Dubai Market Data
Registered sales and Ejari contracts, organized for clear comparisons and better property decisions.
Public records · Dubai Land Department
Quarterly report
Dubai property market — Q3 2016
Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside Q3 2016. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.
In a sentence
The Land Department registered 9,844 property sales in Q3 2016, worth AED 27.71B in total, across 126 communities. That is 7% more than the same quarter a year earlier.
The median sale was AED 1,399,685 at AED 1,015/sqft, 11.5% above the same quarter last year. 49% of sales were off-plan.
Burj Khalifa was the busiest community with 788 registered sales, and also took the most money at AED 3.14B.
Against the previous quarter, Al Wasl rose 283% to 383 sales, while Al Hebiah Third fell 58% to 73.
Sales by quarter
Price per square foot by quarter
Where the sales were
The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in Q3 2016, and how each moved against the quarter before.
| Community | Sales | vs prior | Total value | Median price | Price/sqft | Off-plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burj Khalifa | 788 | +79.9% | 3.14B | 3.17M | 2,716/sqft | 84% |
| Marsa Dubai | 723 | -5.2% | 1.46B | 1.95M | 1,698/sqft | 47% |
| Jabal Ali First | 714 | -1.4% | 664.82M | 686K | 1,083/sqft | 77% |
| Business Bay | 706 | -9.8% | 1.49B | 1.22M | 1,490/sqft | 66% |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 502 | -32.1% | 2.22B | 2.84M | 881/sqft | 56% |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 428 | -20.3% | 658.49M | 732K | 905/sqft | 56% |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 397 | -32.4% | 700.03M | 1.15M | 1,020/sqft | 6% |
| Al Warsan First | 389 | -31.5% | 244.55M | 430K | 714/sqft | 3% |
| Al Wasl | 383 | +283.0% | 1.05B | 2.50M | 1,392/sqft | 48% |
| Al Yelayiss 2 | 352 | +33.8% | 338.03M | 881K | 932/sqft | 99% |
| Saih Shuaib 1 | 344 | +31.8% | 561.84M | 1.41M | 130/sqft | 0% |
| Al Hebiah Fourth | 343 | -27.0% | 372.12M | 725K | 985/sqft | 45% |
| Al Khairan First | 326 | -0.6% | 555.28M | 1.56M | 1,390/sqft | 100% |
| Nadd Hessa | 316 | -35.1% | 239.90M | 600K | 822/sqft | 39% |
| Me'Aisem First | 232 | +7.4% | 401.41M | 708K | 968/sqft | 32% |
Where the money went
Ranked by total registered value rather than count — a different list, and the one that shows where capital actually landed.
| Community | Value | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Burj Khalifa | 3.14B | 788 |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 2.22B | 502 |
| Business Bay | 1.49B | 706 |
| Marsa Dubai | 1.46B | 723 |
| Al Wasl | 1.05B | 383 |
| Palm Jumeirah | 933.15M | 210 |
| Saih Shuaib 3 | 846.64M | 21 |
| Al Jadaf | 839.52M | 56 |
| Nad Al Shiba First | 732.70M | 160 |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 700.03M | 397 |
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.
| Community | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Al Wasl | 383 | +283.0% |
| Nad Al Shiba First | 160 | +196.3% |
| Wadi Al Safa 3 | 136 | +83.8% |
| Burj Khalifa | 788 | +79.9% |
| Al Hebiah Third | 73 | -57.8% |
| Wadi Al Safa 2 | 202 | +55.4% |
| Al Yufrah 2 | 76 | -42.0% |
| Wadi Al Safa 5 | 101 | -41.6% |
| Al Hebiah Fifth | 62 | -38.6% |
| Nadd Hessa | 316 | -35.1% |
The largest sales of Q3 2016
Each row links to its own register record, so any figure in this report can be traced to the transactions behind it.
| Date | Community | Project / building | Type | Beds | Size | Price/sqft | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 Aug 2016 | Al Rowaiyah First | —Dubai International Academic City | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 642,720 sqft | AED 450/sqft | AED 289,224,000 |
| 23 Aug 2016 | Trade Center First | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 12,500 sqft | AED 21,600/sqft | AED 270,000,000 |
| 28 Jul 2016 | Al Jadaf | —Dubai Health Care City Phase 2 | LandOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 974,481 sqft | AED 212/sqft | AED 207,000,000 |
| 8 Aug 2016 | Palm Deira | —Palm Deira | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 395,656 sqft | AED 507/sqft | AED 200,597,480 |
| 22 Aug 2016 | Al Yufrah 2 | —DAMAC HILLS 2 | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 5,710,594 sqft | AED 33/sqft | AED 188,483,993 |
| 19 Sept 2016 | Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | —DUBAI HILLS | BuildingOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 1,199,999 sqft | AED 148/sqft | AED 177,100,000 |
| 1 Sept 2016 | Business Bay | —Business Bay | BuildingResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 57,118 sqft | AED 3,064/sqft | AED 175,000,000 |
| 14 Jul 2016 | Palm Jumeirah | Azizi MinaPalm Jumeirah | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 121,033 sqft | AED 1,432/sqft | AED 173,305,000 |
| 18 Aug 2016 | Al Safouh Second | —Site A | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 34,872 sqft | AED 4,399/sqft | AED 153,412,560 |
| 26 Sept 2016 | Al Jadaf | Binghatti AvenueDubai Health Care City Phase 2 | BuildingResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 84,331 sqft | AED 1,776/sqft | AED 149,804,193 |
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.