Dubai Market Data

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Annual report

Dubai property market — 2011

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside 2011. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales28,375Registered in 2011down16.8%
Total value58.14BRegistered in 2011Across 131 communities
Price per sqft797/sqftMedian across 2011down7.7%
Sale price1.05MMedian across 20119% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 28,375 property sales in 2011, worth AED 58.14B in total, across 131 communities. That is 17% fewer than the year before.

The median sale was AED 1,054,336 at AED 797/sqft, 7.7% below the year before. 9% of sales were off-plan.

Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 5,309 registered sales, and also took the most money at AED 8.77B.

Against the previous year, Wadi Al Safa 5 rose 795% to 993 sales, while Al Hebiah Fourth fell 72% to 464.

Sales by year

Price per square foot by year

Median price per sqft

Where the sales were

The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in 2011, and how each moved against the year before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Marsa Dubai5,309-12.9%8.77B1.27M954/sqft9%
Al Thanyah Fifth4,591-5.6%4.61B746K735/sqft10%
Business Bay1,969-21.7%4.66B1.32M1,119/sqft15%
Burj Khalifa1,932-48.5%6.73B1.99M1,563/sqft5%
Al Warsan First1,844-54.4%656.78M250K378/sqft2%
Al Thanyah Third1,791-2.1%3.49B1.07M913/sqft0%
Palm Jumeirah1,613+34.2%5.66B2.67M1,304/sqft13%
Al Barsha South Fourth1,020+57.7%1.09B688K736/sqft17%
Al Thanayah Fourth1,012-5.0%2.86B1.60M467/sqft0%
Wadi Al Safa 5993+794.6%1.12B687K662/sqft1%
Nadd Hessa880-25.3%824.53M591K675/sqft21%
Al Hebiah First867+92.2%908.05M783K500/sqft1%
Jabal Ali First622-32.7%967.62M332K519/sqft5%
Wadi Al Safa 6619-14.5%1.60B2.35M434/sqft0%
Me'Aisem First520+5.1%504.21M569K966/sqft8%

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 Dubai8.77B5,309
Burj Khalifa6.73B1,932
Palm Jumeirah5.66B1,613
Business Bay4.66B1,969
Al Thanyah Fifth4.61B4,591
Al Thanyah Third3.49B1,791
Al Thanayah Fourth2.86B1,012
Wadi Al Safa 61.60B619
World Islands1.30B2
Wadi Al Safa 51.12B993

Biggest movers

Change in registered sales against the previous year. Limited to communities with at least 50 sales in both — below that a swing is noise.

CommunitySalesChange
Wadi Al Safa 5993+794.6%
Al Hebiah Fifth272+180.4%
Al Hebiah First867+92.2%
Al Ruwayyah89+78.0%
Al Hebiah Fourth464-71.5%
Al Barsha South Fourth1,020+57.7%
Al Warsan First1,844-54.4%
Burj Khalifa1,932-48.5%
Wadi Al Safa 2113+43.0%
Mirdif74+37.0%

The largest sales of 2011

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
19 Jan 2011World Islands—The WorldLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified20,117,947 sqftAED 62/sqftAED 1,247,540,931
18 May 2011Business BayU-BORA TOWERSBusiness BayBuildingOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified1,723,935 sqftAED 574/sqftAED 989,327,460
10 Jan 2011Business Bay—Business BayBuildingOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified187,319 sqftAED 2,104/sqftAED 394,178,400
29 Nov 2011Burj Khalifa—Business BayLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified1,285,188 sqftAED 272/sqftAED 350,000,000
19 Sept 2011Marsa DubaiShams 1Jumeriah Beach Residence - JBRFlatResidential · Existing Properties1 B/R1,342 sqftAED 253,447/sqftAED 340,000,000
14 Nov 2011Business Bay—Business BayBuildingOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified359,676 sqftAED 931/sqftAED 335,000,000
9 May 2011Marsa Dubai—Dubai MarinaBuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified47,415 sqftAED 6,749/sqftAED 320,000,000
14 Nov 2011Al Thanyah Third—The GreensBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified54,104 sqftAED 5,001/sqftAED 270,570,375
31 Jan 2011Al Safouh Second—Site AVillaCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified928,723 sqftAED 258/sqftAED 240,000,000
3 Aug 2011Naif—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified31,835 sqftAED 6,282/sqftAED 200,000,000

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.