The Ridge Dubai Resale Index rose 3.5% month-on-month in April 2026; the mix-controlled median (2014 = 100) printed 154.2, up 5.0% year-on-year. 11,972 residential transactions were registered in the month — 2,450 secondary resales and 9,522 off-plan sales — at a secondary median of AED 1,473.2/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 106.95 — ready-resale, Laspeyres fixed basket over 139 strata, 2,204 prints. ROPI 111.21 — off-plan pipeline, 144 strata, 7,959 prints.
Ridge Ratings, “Ridge Dubai Resale Index — April 2026 release”, ridgeratings.com/release/2026-04. Methodology v1.5 · registered land-registry transactions.
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