Dubai Market Data

Registered sales and Ejari contracts, organized for clear comparisons and better property decisions.

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Monthly report

Dubai property market — December 1998

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside December 1998. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales101Registered in December 1998up188.6%
Total value261.68MRegistered in December 1998Across 28 communities
Price per sqft100/sqftMedian across December 1998down20%
Sale price850KMedian across December 19980% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 101 property sales in December 1998, worth AED 261.68M in total, across 28 communities. That is 189% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 850,000 at AED 100/sqft, 20% below the same month last year. 0% of sales were off-plan.

Mirdif was the busiest community with 32 registered sales, while Al Raffa took the most money at AED 36.48M.

Sales by month

Price per square foot by month

Median price per sqft

Where the sales were

The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in December 1998, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Mirdif32-23.8%15.71M439K45/sqft0%
Um Suqaim17+41.7%31.33M1.30M90/sqft0%
Jumeirah7+40.0%16.98M2.40M238/sqft0%
Nad Rashid5+150.0%7.30M600K51/sqft0%
Al-Safiyyah4—4.27M1.19M521/sqft0%
Al Satwa3-50.0%9.20M1.20M378/sqft0%
Hor Al Anz East3-25.0%11.80M1.20M141/sqft0%
Abu Hail2+100.0%1.16M580K290/sqft0%
Al Asbaq2—11.82M5.91M1,045/sqft0%
Al Baraha2+100.0%18.50M9.25M2,314/sqft0%
Al Hamriya20.0%26.16M13.08M550/sqft0%
Al Hudaiba20.0%27.55M13.78M429/sqft0%
Al Mizhar2-50.0%4.50M2.25M44/sqft0%
Al Raffa2—36.48M18.24M582/sqft0%
Hor Al Anz2-33.3%950K475K223/sqft0%

Where the money went

Ranked by total registered value rather than count — a different list, and the one that shows where capital actually landed.

CommunityValueSales
Al Raffa36.48M2
Um Suqaim31.33M17
Al Hudaiba27.55M2
Al Hamriya26.16M2
Al Baraha18.50M2
Jumeirah16.98M7
Mirdif15.71M32
Al Asbaq11.82M2
Hor Al Anz East11.80M3
Al Karama11.50M1

Biggest movers

Change in registered sales against the previous month. Limited to communities with at least 50 sales in both — below that a swing is noise.

CommunitySalesChange

The largest sales of December 1998

Each row links to its own register record, so any figure in this report can be traced to the transactions behind it.

Registered property transactions from the Dubai Land Department
DateCommunityProject / buildingTypeBedsSizePrice/sqftPrice
30 Dec 1998Al Raffa—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified45,375 sqftAED 750/sqftAED 34,031,250
17 Dec 1998Al Hudaiba—BuildingOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified44,705 sqftAED 597/sqftAED 26,700,000
30 Dec 1998Al Hamriya—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified42,048 sqftAED 600/sqftAED 25,228,800
28 Dec 1998Al Baraha—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified4,801 sqftAED 2,916/sqftAED 14,000,000
28 Dec 1998Al Karama—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified9,100 sqftAED 1,264/sqftAED 11,500,000
10 Dec 1998Al Asbaq—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified6,652 sqftAED 1,654/sqftAED 11,000,000
17 Dec 1998Al Kifaf—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified22,035 sqftAED 490/sqftAED 10,797,150
8 Dec 1998Hor Al Anz East—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified9,380 sqftAED 1,066/sqftAED 10,000,000
21 Dec 1998Al Satwa—Jumeirah Garden CityLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified18,507 sqftAED 378/sqftAED 7,000,000
29 Dec 1998Nad Rashid—LandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified99,680 sqftAED 50/sqftAED 4,984,000

Source: Dubai Land Department open data, retrieved from the Digital Dubai data.dubai platform. Figures cover registered transactions and Ejari-registered tenancy contracts, and are statistical summaries of public record — not a valuation of any individual property. Registration data can be amended or backdated by the source after first publication. Refresh times vary by dataset; records shown here are not a live feed.