Dubai Market Data
Registered sales and Ejari contracts, organized for clear comparisons and better property decisions.
Public records · Dubai Land Department
Monthly report
Dubai property market — April 2017
Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside April 2017. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.
In a sentence
The Land Department registered 4,447 property sales in April 2017, worth AED 11.64B in total, across 94 communities. That is 17% more than the same month a year earlier.
The median sale was AED 1,200,000 at AED 1,000/sqft, 2.9% above the same month last year. 44% of sales were off-plan.
Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 343 registered sales, while Palm Jumeirah took the most money at AED 691.78M.
Against the previous month, Al Yufrah 2 rose 186% to 229 sales, while Wadi Al Safa 7 fell 64% to 102.
Sales by month
Price per square foot by month
Where the sales were
The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in April 2017, and how each moved against the month before.
| Community | Sales | vs prior | Total value | Median price | Price/sqft | Off-plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marsa Dubai | 343 | +7.5% | 678.27M | 1.60M | 1,740/sqft | 44% |
| Jabal Ali First | 276 | -2.8% | 276.48M | 540K | 1,234/sqft | 67% |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 272 | +10.6% | 337.67M | 732K | 939/sqft | 72% |
| Business Bay | 241 | +7.6% | 431.58M | 1.07M | 1,405/sqft | 47% |
| Al Yufrah 2 | 229 | +186.3% | 274.08M | 1.05M | 828/sqft | 0% |
| Al Warsan First | 172 | +10.3% | 479.37M | 430K | 691/sqft | 6% |
| Al Khairan First | 162 | +35.0% | 258.53M | 1.51M | 1,423/sqft | 100% |
| Al Barsha First | 158 | +7800.0% | 182.65M | 1.07M | 1,298/sqft | 0% |
| Al Barsha South Fifth | 141 | 0.0% | 303.94M | 630K | 1,099/sqft | 84% |
| Al Yelayiss 2 | 141 | -42.7% | 176.27M | 1.30M | 646/sqft | 100% |
| Al Barshaa South Third | 136 | +106.1% | 119.61M | 583K | 1,128/sqft | 91% |
| Al Yufrah 3 | 131 | +35.1% | 161.88M | 1.15M | 828/sqft | 0% |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 127 | -27.8% | 212.08M | 1.15M | 1,108/sqft | 4% |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 122 | -35.4% | 520.05M | 3.61M | 848/sqft | 25% |
| Me'Aisem First | 119 | +38.4% | 505.12M | 668K | 987/sqft | 44% |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Palm Jumeirah | 691.78M | 113 |
| Marsa Dubai | 678.27M | 343 |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 520.05M | 122 |
| Me'Aisem First | 505.12M | 119 |
| Al Wasl | 496.84M | 90 |
| Jabal Ali Industrial First | 494.94M | 55 |
| Al Warsan First | 479.37M | 172 |
| Bukadra | 445.45M | 5 |
| Business Bay | 431.58M | 241 |
| Burj Khalifa | 417.12M | 112 |
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.
| Community | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Al Yufrah 2 | 229 | +186.3% |
| Al Barshaa South Third | 136 | +106.1% |
| Wadi Al Safa 7 | 102 | -63.6% |
| Zaabeel Second | 69 | -60.6% |
| Al Wasl | 90 | -47.1% |
| Madinat Al Mataar | 111 | -45.6% |
| Al Yelayiss 2 | 141 | -42.7% |
| Me'Aisem First | 119 | +38.4% |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 122 | -35.4% |
| Al Yufrah 3 | 131 | +35.1% |
The largest sales of April 2017
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Apr 2017 | Al Warsan First | —WARSAN FIRST DEVELOPMENT | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 570,487 sqft | AED 600/sqft | AED 342,292,800 |
| 12 Apr 2017 | Palm Jumeirah | Six Senses Residences The Palm, DubaiPalm Jumeirah | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 511,190 sqft | AED 446/sqft | AED 227,984,292 |
| 26 Apr 2017 | Bukadra | The Caden By Prescott | LandOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 29,296 sqft | AED 4,681/sqft | AED 137,125,248 |
| 17 Apr 2017 | Al Barsha South Fifth | —Jumeirah Village Triangle | BuildingResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 47,412 sqft | AED 2,257/sqft | AED 107,000,000 |
| 24 Apr 2017 | Al Aweer Second | — | BuildingAgricultural · Existing Properties | Not specified | 3,847,479 sqft | AED 26/sqft | AED 100,000,000 |
| 13 Apr 2017 | Al Murqabat | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 13,053 sqft | AED 7,508/sqft | AED 98,000,000 |
| 17 Apr 2017 | Burj Khalifa | Inaura Hotels & ResidencesDownTown Dubai | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 36,345 sqft | AED 2,614/sqft | AED 95,000,000 |
| 26 Apr 2017 | Bukadra | — | LandOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 29,956 sqft | AED 3,090/sqft | AED 92,555,377 |
| 26 Apr 2017 | Bukadra | Ayaan Heights I | LandOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 28,903 sqft | AED 3,093/sqft | AED 89,411,882 |
| 11 Apr 2017 | Palm Jumeirah | OCEAN BREEZEPalm Jumeirah | VillaCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 14,451 sqft | AED 5,827/sqft | AED 84,200,000 |
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.