Qatar Registered 1.86 Billion Riyals of Property Sales in July and 4.97 Billion of Mortgages
Sale contracts registered with the Real Estate Registration Department at Qatar’s Ministry of Justice totalled 1.86 billion riyals in July across 485 transactions, according to the department’s monthly bulletin published by Qatar News Agency. Mortgage transactions in the same month numbered 212 and totalled 4.97 billion riyals.
Value rose while activity fell, and that is the finding. June’s bulletin recorded 1.69 billion riyals across 541 transactions. July recorded 1.86 billion across 485. Value rose 9.9 percent while the number of registrations fell 10.4 percent. The average registered sale rose from about 3.13 million riyals to about 3.83 million, an increase of 22.6 percent in a single month. Fewer deals, materially larger ones.
| Qatar sale contracts registered | Value, QAR | Transactions | Average, QAR |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | 2.06 billion | ||
| May 2026 | 1.73 billion | ||
| June 2026 | 1.69 billion | 541 | 3.13 million |
| July 2026 | 1.86 billion | 485 | 3.83 million |
Mortgage registrations were 2.7 times the value of sale contracts. Mortgages numbered 212 and totalled 4.97 billion riyals, against 485 sales worth 1.86 billion. The average registered mortgage was about 23.4 million riyals, roughly six times the average sale. The register does not identify how much of that secured lending financed the purchases recorded in the same month and how much was refinancing or borrowing against assets already owned, so the ratio is a measure of registered lending activity rather than evidence of either.
Doha dominates value more than volume. The capital accounted for 763.8 million riyals of sales, 41.1 percent of the total value, but 28 percent of transactions and 24 percent of area traded. Al Rayyan follows on 461.4 million riyals, and leads on area traded at 27 percent. Al Dhaayen recorded 230.3 million riyals, Al Wakrah 171.1 million, Umm Salal 126.1 million, Al Khor and Al Dhakira 71.6 million, Al Shamal 33.8 million and Al Shahaniyah about 1.1 million. The municipality figures sum to the headline total.
Mortgage value is more concentrated still. Al Rayyan accounted for 105 of the 212 mortgage transactions, just under half, but Doha took the largest value at 3.15 billion riyals. The ten largest mortgaged properties represented 80 percent of total mortgage value. The bulletin notes that in every municipality except Doha and Al Dhaayen, the share of mortgaged properties by count exceeds the share by value, which is another way of saying the large-ticket borrowing sits in two municipalities.
Prices, where the bulletin gives them. Average price per square foot ranged from 447 to 929 riyals in Doha, 347 to 462 in Al Rayyan, 340 to 642 in Al Dhaayen, 336 to 423 in Umm Salal, 260 to 464 in Al Shamal, 243 to 486 in Al Wakrah, 240 to 384 in Al Khor and Al Dhakira, and a single figure of 169 in Al Shahaniyah. Residential units accounted for 114 deals worth 197.8 million riyals.
Why it matters: The department reports its value index up 10 percent on the month, and the two published monthly totals confirm it independently at 9.9 percent. But the index alone conceals what moved. Transactions fell while value rose, so July’s increase came from larger average transaction size rather than from a broader transaction count. One month does not establish a trend, and the series is the thing to watch rather than this reading on its own.
Outlook: The bulletin attributes momentum to new laws on real estate brokerage, registration and documentation, and ownership and usufruct. The monthly series to watch is whether the transaction count recovers or whether value continues to rest on a shrinking number of large deals. The department publishes the bulletin monthly, around the middle of the following month.
Sources: Real Estate Registration Department, Ministry of Justice, monthly real estate bulletins as published by Qatar News Agency: July 2026 published 17 August 2026, June 2026 published 20 July 2026, May 2026 published 14 June 2026 and April 2026 published 17 May 2026. Averages, the month-on-month changes and the value shares calculated by The Edge Research Team.
