Dubai Market Data

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Monthly report

Dubai property market — January 2018

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside January 2018. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales3,210Registered in January 2018down28.2%
Total value6.71BRegistered in January 2018Across 94 communities
Price per sqft1,119/sqftMedian across January 2018up17%
Sale price1.11MMedian across January 201849% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 3,210 property sales in January 2018, worth AED 6.71B in total, across 94 communities. That is 28% fewer than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,109,020 at AED 1,119/sqft, 17% above the same month last year. 49% of sales were off-plan.

Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 272 registered sales, and also took the most money at AED 502.30M.

Against the previous month, Al Thanyah Third rose 15% to 60 sales, while Al Hebiah Third fell 58% to 50.

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 January 2018, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Marsa Dubai272+12.9%502.30M1.55M1,615/sqft37%
Business Bay259-28.1%336.09M1.25M1,667/sqft63%
Al Merkadh240+4.3%244.08M567K1,477/sqft98%
Al Barsha South Fourth198-2.5%381.11M790K983/sqft70%
Al Warsan First172-4.4%183.38M543K768/sqft0%
Al Thanyah Fifth145-15.7%224.01M1.02M850/sqft4%
Jabal Ali First142-22.4%104.62M554K1,279/sqft65%
Al Khairan First138+4.5%281.09M1.81M1,889/sqft100%
Al Yelayiss 2131-2.2%129.36M800K985/sqft86%
Al Hebiah Fourth1250.0%139.14M760K990/sqft8%
Burj Khalifa86-33.3%238.26M2.33M1,992/sqft51%
Nadd Hessa76+7.0%47.76M578K873/sqft18%
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid75-39.0%175.16M1.91M1,321/sqft95%
Palm Jumeirah75-20.2%223.38M2.11M1,128/sqft17%
Madinat Al Mataar67+86.1%45.10M536K877/sqft99%

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
Marsa Dubai502.30M272
Al Barsha South Fourth381.11M198
Business Bay336.09M259
Ras Al Khor Industrial First318.38M1
Al Khairan First281.09M138
Al Merkadh244.08M240
Burj Khalifa238.26M86
Al Thanyah Fifth224.01M145
Palm Jumeirah223.38M75
Al Warsan First183.38M172

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 Hebiah Third50-57.6%
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid75-39.0%
Burj Khalifa86-33.3%
Me'Aisem First61-28.2%
Business Bay259-28.1%
Jabal Ali First142-22.4%
Palm Jumeirah75-20.2%
Al Thanyah Fifth145-15.7%
Al Thanyah Third60+15.4%
Marsa Dubai272+12.9%

The largest sales of January 2018

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
3 Jan 2018Ras Al Khor Industrial First—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified50,029 sqftAED 6,364/sqftAED 318,375,000
15 Jan 2018Muhaisanah Fourth—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified28,355 sqftAED 2,292/sqftAED 65,000,000
23 Jan 2018Al Barsha Third—LandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified50,000 sqftAED 1,200/sqftAED 60,000,000
9 Jan 2018Me'Aisem FirstJUMEIRAH GOLF ESTATESJumeirah Golf EstatesLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified435,641 sqftAED 124/sqftAED 53,983,560
24 Jan 2018Al Barsha South FourthElitz 2 By DanubeJumeirah Village CircleLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified66,504 sqftAED 762/sqftAED 50,700,000
25 Jan 2018Jabal Ali Industrial First—JABAL ALI INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENTBuildingIndustrial · Existing PropertiesNot specified20,000 sqftAED 2,475/sqftAED 49,500,000
31 Jan 2018Al Barsha First—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified13,253 sqftAED 3,488/sqftAED 46,220,000
2 Jan 2018Mankhool—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified8,010 sqftAED 5,243/sqftAED 42,000,000
11 Jan 2018Bukadra—LandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified36,664 sqftAED 1,136/sqftAED 41,660,980
4 Jan 2018Saih Shuaib 2—LandIndustrial · Existing PropertiesNot specified408,413 sqftAED 80/sqftAED 32,570,945

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.