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Quarterly report

Dubai property market — Q1 2009

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside Q1 2009. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales12,145Registered in Q1 2009up237.7%
Total value19.63BRegistered in Q1 2009Across 75 communities
Price per sqft650/sqftMedian across Q1 2009up19%
Sale price612KMedian across Q1 200927% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 12,145 property sales in Q1 2009, worth AED 19.63B in total, across 75 communities. That is 238% more than the same quarter a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 612,273 at AED 650/sqft, 19% above the same quarter last year. 27% of sales were off-plan.

Al Warsan First was the busiest community with 4,544 registered sales, while Al Thanyah Fifth took the most money at AED 2.92B.

Against the previous quarter, Palm Jumeirah rose 914% to 811 sales, while Wadi Al Safa 6 fell 55% to 182.

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 2009, and how each moved against the quarter before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Al Warsan First4,544+56.4%1.77B303K515/sqft0%
Al Thanyah Fifth2,099+438.2%2.92B1.00M893/sqft66%
Marsa Dubai1,397+19.2%1.89B1.03M870/sqft22%
Palm Jumeirah811+913.7%2.58B2.20M561/sqft25%
Jabal Ali First578—160.03M83K618/sqft82%
Al Thanyah Third339-39.0%530.10M1.02M887/sqft0%
Al Thanayah Fourth301-43.6%569.12M1.35M294/sqft0%
Burj Khalifa288+18.0%1.29B1.35M1,202/sqft0%
Al Jadaf246+969.6%1.62B3.02M2,138/sqft87%
Wadi Al Safa 2212—118.06M545K680/sqft100%
Al Hebiah Fifth193—137.38M684K862/sqft100%
Wadi Al Safa 6182-55.0%416.36M1.91M446/sqft0%
Al Hebiah Fourth152+850.0%320.45M832K1,102/sqft91%
Jabal Ali129+104.8%1.12B2.21M207/sqft0%
Al Barsha South Fourth127+98.4%293.28M593K664/sqft83%

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 Thanyah Fifth2.92B2,099
Palm Jumeirah2.58B811
Marsa Dubai1.89B1,397
Al Warsan First1.77B4,544
Al Jadaf1.62B246
Burj Khalifa1.29B288
Jabal Ali1.12B129
Trade Center Second1.03B113
Madinat Dubai Almelaheyah623.02M5
Al Thanayah Fourth569.12M301

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
Palm Jumeirah811+913.7%
Al Thanyah Fifth2,099+438.2%
Jabal Ali129+104.8%
Al Barsha South Fourth127+98.4%
Al Warsan First4,544+56.4%
Wadi Al Safa 6182-55.0%
Al Thanayah Fourth301-43.6%
Al Thanyah Third339-39.0%
Marsa Dubai1,397+19.2%
Burj Khalifa288+18.0%

The largest sales of Q1 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
7 Jan 2009Burj Khalifa—DownTown DubaiBuildingOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified250,560 sqftAED 2,000/sqftAED 501,120,000
5 Jan 2009Madinat Dubai Almelaheyah—Dubai Maritime CityLandIndustrial · Existing PropertiesNot specified122,310 sqftAED 3,036/sqftAED 371,322,603
5 Jan 2009Madinat Dubai AlmelaheyahFranck Muller YachtingDubai Maritime CityLandIndustrial · Existing PropertiesNot specified81,705 sqftAED 2,563/sqftAED 209,406,487
5 Jan 2009Al Khairan Second—The LagoonsLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified39,997 sqftAED 5,065/sqftAED 202,570,000
25 Feb 2009Al Wasl—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified50,000 sqftAED 4,000/sqftAED 200,000,000
3 Mar 2009Palm JumeirahBALQIS RESIDENCEPalm JumeirahVillaCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified1,527,136 sqftAED 100/sqftAED 152,758,844
9 Feb 2009Burj KhalifaSKY SCRAPERBusiness BayLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified108,300 sqftAED 1,200/sqftAED 129,960,000
7 Jan 2009Palm JumeirahGOLDEN MILEPalm JumeirahBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified386,946 sqftAED 303/sqftAED 117,380,667
9 Feb 2009Burj KhalifaPOLARISBusiness BayLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified77,501 sqftAED 1,350/sqftAED 104,627,000

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.