Dubai Market Data

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

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Quarterly report

Dubai property market — Q1 2004

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside Q1 2004. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales673Registered in Q1 2004up54%
Total value2.60BRegistered in Q1 2004Across 81 communities
Price per sqft155/sqftMedian across Q1 2004up25.8%
Sale price1.20MMedian across Q1 20040% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 673 property sales in Q1 2004, worth AED 2.60B in total, across 81 communities. That is 54% more than the same quarter a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,200,000 at AED 155/sqft, 25.8% above the same quarter last year. 0% of sales were off-plan.

Mirdif was the busiest community with 56 registered sales, while Palm Jumeirah took the most money at AED 178.12M.

Against the previous quarter, Mirdif fell 2% to 56.

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 Q1 2004, and how each moved against the quarter before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Mirdif56-1.8%120.05M1.41M115/sqft0%
Hor Al Anz34+112.5%24.56M575K244/sqft0%
Nad Al Hamar300.0%26.76M801K55/sqft0%
Al Barsha Second29+16.0%29.26M900K62/sqft0%
Al Satwa24-17.2%22.79M800K320/sqft0%
Al Barsha Third22-26.7%18.32M893K60/sqft0%
Al Waheda20+233.3%14.69M635K208/sqft0%
Al Mararr17+88.9%49.65M1.73M747/sqft0%
Al Manara16+45.5%53.95M2.45M167/sqft0%
Al Mizhar First16-33.3%21.06M788K59/sqft0%
Al Rashidiya16+128.6%9.07M460K111/sqft0%
Al Twar Fourth16+433.3%10.79M585K74/sqft0%
Jumeirah Third16+220.0%44.76M1.95M190/sqft0%
Al Warqa Third14-22.2%7.60M540K44/sqft0%
Um Suqaim Second14+16.7%46.40M1.60M217/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
Palm Jumeirah178.12M3
Mankhool165.95M9
Al Karama151.38M9
Oud Metha130.00M1
Al Murqabat123.99M9
Port Saeed122.21M5
Mirdif120.05M56
Um Suqaim Third101.79M9
Al Barsha First69.02M5
Al Raffa63.98M8

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
Mirdif56-1.8%

The largest sales of Q1 2004

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
11 Feb 2004Oud Metha—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified61,323 sqftAED 2,120/sqftAED 130,000,000
2 Mar 2004Um Suqaim Third—BuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified444,999 sqftAED 150/sqftAED 66,750,000
17 Mar 2004Port Saeed—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified40,810 sqftAED 1,593/sqftAED 65,000,000
23 Mar 2004Palm JumeirahFAIRMONT PALM RESIDENCEPalm JumeirahBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified199,608 sqftAED 300/sqftAED 59,860,740
23 Mar 2004Palm JumeirahFAIRMONT PALM HOTEL & RESORTPalm JumeirahBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified199,608 sqftAED 300/sqftAED 59,860,740
23 Mar 2004Palm JumeirahFAIRMONT PALM RESIDENCEPalm JumeirahBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified194,730 sqftAED 300/sqftAED 58,397,910
16 Mar 2004Mankhool—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified20,000 sqftAED 2,800/sqftAED 56,000,000
6 Jan 2004Trade Center First—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified10,000 sqftAED 5,000/sqftAED 50,000,000
21 Jan 2004Al Murqabat—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified15,411 sqftAED 3,244/sqftAED 50,000,000
14 Jan 2004Al Karama—BuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified45,046 sqftAED 1,110/sqftAED 50,000,000

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.