The Ridge Dubai Resale Index rose 0.5% month-on-month in January 2026; the mix-controlled median (2014 = 100) printed 153.1, up 7.1% year-on-year. 13,894 residential transactions were registered in the month — 3,590 secondary resales and 10,304 off-plan sales — at a secondary median of AED 1,462.8/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 106.94 — ready-resale, Laspeyres fixed basket over 165 strata, 3,283 prints. ROPI 106.54 — off-plan pipeline, 146 strata, 8,557 prints.
Ridge Ratings, “Ridge Dubai Resale Index — January 2026 release”, ridgeratings.com/release/2026-01. Methodology v1.5 · registered land-registry transactions.
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