How many real estate agents are in Dubai? 2025 broker, office and commission statistics

Dubai has one of the most densely staffed property markets in the world, and the Dubai Land Department (DLD) now publishes enough data to describe it properly. At the end of 2025 there were 32,294 registered real estate brokers working from 9,785 brokerage offices, and brokers earned AED 13.59 billion in commission during the year. This article pulls the official figures into one place: how many agents there are, how fast the register is growing, how many deals brokers close, how much commission the market produces, and what the numbers say about working as an agent in Dubai today.

Every figure below comes from DLD data published through the Dubai Media Office and Khaleej Times, with the source and period named beside it. Where we calculate something ourselves, we say so.

How many real estate agents are there in Dubai?

The most reliable count is DLD's year-end 2025 figure. According to the Dubai Government Media Office, there were 32,294 registered real estate brokers in Dubai at the end of 2025, working through 9,785 registered brokerage offices.

Other numbers circulate because they measure different things. Khaleej Times, reporting DLD data, put the figure at about 39,776 active, licensed brokers as of January 2026, which is a later snapshot taken after further registrations. Earlier reports quote lower figures because they were taken earlier in the year. If you need one number for a presentation or a business plan, use 32,294 for the end of 2025 and name the date.

Dividing the register by the offices gives about 3.3 registered brokers per brokerage office. That is an average of the whole market, which mixes very large brokerages with very small ones, so it describes the register more than any single firm.

How fast is the broker register growing?

Dubai added 13,083 new brokers in 2025, which DLD reports as a 38% increase on the number added in 2024. Measured against the 32,294 on the register at year end, that is roughly four in every ten registered brokers joining within a single year, a figure we calculated from DLD's two numbers.

The pace was steady across the year. DLD reported 6,714 new brokers in the first half, which implies about 6,369 in the second half. The register itself grew from 29,577 at mid-year to 32,294 at year end, an increase of 2,717 or about 9%.

The gap between new registrations and net growth of the register is worth noticing. In the second half of 2025 about 6,369 brokers joined, yet the register grew by only 2,717, so roughly 3,650 registrations ended or were not renewed over the same months. A broker card has to be renewed every year, and the register only counts brokers whose registration is current. For a new entrant, that means the market is crowded and also constantly turning over.

How many deals do Dubai brokers close?

DLD reports that brokers executed 96,440 transactions in 2025, up 54% on 2024. In the first half of the year, DLD counted 42,181 broker transactions.

Khaleej Times, working from DLD data, reports a wider market picture for the year: 215,741 sales transactions worth more than AED 686.8 billion. Of those, 149,290 transactions worth AED 448.1 billion were primary (off-plan and developer) sales, and 66,451 worth AED 238.8 billion were resales. The two sources count differently, so the transaction totals should not be divided into each other. Both agree on the direction, which is sharp growth.

If the 96,440 broker transactions were spread evenly across all 32,294 registered brokers, each would have closed about three deals in the year. DLD does not publish the real distribution, and anyone who has worked in the market knows it is uneven. A minority of agents close most of the deals, and many registered brokers close none. The even average is useful only as a reminder that the typical agent's year is far smaller than the headline numbers suggest.

How much commission does the Dubai market pay brokers?

DLD reports AED 13.59 billion in brokerage commissions for 2025, a 31% increase on 2024. Khaleej Times, reporting DLD data, gives a slightly higher figure of about AED 13.73 billion. The two differ by roughly AED 140 million and sit at the same scale. This article uses DLD's own figure.

In the first half of 2025, commission was more than AED 3.23 billion, compared with AED 1.62 billion in the first half of 2024, an increase of 99%.

Some arithmetic helps put this in perspective. AED 13.59 billion divided by 32,294 registered brokers is about AED 421,000 per broker. That is a calculated mean across the whole register and not a typical income, for three reasons:

• Commission is shared. On most deals the fee is split between a buyer's side and a seller's side, and then again between each agent and their brokerage. Our guide to how commission splits work on a co-broke in Dubai covers the usual percentages.
• Commission is concentrated. A small number of top producers account for a large share of the total.
• The average includes brokers who are new, part-time or inactive.

Women in Dubai real estate: the numbers

DLD's 2025 figures give a detailed picture of women in brokerage. There were 11,371 women brokers, about 35% of the register (our calculation from 11,371 and 32,294). They executed 28,909 transactions, up 49% on 2024, and earned AED 2.98 billion in commission, up 83%.

Women are a bigger share of the register than of transactions, and a bigger share of transactions than of commission. The commission figure grew faster than the transaction figure for women (83% against 49%), so the commission gap is narrowing. In the first half of 2025, DLD counted 10,100 active women brokers who completed 13,424 transactions worth nearly AED 1.43 billion in commission.

What the statistics mean for agents

The numbers describe a market with three clear features, and each one has a practical consequence.

The market is large and growing

A 54% rise in broker transactions and a 31% rise in commission mean that demand for agents is real, and the market pays well in aggregate.

The register is crowded

With 13,083 new brokers in a year and a register above 32,000, a new agent is competing against many others for the same buyers and listings. Visibility matters more than it used to. Our guide on how Dubai real estate agents get more leads sets out how agents get found and chosen, and the steps to become a registered agent explain what it takes to enter the register in the first place.

Collaboration is how most agents reach more deals

With three deals per registered broker on average and an uneven spread, most agents cannot afford to hold every buyer and every listing alone. A listing agent needs buyers they do not personally know, and a buyer's agent needs stock they do not hold. That is the basis of co-broking, where two agents from different brokerages work one deal and split the commission. Before sharing a client or a unit with an agent you have not worked with, check their BRN on the DLD register.

Where to find the official numbers

DLD and the Dubai Media Office publish brokerage sector figures at the start of each year and at mid-year, and the most useful releases are:

• The Dubai Media Office release on the 2025 brokerage sector, covering registered brokers, offices, new registrations, transactions and commission for the full year.
• The Dubai Media Office release on the first half of 2025, which gives the mid-year register and transaction counts.
• Khaleej Times coverage of the 2025 broker figures, which adds the primary and resale breakdown.
• The DLD register of licensed real estate brokers, for checking an individual agent.

When you quote a statistic, name the period and the source, because broker counts change every month and different reports use different cut-off dates.

Dubai real estate agent statistics: quick reference

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