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Dubai property market — February 2016

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside February 2016. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales4,998Registered in February 2016up41%
Total value10.03BRegistered in February 2016Across 97 communities
Price per sqft931/sqftMedian across February 2016down9.7%
Sale price1.13MMedian across February 201650% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 4,998 property sales in February 2016, worth AED 10.03B in total, across 97 communities. That is 41% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,134,052 at AED 931/sqft, 9.7% below the same month last year. 50% of sales were off-plan.

Nadd Hessa was the busiest community with 455 registered sales, while Burj Khalifa took the most money at AED 792.08M.

Against the previous month, Nadd Hessa rose 325% to 455 sales, while Saih Shuaib 1 fell 63% to 401.

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 2016, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Nadd Hessa455+325.2%328.01M649K829/sqft82%
Saih Shuaib 1401-62.5%627.62M1.32M125/sqft0%
Business Bay354+68.6%542.67M1.27M1,794/sqft62%
Al Yelayiss 2338+1107.1%275.25M791K903/sqft100%
Me'Aisem First327+189.4%356.96M662K980/sqft83%
Burj Khalifa274+138.3%792.08M2.29M2,072/sqft76%
Marsa Dubai251+51.2%558.33M1.49M1,357/sqft30%
Al Barsha South Fourth230+64.3%425.98M792K875/sqft57%
Al Thanyah Fifth192+12.9%360.49M1.08M958/sqft17%
Al Warsan First187+1.6%96.81M400K702/sqft9%
Al Hebiah Fourth182-4.2%151.37M648K921/sqft39%
Madinat Hind 4169+238.0%105.11M512K1,188/sqft99%
Al Yufrah 3123-8.9%207.94M1.60M918/sqft0%
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid121+47.6%317.11M2.69M1,040/sqft99%
Palm Jumeirah119+17.8%604.61M3.42M1,823/sqft48%

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 Khalifa792.08M274
Saih Shuaib 1627.62M401
Palm Jumeirah604.61M119
Marsa Dubai558.33M251
Business Bay542.67M354
Al Barsha South Fourth425.98M230
Al Thanyah Fifth360.49M192
Me'Aisem First356.96M327
Nadd Hessa328.01M455
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid317.11M121

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 Hessa455+325.2%
Madinat Hind 4169+238.0%
Me'Aisem First327+189.4%
Burj Khalifa274+138.3%
Business Bay354+68.6%
Al Barsha South Fourth230+64.3%
Saih Shuaib 1401-62.5%
Marsa Dubai251+51.2%
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid121+47.6%
Al Thanyah Third71+26.8%

The largest sales of February 2016

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
16 Feb 2016Madinat Al Mataar—Dubai World CentralLandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified1,971,569 sqftAED 63/sqftAED 123,636,325
22 Feb 2016Al Goze Industrial First—BuildingIndustrial · Existing PropertiesNot specified41,254 sqftAED 2,655/sqftAED 109,516,830
10 Feb 2016Al Goze Industrial First—BuildingIndustrial · Existing PropertiesNot specified39,372 sqftAED 2,555/sqftAED 100,610,411
8 Feb 2016Al MerkadhMOHAMMED BIN RASHID AL MAKTOUM CITY-DISTRICT ONE PHASE II VILLASLandأخرى · Existing PropertiesNot specified36,279 sqftAED 2,535/sqftAED 91,952,320
25 Feb 2016Saih Shuaib 3—Dubai Industrial CityBuildingIndustrial · Existing PropertiesNot specified541,955 sqftAED 139/sqftAED 75,440,275
15 Feb 2016Port Saeed—BuildingIndustrial · Existing PropertiesNot specified40,785 sqftAED 1,615/sqftAED 65,867,775
15 Feb 2016Saih Shuaib 3—Dubai Industrial CityLandIndustrial · Existing PropertiesNot specified1,021,928 sqftAED 58/sqftAED 59,271,882
8 Feb 2016Al MerkadhMOHAMMED BIN RASHID AL MAKTOUM CITY-DISTRICT ONE PHASE II VILLASVillaأخرى · Existing PropertiesNot specified20,488 sqftAED 2,454/sqftAED 50,270,725
16 Feb 2016Saih Aldahal—BuildingOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified48,212,555 sqftAED 1/sqftAED 48,212,601
8 Feb 2016Al Rowaiyah First—Dubai International Academic CityLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified260,236 sqftAED 169/sqftAED 43,914,871

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.