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Monthly report

Dubai property market — October 2016

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

Sales3,214Registered in October 2016up10.4%
Total value7.84BRegistered in October 2016Across 97 communities
Price per sqft940/sqftMedian across October 2016up2.3%
Sale price1.10MMedian across October 201633% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 3,214 property sales in October 2016, worth AED 7.84B in total, across 97 communities. That is 10% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,100,000 at AED 940/sqft, 2.3% above the same month last year. 33% of sales were off-plan.

Business Bay was the busiest community with 275 registered sales, and also took the most money at AED 523.59M.

Against the previous month, Al Warsan First rose 95% to 179 sales, while Burj Khalifa fell 30% to 68.

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 2016, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Business Bay275+29.7%523.59M1.10M1,418/sqft50%
Al Yufrah 2246+583.3%269.58M1.00M828/sqft0%
Jabal Ali First212+35.0%282.86M746K945/sqft64%
Marsa Dubai198+26.1%473.49M1.60M1,431/sqft25%
Nadd Hessa198+69.2%242.53M609K876/sqft35%
Al Thanyah Fifth180+20.0%352.51M1.00M1,082/sqft11%
Al Warsan First179+94.6%164.85M460K707/sqft2%
Al Wasl176+17500.0%506.27M2.79M1,417/sqft61%
Al Hebiah Fourth158+88.1%126.96M728K1,021/sqft27%
Al Barsha South Fourth157+12.1%259.70M806K924/sqft55%
Dubai Investment Park First82+54.7%205.53M768K650/sqft60%
Me'Aisem First80+77.8%137.32M503K997/sqft16%
Al Barsha South Fifth77+108.1%75.04M671K990/sqft71%
Al Yelayiss 272+26.3%90.21M1.31M696/sqft100%
Burj Khalifa68-29.9%226.49M1.93M1,904/sqft28%

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 Bay523.59M275
Al Wasl506.27M176
Marsa Dubai473.49M198
Al Barshaa South Second373.19M7
Al Thanyah Fifth352.51M180
Dubai Investment Park Second313.59M65
Jabal Ali First282.86M212
Al Yufrah 2269.58M246
Al Barsha South Fourth259.70M157
Palm Jumeirah253.74M61

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 Warsan First179+94.6%
Al Hebiah Fourth158+88.1%
Nadd Hessa198+69.2%
Dubai Investment Park First82+54.7%
Jabal Ali First212+35.0%
Burj Khalifa68-29.9%
Business Bay275+29.7%
Al Yelayiss 272+26.3%
Marsa Dubai198+26.1%
Al Thanyah Fifth180+20.0%

The largest sales of October 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
12 Oct 2016Al Barshaa South Second—BuildingOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified931,745 sqftAED 378/sqftAED 352,418,503
17 Oct 2016Marsa DubaiROVE HOME DUBAI MARINADubai MarinaLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified59,944 sqftAED 2,002/sqftAED 120,000,000
31 Oct 2016Nadd Hessa—Silicon OasisBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified24,283 sqftAED 4,427/sqftAED 107,500,000
10 Oct 2016Al Thanyah First—Barsha HeightsBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified27,824 sqftAED 3,594/sqftAED 100,000,000
11 Oct 2016Al Eyas—LandAgricultural · Existing PropertiesNot specified867,571 sqftAED 80/sqftAED 69,100,000
5 Oct 2016Al Saffa Second—LandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified20,000 sqftAED 3,250/sqftAED 65,000,000
31 Oct 2016Business BayBayz TowerBusiness BayBuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified61,449 sqftAED 1,042/sqftAED 64,000,000
17 Oct 2016Al Barsha First—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified15,718 sqftAED 3,976/sqftAED 62,500,000
31 Oct 2016Saih Shuaib 3—Dubai Industrial CityBuildingIndustrial · Existing PropertiesNot specified514,153 sqftAED 115/sqftAED 59,200,425
17 Oct 2016Al Thanyah FifthOrra The EmbankmentDMCC Master CommunityBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified56,672 sqftAED 1,021/sqftAED 57,857,720

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.