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Monthly report

Dubai property market — February 2010

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside February 2010. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales3,265Registered in February 2010down13.7%
Total value5.67BRegistered in February 2010Across 57 communities
Price per sqft836/sqftMedian across February 2010up13.1%
Sale price1.02MMedian across February 201045% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 3,265 property sales in February 2010, worth AED 5.67B in total, across 57 communities. That is 14% fewer than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,024,116 at AED 836/sqft, 13.1% above the same month last year. 45% of sales were off-plan.

Business Bay was the busiest community with 618 registered sales, and also took the most money at AED 805.57M.

Against the previous month, Business Bay rose 724% to 618 sales, while Marsa Dubai fell 10% to 431.

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 February 2010, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Business Bay618+724.0%805.57M1.13M1,262/sqft94%
Marsa Dubai431-10.4%798.66M1.37M1,002/sqft34%
Al Warsan First425+197.2%205.51M457K683/sqft51%
Al Thanyah Fifth383+116.4%452.66M906K775/sqft8%
Wadi Al Safa 3322+32100.0%582.10M1.22M757/sqft69%
Al Barsha South Fourth146+180.8%120.65M638K655/sqft99%
Nadd Hessa144+300.0%541.12M450K494/sqft3%
Jabal Ali First118+293.3%64.41M488K750/sqft0%
Burj Khalifa109+22.5%237.16M1.75M1,434/sqft7%
Me'Aisem First99+141.5%56.72M469K800/sqft79%
Al Hebiah Fourth98+139.0%173.05M1.00M730/sqft15%
Palm Jumeirah97-7.6%328.93M1.86M925/sqft14%
Al Thanyah Third530.0%86.45M1.15M904/sqft8%
Al Thanayah Fourth45+25.0%104.60M1.89M578/sqft0%
Wadi Al Safa 637+48.0%106.81M2.90M500/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
Business Bay805.57M618
Marsa Dubai798.66M431
Wadi Al Safa 3582.10M322
Nadd Hessa541.12M144
Al Thanyah Fifth452.66M383
Palm Jumeirah328.93M97
Burj Khalifa237.16M109
Al Ttay215.68M9
Al Warsan First205.51M425
Al Hebiah Fourth173.05M98

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
Business Bay618+724.0%
Al Warsan First425+197.2%
Al Barsha South Fourth146+180.8%
Al Thanyah Fifth383+116.4%
Burj Khalifa109+22.5%
Marsa Dubai431-10.4%
Palm Jumeirah97-7.6%
Al Thanyah Third530.0%

The largest sales of February 2010

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
15 Feb 2010Nadd HessaPALACE TOWERSilicon OasisOfficeCommercial · Off-Plan PropertiesOffice5,201 sqftAED 88,468/sqftAED 460,129,845
1 Feb 2010Jabal Ali Industrial First—JABAL ALI INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENTBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified40,000 sqftAED 3,250/sqftAED 130,000,000
16 Feb 2010Al Jadaf—Sama Al JadafLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified53,644 sqftAED 1,500/sqftAED 80,466,000
9 Feb 2010Bukadra—LandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified30,516 sqftAED 2,000/sqftAED 61,030,000
4 Feb 2010Al Jadaf—Sama Al JadafBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified21,270 sqftAED 1,550/sqftAED 32,968,500
15 Feb 2010Marsa DubaiTHE ATLANTICDubai MarinaVillaResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified40,188 sqftAED 793/sqftAED 31,862,600
25 Feb 2010Palm JumeirahBALQIS RESIDENCEPalm JumeirahFlatResidential · Off-Plan Properties6 B/R17,359 sqftAED 1,671/sqftAED 29,000,000
16 Feb 2010Al Ttay—Al Khawaneej Labour CityLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified20,000 sqftAED 1,300/sqftAED 26,000,000
16 Feb 2010Al JadafPALAZZO VERSACEJaddaf WaterfrontFlatResidential · Off-Plan Properties5 B/R10,678 sqftAED 2,369/sqftAED 25,300,000
1 Feb 2010Al Ttay—Al Khawaneej Labour CityLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified19,514 sqftAED 1,250/sqftAED 24,392,500

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.