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Dubai property market — February 2014

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside February 2014. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales4,472Registered in February 2014up8.2%
Total value11.13BRegistered in February 2014Across 89 communities
Price per sqft970/sqftMedian across February 2014up7.4%
Sale price1.40MMedian across February 20149% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 4,472 property sales in February 2014, worth AED 11.13B in total, across 89 communities. That is 8% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,399,944 at AED 970/sqft, 7.4% above the same month last year. 9% of sales were off-plan.

Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 537 registered sales, while Burj Khalifa took the most money at AED 1.34B.

Against the previous month, Al Hebiah Third rose 133% to 196 sales, while Al Hebiah Fifth fell 68% to 99.

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 2014, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Marsa Dubai537+21.8%1.10B1.73M1,551/sqft2%
Business Bay527-5.0%815.96M1.29M1,280/sqft5%
Burj Khalifa462-11.8%1.34B1.95M2,036/sqft15%
Al Thanyah Fifth392-36.9%832.80M1.40M824/sqft1%
Al Barsha South Fourth336-24.0%547.06M853K721/sqft13%
Al Warsan First272-23.2%129.42M414K706/sqft0%
Al Hebiah Fourth248-38.2%279.23M730K921/sqft13%
Al Hebiah Third196+133.3%535.54M2.58M783/sqft4%
Palm Jumeirah155+12.3%696.49M3.00M1,822/sqft19%
Al Thanyah Third134+10.7%491.83M1.58M1,515/sqft19%
Jabal Ali First109+4.8%139.45M705K819/sqft6%
Al Hebiah Fifth99-67.9%81.69M718K876/sqft0%
Nadd Hessa95-17.4%86.94M658K811/sqft11%
Dubai Investment Park Second91-14.2%121.26M635K676/sqft0%
Me'Aisem First89+3.5%128.70M610K840/sqft28%

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 Khalifa1.34B462
Marsa Dubai1.10B537
Al Thanyah Fifth832.80M392
Business Bay815.96M527
Palm Jumeirah696.49M155
Island 2596.73M21
Al Barsha South Fourth547.06M336
Al Hebiah Third535.54M196
Al Thanyah Third491.83M134
Al Nahda First317.30M3

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 Third196+133.3%
Al Hebiah Fifth99-67.9%
Al Hebiah Fourth248-38.2%
Al Thanyah Fifth392-36.9%
Al Yelayiss 165-26.1%
Al Barsha South Fourth336-24.0%
Al Warsan First272-23.2%
Marsa Dubai537+21.8%
Dubai Investment Park First60-17.8%
Nadd Hessa95-17.4%

The largest sales of February 2014

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
13 Feb 2014Al Thanyah Third—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified37,478 sqftAED 6,671/sqftAED 250,000,000
3 Feb 2014Al Wasl—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified30,000 sqftAED 7,000/sqftAED 210,000,000
10 Feb 2014Al Nahda First—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified25,000 sqftAED 5,800/sqftAED 145,000,000
10 Feb 2014Al Nahda First—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified25,000 sqftAED 5,600/sqftAED 140,000,000
4 Feb 2014Al Barsha First—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified26,676 sqftAED 3,000/sqftAED 80,028,000
17 Feb 2014Al Barsha First—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified35,053 sqftAED 2,000/sqftAED 70,106,000
4 Feb 2014Jabal Ali—Down Town Jabal AliLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified27,012 sqftAED 2,460/sqftAED 66,449,900
24 Feb 2014Burj KhalifaBURJ KHALIFA TOWERSDownTown DubaiOfficeCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified11,355 sqftAED 5,284/sqftAED 60,000,000
19 Feb 2014Al Muteena—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified29,060 sqftAED 1,961/sqftAED 57,000,000
24 Feb 2014Island 2—Jumeira BayLandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified36,355 sqftAED 1,499/sqftAED 54,508,440

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.