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Jordan Real Estate — DLS Trend Tracker
Every Department of Lands & Survey monthly bulletin from January 2024 to June 2026, consolidated into one continuous series
Trading volume · H1 2026
3.04B
Jordanian Dinar
▼ 3.0% vs H1 2025
DLS revenue · H1 2026
128.9M
Jordanian Dinar
▲ 4.8% vs H1 2025
Transactions · H1 2026
62,023
properties sold
▼ 8.3% vs H1 2025
Foreign share of volume · H1 2026
3.29%
of total trading volume
▲ 0.40 pp vs H1 2025
Rents inflation · Jun 2026
4.35%
year on year · DoS rent index, measured Jun & Dec
▲ 1.56 pp above headline inflation
Foreign value · Q2 2026
59.6M
Jordanian Dinar
▲ 43.1% vs Q2 2025
Period Labels
How to read this tracker. Every point is a single-month figure from that month's bulletin, so the series is continuous and like-for-like. Use the period filter above to change the window on every chart at once — the full history since January 2024 is always retained, the filter only changes what is drawn.
Headline Monthly Series
Single-month figures. February and March 2026 are estimated — see the note below that section.
Trading Volume
JOD · total value of transactions
DLS Revenues
JOD · fees collected
Sale Transactions
properties sold · land vs apartment
Apartments Sold by Floor Area
count by size band
February and March 2026 are estimated, and here is exactly how. DLS did not publish a bulletin for either month. However the combined total for the pair is known precisely — it reconstructs identically from three separate published cumulatives (the April, May and June bulletins). Only the split between the two months is unknown, so it is apportioned using the average February-to-March ratio of 2024 and 2025, which was stable at 56.2% and 57.6% to February. The two estimated months therefore always sum back to the figure DLS's own cumulatives imply. Estimated points are drawn hollow on a dashed segment. For trading volume: February 510,254,022 and March 387,027,416, summing to 897,281,438 — the confirmed pair total. Quarterly, half-year and annual figures are unaffected by the split, since they only ever use the pair.
Housing Costs — Rents Against the Wider Price Level
Department of Statistics consumer price data on the same monthly axis as the transaction series. Rents are the only monthly housing-cost signal published in Jordan.
Rents, Housing and Headline Prices
index · January 2024 = 100
Rent Inflation vs Headline Inflation
% · year on year
What this adds to the transaction picture. Rents rose 4.35% in the year to June 2026 against headline inflation of 2.79% — a gap of 1.56 points, and rents have outpaced the general price level at every measurement since the start of 2024. Rebased to January 2024, the rent index stands at 109.6 against 105.8 for consumer prices generally. Transaction volume falling while rents climb is the signature of a market where supply, not demand, is the binding constraint: fewer properties changing hands, and the ones already occupied costing more to rent. These two charts are not DLS data — they come from the Department of Statistics consumer price index and are drawn on a different basis from everything above. The rent series is measured twice a year, in June and December, and the Department carries the value unchanged in between — across the thirty months shown it moved only six times, against twenty-seven for housing and twenty-nine for headline prices. Only the marked points on the rent line are measurements; the segment joining two points is drawn straight and is interpolation, not observation. Read the level at the points and the direction from the slope.
Foreign (Non-Jordanian) Investment
Foreign Deals — Count
number of transactions per month
Foreign Deals — Value
JOD · estimated by DLS
Structural Indicators
Amman's Share of DLS Revenue
% collected by Amman governorate offices + main centre
Female Share of Property Owners
% · series starts January 2025
Why the gender series starts in 2025. Through 2024 DLS published only a registry count of ownerships by gender, implying a female share near 31%. From January 2025 it publishes a percentage of owners instead — a different unit on a different base. The December 2025 full-year bulletin prints the same figure as the ten- and eleven-month bulletins, which shows it is a registry-wide stock republished unchanged rather than a flow. The two eras are not one series, so the 2024 segment is omitted. May 2026 carries no gender figure at all.
