Qatar weekly property sales fall to QR354.5 million as rental values drop 68%

Qatar registered QR354.5 million of property sale contracts in the week to 12 September, down 52.8% on the previous week, while rental contract values fell 68.5%.

Qatar's real estate regulator recorded QR354.5 million worth of sale contracts in the week of 6 to 12 September 2026, a fall of 52.8% against the previous week and 32.2% against the same week a year earlier. The number of deals barely moved: 118 sale contracts, up 1.7% week on week and down 12.6% year on year.

The deal count held, the ticket size did not

That split is the week in one line. When volume is flat and value halves, nothing has happened to the number of people transacting; something has happened to what they are buying. Dividing the two published figures gives an average sale contract of roughly QR3.0 million for the week, and the comparison with the mortgage side sharpens the point: only 13 mortgage contracts were registered, but they were worth QR115.17 million between them, an average near QR8.9 million each. The financed deals were, on average, close to three times the size of the typical sale.

Villas and land take four fifths of the value

By property type, villas accounted for QR150.1 million of the week's sales value, or 42.3%, and vacant land for QR128.2 million, or 36.2%. Together those two categories carried 78.5% of the total. Residential apartments, the segment most accessible to non-Qatari buyers through the designated freehold and leasehold zones, took QR40.2 million, or 11.3%. Everything else made up QR36.1 million, or 10.2%.

Geographically the money concentrated in three municipalities: Doha at QR115.3 million, Al Daayen at QR86.2 million and Al Rayyan at QR75.3 million.

The rental side fell further than the sales side

Rental activity dropped harder. The week produced 538 rental contracts worth QR5.47 million in total, down 68.5% week on week and 57.8% year on year. Villas again led with QR2.36 million, or 43.2%, followed by apartments at QR1.89 million, or 34.6%, commercial showrooms at QR0.86 million, or 15.8%, and other categories at QR0.35 million, or 6.4%.

The municipal ranking inverts on the rental side. Al Rayyan led with QR2.5 million, ahead of Doha at QR1.2 million and Al Daayen at QR0.8 million, the reverse of the sales order. Doha attracts the capital; Al Rayyan houses the tenants.

What a single week can and cannot show

A weekly transaction series is a noisy instrument. One large villa or land parcel registering a few days later can move a QR350 million total by tens of percentage points, which is why the year-on-year comparison, at minus 32.2%, is the more conservative of the two declines and still points the same way.

For context on the market this week sits in, Glopra's data puts Qatar's average residential price at 3,230 dollars per square metre with a gross rental yield of 5.17%, based on a snapshot taken on 23 July 2026. Because Qatar levies no tax on residential rental income, the net yield is also 5.17% — one of very few markets in our coverage where the gross and net figures are identical. Prices are up 8% over twelve months in dollar terms, transaction costs run at 4.3%, and our bubble risk score of 66 places Qatar in the elevated band.

One note on sourcing. The regulator's own weekly bulletin is not readable from outside Qatar by automated means. The figures above come from the official state news agency release as carried by two Qatari newspapers on 13 September 2026, whose numbers match one another exactly.

Sources: Aqarat via QNA http://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/13/09/2026/property-sales-value-declines-in-37th-week-of-2026-aqarat; Qatar Tribune https://www.qatar-tribune.com/article/253573/latest-news/property-sales-value-declines-aqarat

Market data: Qatar