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Monthly report

Dubai property market — October 2009

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

Sales3,957Registered in October 2009up104%
Total value6.34BRegistered in October 2009Across 62 communities
Price per sqft715/sqftMedian across October 2009up15.8%
Sale price831KMedian across October 200943% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 3,957 property sales in October 2009, worth AED 6.34B in total, across 62 communities. That is 104% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 830,888 at AED 715/sqft, 15.8% above the same month last year. 43% of sales were off-plan.

Wadi Al Safa 5 was the busiest community with 871 registered sales, while Marsa Dubai took the most money at AED 920.06M.

Against the previous month, Al Hebiah Fourth rose 235% to 295 sales, while Me'Aisem First fell 58% to 99.

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

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Wadi Al Safa 5871+24.8%519.95M598K679/sqft100%
Marsa Dubai495+68.9%920.06M1.20M979/sqft43%
Al Thanyah Fifth387+68.3%470.76M1.01M744/sqft19%
Al Warsan First336+15.1%163.99M329K516/sqft2%
Al Hebiah Fourth295+235.2%396.68M810K927/sqft71%
Jabal Ali First280-21.6%161.77M580K749/sqft0%
Al Hebiah First192+20.0%339.98M1.41M797/sqft0%
Burj Khalifa157-2.5%458.17M1.74M1,410/sqft14%
Al Thanyah Third140-25.1%179.26M1.02M933/sqft4%
Business Bay125+177.8%413.48M3.10M1,350/sqft100%
Al Barsha South Fourth105+238.7%101.10M515K716/sqft61%
Me'Aisem First99-57.5%59.32M486K829/sqft20%
Palm Jumeirah91+26.4%639.93M3.24M1,131/sqft49%
Al Thanayah Fourth90+20.0%251.57M1.63M366/sqft0%
Nadd Hessa54+31.7%41.83M736K781/sqft43%

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
Marsa Dubai920.06M495
Palm Jumeirah639.93M91
Wadi Al Safa 5519.95M871
Al Thanyah Fifth470.76M387
Burj Khalifa458.17M157
Business Bay413.48M125
Al Hebiah Fourth396.68M295
Al Hebiah First339.98M192
Al Thanayah Fourth251.57M90
Al Thanyah Third179.26M140

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 Hebiah Fourth295+235.2%
Marsa Dubai495+68.9%
Al Thanyah Fifth387+68.3%
Me'Aisem First99-57.5%
Palm Jumeirah91+26.4%
Al Thanyah Third140-25.1%
Wadi Al Safa 5871+24.8%
Jabal Ali First280-21.6%
Al Hebiah First192+20.0%
Al Thanayah Fourth90+20.0%

The largest sales of October 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
22 Oct 2009Palm JumeirahCLUB VILLASPalm JumeirahVillaCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified507,402 sqftAED 438/sqftAED 222,327,914
26 Oct 2009Marsa Dubai—Jumeriah Beach Residence - JBRBuildingOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified461,830 sqftAED 322/sqftAED 148,500,000
5 Oct 2009Burj Khalifa—Business BayLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified61,405 sqftAED 1,348/sqftAED 82,797,000
19 Oct 2009Jabal Ali—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified15,161 sqftAED 3,298/sqftAED 50,000,000
8 Oct 2009Al Murqabat—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified11,638 sqftAED 3,867/sqftAED 45,000,000
29 Oct 2009Marsa DubaiPRINCESS TOWERDubai MarinaBuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified20,014 sqftAED 2,138/sqftAED 42,800,000
13 Oct 2009Al Barsha South FifthFashionz 1 By DanubeJumeirah Village TriangleBuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified66,028 sqftAED 632/sqftAED 41,718,200
20 Oct 2009Al Jadaf—Sama Al JadafBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified21,500 sqftAED 1,716/sqftAED 36,898,575
5 Oct 2009Burj Khalifa—Business BayLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified34,311 sqftAED 940/sqftAED 32,253,000
26 Oct 2009Al Warsan First—International City Phase 1BuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified13,479 sqftAED 2,384/sqftAED 32,137,000

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.