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Monthly report

Dubai property market — August 2014

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

Sales4,019Registered in August 2014up24.8%
Total value8.92BRegistered in August 2014Across 83 communities
Price per sqft1,011/sqftMedian across August 2014up9.2%
Sale price1.19MMedian across August 201432% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 4,019 property sales in August 2014, worth AED 8.92B in total, across 83 communities. That is 25% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,193,888 at AED 1,011/sqft, 9.2% above the same month last year. 32% of sales were off-plan.

Business Bay was the busiest community with 684 registered sales, and also took the most money at AED 1.15B.

Against the previous month, Al Hebiah Third rose 336% to 371 sales, while Al Hebiah First fell 43% to 59.

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

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Business Bay684+120.6%1.15B1.43M1,285/sqft29%
Marsa Dubai372+2.5%806.54M1.83M1,814/sqft39%
Al Hebiah Third371+336.5%683.90M1.17M1,402/sqft66%
Me'Aisem First257+262.0%212.67M448K990/sqft89%
Al Barsha South Fourth217+15.4%353.37M767K860/sqft24%
Burj Khalifa201+13.6%784.47M2.65M2,404/sqft40%
Al Thanyah Fifth190-5.5%346.95M1.20M810/sqft7%
Nadd Hessa180+36.4%129.40M619K824/sqft2%
Al Hebiah Fifth165+135.7%151.36M840K991/sqft0%
Al Hebiah Fourth163+9.4%149.45M687K905/sqft28%
Al Warsan First138-11.0%121.53M460K756/sqft0%
Jabal Ali First100+61.3%280.62M1.45M820/sqft29%
Palm Jumeirah88+2.3%493.82M2.99M1,759/sqft17%
Dubai Investment Park First77-42.5%131.38M795K630/sqft53%
Al Yelayiss 172+132.3%125.67M1.71M606/sqft100%

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
Business Bay1.15B684
Marsa Dubai806.54M372
Burj Khalifa784.47M201
Al Hebiah Third683.90M371
Palm Jumeirah493.82M88
Al Yufrah 2376.97M1
Al Barsha South Fourth353.37M217
Al Thanyah Fifth346.95M190
Jabal Ali First280.62M100
Nad Al Shiba First265.14M58

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 Third371+336.5%
Me'Aisem First257+262.0%
Al Hebiah Fifth165+135.7%
Business Bay684+120.6%
Jabal Ali First100+61.3%
Al Hebiah First59-43.3%
Dubai Investment Park First77-42.5%
Nadd Hessa180+36.4%
Al Barsha South Fourth217+15.4%
Burj Khalifa201+13.6%

The largest sales of August 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
6 Aug 2014Al Yufrah 2—DAMAC HILLS 2LandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified11,169,411 sqftAED 34/sqftAED 376,967,985
18 Aug 2014Wadi Al Safa 5—VillaResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified5,768,092 sqftAED 27/sqftAED 155,554,463
14 Aug 2014Palm JumeirahLUCEPalm JumeirahLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified52,008 sqftAED 1,588/sqftAED 82,582,000
7 Aug 2014Naif—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified8,127 sqftAED 8,613/sqftAED 70,000,000
4 Aug 2014Al Mararr—BuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified7,213 sqftAED 9,095/sqftAED 65,600,000
12 Aug 2014Al Thanyah First—Barsha HeightsBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified24,637 sqftAED 2,638/sqftAED 65,000,000
4 Aug 2014BukadraBELMORE RESIDENCESLandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified30,516 sqftAED 2,000/sqftAED 61,030,000
20 Aug 2014Al Mararr—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified10,980 sqftAED 5,465/sqftAED 60,000,000
18 Aug 2014Burj KhalifaSOL BAYBusiness BayLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified56,492 sqftAED 1,062/sqftAED 60,000,000
19 Aug 2014Al Thanayah FourthEmirates HillsEmirates LivingLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified39,448 sqftAED 1,293/sqftAED 51,000,000

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.