GCC real estate transactions reached $ 78.2 billion in the first quarter of 2025, growing between 20.5 percent and 22.3 percent, according to Sakan estimates.
Dubai once again emerged as the leading market in the GCC, publishing $ 38.7 billion in sales and counting almost half of the total transaction value of the region.
Dubai’s real estate transactions were 23.4 percent higher than last year.
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Saudi Arabia continues as the second largest market, with transactions for a total of at least $ 20.3 billion, they capture 26 percent of the region market share.
The EAU as a whole, including the Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and Ajman markets, collectively represented 65 percent of the total estimated transaction value of the region, highlighting the country’s importance in the growth of the property of the region.
Abu Dhabi recorded the greatest year -on -year growth with 34.5 percent, followed by Sharjah (31.9 percent), Ajman (29 percent) and Kuwait (24 percent).
The CEO of Sakan, Abdullah Al Saleh, said: “Our research in Sakan showed that the GCC real estate sector registered $ 383 billion in properties of properties in 2024, growing by 25 percent.
“Now we see that this growth is maintained in the first quarter of the year, despite economic tensions worldwide. As real estate continue with a safe refuge for investors in the GCC region and with artificial, the expectation, so it is expectation, in the improvement of improving T since it improves the real estate sector through the rest of 2025”.
- While most CCG markets have already registered their Q1 results, Bahrain and Oman’s data are still incomplete. Sakan estimated the transaction values of Bahrain and Oman based on historical and planned data. The data from Saudi Arabia of Arabia compare figures from January 1 to March 25.
