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  Dubai Branded Residences 2026: 116 Projects in the Pipeline — Is the Luxury Premium Worth Paying? Dubai | October 13, 2026 Dubai has become the world capital of a fast-growing type of luxury property: the branded residence . A recent industry count puts Dubai at 184 branded-residence projects, including 68 completed developments and 116 in the pipeline . Miami, the nearest rival in that dataset, has 85 projects—less than half Dubai’s total. A separate and very recent Knight Frank survey reaches the same broad conclusion but uses slightly different numbers. Its 2026/27 Residence Report counts 175 Dubai schemes—68 live and 107 in the pipeline—compared with 73 in Miami . Knight Frank still ranks Dubai comfortably as the world’s largest city market for branded residences. That difference is worth explaining rather than ignoring. Branded-residence reports do not always use exactly the same project definitions, brand classifications or data cut-off dates. Some include a wider group of ...

  Dubai Real Estate 2026: Record Sales Meet First Price Dip — Should Buyers Buy Now or Wait? Dubai | October 5, 2026 Dubai's property market has entered one of the most interesting stages of its current cycle. The market is still processing enormous volumes of property deals. From January through September 2026, Dubai recorded 165,018 real-estate transactions worth AED574.12 billion . But there is an important distinction hidden inside that headline number. The AED574.12 billion figure includes sales, mortgages and property gifts . Actual property sales during the first nine months were worth approximately AED379.4 billion across 123,416 transactions —still the second-highest nine-month sales value in Dubai's history, behind 2025 . At the same time, residential prices have started showing signs of cooling. Cavendish Maxwell data reported in September showed the average Dubai residential sales price at around AED1,636 per square foot in August 2026, down 1.7% from a year earlier...