Reading the chart. The vertical axis is fixed at 34–36% rather than fitted to the data. The share has moved about half a percentage point since January 2025, and on an axis fitted to that range alone the line would fill the plot and read as a steep climb. The fixed scale keeps the movement at its true size. Where DLS published no figure — February and March 2026, and again from May 2026 — the line is carried across the gap as a faint dashed segment so the trend stays readable; a dashed segment is never a published figure.
Reading the chart. The vertical axis is fixed at 34–36% rather than fitted to the data. The share has moved about half a percentage point since January 2025, and on an axis fitted to that range alone the line would fill the plot and read as a steep climb. The fixed scale keeps the movement at its true size. Where DLS published no figure — February and March 2026, and again from May 2026 — the line is carried across the gap as a faint dashed segment so the trend stays readable; a dashed segment is never a published figure.
Where Sales Concentrated — June 2026
The basins (أحواض) with the most recorded sales in the month, exactly as the Department of Lands & Survey published them. Land and apartments are ranked separately. Ranks repeat where the bulletin reports a tie.
Land — Top Basins
plots sold · June 2026
Apartments — Top Basins
apartments sold · June 2026
Land — Detail
| # | Governorate | Directorate | Village | Basin | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amman | عمّان | عمّان | المدينة | 53 |
| 2 | Amman | جنوب عمّان | الجيزة | الموارس | 39 |
| 3 | Amman | جنوب عمّان | أم رمّانة | وصيوص | 29 |
| 4 | Mafraq | البادية الشمالية | دير الكهف | شرحبيل بن حسنة | 28 |
| 5 | Zarqa | الزرقاء | البتراوي | البتراوي الجنوبي | 27 |
| 6 | Aqaba | العقبة | القويرة | هرابة العبيد | 26 |
| 7 | Amman | جنوب عمّان | موقع سواقة الشرقي | السكة | 24 |
| 7 | Amman | شرق عمّان | وادي القطار | السور | 24 |
Administrative path resolved against the DLS village and basin coding table.
Apartments — Detail
| # | Governorate | Directorate | Village | Basin | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amman | شرق عمّان | طبربور | الميالة | 66 |
| 2 | Amman | شرق عمّان | النويجيس | الرواق | 61 |
| 3 | Amman | شمال عمّان | الجبيهة | أبو العوف | 59 |
| 4 | Amman | غرب عمّان | وادي السير | دير غبار | 43 |
| 5 | Amman | غرب عمّان | وادي السير | خربة الصويفية | 39 |
| 6 | Amman | ناعور | البنيات | قرية المرعي | 38 |
| 7 | Amman | شرق عمّان | النويجيس | خنيفسة | 37 |
| 7 | Amman | شرق عمّان | طبربور | حويجر | 37 |
| 7 | Amman | شمال عمّان | ياجوز | أم حليليفة | 37 |
| 10 | Zarqa | الزرقاء | البتراوي | البتراوي الجنوبي | 36 |
Administrative path resolved against the DLS village and basin coding table.
Why this section covers one month only. The Department publishes the leading basins as a ranked shortlist, and each month's list contains different basins. Shortlists cannot be added together, so a quarter or a year can only carry this section where the Department itself published a figure covering that exact window. June 2026 is shown here because it is the latest month published. Apartment sales are heavily concentrated in Amman — nine of the ten leading basins — while land activity is spread across Amman, Mafraq, Zarqa and Aqaba.
Financing & Ownership
Annual figures, published separately from the monthly bulletins. These are stocks and yearly totals, not monthly flows, and are shown on their own scale.
