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Monthly report

Dubai property market — February 2011

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

Sales2,784Registered in February 2011down14.7%
Total value5.03BRegistered in February 2011Across 63 communities
Price per sqft787/sqftMedian across February 2011down5.9%
Sale price1.00MMedian across February 20115% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 2,784 property sales in February 2011, worth AED 5.03B in total, across 63 communities. That is 15% fewer than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,000,000 at AED 787/sqft, 5.9% below the same month last year. 5% of sales were off-plan.

Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 450 registered sales, while Al Thanyah Third took the most money at AED 1.39B.

Against the previous month, Al Hebiah First rose 166% to 413 sales, while Palm Jumeirah fell 59% to 113.

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 2011, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Marsa Dubai450-8.5%598.71M1.15M1,010/sqft5%
Al Thanyah Third442+123.2%1.39B1.30M1,166/sqft0%
Al Hebiah First413+166.5%317.40M713K500/sqft1%
Al Thanyah Fifth270-24.4%249.08M738K718/sqft4%
Al Warsan First236-21.1%88.63M269K418/sqft1%
Burj Khalifa217+15.4%722.31M2.36M1,670/sqft2%
Business Bay118+28.3%184.64M1.38M1,071/sqft17%
Palm Jumeirah113-58.6%402.69M2.74M1,310/sqft6%
Al Thanayah Fourth92+17.9%183.19M1.51M378/sqft0%
Nadd Hessa91-8.1%83.13M684K830/sqft5%
Wadi Al Safa 652-7.1%137.33M2.09M462/sqft0%
Jabal Ali First51+30.8%16.08M275K393/sqft24%
Al Hebiah Fourth44+57.1%93.70M1.31M1,169/sqft48%
Al Barsha South Fourth43-33.8%31.88M694K775/sqft44%
Al Barsha South Fifth20-9.1%29.66M1.49M207/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
Al Thanyah Third1.39B442
Burj Khalifa722.31M217
Marsa Dubai598.71M450
Palm Jumeirah402.69M113
Al Hebiah First317.40M413
Al Thanyah Fifth249.08M270
Business Bay184.64M118
Al Thanayah Fourth183.19M92
Wadi Al Safa 6137.33M52
Al Hebiah Fourth93.70M44

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 First413+166.5%
Al Thanyah Third442+123.2%
Palm Jumeirah113-58.6%
Business Bay118+28.3%
Al Thanyah Fifth270-24.4%
Al Warsan First236-21.1%
Al Thanayah Fourth92+17.9%
Burj Khalifa217+15.4%
Marsa Dubai450-8.5%
Nadd Hessa91-8.1%

The largest sales of February 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
23 Feb 2011Al Thanyah ThirdEMMAR BUSINESS PARK BLDG-4The GreensOfficeCommercial · Existing PropertiesOffice25,362 sqftAED 2,109/sqftAED 53,485,714
23 Feb 2011Al Thanyah ThirdEMMAR BUSINESS PARK BLDG-4The GreensOfficeCommercial · Existing PropertiesOffice25,760 sqftAED 2,076/sqftAED 53,485,714
23 Feb 2011Al Thanyah ThirdEMMAR BUSINESS PARK BLDG-4The GreensOfficeCommercial · Existing PropertiesOffice25,760 sqftAED 2,076/sqftAED 53,485,714
23 Feb 2011Al Thanyah ThirdEMMAR BUSINESS PARK BLDG-4The GreensOfficeCommercial · Existing PropertiesOffice25,760 sqftAED 2,076/sqftAED 53,485,714
23 Feb 2011Al Thanyah ThirdEMMAR BUSINESS PARK BLDG-4The GreensOfficeCommercial · Existing PropertiesOffice25,760 sqftAED 2,076/sqftAED 53,485,714
23 Feb 2011Al Thanyah ThirdEMMAR BUSINESS PARK BLDG-4The GreensOfficeCommercial · Existing PropertiesOffice24,703 sqftAED 2,165/sqftAED 53,485,714
23 Feb 2011Al Thanyah ThirdEMMAR BUSINESS PARK BLDG-4The GreensOfficeCommercial · Existing PropertiesOffice17,082 sqftAED 3,131/sqftAED 53,485,714
14 Feb 2011Dubai Investment Park SecondRITAJDubai Investment Park SecondBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified1,028,435 sqftAED 50/sqftAED 51,711,635
28 Feb 2011Al Karama—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified10,000 sqftAED 4,250/sqftAED 42,500,000
8 Feb 2011Al Goze Industrial First—BuildingIndustrial · Existing PropertiesNot specified57,242 sqftAED 735/sqftAED 42,072,870

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.