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Monthly report

Dubai property market — April 2014

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

Sales5,537Registered in April 2014down2.1%
Total value14.46BRegistered in April 2014Across 90 communities
Price per sqft1,021/sqftMedian across April 2014up14.8%
Sale price1.49MMedian across April 201423% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 5,537 property sales in April 2014, worth AED 14.46B in total, across 90 communities. That is 2% fewer than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,491,477 at AED 1,021/sqft, 14.8% above the same month last year. 23% of sales were off-plan.

Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 604 registered sales, while Burj Khalifa took the most money at AED 1.83B.

Against the previous month, Wadi Al Safa 7 rose 173% to 319 sales, while Dubai Investment Park Second fell 45% to 51.

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 April 2014, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Marsa Dubai604+12.9%1.57B1.85M1,649/sqft12%
Business Bay584-22.6%950.35M1.35M1,444/sqft33%
Burj Khalifa563+5.0%1.83B2.70M2,167/sqft50%
Al Thanyah Fifth413-9.6%904.40M1.48M954/sqft2%
Al Hebiah Third349+14.8%813.41M2.25M915/sqft37%
Al Barsha South Fourth340-14.8%568.68M901K775/sqft19%
Wadi Al Safa 7319+172.6%1.31B3.89M798/sqft0%
Al Hebiah Fourth311-12.1%290.34M603K916/sqft27%
Al Warsan First283+10.1%218.26M464K743/sqft8%
Palm Jumeirah155-20.9%709.19M3.00M1,764/sqft22%
Me'Aisem First138+13.1%181.48M475K981/sqft54%
Nadd Hessa135+9.8%286.42M609K821/sqft9%
Al Hebiah Fifth133-10.7%108.41M800K876/sqft0%
Al Thanyah Third119-17.4%273.81M1.80M1,572/sqft24%
Wadi Al Safa 5105+114.3%112.17M690K703/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
Burj Khalifa1.83B563
Marsa Dubai1.57B604
Wadi Al Safa 71.31B319
Business Bay950.35M584
Al Thanyah Fifth904.40M413
Al Hebiah Third813.41M349
Palm Jumeirah709.19M155
Al Barsha South Fourth568.68M340
Trade Center Second492.13M6
Al Hebiah Fourth290.34M311

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
Wadi Al Safa 7319+172.6%
Dubai Investment Park Second51-44.6%
Business Bay584-22.6%
Palm Jumeirah155-20.9%
Al Thanyah Third119-17.4%
Al Hebiah Third349+14.8%
Al Barsha South Fourth340-14.8%
Me'Aisem First138+13.1%
Marsa Dubai604+12.9%
Al Hebiah Fourth311-12.1%

The largest sales of April 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
3 Apr 2014Trade Center Second—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified25,000 sqftAED 19,000/sqftAED 475,000,000
7 Apr 2014Al Thanyah First—Barsha HeightsBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified59,999 sqftAED 3,333/sqftAED 200,000,000
21 Apr 2014Marsa Dubai—TECOM Site DLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified110,744 sqftAED 1,611/sqftAED 178,360,000
24 Apr 2014Port Saeed—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified21,212 sqftAED 5,893/sqftAED 125,000,000
8 Apr 2014Jumeirah First—VillaResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified170,134 sqftAED 650/sqftAED 110,587,100
14 Apr 2014Al Nahda Second—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified26,470 sqftAED 3,872/sqftAED 102,500,000
14 Apr 2014Nadd Hessa—Silicon OasisBuildingOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified42,071 sqftAED 2,258/sqftAED 95,000,000
21 Apr 2014Al Barsha First—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified21,424 sqftAED 3,361/sqftAED 72,000,000
24 Apr 2014Um Suqaim Third—LandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified48,000 sqftAED 1,200/sqftAED 57,600,000
9 Apr 2014Al Suq Al Kabeer—BuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified20,548 sqftAED 2,677/sqftAED 55,000,000

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.