Dubai Market Data

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Quarterly report

Dubai property market — Q4 2006

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside Q4 2006. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales933Registered in Q4 2006up115.5%
Total value5.74BRegistered in Q4 2006Across 76 communities
Price per sqft280/sqftMedian across Q4 2006down15%
Sale price2.19MMedian across Q4 20060% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 933 property sales in Q4 2006, worth AED 5.74B in total, across 76 communities. That is 115% more than the same quarter a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 2,188,800 at AED 280/sqft, 15% below the same quarter last year. 0% of sales were off-plan.

Al Thanayah Fourth was the busiest community with 341 registered sales, and also took the most money at AED 687.26M.

Against the previous quarter, Al Thanyah Fifth fell 49% to 88.

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 Q4 2006, and how each moved against the quarter before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Al Thanayah Fourth341+2523.1%687.26M1.56M232/sqft0%
Al Thanyah Fifth88-48.8%256.79M2.10M204/sqft0%
Hor Al Anz55+175.0%148.79M1.85M867/sqft0%
Mirdif35-36.4%156.42M2.90M347/sqft0%
Al Thanyah Third33+371.4%244.72M4.07M378/sqft0%
Al Satwa21+40.0%48.94M2.00M740/sqft0%
Al Rashidiya16+45.5%25.52M1.50M366/sqft0%
Nad Al Hamar15+200.0%56.65M2.33M147/sqft0%
Al Barsha First14+133.3%307.06M18.01M1,050/sqft0%
Al Muteena12+300.0%74.58M3.00M774/sqft0%
Al Warqa First12+1100.0%74.87M5.70M380/sqft0%
Abu Hail11+37.5%17.38M1.45M503/sqft0%
Al Barsha Third11+10.0%40.31M3.30M220/sqft0%
Marsa Dubai11+83.3%480.57M39.29M640/sqft0%
Um Suqaim First11+175.0%52.65M3.80M595/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 Fourth687.26M341
Marsa Dubai480.57M11
Palm Jumeirah436.11M1
Al Barsha First307.06M14
Al Thanyah Fifth256.79M88
Al Thanyah Third244.72M33
Al Nahda Second235.10M10
Rega Al Buteen229.45M3
Al Raffa174.99M10
Mankhool173.88M8

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
Al Thanyah Fifth88-48.8%

The largest sales of Q4 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
22 Nov 2006Palm Jumeirah—Palm JumeirahLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified4,894,293 sqftAED 89/sqftAED 436,109,375
29 Nov 2006Um Hurair Second—Dubai Health Care City Phase 1LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified35,817 sqftAED 3,630/sqftAED 130,000,000
25 Dec 2006Al Safouh First—Sufouh GardensLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified58,160 sqftAED 1,719/sqftAED 100,000,000
15 Nov 2006Rega Al Buteen—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified15,000 sqftAED 6,333/sqftAED 95,000,000
16 Nov 2006Marsa DubaiTRIDENT GRANDDubai MarinaBuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified83,143 sqftAED 1,076/sqftAED 89,468,280
2 Oct 2006Marsa DubaiSTELLA MARISDubai MarinaBuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified35,718 sqftAED 2,000/sqftAED 71,436,000
11 Dec 2006Al Barsha First—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified12,007 sqftAED 5,663/sqftAED 68,000,000
1 Nov 2006Rega Al Buteen—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified21,208 sqftAED 3,200/sqftAED 67,865,600
1 Nov 2006Rega Al Buteen—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified20,808 sqftAED 3,200/sqftAED 66,585,600
20 Dec 2006Al Raffa—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified48,423 sqftAED 1,363/sqftAED 66,000,000

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.