Dubai Market Data
Registered sales and Ejari contracts, organized for clear comparisons and better property decisions.
Public records · Dubai Land Department
Quarterly report
Dubai property market — Q4 2012
Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside Q4 2012. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.
In a sentence
The Land Department registered 11,750 property sales in Q4 2012, worth AED 24.07B in total, across 107 communities. That is 69% more than the same quarter a year earlier.
The median sale was AED 1,150,000 at AED 882/sqft, 12.8% above the same quarter last year. 12% of sales were off-plan.
Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 2,530 registered sales, and also took the most money at AED 4.32B.
Against the previous quarter, Burj Khalifa rose 176% to 1,260 sales, while Al Thanyah First fell 24% to 78.
Sales by quarter
Price per square foot by quarter
Where the sales were
The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in Q4 2012, and how each moved against the quarter before.
| Community | Sales | vs prior | Total value | Median price | Price/sqft | Off-plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marsa Dubai | 2,530 | +114.0% | 4.32B | 1.31M | 1,111/sqft | 3% |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 1,774 | +50.1% | 2.55B | 880K | 766/sqft | 2% |
| Burj Khalifa | 1,260 | +175.7% | 3.75B | 1.97M | 1,948/sqft | 58% |
| Al Warsan First | 1,004 | +55.9% | 389.84M | 300K | 475/sqft | 0% |
| Business Bay | 925 | +41.0% | 1.31B | 1.19M | 1,173/sqft | 34% |
| Al Thanyah Third | 472 | -1.0% | 646.62M | 1.00M | 1,019/sqft | 5% |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 449 | +55.9% | 444.28M | 735K | 640/sqft | 11% |
| Wadi Al Safa 5 | 369 | +11.1% | 592.53M | 840K | 492/sqft | 2% |
| Al Thanayah Fourth | 309 | +30.9% | 1.03B | 1.80M | 637/sqft | 0% |
| Nadd Hessa | 303 | +47.1% | 222.59M | 511K | 633/sqft | 4% |
| Palm Jumeirah | 288 | +7.5% | 1.08B | 2.44M | 1,233/sqft | 17% |
| Dubai Investment Park First | 237 | +23.4% | 211.70M | 141K | 13/sqft | 7% |
| Wadi Al Safa 6 | 218 | +39.7% | 667.00M | 2.68M | 589/sqft | 2% |
| Jabal Ali First | 181 | -9.5% | 130.60M | 360K | 627/sqft | 0% |
| Al Hebiah Fourth | 167 | -21.2% | 294.47M | 783K | 675/sqft | 10% |
Where the money went
Ranked by total registered value rather than count — a different list, and the one that shows where capital actually landed.
| Community | Value | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Marsa Dubai | 4.32B | 2,530 |
| Burj Khalifa | 3.75B | 1,260 |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 2.55B | 1,774 |
| Business Bay | 1.31B | 925 |
| Palm Jumeirah | 1.08B | 288 |
| Al Thanayah Fourth | 1.03B | 309 |
| Wadi Al Safa 6 | 667.00M | 218 |
| Al Thanyah Third | 646.62M | 472 |
| Wadi Al Safa 5 | 592.53M | 369 |
| Wadi Al Safa 7 | 572.81M | 19 |
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.
| Community | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Burj Khalifa | 1,260 | +175.7% |
| Dubai Investment Park Second | 125 | +150.0% |
| Marsa Dubai | 2,530 | +114.0% |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 449 | +55.9% |
| Al Warsan First | 1,004 | +55.9% |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 1,774 | +50.1% |
| Nadd Hessa | 303 | +47.1% |
| Business Bay | 925 | +41.0% |
| Wadi Al Safa 6 | 218 | +39.7% |
| Al Hebiah Fifth | 106 | +34.2% |
The largest sales of Q4 2012
Each row links to its own register record, so any figure in this report can be traced to the transactions behind it.
| Date | Community | Project / building | Type | Beds | Size | Price/sqft | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 Nov 2012 | Wadi Al Safa 7 | Arabian Ranches-Casa CommunityArabian Ranches II | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 18,048,563 sqft | AED 29/sqft | AED 525,127,204 |
| 24 Dec 2012 | Burj Khalifa | —Business Bay | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 57,118 sqft | AED 5,427/sqft | AED 310,000,000 |
| 24 Dec 2012 | Al Yelayiss 4 | TEEMA 1 & TEEMA 2 | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 4,108,380 sqft | AED 70/sqft | AED 287,586,982 |
| 1 Nov 2012 | Jabal Ali Industrial Third | —Down Town Jabal Ali | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 607,874 sqft | AED 267/sqft | AED 162,487,889 |
| 1 Nov 2012 | Jabal Ali Industrial Third | —Down Town Jabal Ali | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 450,928 sqft | AED 267/sqft | AED 120,535,455 |
| 13 Nov 2012 | Al Suq Al Kabeer | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 14,750 sqft | AED 7,464/sqft | AED 110,100,000 |
| 22 Oct 2012 | Al Thanyah First | —Barsha Heights | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 44,085 sqft | AED 2,376/sqft | AED 104,750,000 |
| 18 Oct 2012 | Burj Khalifa | —DownTown Dubai | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 52,395 sqft | AED 1,748/sqft | AED 91,605,151 |
| 1 Nov 2012 | Jabal Ali Industrial Second | —Down Town Jabal Ali | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 332,109 sqft | AED 267/sqft | AED 88,774,430 |
| 26 Nov 2012 | Mankhool | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 15,729 sqft | AED 4,864/sqft | AED 76,500,000 |
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.