Qatar Real Estate Market in September 2026: Deals and Prices

The Ministry of Justice recorded property sales worth QR 2.15 billion in the period between 1 and 30 September 2026, according to the ministry’s weekly real estate bulletins. In total 22 working days were recorded in the month of September, and 671 properties and residential units were sold in the said period.

Arady’s report on the Qatar real estate market in August 2026 put property registrations for that month on the same weekly bulletin basis at QR 1.68 billion through 538 deals. In terms of value and number of transactions, September’s figures exceeded those of August by 27.9% and 24.7% respectively. The sections below outline the full distribution of transactions, the top 10 deals of the month, the median land price per sq ft by area, apartment sales by area and the most popular searches on Arady.

September in Three Numbers

• Real estate transactions during the 30 days of September stood at QR 2.15 billion. This represents an increase of 27.9% versus the level of QR 1.68 billion in August. In addition, there were 133 more transactions recorded in September compared to August.
• The mean value of transactions at QR 3.21m was higher by 2.5% versus the average value of QR 3.13m in August. Thus the increase in transaction values was due to an increase in the number of transactions and not just a handful of large sized transactions. Indeed, the two highest transactions in September were larger than the largest transaction in August.
• Residential land transactions worth QR 123.8m were recorded across six transactions in Umm Salal Ali, making it the highest valued location for land transactions. The largest land transaction, worth QR 73.0m, was for a plot of 42,395 sq m in Umm Salal Ali. The location however featured in the five lowest on the land price table, with a median price of QR 254.5 per sq ft.

Two New Property Laws

Two important new laws affecting the daily activities of property owners, plus those who buy and sell property in Qatar, were issued on 2 September 2026 and published in the Official Gazette, issue 17, on 16 September.

• Law No. 11 of 2026 on owners’ unions requires an owners’ union to be registered in any co-owned property with three or more owners. It also provides the manner of registering the owners’ union and of collecting the subscriptions, the procedure to be adopted in the event of a delay of three months in the payment of subscriptions by an owner, as well as the circumstances under which a unit cannot be sold while its owner is in arrears to the union. Arady’s guide to the owners’ union law in Qatar covers the law in detail.
• Law No. 13 of 2026 amends several articles of the Real Estate Brokerage Law, No. 22 of 2017. These articles relate to the licensing of brokers and their registration, as well as to the inspection of brokers and disciplinary action, and they widen the definition of brokerage to cover property marketing, auctions, management for others and valuation. In accordance with the amended articles, all of these matters will be transferred from the Ministry of Justice to Aqarat, the Real Estate Regulatory Authority, when the amendment takes effect on 1 January 2027. Arady’s guide to the brokerage law amendment in Qatar shows what action is required of brokers prior to that date.

Neither of these laws has any bearing on the numbers below for September. The first law will impact the running of co-owned buildings, while the second transfers the licensing and monitoring of real estate brokers from the Ministry of Justice to Aqarat from 1 January 2027.

A Strong Start and a Stronger Second Half

The three working days of the first week of the month collectively totaled QR 393.0m, the majority of it on one day, followed by QR 387.9m and QR 371.0m in the subsequent two weeks. The fourth week, 20 – 24 September, then collectively totaled QR 583.1m, the highest of the month, followed by QR 418.1m from the four working days of the last week.

Thursday 3 September was the most active day of the month with QR 272.2m recorded, mainly due to the registration of the large plot in Umm Salal Ali as well as the registration of 29 plots of land in Ain Khaled, Abu Hamour, Nuaija and Fereej Al Soudan, all on the same day as share transfers. The quietest day of the month was Tuesday 1 September with QR 42.1m recorded. Twelve of the 22 working days recorded figures between QR 45m and QR 100m. Nine days recorded in excess of QR 100m, eight of these in the latter half of the month. The final nine working days of the month recorded QR 1.00 billion, or 46.5% of the total sales for the month.

Breakdown of Sales

The total value of registrations in the weekly bulletins for 1 – 30 September reached QR 2,153,053,104.

