Dubai Market Data

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Dubai property market — December 2006

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside December 2006. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales397Registered in December 2006up196.3%
Total value2.39BRegistered in December 2006Across 58 communities
Price per sqft309/sqftMedian across December 2006down24.6%
Sale price2.50MMedian across December 20060% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 397 property sales in December 2006, worth AED 2.39B in total, across 58 communities. That is 196% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 2,500,000 at AED 309/sqft, 24.6% below the same month last year. 0% of sales were off-plan.

Al Thanayah Fourth was the busiest community with 131 registered sales, and also took the most money at AED 292.02M.

Against the previous month, Al Thanayah Fourth rose 28% to 131 sales.

Sales by month

Price per square foot by month

Median price per sqft

Where the sales were

The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in December 2006, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Al Thanayah Fourth131+28.4%292.02M1.59M222/sqft0%
Al Thanyah Fifth30-9.1%80.72M2.10M197/sqft0%
Al Thanyah Third24+242.9%97.10M3.32M363/sqft0%
Hor Al Anz18-30.8%53.96M1.90M954/sqft0%
Al Warqa First12—74.87M5.70M380/sqft0%
Mirdif12-7.7%62.52M2.75M368/sqft0%
Wadi Al Safa 610—18.55M1.94M231/sqft0%
Al Satwa9+12.5%21.15M2.00M760/sqft0%
Abu Hail8+300.0%13.48M1.63M512/sqft0%
Al Raffa8+700.0%166.49M9.70M1,051/sqft0%
Nad Al Hamar8+60.0%41.39M2.50M151/sqft0%
Al Barsha First7+75.0%203.67M18.75M900/sqft0%
Al Barsha Third5+150.0%16.91M2.91M185/sqft0%
Al Jafliya5+400.0%28.99M7.00M223/sqft0%
Al Khabeesi5+400.0%11.09M2.50M500/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
Al Thanayah Fourth292.02M131
Al Barsha First203.67M7
Al Raffa166.49M8
Nad Al Shiba115.41M4
Marsa Dubai114.18M4
Al Safouh First100.00M1
Al Thanyah Third97.10M24
Al Nahda Second91.86M4
Mankhool85.73M4
Al Thanyah Fifth80.72M30

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.

CommunitySalesChange
Al Thanayah Fourth131+28.4%

The largest sales of December 2006

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
25 Dec 2006Al Safouh First—Sufouh GardensLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified58,160 sqftAED 1,719/sqftAED 100,000,000
11 Dec 2006Al Barsha First—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified12,007 sqftAED 5,663/sqftAED 68,000,000
20 Dec 2006Al Raffa—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified48,423 sqftAED 1,363/sqftAED 66,000,000
20 Dec 2006Nad Al ShibaCENTRIUM TOWERInternational Media Production ZoneLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified104,556 sqftAED 527/sqftAED 55,120,060
20 Dec 2006Marsa DubaiFranck muller VanguardTECOM Site DBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified72,104 sqftAED 659/sqftAED 47,500,000
19 Dec 2006Jumeirah First—VillaResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified40,000 sqftAED 1,100/sqftAED 44,000,000
19 Dec 2006Al Nahda Second—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified16,523 sqftAED 2,542/sqftAED 42,000,000
20 Dec 2006Nad Al Shiba—LandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified4,126,478 sqftAED 10/sqftAED 41,264,925
7 Dec 2006Al Barsha First—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified12,000 sqftAED 3,333/sqftAED 40,000,000
25 Dec 2006Al Raffa—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified30,102 sqftAED 1,262/sqftAED 38,000,000

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.