Dubai Market Data
Registered sales and Ejari contracts, organized for clear comparisons and better property decisions.
Public records · Dubai Land Department
Quarterly report
Dubai property market — Q1 2005
Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside Q1 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 929 property sales in Q1 2005, worth AED 4.90B in total, across 88 communities. That is 38% more than the same quarter a year earlier.
The median sale was AED 2,385,000 at AED 267/sqft, 72% above the same quarter last year. 0% of sales were off-plan.
Al Barsha First was the busiest community with 171 registered sales, and also took the most money at AED 1.20B.
Against the previous quarter, Mirdif rose 44% to 105 sales.
Sales by quarter
Price per square foot by quarter
Where the sales were
The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in Q1 2005, and how each moved against the quarter before.
| Community | Sales | vs prior | Total value | Median price | Price/sqft | Off-plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Al Barsha First | 171 | +800.0% | 1.20B | 4.66M | 337/sqft | 0% |
| Mirdif | 105 | +43.8% | 252.08M | 2.00M | 155/sqft | 0% |
| Hor Al Anz | 49 | +48.5% | 86.33M | 1.00M | 394/sqft | 0% |
| Al Satwa | 33 | +120.0% | 36.73M | 1.10M | 432/sqft | 0% |
| Al Barsha Third | 25 | +56.3% | 63.55M | 1.95M | 130/sqft | 0% |
| Um Suqaim Second | 22 | +175.0% | 81.33M | 2.40M | 255/sqft | 0% |
| Al Mizhar First | 21 | +40.0% | 42.02M | 1.27M | 85/sqft | 0% |
| Al Barsha Second | 20 | 0.0% | 37.17M | 1.76M | 125/sqft | 0% |
| Al Rashidiya | 20 | +17.6% | 19.93M | 885K | 163/sqft | 0% |
| Nad Al Hamar | 20 | +5.3% | 98.42M | 1.57M | 118/sqft | 0% |
| Al Mizhar Second | 18 | +50.0% | 28.30M | 1.55M | 75/sqft | 0% |
| Al Waheda | 17 | +6.3% | 15.98M | 830K | 250/sqft | 0% |
| Abu Hail | 16 | +23.1% | 14.40M | 800K | 289/sqft | 0% |
| Al Muteena | 16 | +77.8% | 27.09M | 1.29M | 409/sqft | 0% |
| Al Bada | 15 | +50.0% | 19.37M | 1.00M | 364/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 | 1.20B | 171 |
| Mirdif | 252.08M | 105 |
| Nad Al Shiba | 236.90M | 3 |
| AL QUSAIS | 168.09M | 9 |
| Oud Metha | 156.05M | 5 |
| Marsa Dubai | 138.00M | 2 |
| Al Nahda Second | 130.83M | 11 |
| Al Nahda First | 130.38M | 6 |
| Al Murqabat | 130.00M | 4 |
| Al Raffa | 126.68M | 12 |
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.
| Community | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Mirdif | 105 | +43.8% |
The largest sales of Q1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Feb 2005 | Nad Al Shiba | —City Of Arabia | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 20,006,043 sqft | AED 10/sqft | AED 200,060,710 |
| 28 Feb 2005 | Marsa Dubai | DAMAC HEIGHTSDubai Marina | BuildingResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 37,292 sqft | AED 3,218/sqft | AED 120,000,000 |
| 9 Mar 2005 | Oud Metha | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 49,157 sqft | AED 1,627/sqft | AED 80,000,000 |
| 7 Mar 2005 | Port Saeed | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 20,143 sqft | AED 3,351/sqft | AED 67,500,000 |
| 18 Jan 2005 | Al Barsha First | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 17,257 sqft | AED 3,187/sqft | AED 55,000,000 |
| 28 Mar 2005 | Nad Al Hamar | — | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 261,811 sqft | AED 185/sqft | AED 48,435,035 |
| 21 Mar 2005 | Al Murqabat | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 13,175 sqft | AED 3,567/sqft | AED 47,000,000 |
| 12 Jan 2005 | Al Barsha First | — | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 71,242 sqft | AED 650/sqft | AED 46,307,300 |
| 30 Mar 2005 | Al Raffa | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 22,393 sqft | AED 2,010/sqft | AED 45,000,000 |
| 3 Jan 2005 | Rega Al Buteen | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 20,808 sqft | AED 2,000/sqft | AED 41,616,000 |
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.