• Villas and houses reached a total value of QR 925.6m or 43.0% of total value, through 259 registration deals with a median price of QR 2.75m. That was down from QR 3.0m in August, but up by 33.1% in value terms.
• Vacant land contributed QR 676.6m, or 31.4% of total registration value in September, which comprised 199 plots, with 95.0% of the registered value for these being zoned for villas and houses. The median price for sold plots of land in September was QR 2.2m, up from QR 2.0m registered in August for vacant land sales.
• Apartments totalled QR 280.9m or 13.0% of total registered sales in September through 176 apartments, at a median of QR 1.22m. Value for sales of apartments rose by 52.2% over the August sales total of QR 184.5m, whilst the number of sales rose by 54.4% over the August figure of 114 apartments.
• Buildings: the total value recorded in the bulletins for September was QR 270.0m or 12.5% of the total value, from 37 deals at a median price of QR 6.4m. The total value for August was QR 183.2m from 20 deals.

There were no hotel or stand alone retail registrations in September. As seen in the chart below, villas and houses, plus apartments and land zoned for villas and houses, together made up 85.9% of all registered value in September, the same categories that lead views of villas for sale on Arady and land for sale on Arady.

Top 10 Sales

The largest transaction recorded for registration in September was a 42,395 sq m vacant land plot in Umm Salal Ali intended for villas and houses that was registered for QR 73.0m on Thursday 3 September at QR 160 per sq ft. The entire 2,400 shares were transferred. It actually exceeded the August largest transaction of QR 50.7m.

A 17,059 sq m house in Ain Khaled sold for QR 58.8m on Monday 28 September. The house was the costliest residence of the month and sold for almost double the amount that the costliest residence of August was sold for, QR 31.5m. A 12,431 sq m plot of land in Al Wakra was sold for QR 33.5m. Two 10,594 sq m plots in Umm Salal Ali, sold a week apart, went for QR 23.3m and QR 21.2m.

Completing the list were a residential building in Madinat Khalifa South, for QR 21.0m; a single 1,673 sq m house in Msheireb, for QR 20.5m; two residential buildings in Old Airport, for QR 17.4m and QR 15.6m; and a 13,474 sq m service building in Mesaimeer, for QR 16.8m. The latter was one of nine parcels, totaling 44,875 sq m, which were all transferred together for QR 55.6m on 24 September.

Land Prices Across Qatar

Medians below cover locations with three or more sales of vacant residential land in September, expressed in the bulletin price per sq ft. Nineteen locations qualified, in total 164 residential plots worth QR 566.7m, one more location than in August.

• Nuaija with a median of QR 477 per sq ft (highest) with 5 sales all in the range of QR 380 – 477 per sq ft. Umm Lekhba with a median of QR 450 per sq ft (up from QR 440 per sq ft in August) with 9 sales all in the range of QR 359 – 511 per sq ft. Fereej Al Soudan and Al Ebb with medians of QR 440 per sq ft and QR 429 per sq ft respectively (Al Ebb up from QR 403 per sq ft in August).
• Ain Khaled and Al Thumama both came in at a median of QR 400 per sq ft. Ain Khaled was the second most active location with 18 plots of land totaling QR 80.1m, which had seen sales priced between QR 358 per sq ft and QR 577 per sq ft, whilst Al Thumama’s 16 plots sat in a narrow QR 393 – 410 band, matching its August median.
• The cheapest price per sq ft for vacant residential land in September came from Mesaimeer at QR 100 per sq ft from four large plots, followed by Abu Dhalouf at QR 103 per sq ft, and Al Ruwais at QR 144 per sq ft.
• Al Wukair remained the busiest area for sales of vacant residential land with 34 plots worth QR 66.9m. The median price per sq ft was up slightly at QR 240 per sq ft (up from QR 235 per sq ft in August) with a range of QR 200 – 300 per sq ft.
• Umm Salal Ali produced the highest land value with QR 123.8m from 6 plots in the area (3 plots exceeding 10,000 sq m). Ain Khaled followed with land worth QR 80.1m from 18 plots, then Al Wukair with 34 plots worth QR 66.9m and Al Wakra with 8 plots worth QR 53.4m, including the one plot of 12,431 sq m.

The medians represent specific sets of plots sold. Thus, one cannot deduce a trend from the numbers of one month. For asking prices, Arady’s residential land prices in Qatar for September 2026 covers 74 areas with live listings.

