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Monthly report

Dubai property market — September 2014

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

Sales4,169Registered in September 2014down31.8%
Total value11.20BRegistered in September 2014Across 91 communities
Price per sqft913/sqftMedian across September 2014up7.8%
Sale price1.25MMedian across September 201428% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 4,169 property sales in September 2014, worth AED 11.20B in total, across 91 communities. That is 32% fewer than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,250,000 at AED 913/sqft, 7.8% above the same month last year. 28% of sales were off-plan.

Al Hebiah Fifth was the busiest community with 444 registered sales, while Al Thanyah First took the most money at AED 1.36B.

Against the previous month, Al Yelayiss 1 rose 436% to 386 sales, while Me'Aisem First fell 69% to 79.

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

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Al Hebiah Fifth444+169.1%199.13M369K29/sqft0%
Al Yelayiss 1386+436.1%760.38M1.96M646/sqft100%
Marsa Dubai381+2.4%995.07M2.09M1,960/sqft46%
Business Bay333-51.3%553.96M1.32M1,378/sqft19%
Nadd Hessa277+53.9%207.53M576K804/sqft0%
Al Thanyah Fifth252+32.6%547.28M1.50M1,095/sqft2%
Al Hebiah Fourth223+36.8%206.28M630K900/sqft44%
Al Barsha South Fourth211-2.8%625.86M775K808/sqft21%
Al Hebiah Third206-44.5%339.60M968K1,381/sqft70%
Burj Khalifa186-7.5%755.07M2.69M2,333/sqft26%
Al Warsan First182+31.9%112.48M425K780/sqft1%
Jabal Ali First149+49.0%362.30M1.58M679/sqft17%
Me'Aisem First79-69.3%146.69M965K1,333/sqft62%
Palm Jumeirah79-10.2%412.69M3.40M1,808/sqft19%
Dubai Investment Park First70-9.1%111.88M1.10M595/sqft24%

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
Al Thanyah First1.36B53
Marsa Dubai995.07M381
Al Yelayiss 1760.38M386
Burj Khalifa755.07M186
Al Barsha South Fourth625.86M211
Business Bay553.96M333
Al Thanyah Fifth547.28M252
Palm Jumeirah412.69M79
Jabal Ali First362.30M149
Al Hebiah Third339.60M206

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 Yelayiss 1386+436.1%
Al Hebiah Fifth444+169.1%
Me'Aisem First79-69.3%
Nadd Hessa277+53.9%
Business Bay333-51.3%
Jabal Ali First149+49.0%
Al Hebiah Third206-44.5%
Al Hebiah Fourth223+36.8%
Al Thanyah Fifth252+32.6%
Al Warsan First182+31.9%

The largest sales of September 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
11 Sept 2014Al Thanyah First—Barsha HeightsBuildingOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified74,345 sqftAED 12,778/sqftAED 950,000,000
10 Sept 2014Al Safouh Second—Site ABuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified54,883 sqftAED 5,466/sqftAED 300,000,000
24 Sept 2014Al Barsha First—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified27,652 sqftAED 6,057/sqftAED 167,500,000
11 Sept 2014Al Thanyah First—Barsha HeightsBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified30,184 sqftAED 5,301/sqftAED 160,000,000
25 Sept 2014Al Mamzer—LandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified240,000 sqftAED 650/sqftAED 156,000,003
30 Sept 2014Al Qusais Industrial First—BuildingIndustrial · Existing PropertiesNot specified156,750 sqftAED 800/sqftAED 125,400,000
24 Sept 2014Al Thanyah First—Barsha HeightsBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified24,637 sqftAED 4,262/sqftAED 105,000,000
8 Sept 2014Al Barsha First—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified8,462 sqftAED 10,636/sqftAED 90,000,000
8 Sept 2014Burj Khalifa—DownTown DubaiLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified45,000 sqftAED 1,999/sqftAED 89,945,430
15 Sept 2014AL QUSAIS—BuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified16,000 sqftAED 5,000/sqftAED 80,000,000

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.