Quarterly
Q1 2026Oman Property Market Report
A reading of the National Centre for Statistics and Information's (NCSI) official Real Estate Price Index, laid against the 12 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 8 August 2026, covering NCSI's Q1 2026 release (Jan–Mar 2026 vs. Jan–Mar 2025). Next update expected after NCSI's Q3 2026 release. See our data & methodology.
National price index
+15.9%
Year-on-year, all property types
Residential land, Muscat
+43.6%
Sharpest governorate move nationally
Transacted value, Jan–May 2026
RO 1.18bn
+5.5% vs. the same period in 2025
Residential vs. commercial, by category
Land is appreciating faster than finished units across the board — a pattern worth keeping in mind before applying any single headline figure to a specific built property.
Residential land price growth, by governorate
Muscat pulled far ahead of every other governorate — nearly 2.5x the second-placed Al Buraimi. North Al Sharqiyah was the only governorate to decline.
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 21% 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 9 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 6.4%. 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
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 neighborhood rather than reading the two in isolation.
Is the transaction activity chart real data, or modeled like the price/sqft trend on area pages?
It's real. Every area page on this site labels its price/sqft trend chart as an illustrative shape, not verified history, because Oman doesn't publish an open price-history feed. Transaction counts are different — the Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning publishes actual sale contract registrations, so the monthly bars above are genuine month-by-month counts, not a modeled curve. The tradeoff is that this dataset has no price or property-size field at all, so it can tell you how much activity happened, not what it sold for.
How often will this report update?
NCSI publishes on a quarterly lag, typically two to three months after quarter-end. We update this report each time a new release lands — the next one is expected covering Q3 2026, likely published around late 2026. Check the "published" date above rather than assuming this reflects the current quarter.
Why does Muscat show 43.6% land growth when our tracked Muscat areas show much smaller price moves?
NCSI's governorate figure is for land specifically, across all of Muscat governorate — including undeveloped and peripheral plots, not built units. Our tracked areas report price per sqft on built residential units in specific, established neighborhoods. Land speculation in newly opening zones can run far ahead of built-unit resale prices in already-developed areas, so the two numbers are measuring genuinely different things, not disagreeing with each other.
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) Q1 2026 Real Estate Price Index, released mid-June 2026; NCSI transaction and mortgage data for January–May 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," Muscat (9,366 records), Dhofar (3,790 records), and North Al Batinah (9,642 records) Governorates, all 2025, published December 2025. Area-level figures above are our own tracked data — see methodology.