Apartment Sales by Area

Total apartment transactions registered during September were worth QR 280.9m and consisted of 176 apartments, up 52.2% in value from QR 184.5m and up 54.4% in terms of number of apartments from August’s 114 units. The Pearl Island, Lusail and Al Wukair together account for 81.1% of the total value registered in September, while Lusail and The Pearl Island are two areas where foreign nationals can purchase property in Qatar outright.

• The Pearl Island led the charge by value, selling 37 units totalling QR 90.3m (32.2%), with the median price per apartment equaling QR 1.68m and QR 14,019 per sq m, the highest rate of any area this month. The island’s most expensive apartment of the month, also the most expensive of September, was a 408 sq m unit selling for QR 8.75m.
• Lusail recorded the most sales in September with 75 units in total worth QR 86.2m (30.7%), from a median selling price of QR 1.02m per unit and QR 10,290 per sq m for the median 97 sq m unit. The cheapest unit of the month was a 41 sq m unit in Lusail sold for QR 540,000.
• Al Wukair registered 37 transactions worth QR 51.3m (or 18.3% of total apartment value) in September, with a median unit area of 185 sq m at a price per sq m of QR 6,743. Al Wukair registered 37 transactions in September compared to 17 in August.
• 10 units in the Al Kharayej area of Lusail sold for QR 18.7m at a median price per sq m of QR 13,904. The 7 units in the Al Gharrafa area had the biggest median area at 409 sq m. The biggest unit sold was a 635 sq m apartment for QR 5.5m on The Pearl Island.
• The overall median price in Qatar this month for apartments was QR 1.22m for a 119 sq m unit at QR 9,909 per sq m, as opposed to QR 1.40m, 117 sq m and QR 11,493 per sq m in August. This is because Lusail sold a greater number of smaller units this month.

What Buyers Searched For

For September Arady recorded 105,654 searches (each search equals a view of a location search page or a property listing page), down 5.9% on August’s total of 112,287 on the same basis, even as registrations rose.

The type of property viewed was recorded for 61,250 of the property listing views, with villas accounting for 51.3% of these views (31,443 views), followed by land at 29.0% (17,780 views) and apartments at 12.6% (7,699 views). Other properties such as buildings, compounds, etc. totaled 4,328 views. Land’s share of views rose from 27.2% in August to 29.0% in September, while the share of villas decreased from 54.4% in August to 51.3%, in a month when villas and houses were again the largest category recorded by the ministry.

Villa Demand by Bedrooms

It appears that the large villas continued to generate the most interest. Seven-bedroom villas had the most views of any single category of villa with 9,224 views (or 29.3% of all views of villas), and six- to eight-bedroom villas together took 79.0% of all villa views.

• Seven bedrooms: 9,224 views (Umm Qarn: 854 views; Umm Salal Ali: 832 views; Al Thumama: 739 views).
• Eight bedrooms: 7,968 views, the most views for this category were for Al Wukair with 699 views, followed by Umm Qarn with 473 views and Al Wakra with 433 views.
• Six bedrooms, 7,649 views, Umm Salal Ali, Al Khor and Al Meshaf shared views totalling 1,812 as Al Khor led with 621 views followed by Umm Salal Ali with 615 views and Al Meshaf recording 576 views.
• Five bedrooms had 3,072 views. Al Wakra had the most of these with 194 views, with Huzoom Lusail on 186 views and Al Kheesa on 154 views.
• Four bedrooms had 2,919 views. The most viewed location in this category was Al Wukair with 258 views, followed by Al Kharaitiyat with 173 views and Al Khor with 172 views.

Al Wukair drew the most views of any villa location with 2,163 views, followed by Umm Salal Ali with 1,921, Umm Qarn with 1,706 views, Al Thumama with 1,667 and Al Khor with 1,386 views of its villas. The combined views for villas with three bedrooms or less totaled 609 views.

Apartment Demand by Bedrooms

Views of apartments were concentrated in the smaller units in September. One-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments received 5,625 views between them, which is 73.1% of all the views of apartments recorded in the month. The majority of these views were for apartments located in Lusail and on The Pearl Island.

