Dubai Market Data

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Quarterly report

Dubai property market — Q4 2003

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside Q4 2003. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales557Registered in Q4 2003up47%
Total value2.07BRegistered in Q4 2003Across 81 communities
Price per sqft125/sqftMedian across Q4 2003down6.3%
Sale price975KMedian across Q4 20030% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 557 property sales in Q4 2003, worth AED 2.07B in total, across 81 communities. That is 47% more than the same quarter a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 975,000 at AED 125/sqft, 6.3% below the same quarter last year. 0% of sales were off-plan.

Mirdif was the busiest community with 57 registered sales, while Trade Center First took the most money at AED 600.00M.

Against the previous quarter, Mirdif fell 8% to 57.

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 Q4 2003, and how each moved against the quarter before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Mirdif57-8.1%94.60M1.35M110/sqft0%
Al Barsha Third30-6.3%29.39M848K58/sqft0%
Nad Al Hamar30+76.5%47.85M728K48/sqft0%
Al Satwa29+11.5%19.93M670K262/sqft0%
Al Barsha Second25-16.7%21.81M855K59/sqft0%
Al Mizhar First24+200.0%21.84M855K56/sqft0%
Al Warqa Third18+20.0%9.49M530K43/sqft0%
Hor Al Anz16-38.5%8.75M490K205/sqft0%
Naif15-11.8%50.97M1.55M627/sqft0%
Abu Hail12-7.7%11.55M725K218/sqft0%
Al Bada12+33.3%13.61M720K193/sqft0%
Al Mizhar Second12+50.0%12.55M1.10M57/sqft0%
Um Suqaim Second12+33.3%23.15M1.76M166/sqft0%
Al Manara11+22.2%23.97M2.00M125/sqft0%
Muhaisanah Third11+175.0%4.89M500K33/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
Trade Center First600.00M1
Oud Metha107.07M5
Trade Center Second99.50M2
Mirdif94.60M57
Marsa Dubai90.00M6
Naif50.97M15
Nad Al Hamar47.85M30
Port Saeed47.78M2
Al Goze Industrial First38.01M2
Al Karama35.41M9

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
Mirdif57-8.1%

The largest sales of Q4 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
27 Oct 2003Trade Center First—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified60,000 sqftAED 10,000/sqftAED 600,000,000
31 Dec 2003Trade Center Second—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified10,000 sqftAED 5,000/sqftAED 50,000,000
13 Oct 2003Trade Center Second—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified10,000 sqftAED 4,950/sqftAED 49,500,000
24 Nov 2003Port Saeed—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified23,103 sqftAED 2,048/sqftAED 47,318,400
8 Dec 2003Oud Metha—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified114,147 sqftAED 377/sqftAED 43,000,000
29 Dec 2003Rega Al Buteen—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified20,808 sqftAED 1,490/sqftAED 31,000,000
29 Dec 2003AL QUSAIS—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified34,546 sqftAED 811/sqftAED 28,000,000
29 Dec 2003Nad Al Hamar—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified386,402 sqftAED 65/sqftAED 25,000,000
22 Oct 2003Mankhool—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified11,000 sqftAED 2,273/sqftAED 25,000,000
23 Dec 2003Al Goze Industrial First—BuildingIndustrial · Existing PropertiesNot specified249,819 sqftAED 80/sqftAED 19,984,000

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.