COVERAGE AUDIT — RECONCILED AGAINST DLD'S OWN COUNTS
What we cover — and what we don't.
An independent index is only as honest as its coverage. So here is exactly what Liqva indexes, measured against the Dubai Land Department's own registered universe — every figure verifiable against the same official open data.
The reconciliation
Liqva coverage vs the DLD-registered universe · May 2025 – June 2026
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Off-plan vs secondary — both now indexed
Dubai is overwhelmingly a primary (off-plan) market. We index both halves — the liquidity grade uses only secondary resale; the off-plan/primary price is indexed separately.
What we deliberately don't claim
Honest residual — the gaps, named.
- Individual units aren't rated. No agency rates 2.3m units one by one; Liqva rates at community and building level. Every unit sits inside a community we index.
- Thin resale markets are NR, not graded. A community/building with fewer than 5 secondary resales can't be honestly graded for liquidity — we mark it Not Rated and show its off-plan/primary price instead of inventing a grade.
- Inactive areas show nothing. Cadastral areas with no recorded sale in the window (desert, pure-industrial, undeveloped) have nothing to index — we don't pad the count.
- The live layer is asking-side. Yields/exit-pressure from PropertyFinder are labelled as asking-side; only the registry figures are official DLD.