How many property sales were registered in Lebanon in 2026 so far?

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The 2026 numbers, period by period#

The sources disagree most on the first five months. Credit Libanais, reported by An-Nahar, counts 19,097 transactions, 32.25% fewer than a year earlier, with value down 17.79%. Libnanews gives about 24,096 (down 27.3%) worth about USD 2.6 billion, and BLOMINVEST, in a note we could not re-open, gives 18,631 deals worth USD 1,958.8 million^[2,3,4]. None of them explains the gap. They may be counting different types of transaction.

Credit Libanais linked the slowdown to the fighting that resumed in early March 2026^[2,3,4]. After the mid-April ceasefire, deals picked up. According to An-Nahar citing Credit Libanais, May rose 4.64% on April, June reached 4,999 transactions and July 5,308, the highest month of 2026 up to then^[2]. For what the fighting did to prices rather than volumes, see how the 2026 war affected property prices.

By the end of July, Credit Libanais counted 29,404 transactions. That is 25.54% fewer than the 39,490 of the same period of 2025, while value fell only 5.36%^[1,2]. For January to August, LeBusiness reports two readings of the registry data: 34,083 sales worth about USD 3.70 billion from BLOMInvest Bank, and 34,549 worth USD 3.74 billion from Cedar Keys Estates, an advisory firm with an interest in the market. Cedar Keys says the value gap with 2025 narrowed from 17.8% in May to 3.8% by August^[1].

The only January to September figure we found is a LeBusiness teaser for an article we could not open. According to that teaser, sales were worth LBP 407.10 trillion, with 6,589 transactions in September^[1]. Nobody has checked which bank it draws on or how it counts. For comparison, BLOMINVEST converts registry values at USD/LBP 89,500 (from 1 February 2024)^[6]. That is a statistical conversion in a July 2025 bank report. It is not the rate used to collect fees.

Fewer deals, but larger ones#

The average registered deal in 2026 was about USD 108,000 per transaction (2026)^[1,3], by Libnanews' count for January to May and LeBusiness' for January to August. The average mixes apartments, land, shops and other property, so it is not the price of an average apartment. LeBusiness reads it as fewer properties changing hands, with the deals that do go through larger on average.

For 2025, the comparison point is 70,981 transactions worth about USD 6.16 billion. Libnanews says part of that year's rise came from processing records that had piled up^[4,5]. Foreign buyers are a small share. They made 1,485 purchases in 2025, about 2.09% of all transactions, and the LeBusiness teaser puts them at 1.47% for January to September 2026^[1,5]. The rules they buy under are in can foreigners buy property in Lebanon.

What these figures cannot tell you#

Lebanon has no reliable, continuous national price index. LeBusiness says figures from the Lebanese-pound era and the dollar era cannot honestly be joined into one trend^[1,5]. Between 2019 and 2022, many sales were paid with bank cheques on blocked deposits (lollars), so recorded sales approached USD 15 billion in 2021 and cannot be compared with fresh-dollar years^[5]. There is more on this in how prices have moved since 2019.

Registry statistics describe a district. They miss the particular floor, the view, a broken lift, a deed shared between heirs or a registration that will stall, so they cannot price a specific flat^[1]. Asking prices are a different number again, as explained in why advertised prices differ from registry prices. For one property, the document to read is its own Land Registry extract (ifadeh aqariyeh), which shows the owner, charges, mortgages and restrictions^[7,8]. Our page on how to get a Land Registry extract covers where to ask for one.