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 — Q2 2017
Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside Q2 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 11,252 property sales in Q2 2017, worth AED 27.74B in total, across 135 communities. That is 4% more than the same quarter a year earlier.
The median sale was AED 1,173,888 at AED 970/sqft, 1.1% above the same quarter last year. 42% of sales were off-plan.
Al Barsha South Fourth was the busiest community with 913 registered sales, while Palm Jumeirah took the most money at AED 1.80B.
Against the previous quarter, Al Yufrah 2 rose 159% to 569 sales, while Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid fell 72% to 137.
Sales by quarter
Price per square foot by quarter
Where the sales were
The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in Q2 2017, and how each moved against the quarter before.
| Community | Sales | vs prior | Total value | Median price | Price/sqft | Off-plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 913 | +51.4% | 1.08B | 750K | 930/sqft | 72% |
| Marsa Dubai | 899 | -2.2% | 1.73B | 1.60M | 1,622/sqft | 36% |
| Business Bay | 708 | +17.6% | 1.24B | 1.19M | 1,450/sqft | 55% |
| Jabal Ali First | 689 | +3.3% | 725.16M | 546K | 1,220/sqft | 64% |
| Al Yufrah 2 | 569 | +158.6% | 688.96M | 1.07M | 847/sqft | 0% |
| Al Warsan First | 433 | +3.1% | 707.53M | 450K | 692/sqft | 7% |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 408 | -16.4% | 630.05M | 1.09M | 1,031/sqft | 5% |
| Al Yelayiss 2 | 378 | -39.8% | 468.30M | 1.29M | 660/sqft | 100% |
| Al Hebiah Fourth | 355 | -14.9% | 368.04M | 620K | 936/sqft | 37% |
| Al Barsha South Fifth | 339 | -5.8% | 493.21M | 641K | 1,155/sqft | 82% |
| Me'Aisem First | 338 | +39.1% | 1.12B | 863K | 979/sqft | 31% |
| Al Barshaa South Third | 325 | -19.4% | 277.90M | 515K | 1,081/sqft | 85% |
| Madinat Al Mataar | 310 | -10.4% | 398.20M | 928K | 743/sqft | 96% |
| Nadd Hessa | 306 | -30.9% | 440.04M | 620K | 828/sqft | 21% |
| Burj Khalifa | 295 | -53.2% | 1.06B | 2.28M | 2,062/sqft | 39% |
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 | 1.80B | 282 |
| Marsa Dubai | 1.73B | 899 |
| Business Bay | 1.24B | 708 |
| Me'Aisem First | 1.12B | 338 |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 1.08B | 913 |
| Burj Khalifa | 1.06B | 295 |
| Al Wasl | 762.70M | 160 |
| Dubai Investment Park Second | 747.64M | 71 |
| Jabal Ali Industrial First | 744.67M | 79 |
| Jabal Ali First | 725.16M | 689 |
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 Yufrah 2 | 569 | +158.6% |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 137 | -72.5% |
| Wadi Al Safa 3 | 100 | -69.3% |
| Al Wasl | 160 | -67.1% |
| Al Khairan First | 176 | -65.4% |
| Zaabeel Second | 75 | -64.1% |
| Wadi Al Safa 7 | 229 | -63.5% |
| Burj Khalifa | 295 | -53.2% |
| Wadi Al Safa 2 | 118 | -52.2% |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 913 | +51.4% |
The largest sales of Q2 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 |
| 10 May 2017 | Palm Jumeirah | OCEAN HOUSEPalm Jumeirah | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 120,327 sqft | AED 2,718/sqft | AED 327,000,000 |
| 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 |
| 1 May 2017 | Al Merkadh | —SOBHA HARTLAND | BuildingOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 196,890 sqft | AED 855/sqft | AED 168,250,000 |
| 26 Apr 2017 | Bukadra | The Caden By Prescott | LandOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 29,296 sqft | AED 4,681/sqft | AED 137,125,248 |
| 29 May 2017 | Dubai Investment Park Second | —Dubai Investment Park Second | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 510,695 sqft | AED 245/sqft | AED 125,000,000 |
| 29 May 2017 | Wadi Al Safa 5 | —Dubai Land Residence Complex | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 29,992 sqft | AED 4,001/sqft | AED 120,000,000 |
| 23 May 2017 | Al Jadaf | Farhad Azizi ResidenceDubai Health Care City Phase 2 | BuildingOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 86,392 sqft | AED 1,364/sqft | AED 117,830,753 |
| 28 Jun 2017 | Mirdif | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 274,279 sqft | AED 408/sqft | AED 112,000,000 |
| 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 |
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.