Dubai vs Madrid — property investment comparison
Side by side on the data Arkon holds: live listing prices, price per m², inventory depth and acquisition costs. No forecasts and no modelled returns.
Which is stronger for…
- Lowest entry ticket
- Madrid opens at €105,000 at the 25th percentile of its live sample, versus €432,500 in Dubai.
- Cheapest floor space
- Madrid trades 49% below Dubai per m² across the live sample (€2,142/m² vs €4,210/m²).
- Depth of live inventory
- Dubai currently has 103 active tracked listings against 34 in Madrid.
Market metrics
| Metric | Dubai | Madrid |
|---|---|---|
| Typical entry price (25th percentile of the listings we track) | €432,500 | €105,000 |
| Median price across the listings we track (103 vs 34, all above €100,000) | €1,024,975 | €108,750 |
| Median price per m² across the listings we track | €4,210/m² | €2,142/m² |
| Active tracked listings | 103 | 34 |
| Arkon-verified listings | 103 | 34 |
Dubai acquisition costs
- DLD Transfer Fee: 4%
- DLD Admin Fee: AED 580 (~$160)
- Agent Commission: 2%
- Mortgage Registration (if applicable): 0.25%
Figures are medians and percentiles of the listings Arkon currently tracks, converted to EUR — not a market index and not a market median. Each source feed is fetched as a single page of 30 results with a €100,000 minimum price, so the sample is the lower end of each market rather than a cross-section of it. Some markets, including Milan and Madrid, contain judicial-auction and no-possession lots whose prices are reserves or reflect the loss of possession, not asking prices. Rental yields are omitted because rent comparables are not yet held for these markets. Read the methodology.