Dubai Market Data
Registered sales and Ejari contracts, organized for clear comparisons and better property decisions.
Public records · Dubai Land Department
Monthly report
Dubai property market — October 2003
Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside October 2003. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.
In a sentence
The Land Department registered 195 property sales in October 2003, worth AED 984.43M in total, across 63 communities. That is 41% more than the same month a year earlier.
The median sale was AED 930,000 at AED 110/sqft, 24.6% below the same month last year. 0% of sales were off-plan.
Mirdif was the busiest community with 19 registered sales, while Trade Center First took the most money at AED 600.00M.
Sales by month
Price per square foot by month
Where the sales were
The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in October 2003, and how each moved against the month before.
| Community | Sales | vs prior | Total value | Median price | Price/sqft | Off-plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mirdif | 19 | -9.5% | 26.62M | 1.27M | 100/sqft | 0% |
| Al Barsha Third | 12 | -29.4% | 10.58M | 878K | 60/sqft | 0% |
| Al Mizhar First | 12 | +300.0% | 10.68M | 810K | 52/sqft | 0% |
| Nad Al Hamar | 11 | +83.3% | 9.44M | 705K | 47/sqft | 0% |
| Al Satwa | 9 | +28.6% | 5.50M | 600K | 240/sqft | 0% |
| Al Barsha Second | 8 | -50.0% | 7.32M | 780K | 57/sqft | 0% |
| Al Bada | 7 | +75.0% | 7.65M | 690K | 194/sqft | 0% |
| Naif | 7 | -36.4% | 4.78M | 550K | 475/sqft | 0% |
| Al Warqa Third | 6 | -25.0% | 2.87M | 458K | 38/sqft | 0% |
| Hor Al Anz | 6 | -50.0% | 3.26M | 480K | 205/sqft | 0% |
| Abu Hail | 5 | 0.0% | 6.54M | 890K | 247/sqft | 0% |
| Muhaisanah Third | 5 | +66.7% | 1.95M | 480K | 33/sqft | 0% |
| Um Suqaim Second | 5 | +150.0% | 8.45M | 1.25M | 168/sqft | 0% |
| Al Mizhar Second | 4 | -20.0% | 3.95M | 995K | 50/sqft | 0% |
| Al Raffa | 4 | 0.0% | 4.84M | 1.32M | 463/sqft | 0% |
Where the money went
Ranked by total registered value rather than count — a different list, and the one that shows where capital actually landed.
| Community | Value | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Trade Center First | 600.00M | 1 |
| Trade Center Second | 49.50M | 1 |
| Al Nahda First | 31.19M | 2 |
| Mirdif | 26.62M | 19 |
| Mankhool | 25.00M | 1 |
| Al Rega | 17.00M | 1 |
| Al Mizhar First | 10.68M | 12 |
| Al Barsha Third | 10.58M | 12 |
| Al Khawaneej First | 10.30M | 3 |
| Al Qusais Industrial First | 10.00M | 1 |
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.
| Community | Sales | Change |
|---|
The largest sales of October 2003
Each row links to its own register record, so any figure in this report can be traced to the transactions behind it.
| Date | Community | Project / building | Type | Beds | Size | Price/sqft | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Oct 2003 | Trade Center First | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 60,000 sqft | AED 10,000/sqft | AED 600,000,000 |
| 13 Oct 2003 | Trade Center Second | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 10,000 sqft | AED 4,950/sqft | AED 49,500,000 |
| 22 Oct 2003 | Mankhool | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 11,000 sqft | AED 2,273/sqft | AED 25,000,000 |
| 6 Oct 2003 | Al Nahda First | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 52,753 sqft | AED 335/sqft | AED 17,672,255 |
| 6 Oct 2003 | Al Rega | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 5,838 sqft | AED 2,912/sqft | AED 17,000,000 |
| 6 Oct 2003 | Al Nahda First | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 38,618 sqft | AED 350/sqft | AED 13,516,300 |
| 6 Oct 2003 | Al Qusais Industrial First | — | LandIndustrial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 38,355 sqft | AED 261/sqft | AED 10,000,000 |
| 27 Oct 2003 | Um Hurair First | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 10,768 sqft | AED 780/sqft | AED 8,399,040 |
| 14 Oct 2003 | Al Khawaneej Second | — | LandAgricultural · Existing Properties | Not specified | 394,534 sqft | AED 17/sqft | AED 6,706,908 |
| 6 Oct 2003 | Muhaisanah First | — | LandOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 40,000 sqft | AED 150/sqft | AED 6,000,000 |
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.