Dubai Market Data

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

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Annual report

Dubai property market — 2002

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside 2002. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales1,917Registered in 2002up33.1%
Total value4.53BRegistered in 2002Across 90 communities
Price per sqft100/sqftMedian across 2002up11.1%
Sale price909KMedian across 20020% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 1,917 property sales in 2002, worth AED 4.53B in total, across 90 communities. That is 33% more than the year before.

The median sale was AED 909,000 at AED 100/sqft, 11.1% above the year before. 0% of sales were off-plan.

Mirdif was the busiest community with 420 registered sales, and also took the most money at AED 540.17M.

Against the previous year, Mirdif rose 9% to 420 sales.

Sales by year

Price per square foot by year

Median price per sqft

Where the sales were

The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in 2002, and how each moved against the year before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Mirdif420+8.5%540.17M817K67/sqft0%
Al Barsha Third69+130.0%55.34M825K55/sqft0%
Hor Al Anz61+96.8%77.32M530K214/sqft0%
Nad Al Hamar61+60.5%41.67M650K42/sqft0%
Al Barsha Second53+39.5%45.59M825K55/sqft0%
Al Mizhar First48+152.6%41.30M675K45/sqft0%
Abu Hail47+62.1%32.45M570K198/sqft0%
Al Satwa46+24.3%36.06M550K183/sqft0%
Um Suqaim Second45+45.2%107.60M1.50M140/sqft0%
Al Mizhar Second44+131.6%37.76M735K38/sqft0%
Al Warqa Third41+192.9%17.14M420K34/sqft0%
Al Manara40+11.1%72.70M1.53M99/sqft0%
Al Barsha First38+100.0%296.68M6.57M340/sqft0%
Al Rashidiya38+35.7%18.32M480K76/sqft0%
Al Khawaneej34+183.3%68.22M1.35M22/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
Mirdif540.17M420
Trade Center First311.00M4
Al Barsha First296.68M38
Port Saeed203.47M11
Al Murqabat198.87M22
Al Raffa195.29M29
Al Buteen144.80M16
Naif120.54M25
Al Karama112.83M30
Um Suqaim Second107.60M45

Biggest movers

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

CommunitySalesChange
Mirdif420+8.5%

The largest sales of 2002

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
29 Oct 2002Trade Center First—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified10,000 sqftAED 14,500/sqftAED 145,000,000
26 Jun 2002Trade Center First—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified40,000 sqftAED 1,900/sqftAED 76,000,000
18 Nov 2002Port Saeed—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified44,325 sqftAED 1,692/sqftAED 75,000,000
8 Jul 2002Mirdif—Uptown MirdifBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified2,538,111 sqftAED 28/sqftAED 71,500,000
22 Jul 2002Trade Center First—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified12,500 sqftAED 4,000/sqftAED 50,000,000
11 Jun 2002Trade Center First—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified10,000 sqftAED 4,000/sqftAED 40,000,000
13 Feb 2002Oud Metha—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified28,775 sqftAED 1,303/sqftAED 37,500,000
18 Feb 2002Port Saeed—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified42,140 sqftAED 815/sqftAED 34,344,100
18 Nov 2002Naif—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified10,443 sqftAED 3,016/sqftAED 31,500,000
2 Sept 2002Al Raffa—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified11,834 sqftAED 2,535/sqftAED 30,000,000

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.