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 — January 2003

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside January 2003. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales145Registered in January 2003down29.6%
Total value642.28MRegistered in January 2003Across 55 communities
Price per sqft139/sqftMedian across January 2003up83.4%
Sale price1.15MMedian across January 20030% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 145 property sales in January 2003, worth AED 642.28M in total, across 55 communities. That is 30% fewer than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,150,000 at AED 139/sqft, 83.4% above the same month last year. 0% of sales were off-plan.

Mirdif was the busiest community with 22 registered sales, while Mankhool took the most money at AED 144.50M.

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 January 2003, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Mirdif220.0%43.81M1.35M166/sqft0%
Al Mizhar Second7—5.98M910K46/sqft0%
Al Satwa6+100.0%4.75M565K197/sqft0%
Um Suqaim Second6+100.0%7.10M1.00M148/sqft0%
Al Barsha Third50.0%3.64M750K55/sqft0%
Al Karama5+66.7%34.48M3.70M620/sqft0%
Al Manara4+33.3%11.81M2.21M128/sqft0%
Al Safouh First4—24.70M5.85M171/sqft0%
Hor Al Anz4-60.0%2.16M400K181/sqft0%
Jabal Ali4—96.00M24.00M326/sqft0%
Nad Al Hamar4-42.9%3.02M750K47/sqft0%
Um Al Sheif4+100.0%6.98M1.43M95/sqft0%
Wadi Al Amardi4+100.0%13.94M3.06M14/sqft0%
Abu Hail3-40.0%905K385K160/sqft0%
Al Mararr3-25.0%7.33M2.70M1,371/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
Mankhool144.50M2
Jabal Ali96.00M4
Al Safouh Second76.50M3
Mirdif43.81M22
Al Karama34.48M5
Al Safouh First24.70M4
AL QUSAIS23.30M2
Al Murqabat17.40M2
Wadi Al Amardi13.94M4
Al Raffa13.70M2

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 January 2003

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
6 Jan 2003Mankhool—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified30,359 sqftAED 2,783/sqftAED 84,500,000
29 Jan 2003Mankhool—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified21,951 sqftAED 2,733/sqftAED 60,000,000
13 Jan 2003Al Safouh Second—Site ABuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified121,134 sqftAED 227/sqftAED 27,500,000
27 Jan 2003Al Safouh SecondICONICSite ALandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified68,547 sqftAED 365/sqftAED 25,000,000
13 Jan 2003Jabal Ali—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified73,267 sqftAED 328/sqftAED 24,000,000
13 Jan 2003Jabal Ali—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified67,570 sqftAED 355/sqftAED 24,000,000
13 Jan 2003Jabal Ali—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified73,981 sqftAED 324/sqftAED 24,000,000
13 Jan 2003Jabal Ali—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified74,345 sqftAED 323/sqftAED 24,000,000
13 Jan 2003Al Safouh SecondTHE S TOWERSite ALandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified56,699 sqftAED 423/sqftAED 24,000,000
27 Jan 2003AL QUSAIS—BuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified36,000 sqftAED 556/sqftAED 20,000,000

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.