ROI Market Intelligence

Oman real estate market


Updated 25 Sep 2026Data coverage Oct 2024 to Jun 2026Focus Muscat Governorate

Official registration data from the Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning and Muscat Municipality. It shows where activity, credit and new supply are moving. It does not contain sale prices or rents, so we do not show them as official figures.

Official

Government-registered procedures and permits

Asking prices

Listings and advertised rents. Not sale prices. Planned for a later release.

Official statistic

Indices and macro series from NCSI and the Central Bank

Mortgage registrations, Muscat

1,588

Q1: +20.6% year on year*

Q2 2026. *Year-on-year change: medium confidence (see chart note).

OfficialHigh confidence

Mortgage registrations, Oman

6,930

Q1: +17.7% year on year*

Q2 2026. *Year-on-year change: medium confidence.

OfficialHigh confidence

Strata approvals, Muscat

2,370

H1 2026. Approvals to divide buildings into apartments and floors: a new-supply signal

OfficialHigh confidence

Building permits, Muscat

4,214

2025, of which 515 for six floors or more

OfficialHigh confidence

Credit and new supply, Muscat

OfficialMedium confidence

Mortgage registrations and strata approvals per quarter

05001,0001,5002,000 1,1661,504 Q1 2025 n/an/a Q2 2025 1,4041,371 Q3 2025 1,4061,208 Q1 2026 1,5881,162 Q2 2026
Mortgage registrationsStrata approvals
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PeriodMortgage registrationsStrata approvals
Q1 20251,1661,504
Q2 2025Not availableNot available
Q3 20251,4041,371
Q1 20261,4061,208
Q2 20261,5881,162

2025 bars come from the Ministry’s quarterly summary files; 2026 bars are counted from its record-level files. The two use the same procedure names but may differ in coverage, so read the 2025 to 2026 change with care. The published Q1 and Q2 2025 files contain identical figures: we show them as Q1 as labelled, and Q2 2025 as not available.

Mortgages by wilayat, 2026

OfficialHigh confidence

Where Muscat’s property finance is going

0200400600800 629749 Seeb 398408 Amerat 279316 Bawshar 7366 Qurayyat 1125 Muttrah 1624 Muscat
Q1 2026Q2 2026
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PeriodQ1 2026Q2 2026
Seeb629749
Amerat398408
Bawshar279316
Qurayyat7366
Muttrah1125
Muscat1624

Period: Q1 and Q2 2026 · Records: 2,994

Source: Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning, via Oman Open Data Portal, Real Property Transactions 2026 (Q1, Q2) (checked 25 Sep 2026)

Broker-registered sales by wilayat

OfficialHigh confidence

Sale contracts registered through licensed brokerages

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Broker-registered sales by Muscat wilayat, Jan to Sep 2025
ItemValue
Seeb3,286
Amerat3,063
Bawshar2,012
Qurayyat638
Muscat199
Muttrah168

What is being sold

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Broker-registered sales in Muscat by property type

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Broker-registered sales by property type
ItemValue
Vacant land6,839
Apartment1,264
Villa830
Shop271
Warehouse54
House47

Monthly sales rhythm

OfficialHigh confidence

Broker-registered sales per month, Muscat

02505007501,0001,2501,500 857 Jan 1,147 Feb 819 Mar 880 Apr 1,207 May 816 Jun 1,277 Jul 1,141 Aug 1,222 Sep
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PeriodSales
Jan857
Feb1,147
Mar819
Apr880
May1,207
Jun816
Jul1,277
Aug1,141
Sep1,222

Activity hotspots, 2026

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Mortgage registrations by area (village level)

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Top 10 Muscat areas by mortgage registrations, H1 2026
ItemValue
South Maabilah724
Madinat Al Nahda388
Amerat269
Al Khoudh196
Bawshar141
South Mawaleh111
Al Khuwair63
Al Hajir58
Al Misfah54
Ansab Heights53

The supply pipeline

OfficialHigh confidence

Building permits by number of floors, Muscat

05001,0001,5002,0002,500 2,181 1–2 floors 1,518 3–5 floors 433 6–9 floors 82 10+ floors
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PeriodPermits
1–2 floors2,181
3–5 floors1,518
6–9 floors433
10+ floors82
LocalityPermits6+ floors
South Maabilah (Seeb)809164
Madinat Al Nahda (Amerat)49220
Al Khoudh (Seeb)32895
Amerat32332
Bawshar18335
Al Hajir (Amerat)1092

Period: 2025 · Records: 4,214

Source: Muscat Municipality, via Oman Open Data Portal, Construction Permits 2025 (checked 25 Sep 2026)

Median land deal value

OfficialMedium confidence

Value per registered land sale

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Median land sale value by Muscat wilayat, October 2024
ItemValue
MuscatOMR 50,000
BawsharOMR 41,900
SeebOMR 37,800
MuttrahOMR 28,200
AmeratOMR 6,000
QurayyatOMR 4,000

One month of data. Some records may be partial-share transfers. Useful as a snapshot of relative levels, not a trend.

Period: October 2024 only · Records: 1,042

Source: Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning, via Oman Open Data Portal, Sales and Purchase Data (land), October 2024 (checked 25 Sep 2026)

Not available from official data

Rents and yields

No official Omani source currently publishes contracted rents. We are requesting these fields from the Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning and Muscat Municipality. Until then, rent and yield figures will appear here only as estimates from asking data, labelled as such, and only where we have at least 10 comparable observations on each side.

Contracted rents

Not available

Gross rental yield

Not enough data

Activity by governorate, 2026

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All registered property procedures by governorate, H1 2026
ItemValue
North Batinah16,920
Muscat16,422
South Batinah11,756
Sharqiyah10,483
Dakhiliyah9,642
Dhofar5,199
Dhahirah4,818
Buraimi1,385
Musandam792
Wusta484

All registered property procedures (sales by court order, mortgages, gifts, subdivisions, survey updates and more), January to June 2026. Source: Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning, Real Property Transactions 2026. Methodology

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