Dubai Market Data

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Monthly report

Dubai property market — July 2015

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

Sales2,069Registered in July 2015down32.7%
Total value7.57BRegistered in July 2015Across 89 communities
Price per sqft918/sqftMedian across July 2015down10%
Sale price1.41MMedian across July 201517% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 2,069 property sales in July 2015, worth AED 7.57B in total, across 89 communities. That is 33% fewer than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,414,699 at AED 918/sqft, 10% below the same month last year. 17% of sales were off-plan.

Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 186 registered sales, while Al Merkadh took the most money at AED 976.41M.

Against the previous month, Wadi Al Safa 2 rose 83% to 95 sales, while Jabal Ali First fell 66% to 58.

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 July 2015, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Marsa Dubai186-17.7%341.82M1.46M1,289/sqft2%
Al Thanyah Fifth155-35.7%301.65M1.18M797/sqft20%
Al Warsan First148-37.8%83.72M442K697/sqft3%
Business Bay122-52.3%505.80M1.20M1,100/sqft34%
Al Hebiah Fourth121-37.9%127.17M750K944/sqft43%
Burj Khalifa119-35.0%886.52M2.40M2,091/sqft20%
Al Barsha South Fourth116-39.6%183.14M1.02M900/sqft27%
Nadd Hessa101-63.0%127.42M675K785/sqft6%
Wadi Al Safa 295+82.7%63.56M667K728/sqft4%
Palm Jumeirah90+13.9%527.51M2.70M1,622/sqft52%
Al Thanyah Third77-24.5%145.14M1.62M1,319/sqft10%
Me'Aisem First76-11.6%180.40M598K984/sqft7%
Jabal Ali First58-66.3%74.12M740K760/sqft7%
Al Merkadh56-6.7%976.41M13.74M1,513/sqft0%
Al Thanyah First41-31.7%205.23M2.17M1,402/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
Al Merkadh976.41M56
Burj Khalifa886.52M119
Palm Jumeirah527.51M90
Business Bay505.80M122
Marsa Dubai341.82M186
Al Hebiah First340.18M21
Al Thanyah Fifth301.65M155
Al Thanayah Fourth252.31M38
Al Yufrah 2218.71M18
Al Thanyah First205.23M41

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 295+82.7%
Jabal Ali First58-66.3%
Nadd Hessa101-63.0%
Business Bay122-52.3%
Al Barsha South Fourth116-39.6%
Al Hebiah Fourth121-37.9%
Al Warsan First148-37.8%
Al Thanyah Fifth155-35.7%
Burj Khalifa119-35.0%
Al Thanyah Third77-24.5%

The largest sales of July 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
15 Jul 2015Burj Khalifa—DownTown DubaiLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified106,054 sqftAED 3,630/sqftAED 385,000,000
1 Jul 2015Al Yufrah 2—DAMAC HILLS 2LandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified5,584,757 sqftAED 34/sqftAED 188,483,992
9 Jul 2015Al Hebiah FirstCASA FLORES AND EDEN APARTMENTSMotor CityVillaCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified826,605 sqftAED 216/sqftAED 178,500,000
6 Jul 2015Palm JumeirahOCEAN HOUSEPalm JumeirahLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified120,327 sqftAED 1,424/sqftAED 171,401,000
9 Jul 2015Al Hebiah First—Motor CityVillaCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified584,915 sqftAED 233/sqftAED 136,500,000
23 Jul 2015Al Thanyah First—Barsha HeightsBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified24,637 sqftAED 5,074/sqftAED 125,000,000
23 Jul 2015Burj KhalifaVOLTA TOWERBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified10,000 sqftAED 12,010/sqftAED 120,100,000
22 Jul 2015Al Thanayah FourthEmirates HillsEmirates LivingLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified40,804 sqftAED 2,279/sqftAED 93,000,000
20 Jul 2015Business Bay—Business BayLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified64,586 sqftAED 1,412/sqftAED 91,200,000
28 Jul 2015Madinat Dubai AlmelaheyahOceanz 1 By DanubeDubai Maritime CityLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified45,000 sqftAED 2,000/sqftAED 90,013,500

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.