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Monthly report

Dubai property market — October 2015

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

Sales2,911Registered in October 2015down32.6%
Total value7.51BRegistered in October 2015Across 91 communities
Price per sqft919/sqftMedian across October 2015down7%
Sale price1.24MMedian across October 201534% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 2,911 property sales in October 2015, worth AED 7.51B in total, across 91 communities. That is 33% fewer than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,236,888 at AED 919/sqft, 7% below the same month last year. 34% of sales were off-plan.

Al Hebiah Third was the busiest community with 234 registered sales, while Island 2 took the most money at AED 573.82M.

Against the previous month, Al Yelayiss 2 rose 11% to 189 sales, while Nadd Hessa fell 66% to 64.

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

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Al Hebiah Third234+4.9%427.87M1.74M757/sqft18%
Al Thanyah Fifth227-2.6%377.66M1.00M841/sqft17%
Al Yelayiss 2189+10.5%251.45M1.28M582/sqft100%
Business Bay187-9.2%438.26M1.17M1,384/sqft53%
Palm Jumeirah164+6.5%470.97M2.15M2,223/sqft72%
Marsa Dubai153-46.5%268.30M1.31M1,371/sqft10%
Al Barsha South Fourth147-17.4%245.15M833K906/sqft37%
Al Warsan First130-42.0%69.61M468K752/sqft2%
Al Hebiah Fourth118-48.7%112.20M764K947/sqft51%
Jabal Ali First117-31.2%210.58M1.29M746/sqft20%
Al Barshaa South Third116+197.4%75.03M617K1,000/sqft0%
Al Goze Fourth116+5.5%83.20M754K758/sqft100%
Burj Khalifa105-19.8%330.22M2.17M1,902/sqft26%
Wadi Al Safa 2102+4.1%83.70M571K677/sqft2%
Me'Aisem First70-15.7%188.24M728K1,042/sqft9%

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
Island 2573.82M18
Palm Jumeirah470.97M164
Business Bay438.26M187
Al Hebiah Third427.87M234
Al Thanyah Fifth377.66M227
Al Merkadh342.59M21
Burj Khalifa330.22M105
Marsa Dubai268.30M153
Al Yelayiss 2251.45M189
Al Barsha South Fourth245.15M147

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
Nadd Hessa64-66.1%
Al Hebiah Fourth118-48.7%
Marsa Dubai153-46.5%
Al Warsan First130-42.0%
Jabal Ali First117-31.2%
Al Thanyah Third58-28.4%
Burj Khalifa105-19.8%
Al Barsha South Fourth147-17.4%
Me'Aisem First70-15.7%
Al Yelayiss 2189+10.5%

The largest sales of October 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
8 Oct 2015World IslandsJAL AASHWAThe WorldLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified812,450 sqftAED 144/sqftAED 116,645,935
29 Oct 2015Al Murqabat—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified14,737 sqftAED 7,464/sqftAED 110,000,000
28 Oct 2015Al Murqabat—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified12,717 sqftAED 8,099/sqftAED 103,000,000
29 Oct 2015Nadd Hessa—Silicon OasisBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified28,280 sqftAED 3,271/sqftAED 92,500,000
29 Oct 2015Business BayVERA TOWERBusiness BayBuildingOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified66,794 sqftAED 1,350/sqftAED 90,193,905
29 Oct 2015Business BayREVA RESIDENCESBusiness BayBuildingOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified66,606 sqftAED 1,350/sqftAED 89,936,406
12 Oct 2015Al Bada—VillaOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified104,035 sqftAED 673/sqftAED 70,000,000
8 Oct 2015World IslandsTHE ISLAND OF IRELANDThe WorldLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified283,511 sqftAED 214/sqftAED 60,546,053
19 Oct 2015Al Dhagaya—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified4,798 sqftAED 12,505/sqftAED 60,000,000
1 Oct 2015World Islands—The WorldLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified513,552 sqftAED 115/sqftAED 59,165,581

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.