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 — March 2003

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

Sales170Registered in March 2003down7.6%
Total value405.04MRegistered in March 2003Across 51 communities
Price per sqft118/sqftMedian across March 2003up51.3%
Sale price1.06MMedian across March 20030% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 170 property sales in March 2003, worth AED 405.04M in total, across 51 communities. That is 8% fewer than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,065,000 at AED 118/sqft, 51.3% above the same month last year. 0% of sales were off-plan.

Mirdif was the busiest community with 38 registered sales, and also took the most money at AED 67.95M.

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

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Mirdif38+26.7%67.95M1.20M94/sqft0%
Nad Al Hamar9+350.0%6.97M630K43/sqft0%
Al Barsha Second8+14.3%6.76M790K54/sqft0%
Um Suqaim Third8—18.55M1.85M123/sqft0%
Abu Hail6+200.0%5.61M575K175/sqft0%
Hor Al Anz6+20.0%7.10M800K254/sqft0%
Al Manara5—7.98M1.44M100/sqft0%
Al Satwa5-16.7%2.56M530K220/sqft0%
Al Warqa Third5+150.0%2.52M500K42/sqft0%
Um Suqaim Second50.0%7.98M1.65M116/sqft0%
Al Karama4+100.0%25.86M4.89M522/sqft0%
Al Rashidiya4+100.0%2.32M695K83/sqft0%
Jumeirah Third4+300.0%13.85M2.77M201/sqft0%
Al Barsha Third30.0%2.70M915K61/sqft0%
Al Jafliya3+200.0%2.79M800K140/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
Mirdif67.95M38
Al Murqabat64.00M2
Al Hamriya28.41M2
Al Karama25.86M4
Um Suqaim First18.60M3
Um Suqaim Third18.55M8
Jumeirah Third13.85M4
Al Saffa Second10.13M3
Al Sabkha10.00M1
Al Raffa8.64M2

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 March 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
12 Mar 2003Al Murqabat—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified23,422 sqftAED 2,668/sqftAED 62,500,000
24 Mar 2003Al Hamriya—BuildingOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified29,598 sqftAED 815/sqftAED 24,122,370
17 Mar 2003Al Karama—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified33,700 sqftAED 450/sqftAED 15,165,000
31 Mar 2003Um Suqaim First—BuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified58,693 sqftAED 256/sqftAED 15,000,000
18 Mar 2003Al Sabkha—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified3,860 sqftAED 2,591/sqftAED 10,000,000
11 Mar 2003Al Karama—BuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified10,000 sqftAED 850/sqftAED 8,500,000
17 Mar 2003Al Safouh First—Sufouh GardensBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified54,756 sqftAED 152/sqftAED 8,300,000
17 Mar 2003Al Eyas—BuildingAgricultural · Existing PropertiesNot specified678,881 sqftAED 11/sqftAED 7,500,000
17 Mar 2003Oud Metha—BuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified20,000 sqftAED 370/sqftAED 7,400,000
10 Mar 2003Jumeirah Third—VillaResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified36,183 sqftAED 202/sqftAED 7,300,000

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.