Dubai Market Data

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Monthly report

Dubai property market — September 2010

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

Sales1,330Registered in September 2010down57.7%
Total value2.64BRegistered in September 2010Across 55 communities
Price per sqft787/sqftMedian across September 2010up5.9%
Sale price1.20MMedian across September 201012% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 1,330 property sales in September 2010, worth AED 2.64B in total, across 55 communities. That is 58% fewer than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,200,000 at AED 787/sqft, 5.9% above the same month last year. 12% of sales were off-plan.

Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 197 registered sales, while Burj Khalifa took the most money at AED 363.63M.

Against the previous month, Marsa Dubai fell 68% to 197.

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

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Marsa Dubai197-68.1%226.63M973K904/sqft26%
Al Thanyah Fifth172-49.4%199.21M918K756/sqft15%
Al Warsan First161-44.9%57.79M285K407/sqft0%
Burj Khalifa133-61.0%363.63M1.52M1,537/sqft7%
Palm Jumeirah106-1.9%307.08M2.57M1,366/sqft19%
Business Bay103-14.2%196.59M1.91M915/sqft10%
Al Thanyah Third75-66.4%129.67M1.26M729/sqft0%
Al Thanayah Fourth63-51.9%162.49M1.36M370/sqft0%
Al Hebiah Fourth33-53.5%118.53M2.97M492/sqft9%
Wadi Al Safa 633-72.0%79.16M2.30M508/sqft0%
Al Barsha South Fourth320.0%32.85M685K755/sqft66%
Al Hebiah First30+36.4%47.41M1.20M777/sqft0%
Nadd Hessa26-81.9%123.46M855K796/sqft4%
Al Thanyah First20+33.3%31.98M1.21M971/sqft0%
Me'Aisem First19-75.3%11.29M549K1,015/sqft26%

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
Burj Khalifa363.63M133
Palm Jumeirah307.08M106
Marsa Dubai226.63M197
Al Thanyah Fifth199.21M172
Business Bay196.59M103
Al Thanayah Fourth162.49M63
Al Thanyah Third129.67M75
Nadd Hessa123.46M26
Al Hebiah Fourth118.53M33
Al Sabkha80.00M1

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
Marsa Dubai197-68.1%
Al Thanyah Third75-66.4%
Burj Khalifa133-61.0%
Al Thanayah Fourth63-51.9%
Al Thanyah Fifth172-49.4%
Al Warsan First161-44.9%
Business Bay103-14.2%
Palm Jumeirah106-1.9%

The largest sales of September 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
6 Sept 2010Burj KhalifaPLATINUM TOWERBusiness BayLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified112,496 sqftAED 800/sqftAED 90,000,000
27 Sept 2010Nadd Hessa—Silicon OasisBuildingResidential / Commercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified76,124 sqftAED 1,056/sqftAED 80,422,676
27 Sept 2010Al Sabkha—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified14,460 sqftAED 5,533/sqftAED 80,000,000
21 Sept 2010Jabal Ali Industrial Second—Down Town Jabal AliLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified24,295 sqftAED 1,800/sqftAED 43,733,065
27 Sept 2010Al Thanayah FourthEmirates HillsEmirates LivingLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified35,174 sqftAED 1,166/sqftAED 41,000,000
14 Sept 2010Al Ras—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified1,840 sqftAED 17,395/sqftAED 32,000,000
16 Sept 2010Al Barshaa South Third—ArjanLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified68,464 sqftAED 300/sqftAED 20,539,300
21 Sept 2010Al Jadaf—Sama Al JadafBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified12,027 sqftAED 1,500/sqftAED 18,040,500
28 Sept 2010Palm Jumeirah—Palm JumeirahVillaCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified13,398 sqftAED 1,306/sqftAED 17,500,000
21 Sept 2010Al Jadaf—Sama Al JadafLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified11,601 sqftAED 1,500/sqftAED 17,401,500

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.