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Quarterly report

Dubai property market — Q4 2015

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside Q4 2015. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales12,419Registered in Q4 2015down11.1%
Total value30.60BRegistered in Q4 2015Across 132 communities
Price per sqft919/sqftMedian across Q4 2015down9.9%
Sale price1.19MMedian across Q4 201546% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 12,419 property sales in Q4 2015, worth AED 30.60B in total, across 132 communities. That is 11% fewer than the same quarter a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,192,888 at AED 919/sqft, 9.9% below the same quarter last year. 46% of sales were off-plan.

Al Yelayiss 2 was the busiest community with 1,427 registered sales, while Burj Khalifa took the most money at AED 2.72B.

Against the previous quarter, Al Yelayiss 2 rose 321% to 1,427 sales, while Al Thanyah First fell 63% to 65.

Sales by quarter

Price per square foot by quarter

Median price per sqft

Where the sales were

The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in Q4 2015, and how each moved against the quarter before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Al Yelayiss 21,427+320.9%1.52B1.17M697/sqft100%
Al Hebiah Fourth984+81.9%915.19M760K998/sqft56%
Al Hebiah Third708+77.9%1.13B1.54M867/sqft52%
Marsa Dubai664+4.6%1.28B1.57M1,406/sqft29%
Al Thanyah Fifth657+5.6%1.22B1.10M876/sqft18%
Business Bay655+25.0%1.25B1.24M1,350/sqft60%
Al Warsan First601+9.3%392.79M467K752/sqft12%
Burj Khalifa581+24.9%2.72B2.30M2,034/sqft59%
Al Barsha South Fourth516+4.2%982.45M759K906/sqft45%
Palm Jumeirah492+37.8%1.85B2.30M1,743/sqft70%
Nadd Hessa442-11.8%439.51M609K823/sqft36%
Jabal Ali First403+31.7%869.50M1.38M614/sqft11%
Me'Aisem First346+43.6%866.51M790K958/sqft16%
Al Hebiah Second330+2257.1%387.68M820K1,059/sqft97%
Al Goze Fourth298+53.6%220.18M759K775/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
Burj Khalifa2.72B581
Palm Jumeirah1.85B492
Al Yelayiss 21.52B1,427
Marsa Dubai1.28B664
Business Bay1.25B655
Al Thanyah Fifth1.22B657
Al Merkadh1.21B88
Al Hebiah Third1.13B708
Island 21.04B32
Al Barsha South Fourth982.45M516

Biggest movers

Change in registered sales against the previous quarter. Limited to communities with at least 50 sales in both — below that a swing is noise.

CommunitySalesChange
Al Yelayiss 21,427+320.9%
Al Barshaa South Third201+214.1%
Al Yufrah 2189+122.4%
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid245+118.8%
Al Hebiah Fourth984+81.9%
Al Hebiah Third708+77.9%
Al Thanyah First65-63.3%
Al Goze Fourth298+53.6%
Al Merkadh88-45.3%
Me'Aisem First346+43.6%

The largest sales of Q4 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 Dec 2015Burj Khalifa—DownTown DubaiBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified65,857 sqftAED 9,774/sqftAED 643,680,000
30 Dec 2015Burj Khalifa—DownTown DubaiBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified62,443 sqftAED 3,651/sqftAED 228,000,000
3 Nov 2015Al Murqabat—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified107,545 sqftAED 1,760/sqftAED 189,279,200
10 Dec 2015Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid—DUBAI HILLSBuildingOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified1,199,999 sqftAED 156/sqftAED 187,500,000
15 Dec 2015Saih Shuaib 2—LandIndustrial · Existing PropertiesNot specified1,327,742 sqftAED 133/sqftAED 176,248,590
8 Oct 2015World IslandsJAL AASHWAThe WorldLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified812,450 sqftAED 144/sqftAED 116,645,935
10 Dec 2015World IslandsAMALI ISLANDThe WorldLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified689,191 sqftAED 169/sqftAED 116,337,487
29 Oct 2015Al Murqabat—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified14,737 sqftAED 7,464/sqftAED 110,000,000
21 Dec 2015Al Barsha First—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified39,300 sqftAED 2,702/sqftAED 106,205,500
28 Oct 2015Al Murqabat—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified12,717 sqftAED 8,099/sqftAED 103,000,000

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.