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 — January 2005
Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside January 2005. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.
In a sentence
The Land Department registered 331 property sales in January 2005, worth AED 1.59B in total, across 70 communities. That is 42% more than the same month a year earlier.
The median sale was AED 2,512,440 at AED 262/sqft, 45.3% above the same month last year. 0% of sales were off-plan.
Al Barsha First was the busiest community with 82 registered sales, and also took the most money at AED 570.53M.
Sales by month
Price per square foot by month
Where the sales were
The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in January 2005, and how each moved against the month before.
| Community | Sales | vs prior | Total value | Median price | Price/sqft | Off-plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Al Barsha First | 82 | +645.5% | 570.53M | 4.55M | 344/sqft | 0% |
| Mirdif | 41 | -4.7% | 103.43M | 2.00M | 150/sqft | 0% |
| Hor Al Anz | 11 | -15.4% | 20.70M | 925K | 380/sqft | 0% |
| Al Barsha Second | 10 | 0.0% | 15.44M | 1.61M | 111/sqft | 0% |
| Al Satwa | 9 | +28.6% | 9.96M | 1.10M | 460/sqft | 0% |
| Al Mizhar Second | 8 | +33.3% | 12.14M | 1.50M | 75/sqft | 0% |
| Al Thanyah Third | 8 | 0.0% | 59.26M | 6.20M | 180/sqft | 0% |
| Nad Al Hamar | 8 | 0.0% | 31.65M | 1.46M | 108/sqft | 0% |
| Al Barsha Third | 7 | 0.0% | 18.40M | 1.50M | 100/sqft | 0% |
| Al Muteena | 7 | +75.0% | 15.03M | 2.00M | 417/sqft | 0% |
| Al Mizhar First | 6 | -40.0% | 9.29M | 1.18M | 85/sqft | 0% |
| Al Nahda Second | 6 | +200.0% | 75.64M | 9.79M | 400/sqft | 0% |
| Al Warqa Third | 6 | +100.0% | 5.39M | 885K | 73/sqft | 0% |
| Al Waheda | 5 | +25.0% | 4.16M | 790K | 241/sqft | 0% |
| Um Suqaim Second | 5 | +150.0% | 17.97M | 2.60M | 250/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 |
|---|---|---|
| Al Barsha First | 570.53M | 82 |
| Mirdif | 103.43M | 41 |
| Al Nahda Second | 75.64M | 6 |
| Al Thanyah Third | 59.26M | 8 |
| Al Safouh First | 52.40M | 3 |
| Rega Al Buteen | 41.62M | 1 |
| Al Nahda First | 41.19M | 2 |
| Wadi Al Amardi | 39.01M | 5 |
| Al Murqabat | 36.00M | 1 |
| Mankhool | 34.21M | 4 |
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 January 2005
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Jan 2005 | Al Barsha First | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 17,257 sqft | AED 3,187/sqft | AED 55,000,000 |
| 12 Jan 2005 | Al Barsha First | — | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 71,242 sqft | AED 650/sqft | AED 46,307,300 |
| 3 Jan 2005 | Rega Al Buteen | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 20,808 sqft | AED 2,000/sqft | AED 41,616,000 |
| 31 Jan 2005 | Al Murqabat | — | BuildingResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 40,000 sqft | AED 900/sqft | AED 36,000,000 |
| 17 Jan 2005 | Al Nahda Second | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 30,346 sqft | AED 1,055/sqft | AED 32,000,000 |
| 10 Jan 2005 | Al Barsha First | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 43,782 sqft | AED 710/sqft | AED 31,085,220 |
| 18 Jan 2005 | Nad Al Shiba | — | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 2,689,090 sqft | AED 12/sqft | AED 31,024,159 |
| 4 Jan 2005 | Mankhool | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 26,288 sqft | AED 1,140/sqft | AED 29,968,320 |
| 11 Jan 2005 | Al Goze Industrial First | — | BuildingIndustrial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 249,819 sqft | AED 110/sqft | AED 27,480,090 |
| 12 Jan 2005 | Al Safouh First | SIDRA TOWERSufouh Gardens | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 61,603 sqft | AED 406/sqft | AED 25,000,000 |
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.