Dubai Broker Commissions Reach AED 13.59 Billion in 2025 as Registered Agents Pass 32,000

Dubai's brokerage industry closed the books on a record year, and the official tally is now in. In a review of the 2025 market, the Dubai Land Department (DLD) reports that commissions earned by licensed real estate brokers across the emirate reached AED 13.59 billion, a rise of 31 percent on 2024. The figure captures just how central the sales side of the business has become to Dubai's wider property economy.

The volume story is even punchier. Brokers closed 96,440 transactions during the year, up 54 percent, which means deal count grew faster than the commissions attached to them. More property changed hands than in any year before it, and the profession expanded quickly to keep up.

A bigger, faster-growing agent base

The DLD counted 32,294 registered brokers at the end of 2025. Of those, 13,083 registered during the year alone, a 38 percent jump in new licences and a clear sign of how many people are choosing to build a career selling Dubai property. They work out of 9,785 registered brokerage offices, a field that runs from single-desk firms to the large agencies whose branding lines Sheikh Zayed Road.

Women reshaping the profession

One of the sharpest shifts is in who is doing the selling. Women now make up 11,371 of the registered brokers, roughly 35 percent of the total, and their share of the actual business is climbing even faster. Female brokers handled 28,909 transactions, up 49 percent, and the commissions they earned rose 83 percent to AED 2.98 billion. That is close to a quarter of the entire commission pool, growing at nearly triple the pace of the market overall.

Why the regulator is backing brokers

A regulator does not usually publish a glowing scorecard for a sector it wants to rein in. The DLD has instead paired the numbers with training, treating a strong brokerage layer as essential infrastructure for a market that keeps setting sales records. Two programmes are doing the work: the Dubai Real Estate Brokers Programme, which focuses on professional standards and drawing Emirati talent into the field, and the Real Estate Brokers Incubator Programme, run with Dubai Silicon Oasis, which helps small operators grow into structured companies.

For buyers and sellers, a larger and better-trained brokerage sector cuts both ways. Competition among more than 32,000 agents should keep the market liquid and service sharp, yet it also widens the gap between a broker who moves quickly across a growing pool of stock and one who waits for listings to come to them. That is why a rising number of agents now lean on data platforms to stay on top of Dubai's off-plan project pipeline instead of tracking inventory by hand. On the evidence of 2025, the brokers who win Dubai's next record year will be the ones who pair local knowledge with better information.