Abu Dhabi Owner Profits This Week (Live ADREC)

Every transaction registered with the Abu Dhabi Real Estate Centre (ADREC) is public. When a unit changes hands again on the secondary market we can match it back to the original off-plan purchase for the same project and similar size, then compute what the seller actually walked away with after the standard 4 percent transaction costs (2 percent ADREC registration plus 2 percent agency commission). The figures below are recomputed against the live dataset on every page load. They cover only the last seven days of registrations and only the focus communities NAS LUXURY REAL ESTATE actively serves: Saadiyat, Hudayriyat, Al Jubail, Al Reem, Yas and Reeman.

How we computed every line in this article

We looked at every secondary (resale) registration on ADREC in the last seven days that fell inside one of our focus communities. For each resale we searched the same project's primary (off-plan) registrations for the earliest deal whose plot or unit area matched the resold area within five percent (relaxing to ten percent only if no five-percent match existed).

When a match was found we computed gross profit as the resale price minus the original primary price, and net profit as gross profit minus four percent of (resale + primary). The four percent stands in for the two percent ADREC registration fee plus the two percent buyer- or seller-side agency commission that is standard in Abu Dhabi.

We dropped any deal where the matched primary was registered after the seven-day cutoff (those are not real flips, just same-week double registrations) and any deal where the matched primary price was below AED 100,000 (that filter removes intra-family transfers and erroneous entries). The remaining set is shown below in full.

Top profits this week

By community

What is driving these numbers

Three forces are doing most of the work in the last twelve months of Abu Dhabi resales. The first is the Saadiyat institutional bid: the secondary tape on Hidd Al Saadiyat, Jawaher Al Saadiyat and the Saadiyat Reserve cluster has matured to the point where one large resale a week is now routine, with net profits in the range of eight to ten million dirhams per unit for owners who bought the off-plan launches between 2019 and 2021.

The second is the Reeman repricing. Al Reeman Phase 1 plots that traded at AED 700,000 to AED 1.05 million in 2018 to 2020 are now changing hands at AED 4 million to AED 4.9 million, which is the largest percentage move in the dataset by a wide margin. The driver here is purely supply: Reeman is a closed-stock community and the new launches around it (Reeman 2 included) anchor a much higher price expectation.

The third is the Jubail Phase 1 and Phase 2 plot story. Plots that registered at AED 5 million to AED 9 million in 2019 to 2022 are clearing at AED 14 million to AED 19 million as Jubail's lifestyle and connectivity story matures. Net profits here are large in absolute terms even though percentage uplifts are more moderate than Reeman.

The common thread across all three is duration. The median holding period in this week's matched set is over six years. None of these are flips. They are off-plan positions taken before the post-2022 demand surge that are now being monetised into a deeper secondary tape.

How to compare today's price to your original purchase

The same matching logic that powers this article is exposed inside the public dashboard as a free tool. From the home page, open the Primary Lookup dialog and enter your project, sub-area and area in square metres. The tool returns the live secondary tape for matches within the same five-percent area band so you can see exactly where today's market is pricing your unit, before you talk to any broker. NAS LUXURY REAL ESTATE built it deliberately as an open utility because the underlying data is already public and the comparison is harder than it should be.