•  Residential sales searches rose 3% year on year to 78,100 between August 2025 and July 2026

•  July 2026 recorded 8,337 sales searches, the strongest monthly result during the twelve- month period

•  Demand signals point to targeted opportunities in affordable rental apartments and selected sales segments

Fujairah continues to attract active consideration from buyers and renters, with Property Finder data showing resilient search interest, more specific browsing behaviour and targeted pockets of demand across the emirate’s residential market.

Across the latest completed twelve months, from August 2025 to July 2026, Fujairah recorded approximately 239,800 residential rental searches, down 4.7% year on year, while residential sales searches increased 3% to 78,100. The figures indicate that overall interest remains present even as shifts in available supply affect enquiry volumes and conversion.

Cherif Sleiman, Chief Revenue Officer at Property Finder, said: “Fujairah is drawing active consideration, and the clearest way to read the market is to separate searches, where people explore listings, from leads, where they enquire. In a year when supply moved sharply, the steady search base shows that underlying interest in Fujairah remains intact.”

On the sales side, the average number of homes advertised each month fell 49.2%, from 49 to 25, while sales leads declined 40.7% to 868. However, the smaller pool of available sales listings converted at a higher rate, with enquiries per listing rising from 2.4 to 2.8 on a thirty-day basis.

The rental segment moved differently. The number of advertised rental homes increased 7.3%, while enquiries per listing eased from 11.2 to 8.4. Rental leads reached 13,582, down 19.6% year on year, showing that additional stock needs to be closely aligned with the locations, price points and property types renters are actively seeking.

Search activity strengthened during the most recent months in the dataset. Rental searches reached 24,831 in May 2026, eased to 24,035 in June and recovered to 24,409 in July, with each month remaining above the twelve-month monthly average of approximately 20,000. Sales searches climbed to 8,337 in July, the strongest monthly result during the period and 12% higher than June’s 7,447 searches.

Enquiries also increased between June and July 2026, with rental leads rising 11.1% to 1,306 and sales leads increasing 2.2% to 92. New listings grew even faster during the same month, rising 16.4% for rentals and 62.5% for sales. As a result, enquiries per listing eased from 10.7 to 9.9 for rentals and from 3.8 to 2.3 for sales.

Sleiman added: “July shows rising consideration and enquiry volume, alongside a clear need for new stock to match what buyers and renters are actually searching for.”

 Property seekers are also refining their preferences by property type. Between August 2025 and July 2026, 126,946 rental searches used an apartment filter and 31,777 used a villa filter. Within sales searches, 18,720 filtered for villas and 13,011 for apartments, with each category growing faster than Fujairah’s total search count.

Community preferences also sharpened. Rental searches for Dibba Al Fujairah increased 18.4% year on year, while sales searches rose 57.3%, contrasting with declines in established areas including Downtown Fujairah and Corniche Al Fujairah.

While this recent behaviour is consistent with improving consideration of Fujairah, the available data cannot yet establish that transport connectivity caused the shift. Confirming a causal link would require a before-and-after comparison around a specific transport milestone, supported by analysis of comparable emirates that did not experience the same change.

Property Finder data points to targeted opportunities rather than broad-based development. The strongest rental case is for affordable apartments priced at up to AED 40,000 per year in Al Hayl, Dibba Al Fujairah, Al Hilal City, Sakamkam, Downtown Fujairah and Corniche Al Fujairah, where demand represented a greater share of leads than of listings during the period.

Within this price band, Sakamkam generated 2,625 leads, Downtown Fujairah 1,940, Corniche Al Fujairah 1,437 and Al Hayl 1,106. Al Hayl recorded the strongest year-on-year growth, with leads rising 179.3%.

For sales, apartments in Dibba Al Fujairah priced between AED 700,000 and AED 2 million showed demand ahead of limited supply. Villas in Sharm within the AED 2 million to AED 5 million price range also presented selective opportunities, with demand concentrated in specific property and price combinations.

Al Hilal City also sits alongside Fujairah’s new Etihad Rail passenger terminus, which opened on 30 June 2026. The overlap between areas where residential demand is already running ahead of supply and new inter-emirate infrastructure is an association worth monitoring as the network develops through 2026 and 2027, rather than evidence of a proven effect at this stage.

Sleiman concluded: “Matching stock to demand matters as much as adding it. New homes need to reflect the type, location, price and quality people are actively searching for. Fujairah has clear demand signals, and Property Finder data provides a precise map of where developers can begin responding to them.”