Most popular residential areas for rent and sale in the capital revealed

Dubai, UAE – dubizzle Property, the UAE’s biggest and most visited property platform, has revealed the most popular areas for rent and sale in Abu Dhabi. With close to 100K daily visits and around 200K live listings at any given time, the platform shares insights into the capital’s real estate supply and demand trends in 2017.

Demand: Most searched communities for rent and sale

Claiming over 13.1 million searches by dubizzle Property users in 2017, Mohammed Bin Zayed City ranked as the most popular area for rent, followed by Khalifa City A with 9.7 million searches, Tourist Club Area with 8.5 million searches, Al Markaziyah with 5.8 million searches and Al Muroor with 5.7 million searches.

For those looking to invest in the capital, Al Reef was a firm favourite amongst users of the platform with 750K searches. Tamouh Marina Square ranked second with 469K searches, followed by Shams Abu Dhabi with 375K searches, City of Lights with 328K searches and Al Reem Island with 325K searches.

Supply: Most property listings for rent and sale

Mussafah East received the most listings, with over 36K new properties being made available for rent. Abu Dhabi City Center was the second most listed community with 29K listings, followed by Khalifa City A with 16K listings, Al Reem Island with 15K listings and Al Muroor with 8K listings.

In relation to property for sale, Al Reem Island took a strong lead with around 5K listings, followed by Al Reef with 2K listings and Al Raha Beach with 1.8K listings.

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About dubizzle:
dubizzle is the leading classifieds platform for users in the United Arab Emirates. Since its launch in 2005, dubizzle has become the number one platform for users to buy, sell, or find anything in their community. A community where underused goods are redistributed to fill a new need, and become wanted again, where non-product assets such as space, skills and money are exchanged and traded in new ways that don’t always require centralized institutions or ‘middlemen’.

dubizzle is an OLX Group company:
The OLX Group operates a network of online trading platforms in over 40 countries. It builds market-leading classifieds marketplaces that empower millions of people to buy, sell and create prosperity in local communities.

With over 300 million monthly users worldwide, OLX Group makes it fast and easy to buy and sell almost anything online, such as household goods, phones, cars, and houses. Through consumer brands including Avito, dubizzle, letgo, OLX, Stradia and Storia, more than 10 million things are exchanged on its market-leading apps and platforms every single month.

The OLX Group is powered by a team of 4,000 people, operating from 25+ offices across five continents. The team is united behind a single mission to enhance people's lives by facilitating win-win exchanges. OLX Arabia is actively expanding in the MENA region in Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

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