Mortgages Registered by Governorate
count · 2024 against 2025 · all 34 directorates aggregated
Registered Property Owners by Gender
governorate · registry stock at end 2025
Reading the financing data. Registered mortgages rose 6.1% in 2025, from 21,044 to 22,325, with Amman governorate accounting for 12,082 of the 2025 total and North Amman alone for 3,140 (directorate detail is held in the supporting workbook). Set against a falling lending rate, that is the clearest available sign of credit-financed demand returning. On ownership, women hold 35.82% of registered property titles at the end of 2025, up from 35.31% a year earlier. Note the two gender measures on this page do not agree: this year-end registry stock gives 35.82%, while the December 2025 monthly bulletin printed 34.79%. Both are reproduced as published; neither has been adjusted.
Quarterly Performance
Each quarter is the sum of its own three months, so quarters reconcile exactly to the monthly charts above.
Trading Volume by Quarter
JOD
DLS Revenue by Quarter
JOD
Sale Transactions by Quarter
properties sold
Foreign Investment Value by Quarter
JOD
Half-Year Performance
Trading Volume by Half-Year
JOD
DLS Revenue by Half-Year
JOD
Year-to-Date Cumulative Build-Up
Each year's running total from January, overlaid on one axis — the clearest read on whether 2026 is ahead of or behind prior years at the same point in the calendar.
Cumulative Trading Volume by Year
JOD · running total from January
Like-for-Like: Q2 2026 vs Q2 2025
Same three-month window both years, indexed to 2025 = 100
Reconciliation Against DLS's Own Annual Totals
An independent check on the source. Figures are reproduced as published; variances are disclosed, never corrected.
| Metric | 2024 sum of months | FY 2024 published | Variance | 2025 sum of months | FY 2025 published | Variance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trading volume (JOD) | 6,692,199,113 | 6,692,199,112 | +1 | 7,179,606,528 | 7,179,606,527 | +1 |
| DLS revenue (JOD) | 261,531,073 | 261,405,121 | +125,952 | 274,966,225 | 274,973,376 | −7,151 |
| Sale transactions | 152,426 | 152,428 | −2 | 152,644 | 153,060 | −416 |
| Foreign deals | 2,801 | 2,803 | −2 | 2,444 | 2,447 | −3 |
| Foreign value (JOD) | 221,769,638 | 221,817,355 | −47,717 | 210,285,733 | 210,479,093 | −193,360 |
What the variances mean. Trading volume ties to within one dinar across both years and roughly 14 billion JOD, which is strong evidence the monthly figures are captured correctly. Revenue and transaction counts drift because DLS revises earlier months inside its annual totals without restating them. This tracker shows the derived sums throughout, so every quarter, half-year and year reconciles to the monthly charts above.
What the Series Says
- Foreign capital is decoupling from the wider market. Q2 2026 foreign investment value reached 59.6M JOD, up 43% on Q2 2025, while total trading volume was flat at −0.6%. Deal counts fell 5% over the same period — fewer foreign buyers writing materially larger cheques.
- Revenue is outgrowing volume. H1 2026 revenue rose 4.8% while volume fell 3.0% and transactions fell 8.3% — higher-value transactions rather than a broader market.
- 2025 closed strongly, 2026 opened slowly. Q4 2025 volume ran 24% above Q4 2024; Q1 2026 then came in 3% below Q1 2025 before June rebounded sharply.
- Amman's concentration is steady, not rising. Across 28 months its share of DLS revenue oscillates around two-thirds to three-quarters without trending.
- Larger apartments lead demand consistently. The above-150 m² band is the largest in almost every month of the series.
Notes on the source. (1) The December 2025 "properties sold to companies" figure is labelled "first eleven months" — the identical phrase used in November for a different total — so that window label is unreliable.
(2) Apartments-by-area consistently sums higher than apartment sale transactions in every window; this is a definitional difference, so the two are never presented as reconciling.
(3) The 2025 full-year nationality ranking places Saudi below Palestinian despite a larger dinar figure.
(4) An April 2026 directorate figure is printed above that period's total revenue and is excluded from charts.
All are reproduced as published rather than corrected.