Qatar Real Estate Market in August 2026 Top Deals and Prices

Between 1 and 31 August 2026, a total of QR 1.68 billion worth of property sales were registered with the Ministry of Justice, according to the ministry’s weekly real estate bulletins. For the month, which included 22 uninterrupted working days, 538 properties and residential units changed hands.

The Ministry of Justice published its monthly bulletin for July on 17 August, which, as reported by the Qatar News Agency, showed that property sales worth QR 2.06 billion were registered in July through 599 transactions. The 22 working days of August came in 18.2% below that figure in terms of value, and 10.2% below it in terms of number of transactions. Here is how the value was distributed, the ten largest transactions, median land prices by area and what users searched for on Arady.

August in Three Numbers

• In the 31 days of August the total amount of registered transactions at the Ministry of Justice reached QR 1.68 billion, 18.2% below the QR 2.06 billion in the ministry’s July bulletin, with no summer pause in registrations.
• On average the registrations for the month were worth QR 3.13m, down from QR 3.43m in July, as most of the activity in terms of value came from the volume of mid-range villa and land deals rather than a few big-ticket ones.
• Residential land sales in Al Wukair exceeded sales in all other areas with total sales of QR 62.4m at a median price of QR 235 per sq ft. This price is the third lowest on the land price table.

A Steady Month with a Strong Finish

Through the month, the working days went through about the same amount of actual volume in terms of total registrations. The four full weeks brought QR 377.2m, QR 330.5m, QR 371.3m and QR 411.2m in turn, followed by QR 193.2m for the two working days of the last week of August.

The busiest day for registration was Thursday 27 August with QR 169.0m, lifted by the largest plot sale for the month in Al Hilal, while Monday 17 August at QR 39.8m was the quietest day of the month. Seventeen out of the 22 working days generated between QR 45m and QR 100m, registering the purchases of households over big-ticket deals.

Breakdown of Sales

Total transactions recorded in the weekly bulletins for the period of 1st to 31st August reached QR 1,683,486,232.

• QR 695.6 million, or 41.3% of the total value, came from the sales of villas and houses, with 192 transactions recorded at a median price of QR 3m (up from QR 2.73m in July).
• Vacant land took 35.3%, or QR 594.6m across 210 plots. Some 76.8% of that value was zoned for villas and houses, and the median plot sold for QR 2.0m.
• Apartments totaled QR 184.5m (11%) from 114 individual transactions with a median price of QR 1.4m.
• Buildings came to QR 183.2m, or 10.9%, from 20 transactions. The percentage is down from 24.4% in July, where a single commercial transaction of QR 130m dominated the numbers.
• A hotel in Al Rufaa worth QR 20.0 million plus a single retail unit for QR 5.7 million contributed the 1.5% remaining of all registrations for the month.

Villas and houses, apartments, and land classified for the construction of villas and houses together accounted for almost 80% of all value recorded via the weekly bulletins, the same categories that dominate views of villas for sale on Arady and land for sale on Arady.

Top 10 Sales

The largest registration transaction recorded this month was a 5,709 sq.m plot of vacant land in Al Hilal, allocated for commercial offices, recorded at a property value of QR 50.7m on Thursday 27 August. The bulletin recorded the transfer of 191 shares out of a total of 2,400 shares for this plot. The full property value of this plot has been included in the totals recorded by the ministry, and the same basis is used here.

Second on the list of highest-value registrations for the month was a residential building in the Najma area with a registered value of QR 33.5 million. Third was a 923 square meter house located in the Lusail area that was the most expensive house to be registered for the month, with a registered value of QR 31.5 million. Fourth was a 6,183 square meter house in Gharrafat Al Rayyan listed for semi-government university use, with a registered value of QR 30.0 million.

The balance of the list ran from a 7,700 square meter plot of land in Muraikh for QR 26.5M down to a house in Al Kharaitiyat for QR 17.5M. In any case none of them even got to half of July’s biggest property deal of QR 130M.

Land Prices Across Qatar

Medians below cover locations where there were three or more sales of vacant residential land in August, expressed in bulletin prices per sq ft. Eighteen locations qualified, made up of 192 residential plots worth QR 456.8m in total.