• One bedroom: 2,819 views. Viewers were most interested in properties in Fox Hills with 690 views followed by Al Erkyah City with 602 views and then Porto Arabia with 442 views.
• Two bedrooms: 2,806 views. The most viewed 2 bedrooms are Fox Hills with 365 views, then Porto Arabia with 352 views and Marina District with 331 views.
• Three bedrooms, 1,123 views. The top viewed three bedroom location is Porto Arabia with 304 views, with Fox Hills next on 171 views and Marina District on 118 views.
• Studios, 634 views, most viewed in Fox Hills with 277 views followed by Yasmeen City with 107 views and Viva Bahriya with 65 views.
• Four bedrooms received interest from 217 viewers, with five or more bedrooms viewed 100 times.

The most viewed district was Fox Hills with 1,534 views, followed by Porto Arabia with 1,253, Al Erkyah City with 975 and Marina District with 738 views. Registrations were also consistent, with 75 out of the 176 units sold being in Lusail, while the highest total value was recorded on The Pearl Island.

The Most Searched Areas

Al Wukair was again the most searched place in Qatar in September with 5,525 searches, which represented a decrease of 13.9% on August. This was however still sufficient to hold off Al Wakra, which saw searches increase by 8.1% to 4,598 for the month to claim second spot. Umm Qarn saw searches remain almost stationary at 4,191 for the month to claim third position, while Al Thumama saw searches decrease by 20.7% to 4,086 and dropped from second to fourth position.

• Of locations with 1,500+ searches, The Pearl Island recorded the largest change (+50.8%) to a new total of 1,546 searches, followed by Porto Arabia (+23.6% to 1,621), Al Khor (+15.6% to 3,693), Al Ruwais (+14.1% to 1,650) and Lusail (+12.5% to 3,278). The Pearl Island and Lusail rose in the same month in which the number of their registered apartments climbed.
• Lusail is now amongst the top 10 most searched locations, in eighth place, having taken the place of Ain Khaled. Locations just outside the top 10 include Huzoom Lusail with 2,953 searches, Izghawa with 2,596 searches and Al Kharaitiyat with 2,519 searches.
• In terms of largest declines, Ain Khaled fell 22.0% to 2,329 searches in a month in which it sold 18 plots of land and the most expensive house. This was followed by Al Gharrafa, which declined 21.8% to 1,612 searches, then Al Thumama, Duhail, down 19.7% to 1,539, Al Wukair, and Muaither, down 12.7% to 3,009.
• Al Thumama, Muaither and Izghawa each have Arady pages spanning several zones, and each is counted as one area, as in August. In the month in which Al Thumama was selling 16 residential plots at a steady QR 400 per sq ft, its search numbers actually went down by 20.7%.

About the Data

• Data comes from the weekly Ministry of Justice real estate bulletins listing all property transactions registered in the period from 1 to 30 September 2026, at the values published in the bulletins. For transactions where only part of a property was transferred, the full published value of the respective property was used for the totals, as in the weekly announcements by the Ministry of Justice. There were 67 such share transfers among the 495 property transactions in September. The information for the five weeks was cross-checked with the respective week’s figures published by the Ministry of Justice and matches.
• The figures for August were based on the report by Arady for August 2026, from the same weekly bulletins and on the same basis, totaling QR 1,683,486,232 for 538 registrations (of which 424 were properties and 114 were residential units).
• Where the English and Arabic editions of a bulletin describe a property differently, the Arabic description is followed. This affected the classification of a small number of parcels in Mesaimeer and Al Khor.
• A ‘search’ has been defined as a view of a location page or a property listing page on Arady for the period 1 to 30 September 2026. Note: August searches were counted again using the same method and total 112,287 as opposed to the 112,228 reported in the August article. For locations with Arady pages covering more than one zone (Al Thumama, Muaither and Izghawa), each is counted as one location across its zones. Note that Arady only lists properties for sale.
• Areas are listed by name, not by zone code, so properties listed as Al Thumama 46 – 50 are counted under the parent location name. The Lusail areas of Al Kharayej and Ghar Thuaileb are however listed separately, as they are in the bulletins.

Sources

• Ministry of Justice, weekly real estate trading bulletins covering 30 August to 1 October 2026, filtered to registrations dated 1 – 30 September, and the ministry’s weekly trading announcements for September 2026.
• Al Meezan, Qatar Legal Portal, Law No. 11 of 2026 on owners’ unions and Law No. 13 of 2026 amending Law No. 22 of 2017 on real estate brokerage, Official Gazette issue 17, 16 September 2026.
• Arady, Qatar real estate market in August 2026.
• Arady platform data, 1 – 30 September 2026.