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Dubai property market — March 2009

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside March 2009. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales4,007Registered in March 2009up168.4%
Total value6.63BRegistered in March 2009Across 49 communities
Price per sqft717/sqftMedian across March 2009up53.4%
Sale price825KMedian across March 200933% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 4,007 property sales in March 2009, worth AED 6.63B in total, across 49 communities. That is 168% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 825,000 at AED 717/sqft, 53.4% above the same month last year. 33% of sales were off-plan.

Al Warsan First was the busiest community with 1,120 registered sales, while Palm Jumeirah took the most money at AED 1.38B.

Against the previous month, Palm Jumeirah rose 474% to 580 sales, while Al Thanyah Fifth fell 49% to 579.

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 March 2009, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Al Warsan First1,120-16.9%386.95M299K496/sqft0%
Palm Jumeirah580+474.3%1.38B1.27M595/sqft32%
Al Thanyah Fifth579-48.9%760.11M982K900/sqft73%
Marsa Dubai543+32.4%774.69M1.12M894/sqft27%
Al Hebiah Fifth193—137.38M684K862/sqft100%
Al Jadaf184+253.8%508.04M2.36M2,111/sqft99%
Al Thanayah Fourth119+52.6%203.94M1.20M268/sqft0%
Al Thanyah Third103-2.8%175.65M1.03M899/sqft0%
Burj Khalifa99+25.3%135.95M1.13M994/sqft0%
Jabal Ali First74+640.0%34.82M407K701/sqft32%
Al Hebiah Fourth61+1425.0%153.99M1.03M1,001/sqft85%
Wadi Al Safa 658-17.1%109.87M1.79M403/sqft0%
Wadi Al Safa 257-45.7%28.84M426K680/sqft100%
Al Thanyah First44+33.3%106.70M2.41M1,468/sqft11%
Jabal Ali36+300.0%292.27M2.19M225/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
Palm Jumeirah1.38B580
Marsa Dubai774.69M543
Al Thanyah Fifth760.11M579
Trade Center Second636.64M10
Al Jadaf508.04M184
Al Warsan First386.95M1,120
Jabal Ali292.27M36
Al Thanayah Fourth203.94M119
Al Thanyah Third175.65M103
Al Hebiah Fourth153.99M61

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
Palm Jumeirah580+474.3%
Al Jadaf184+253.8%
Al Thanayah Fourth119+52.6%
Al Thanyah Fifth579-48.9%
Wadi Al Safa 257-45.7%
Marsa Dubai543+32.4%
Burj Khalifa99+25.3%
Wadi Al Safa 658-17.1%
Al Warsan First1,120-16.9%
Al Thanyah Third103-2.8%

The largest sales of March 2009

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
3 Mar 2009Trade Center Second—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified10,000 sqftAED 60,000/sqftAED 600,000,000
3 Mar 2009Palm JumeirahBALQIS RESIDENCEPalm JumeirahVillaCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified1,527,136 sqftAED 100/sqftAED 152,758,844
10 Mar 2009Mankhool—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified23,376 sqftAED 3,208/sqftAED 75,000,000
16 Mar 2009Nad Al Shiba—Silicon OasisLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified36,551 sqftAED 1,072/sqftAED 39,183,004
16 Mar 2009Nad Al Shiba—Silicon OasisLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified32,769 sqftAED 1,072/sqftAED 35,128,024
23 Mar 2009Jabal Ali—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified13,619 sqftAED 2,577/sqftAED 35,100,973
23 Mar 2009Jabal Ali—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified13,619 sqftAED 2,577/sqftAED 35,100,973
2 Mar 2009Jabal Ali—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified13,619 sqftAED 2,577/sqftAED 35,100,973
16 Mar 2009Jabal Ali—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified13,427 sqftAED 2,541/sqftAED 34,120,100
2 Mar 2009Jabal Ali—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified13,427 sqftAED 2,541/sqftAED 34,120,100

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.