• Umm Lekhba enjoyed the highest median price in August, a bulletin price of QR 440 per sq ft for the eight plots of vacant residential land sold in the month, ranging from QR 420 to QR 477 per sq ft. This compares with QR 343 per sq ft in July’s table. Al Gharrafa followed at QR 421 and Al Ebb at QR 403, down from QR 434 in July.
• Al Thumama included 21 vacant residential land plots in August at a median of QR 400 per sq ft. This was the second most active area for sales of vacant residential land this month, and significantly up from QR 310 per sq ft in July’s table, when fewer and cheaper plots recorded in the period established a low median.
• Umm Al Amad was the cheapest with a median price of QR 221 per sq ft, followed by Al Thakhira with a median price of QR 225 per sq ft and Al Wukair with a median price of QR 235 per sq ft, all roughly half the Umm Lekhba price.
• Highest land value was produced by Al Wukair at QR 62.4m from prices ranging from QR 142 per sq ft to QR 367 per sq ft from a total of 45 plots. The rest of the list includes Al Thumama at QR 47.4m, Al Wakra at QR 28.0m and Al Khor at QR 27.1m.

The median prices in this reading are determined by the specific sales of individual plots and thus do not establish trends for specific locations. For a broader look at asking prices for vacant residential land across many different locations, a summary of current asking prices is provided in Arady’s residential land prices in Qatar for September 2026 covering 74 areas with live listings.

Apartment Sales by Area

A total of QR 184.5 million worth of apartments were registered in August, down 6.7% on July’s bulletin of QR 197.8m. As for the distribution of apartments registered in August, apartments in The Pearl Island, Lusail and Al Wukair together comprised 81.6% of the total value, and the first two sit in areas where foreigners can buy property in Qatar outright.

• The Pearl Island led by value with QR 66.1m (35.8%) from 33 apartments, with a median selling price of QR 1.95m and a median price per square meter of QR 13,595. This area accounted for 49.8% of apartment value in July.
• Lusail recorded 47 units worth QR 53.6M, or 29.1% of the total registered apartments this August, at a median price per unit of QR 950,000 and a median price per sqm of QR 10,705. The cheapest unit of the month was a 48 sqm unit for QR 426,000 registered in Lusail.
• Al Wukair contributed QR 30.8 million, worth 16.7%, from 17 large apartments. The apartments have a median area of 398 sq.m. and a median rate of QR 5,161/sq.m.
• The highest price per square meter registered was that of the units in Al Kharayej in Lusail at QR 14,466/sq.meter for 7 units. Additionally, the largest unit was registered in Al Gharrafa at 844 sq.meters for QR 5.39M.
• The median price per apartment for all areas covered by the bulletin for August is QR 1.40m for a 117 square meter unit that costs QR 11,493 per square meter.

What Buyers Searched For

The Arady platform recorded 112,228 searches in August, where each search is a visit to a location search result page or a property listing page. These figures are up 1.6% on July’s search count of 110,511 on the same basis, a small rise for a month that usually sits in the summer lull.

Of the 67,341 visits to property listings mapped to a type, villas took 36,665 (54.4%), land 18,289 (27.2%) and apartments 7,168 (10.6%). The remaining 5,219 searches were directed to buildings, compounds and other types of listings. The interest in searches and the value of registered properties pointed in the same direction, as houses and villas were the largest among all property types on the ministry’s books.

Villa Demand by Bedrooms

In August, big villas were most in demand. In terms of views of specific villas the 7 bedroom properties received the most views with 11,108 views. The 6-8 bedroom properties as a whole received a massive 79.9% of all views of villas.

• Seven bedrooms, 11,108 views. The highest number of views of any of the villa categories was for seven bedrooms. This group received the most views with Umm Salal Ali garnering the most at 1,014 views followed by Al Thumama at 1,002 views and Umm Qarn with 944 views.
• Six bedrooms, 9,400 views. Largest number of views for six bedrooms was for villas in Al Khor with 837 views, followed by views for villas in Al Thumama (715 views) and Al Meshaf (702 views).
• Eight bedrooms, 8,769 views, with the largest viewership coming from listings in Al Wukair (768 views), Umm Qarn (553 views) and Muaither (490 views).
• Four bedrooms, 3,421 views. Within this category the highest demand for a location to buy a villa was Al Kharaitiyat with 289 views, followed by Al Wukair with 262 views and Al Khor with 237 views.
• Five bedrooms, 3,314 views, Huzoom Lusail 216, Muaither 214, Al Wakra 178.

