Analytics indicate an increase in housing prices in Ras al Khaimah: the ValuStrat price index (VPI) recorded an increase of 14.9% year-on-year in the 3rd quarter of 2025.
Apartments rose in price by 15.5% year-on-year and 4.9% quarter-on-quarter, while villa prices slowed slightly to 13.8% year-on-year.The jump in apartment prices was most noticeable in key coastal areas, with Al Marjan Island experiencing the highest growth of 16.8% over the year and 6.3% over the quarter.
In the vast majority of cases, investment activity is focused on new projects: in the first nine months of 2025, 84% of total sales were for facilities under construction, which brought in more than 8.2 billion dirhams from the sale of more than 4,100 units of real estate.In the secondary market, things were more measured: 776 finished houses, mostly apartments, were sold (76% of transactions), totaling 909 million dirhams.
In general, the market offers attractive returns: the average gross rental yield on residential real estate is 5.4%.
In the first half of 2025, 8,506 new companies appeared in the UAE Economic Zone (RAKEZ), which is 43% more than last year.
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Source: Gulf News
