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Monthly report

Dubai property market — March 2013

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside March 2013. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales4,434Registered in March 2013up79.1%
Total value9.35BRegistered in March 2013Across 87 communities
Price per sqft895/sqftMedian across March 2013up11.7%
Sale price1.15MMedian across March 20138% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 4,434 property sales in March 2013, worth AED 9.35B in total, across 87 communities. That is 79% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,150,000 at AED 895/sqft, 11.7% above the same month last year. 8% of sales were off-plan.

Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 848 registered sales, and also took the most money at AED 1.35B.

Against the previous month, Al Thanyah First rose 133% to 119 sales, while Dubai Investment Park First fell 39% to 50.

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 March 2013, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Marsa Dubai848-0.2%1.35B1.24M1,134/sqft10%
Al Thanyah Fifth669+11.5%1.07B959K811/sqft6%
Business Bay453+35.6%622.77M1.20M1,134/sqft13%
Burj Khalifa345+3.0%1.12B1.91M1,745/sqft19%
Al Warsan First320+24.0%127.53M313K532/sqft1%
Palm Jumeirah164-5.7%652.95M2.70M1,425/sqft16%
Al Thanyah Third145-15.7%218.04M1.15M1,004/sqft6%
Al Barsha South Fourth134+15.5%143.16M609K633/sqft24%
Jabal Ali First126+2.4%163.70M518K701/sqft0%
Nadd Hessa126+4.1%103.95M484K631/sqft2%
Al Thanyah First119+133.3%302.41M1.19M1,227/sqft1%
Al Hebiah Fourth117+30.0%101.95M610K692/sqft2%
Al Thanayah Fourth100+1.0%345.46M2.38M697/sqft0%
Al Hebiah Fifth93+210.0%67.46M680K844/sqft0%
Wadi Al Safa 671-11.3%215.96M2.70M625/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
Marsa Dubai1.35B848
Burj Khalifa1.12B345
Al Thanyah Fifth1.07B669
Palm Jumeirah652.95M164
Business Bay622.77M453
Nad Al Shiba First400.48M3
Al Thanayah Fourth345.46M100
Al Thanyah First302.41M119
Al Thanyah Third218.04M145
Wadi Al Safa 6215.96M71

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 Thanyah First119+133.3%
Dubai Investment Park First50-39.0%
Business Bay453+35.6%
Al Hebiah Fourth117+30.0%
Al Warsan First320+24.0%
Wadi Al Safa 563-22.2%
Al Thanyah Third145-15.7%
Al Barsha South Fourth134+15.5%
Al Thanyah Fifth669+11.5%
Wadi Al Safa 671-11.3%

The largest sales of March 2013

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
18 Mar 2013Nad Al Shiba FirstGRAND VIEWSMeydan Racecourse CommunityLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified3,572,692 sqftAED 104/sqftAED 370,000,000
28 Mar 2013Burj KhalifaMADA RESIDENCES TOWERDownTown DubaiBuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified47,163 sqftAED 2,160/sqftAED 101,872,892
6 Mar 2013Burj Khalifa—DownTown DubaiLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified50,366 sqftAED 1,827/sqftAED 92,028,450
13 Mar 2013Al Buteen—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified7,250 sqftAED 11,462/sqftAED 83,100,000
13 Mar 2013Naif—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified4,765 sqftAED 16,915/sqftAED 80,600,000
21 Mar 2013Madinat Hind 1—LandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified4,640,989 sqftAED 14/sqftAED 64,045,703
25 Mar 2013Al Thanyah FirstGRAND CENTRALBarsha HeightsBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified28,720 sqftAED 2,159/sqftAED 62,000,000
21 Mar 2013Madinat Hind 1—LandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified1,999,998 sqftAED 30/sqftAED 60,000,000
5 Mar 2013Burj KhalifaDT 1DownTown DubaiBuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified51,257 sqftAED 702/sqftAED 36,000,000
12 Mar 2013Jumeirah First—VillaResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified74,000 sqftAED 470/sqftAED 34,800,000

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.