Dubai Market Data
Registered sales and Ejari contracts, organized for clear comparisons and better property decisions.
Public records · Dubai Land Department
Monthly report
Dubai property market — January 2015
Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside January 2015. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.
In a sentence
The Land Department registered 4,129 property sales in January 2015, worth AED 10.67B in total, across 93 communities. That is 24% fewer than the same month a year earlier.
The median sale was AED 1,510,000 at AED 1,021/sqft, 16.8% above the same month last year. 26% of sales were off-plan.
Business Bay was the busiest community with 621 registered sales, while Burj Khalifa took the most money at AED 1.30B.
Against the previous month, Al Barsha South Fifth rose 96% to 98 sales, while Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid fell 65% to 85.
Sales by month
Price per square foot by month
Where the sales were
The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in January 2015, and how each moved against the month before.
| Community | Sales | vs prior | Total value | Median price | Price/sqft | Off-plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business Bay | 621 | +31.8% | 949.55M | 1.37M | 1,215/sqft | 9% |
| Al Yufrah 2 | 288 | +92.0% | 594.03M | 1.81M | 887/sqft | 0% |
| Al Hebiah Fourth | 275 | +44.0% | 272.36M | 827K | 935/sqft | 53% |
| Marsa Dubai | 269 | -45.2% | 703.86M | 2.15M | 2,042/sqft | 49% |
| Burj Khalifa | 263 | -7.4% | 1.30B | 3.13M | 2,140/sqft | 69% |
| Al Warsan First | 236 | -36.4% | 237.26M | 540K | 805/sqft | 5% |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 228 | -18.6% | 412.35M | 1.24M | 925/sqft | 7% |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 224 | -13.8% | 398.23M | 646K | 810/sqft | 14% |
| Al Hebiah Third | 175 | -13.8% | 471.15M | 2.79M | 873/sqft | 24% |
| Wadi Al Safa 2 | 133 | -20.4% | 106.50M | 638K | 706/sqft | 3% |
| Nadd Hessa | 125 | -19.4% | 96.23M | 624K | 761/sqft | 0% |
| Al Yelayiss 1 | 123 | -62.6% | 260.16M | 2.14M | 686/sqft | 100% |
| Al Barsha South Fifth | 98 | +96.0% | 122.58M | 1.08M | 999/sqft | 3% |
| Jabal Ali First | 93 | -37.6% | 142.65M | 961K | 784/sqft | 20% |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 85 | -64.9% | 156.74M | 1.76M | 1,274/sqft | 100% |
Where the money went
Ranked by total registered value rather than count — a different list, and the one that shows where capital actually landed.
| Community | Value | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Burj Khalifa | 1.30B | 263 |
| Business Bay | 949.55M | 621 |
| Marsa Dubai | 703.86M | 269 |
| Al Yufrah 2 | 594.03M | 288 |
| Palm Jumeirah | 473.50M | 72 |
| Al Hebiah Third | 471.15M | 175 |
| Dubai Investment Park First | 442.27M | 42 |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 412.35M | 228 |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 398.23M | 224 |
| Al Hebiah Fourth | 272.36M | 275 |
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.
| Community | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Al Barsha South Fifth | 98 | +96.0% |
| Al Yufrah 2 | 288 | +92.0% |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 85 | -64.9% |
| Al Yelayiss 1 | 123 | -62.6% |
| Al Goze Fourth | 77 | -50.0% |
| Marsa Dubai | 269 | -45.2% |
| Al Hebiah Fourth | 275 | +44.0% |
| Palm Jumeirah | 72 | -41.9% |
| Al Barshaa South Second | 65 | -41.4% |
| Jabal Ali First | 93 | -37.6% |
The largest sales of January 2015
Each row links to its own register record, so any figure in this report can be traced to the transactions behind it.
| Date | Community | Project / building | Type | Beds | Size | Price/sqft | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Jan 2015 | Al Thanyah First | —Barsha Heights | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 67,570 sqft | AED 2,886/sqft | AED 195,000,000 |
| 28 Jan 2015 | Burj Khalifa | —DownTown Dubai | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 51,439 sqft | AED 3,402/sqft | AED 175,000,000 |
| 5 Jan 2015 | Al Mamzer | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 25,726 sqft | AED 6,414/sqft | AED 165,000,000 |
| 29 Jan 2015 | Dubai Investment Park First | GREEN COMMUNITY WEST- EXTENSION- PHASE IIIDubai Investment Park First | VillaCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 1,482,554 sqft | AED 95/sqft | AED 140,791,585 |
| 26 Jan 2015 | Al Barsha First | — | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 35,053 sqft | AED 2,500/sqft | AED 87,633,225 |
| 5 Jan 2015 | Hessyan First | —Dubai Water Front | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 173,385 sqft | AED 453/sqft | AED 78,620,815 |
| 5 Jan 2015 | Hessyan First | —Dubai Water Front | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 173,385 sqft | AED 449/sqft | AED 77,881,258 |
| 14 Jan 2015 | Palm Jumeirah | Vitalia by PinnaclePalm Jumeirah | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 55,457 sqft | AED 1,180/sqft | AED 65,426,000 |
| 12 Jan 2015 | Dubai Investment Park First | —Dubai Investment Park First | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 43,605 sqft | AED 1,491/sqft | AED 65,000,000 |
| 15 Jan 2015 | Palm Jumeirah | —Palm Jumeirah | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 52,037 sqft | AED 1,161/sqft | AED 60,393,150 |
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.