The location with the most views of villas on the platform was Al Thumama with 2,308 views, followed by Al Wukair with 2,239 views, and Umm Salal Ali with 2,161 views. The combined views of the villas with three bedrooms or less was 648 views.

Apartment Demand by Bedrooms

Smaller units, such as 1- and 2- bedroom apartments located in Lusail and The Pearl Island, received the most interest. A total of 5,462 views were generated by these properties, accounting for 76.2% of all views for apartments.

• One bedroom, 2,870 views. This category attracted the greatest number of views, with Al Erkyah City recording the highest number of views with 716, followed by Fox Hills with 651 and Porto Arabia with 447.
• 2 bedrooms, 2,592 views. Most interest came from Marina District with 352 views followed by Al Erkyah City with 310 views and Fox Hills with 306 views.
• Three bedrooms, 819 views. This comprised Fox Hills with 212 and Porto Arabia with 175 views.
• Studios, 557 views, mostly in Fox Hills with 322.
• 225 views for the ads of four bedrooms.
• 105 views for the ads of five or more bedrooms.

In terms of the most popular development to view apartments, Fox Hills recorded 1,552 views, followed by Porto Arabia (1,065 views), Al Erkyah City (1,059 views) and Marina District (731 views). Registration, too, highlighted that Lusail was the biggest supplier of units to the market with 47 out of the 114 units sold being based in the area, while The Pearl Island recorded the highest value.

The Most Searched Areas

Although it experienced one of the larger declines in searches among the most popular locations for the month, Al Wukair was still the most searched location in Qatar with 6,419 searches this month, down 19.8% on July. Al Thumama moved into second place with 5,148 searches, up 35.7%, while Al Wakra was flat at 4,254 searches and Umm Qarn came fourth at 4,172 searches, a 17.7% decrease on July.

• The highest increase rates for the most popular locations in Qatar in August went to Al Thumama with a 35.7% increase to 5,148 search views, Muaither with 26.1% up to 3,446 and Umm Salal Ali up 15.3% to 3,958.
• Locations ranked just outside the top ten saw large increases in search, including Huzoom Lusail up 22.5% to 2,938 searches, Lusail up 23.4% to 2,914, Al Kharaitiyat up 26.6% to 2,740, Muraikh up 29.1% to 1,943 and Rawdat Al Hamama up 19.9% to 2,123. Al Kharaitiyat and Rawdat Al Hamama also appeared in August’s land price table.
• The largest falls were Ain Khaled, down 21.4% to 2,983 views, then Al Wukair and Umm Qarn, then Al Meshaf, down 15.2% to 2,440 views, and Al Khor, down 13.2% to 3,194 views.
• Al Thumama’s Arady pages cover zones 46 to 50 and are counted together, as in July. Its rise came in the month it sold 21 plots of land at a median price of QR 400 per sq ft, the second-busiest land area in the country.

About the Data

• All transactions are sourced from the weekly real estate bulletins from the Ministry of Justice for the period of sales registered between 1st and 31st of August 2026, at values as published. Where only part of a property was sold (a share transfer of property), the sales value of the property as recorded by the Ministry of Justice for the full property has been used for these totals. There were 44 share transfers out of the 424 property transactions in August.
• The July figures for sales were derived from the Ministry of Justice’s monthly real estate bulletin as reported by the Qatar News Agency on August 17, 2026. These were QR 1,859,383,090 in total sales from 485 deals plus QR 197,755,279 for 114 residential units. These figures were reported separately from the weekly totals behind the August figures and thus are compared to the August figures as published.
• A search is recorded for each view of a location’s page and each property’s listing page on Arady during the period of 1-31 August 2026. Also, the search figures for July were pulled again by the same method and therefore differ from those figures reported in the July report (110,511 instead of 110,241). Locations whose Arady pages cover more than one zone (Al Thumama, Muaither and Izghawa) are counted as one location across their zones, as in the July report. Arady lists properties for sale only.
• All areas are listed under the area name and not under the zone code, so entries such as Al Thumama 46 to 50 are combined under the parent location name. Al Kharayej and Ghar Thuaileb, both in Lusail, are listed separately in the bulletins.

Sources

• Ministry of Justice, weekly real estate trading bulletins covering 2 August to 3 September 2026, filtered to registrations dated 1 to 31 August, and the ministry’s weekly trading announcements for August 2026.
• Qatar News Agency, real estate trading volume exceeds QR 1.8 billion in July, 17 August 2026.
• Arady platform data, 1 to 31 August 2026.