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 2006

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside Q1 2006. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales530Registered in Q1 2006down42.9%
Total value3.81BRegistered in Q1 2006Across 81 communities
Price per sqft308/sqftMedian across Q1 2006up15.7%
Sale price2.47MMedian across Q1 20061% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 530 property sales in Q1 2006, worth AED 3.81B in total, across 81 communities. That is 43% fewer than the same quarter a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 2,469,204 at AED 308/sqft, 15.7% above the same quarter last year. 1% of sales were off-plan.

Mirdif was the busiest community with 51 registered sales, while Trade Center First took the most money at AED 430.00M.

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 2006, and how each moved against the quarter before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Mirdif51+37.8%168.29M2.60M240/sqft0%
Al Thanyah Fifth50+1150.0%104.53M2.10M194/sqft0%
Al Satwa24-4.0%49.66M1.52M626/sqft0%
Hor Al Anz200.0%56.42M1.38M663/sqft0%
Al Barsha Third19+5.6%54.49M2.52M170/sqft0%
Al Rashidiya18+38.5%32.32M1.49M254/sqft0%
Al Barsha First15+7.1%230.74M11.88M1,000/sqft0%
Nad Al Hamar15+200.0%25.43M1.73M122/sqft0%
Al Muteena13+550.0%43.78M1.46M584/sqft0%
Jumeirah First13+225.0%98.70M3.10M424/sqft0%
Al Mararr12+140.0%102.97M4.75M1,873/sqft0%
Al Mizhar First12+200.0%27.22M2.02M150/sqft0%
Al Waheda12+71.4%20.38M1.50M260/sqft0%
Al Nahda First11+450.0%234.31M20.60M701/sqft0%
Abu Hail10-23.1%9.43M1.11M344/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 First430.00M2
Al Nahda First234.31M11
Al Barsha First230.74M15
Al Mamzer192.80M9
Mirdif168.29M51
Al Thanyah Third167.00M2
Al Karama141.98M5
Al Nahda Second111.44M10
Marsa Dubai108.00M2
Naif104.88M10

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

The largest sales of Q1 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
6 Feb 2006Trade Center First—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified10,000 sqftAED 26,000/sqftAED 260,000,000
28 Feb 2006Trade Center First—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified12,500 sqftAED 13,600/sqftAED 170,000,000
16 Jan 2006Al Karama—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified19,105 sqftAED 6,124/sqftAED 117,000,000
20 Feb 2006Marsa DubaiELITE RESIDENCEDubai MarinaBuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified37,680 sqftAED 2,654/sqftAED 100,000,000
20 Mar 2006Al Thanyah Third—LandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified29,063 sqftAED 3,338/sqftAED 97,000,000
20 Feb 2006Al Thanyah Third—LandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified29,063 sqftAED 2,409/sqftAED 70,000,000
7 Mar 2006Mankhool—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified11,073 sqftAED 5,419/sqftAED 60,000,000
28 Mar 2006Al Barsha First—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified31,554 sqftAED 1,585/sqftAED 50,000,000
28 Mar 2006Wadi Al Amardi—LandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified522,511 sqftAED 92/sqftAED 48,071,104
27 Feb 2006Al Mararr—BuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified18,013 sqftAED 2,307/sqftAED 41,554,100

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.