Dubai Market Data

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Quarterly report

Dubai property market — Q3 1998

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside Q3 1998. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales352Registered in Q3 1998up35,100%
Total value851.94MRegistered in Q3 1998Across 53 communities
Price per sqft116/sqftMedian across Q3 1998down77.5%
Sale price899KMedian across Q3 19980% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 352 property sales in Q3 1998, worth AED 851.94M in total, across 53 communities. That is 35,100% more than the same quarter a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 899,350 at AED 116/sqft, 77.5% below the same quarter last year. 0% of sales were off-plan.

Mirdif was the busiest community with 93 registered sales, while Port Saeed took the most money at AED 156.25M.

Against the previous quarter, Um Suqaim fell 25% to 54.

Sales by quarter

Price per square foot by quarter

Median price per sqft

Where the sales were

The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in Q3 1998, and how each moved against the quarter before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Mirdif93-23.1%52.38M418K40/sqft0%
Um Suqaim54-25.0%140.83M1.37M110/sqft0%
Abu Hail17-15.0%15.80M750K320/sqft0%
Al Barsha12-53.8%25.10M675K45/sqft0%
Al Satwa11-45.0%13.24M650K240/sqft0%
Al Baraha10+42.9%50.77M4.30M1,460/sqft0%
Hor Al Anz East10-50.0%6.81M680K200/sqft0%
Al Mizhar90.0%4.43M515K34/sqft0%
Al-Murar Qadeem90.0%37.34M4.00M2,274/sqft0%
Jumeirah8-42.9%18.79M1.85M202/sqft0%
Port Saeed8-27.3%156.25M19.59M750/sqft0%
Al Qoaz6+20.0%17.64M745K50/sqft0%
Al Qusais Old6-60.0%5.69M590K76/sqft0%
Al-Tawar60.0%8.17M1.03M96/sqft0%
Nad Al Hamar6+100.0%3.33M558K37/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
Port Saeed156.25M8
Um Suqaim140.83M54
Mirdif52.38M93
Al Baraha50.77M10
Al-Murar Qadeem37.34M9
Rega Al Buteen35.42M1
Tawaa Al Sayegh35.25M3
Al Barsha25.10M12
Al Khawaneej24.89M5
Sikkat Al Khail North23.83M3

Biggest movers

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

CommunitySalesChange
Um Suqaim54-25.0%
Mirdif93-23.1%

The largest sales of Q3 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
22 Jul 1998Port Saeed—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified54,045 sqftAED 750/sqftAED 40,533,750
28 Sept 1998Rega Al Buteen—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified41,616 sqftAED 851/sqftAED 35,415,216
23 Sept 1998Port Saeed—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified29,427 sqftAED 1,200/sqftAED 35,312,400
23 Sept 1998Um Suqaim—LandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified671,824 sqftAED 36/sqftAED 24,000,000
31 Aug 1998Port Saeed—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified18,625 sqftAED 1,260/sqftAED 23,467,500
31 Aug 1998Port Saeed—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified21,270 sqftAED 1,060/sqftAED 22,546,200
17 Aug 1998Sikkat Al Khail North—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified5,343 sqftAED 3,743/sqftAED 20,000,000
2 Sept 1998Um Suqaim—LandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified53,001 sqftAED 358/sqftAED 19,000,000
22 Jul 1998Port Saeed—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified22,180 sqftAED 750/sqftAED 16,635,000
31 Aug 1998Port Saeed—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified21,270 sqftAED 750/sqftAED 15,952,500

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.