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Monthly report

Dubai property market — February 2015

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside February 2015. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales3,544Registered in February 2015down20.8%
Total value8.61BRegistered in February 2015Across 94 communities
Price per sqft1,031/sqftMedian across February 2015up6.3%
Sale price1.37MMedian across February 201524% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 3,544 property sales in February 2015, worth AED 8.61B in total, across 94 communities. That is 21% fewer than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,370,044 at AED 1,031/sqft, 6.3% above the same month last year. 24% of sales were off-plan.

Business Bay was the busiest community with 423 registered sales, and also took the most money at AED 636.62M.

Against the previous month, Palm Jumeirah rose 53% to 110 sales, while Al Hebiah Fourth fell 58% to 115.

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 2015, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Business Bay423-31.9%636.62M1.24M1,653/sqft17%
Marsa Dubai294+9.3%625.89M1.65M1,683/sqft29%
Al Warsan First239+1.3%250.23M550K778/sqft9%
Al Thanyah Fifth188-17.5%351.09M1.20M1,046/sqft20%
Al Barsha South Fourth184-17.9%276.18M708K836/sqft13%
Al Barshaa South Third176+604.0%138.60M556K1,033/sqft1%
Al Hebiah Third164-6.3%381.60M2.69M903/sqft40%
Al Yufrah 2163-43.4%342.28M1.81M895/sqft0%
Al Khairan First152—320.84M1.84M1,503/sqft100%
Burj Khalifa137-47.9%607.36M2.75M2,260/sqft47%
Jabal Ali First126+35.5%244.92M1.50M579/sqft18%
Al Hebiah Fourth115-58.2%138.75M832K860/sqft36%
Palm Jumeirah110+52.8%540.95M2.96M1,668/sqft21%
Wadi Al Safa 2103-22.6%188.81M664K716/sqft3%
Al Goze Fourth88+14.3%65.72M794K748/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 Bay636.62M423
Marsa Dubai625.89M294
Burj Khalifa607.36M137
Palm Jumeirah540.95M110
Al Hebiah Third381.60M164
Al Thanyah Fifth351.09M188
Al Yufrah 2342.28M163
Al Khairan First320.84M152
Al Barsha South Fourth276.18M184
Al Warsan First250.23M239

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 Fourth115-58.2%
Palm Jumeirah110+52.8%
Burj Khalifa137-47.9%
Al Yufrah 2163-43.4%
Al Barsha South Fifth61-37.8%
Nadd Hessa80-36.0%
Jabal Ali First126+35.5%
Business Bay423-31.9%
Wadi Al Safa 2103-22.6%
Al Barsha South Fourth184-17.9%

The largest sales of February 2015

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 Feb 2015Burj KhalifaCity Center ResidencesDownTown DubaiLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified43,104 sqftAED 3,990/sqftAED 172,000,000
12 Feb 2015Al Thanyah First—Barsha HeightsBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified34,045 sqftAED 4,112/sqftAED 140,000,000
9 Feb 2015Al Nahda Second—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified37,000 sqftAED 3,243/sqftAED 120,000,000
23 Feb 2015Al Murqabat—LandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified44,211 sqftAED 2,550/sqftAED 112,738,050
5 Feb 2015Al Hamriya—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified52,577 sqftAED 1,941/sqftAED 102,050,000
23 Feb 2015Wadi Al Safa 2—Falcon CityLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified387,300 sqftAED 253/sqftAED 97,800,000
24 Feb 2015Palm Jumeirah—Palm JumeirahLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified56,448 sqftAED 1,512/sqftAED 85,363,000
11 Feb 2015Madinat Dubai AlmelaheyahTHE ANWA BY OMNIYATDubai Maritime CityBuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified40,000 sqftAED 2,032/sqftAED 81,277,080
9 Feb 2015Nadd Hessa—Silicon OasisBuildingMulti-Use · Existing PropertiesNot specified87,757 sqftAED 855/sqftAED 75,000,000
17 Feb 2015Al Barsha First—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified15,942 sqftAED 4,516/sqftAED 72,000,000

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.