4,359 prints. ROPI 100.00 — off-plan pipeline, 178 strata, 9,864 prints.
Ridge Ratings, “Ridge Dubai Resale Index — May 2025 release”, ridgeratings.com/release/2025-05. Methodology v1.5 · registered land-registry transactions.
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