Quarterly
Q2 2026Oman Property Market Report
A reading of the National Centre for Statistics and Information's (NCSI) official Real Estate Price Index, laid against the 13 areas across 3 citieswe track on this site — so a national headline number and an actual neighborhood price aren't left to sit in separate silos.
Published 24 September 2026, covering NCSI's Q2 2026 Real Estate Price Index (Apr–Jun 2026 vs. Apr–Jun 2025), reported on 19 September 2026, and NCSI transaction data for January–June 2026. Next update expected after NCSI's Q3 2026 release. See our data & methodology.
National price index
+22.7%
Year on year, all property types. Up from 15.9% in Q1
Residential land, Muscat
+40.6%
Highest of any governorate
Transacted value, H1 2026
RO 1.43bn
+5.4% vs. the first half of 2025
Residential vs. commercial, by category
Land again outran finished homes. Residential land rose 28%, well ahead of apartments (17.2%) and villas (10.8%). Commercial property grew more slowly at 12.4%, and shop prices fell 12%, so the headline figure is being carried by residential land.
Residential land price growth, by governorate
Muscat led for another quarter at 40.6%, ahead of Musandam (29.1%) and North Al Batinah (29%). Al Wusta was the only governorate to fall, down 16%.
Real transaction activity — 2025
This one is different from the illustrative price chart on area pages — it's actual month-by-month registration data from the Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning's open dataset of sale contracts, not a modeled shape.
Registered sales, Jan–Sep 2025
9,366
Share that was vacant land
73%
Most active wilayat
As Seeb
3,286 transactions — 35% of all Muscat sales
Vacant land dominating transaction volume is consistent with the 28% residential-land price growth above — both point to the same thing: a market where buildable land, not finished units, is where the activity actually is right now. As Seeb — the wilayat home to Al Mouj and Al Khoud among the areas we track — accounts for over a third of all governorate activity on its own.
Salalah and Sohar, from the same source
Dhofar governorate, Jan–Sep 2025
3,790 registered sales
Salalah wilayat alone accounts for nearly two-thirds of all Dhofar governorate activity — Salalah is clearly the dominant market here, not just the largest city.
North Al Batinah governorate, Jan–Sep 2025
9,642 registered sales
Unlike Salalah, Sohar wilayat isn't the busiest in its own governorate — As Suwaiq (27.8%) edges it out. North Al Batinah's overall activity is spread across six wilayats, not concentrated in one city the way Dhofar is.
What this means for the areas we track
We currently track 10 areas in Muscat — the governorate that posted by far the sharpest residential land growth this quarter — plus coverage in Salalah and Sohar. Average estimated rental yield across every area we track is currently 6.5%. Neither of those figures moves in lockstep with NCSI's governorate-level land index: land and built-unit prices are different markets, and yield is a function of rents as much as prices, so a strong land number doesn't automatically mean a strong yield number.
The practical read: NCSI's release confirms real, broad-based momentum in Oman's property market this year, concentrated hardest in Muscat — but it's a signal to look closer at specific areas, not a substitute for doing so. Use Compare Areas to see how individual neighborhoods stack up, or the yield calculator to run the numbers on a specific budget.
Frequently asked questions
How much did property prices rise in Oman in Q2 2026?
Oman's Real Estate Price Index rose 22.7% in the second quarter of 2026 compared with the same quarter of 2025, according to the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI). Residential prices rose 24.6% and commercial prices 12.4%. It was the fastest annual rise of the last five quarters, up from 15.9% in Q1 2026.
What is this report, and how is it different from NCSI's own release?
NCSI (Oman's National Centre for Statistics and Information) publishes the underlying Real Estate Price Index; we didn't collect this data ourselves. This report is our reading of that official release, laid alongside the specific areas we track on this site, so you can see how a national or governorate figure relates to an actual neighbourhood rather than reading the two in isolation.
Why does Muscat show 40.6% land growth when tracked Muscat areas show much smaller price moves?
NCSI's governorate figure is for residential land specifically, across all of Muscat governorate, including undeveloped and peripheral plots. Our tracked areas report price per sqft on built homes in established neighbourhoods. Land in newly opening zones can rise far faster than resale prices of finished homes, so the two numbers measure different things rather than disagreeing.
Is the transaction activity chart real data?
Yes. The Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning publishes actual sale contract registrations, so the monthly bars are genuine counts, not a modelled curve. The latest open datasets cover 2025. They record how much activity happened, not what it sold for, because the dataset has no price field.
How often will this report update?
NCSI publishes the index quarterly, usually two to three months after the quarter ends. We update this report when each release lands. The next one will cover Q3 2026 and is likely to be published around the end of 2026.
Get notified when the next report publishes
We publish this report each time NCSI releases a new quarterly index — typically two to three months after quarter-end.
Sources: National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI) Q2 2026 Real Estate Price Index, as reported by Times of Oman on 19 September 2026; NCSI transaction data for January–June 2026, as reported by Oman Observer on 29 July 2026. Muscat transaction-activity figures (registered sales count, land share, wilayat breakdown) are our own aggregation of three datasets published by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning on the National Open Data Portal: "Sale Contract Registrations through Real Estate Brokerage Offices" for Muscat (9,366 records), Dhofar (3,790 records) and North Al Batinah (9,642 records) Governorates, all 2025, published December 2025. These remain the latest open registration datasets. Area-level figures are our own tracked data; see methodology.