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Monthly report

Dubai property market — September 2018

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

Sales2,422Registered in September 2018down11.2%
Total value4.89BRegistered in September 2018Across 80 communities
Price per sqft859/sqftMedian across September 2018down16.9%
Sale price1.01MMedian across September 201848% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 2,422 property sales in September 2018, worth AED 4.89B in total, across 80 communities. That is 11% fewer than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,009,690 at AED 859/sqft, 16.9% below the same month last year. 48% of sales were off-plan.

Al Warsan First was the busiest community with 274 registered sales, while Jumeirah First took the most money at AED 521.74M.

Against the previous month, Nadd Hessa rose 255% to 213 sales, while Burj Khalifa fell 2% to 80.

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

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Al Warsan First274+156.1%134.07M363K834/sqft73%
Business Bay236+82.9%337.16M832K1,214/sqft56%
Nadd Hessa213+255.0%160.28M550K773/sqft75%
Nad Al Shiba First169+1436.4%514.97M1.95M360/sqft0%
Marsa Dubai157+51.0%302.19M1.35M1,295/sqft25%
Al Barsha South Fourth155+19.2%177.93M717K939/sqft64%
Wadi Al Safa 5141+176.5%270.49M1.42M737/sqft63%
Al Merkadh85+112.5%129.94M1.10M1,486/sqft95%
Burj Khalifa80-2.4%183.94M1.61M1,758/sqft48%
Al Thanyah Fifth73+4.3%109.37M910K900/sqft11%
Al Barshaa South Third67+139.3%99.50M519K1,012/sqft67%
Jabal Ali First58+20.8%53.78M543K843/sqft14%
Al Khairan First51+292.3%111.74M1.98M1,876/sqft100%
Palm Jumeirah46+9.5%173.17M1.90M1,809/sqft26%
Al Hebiah Third43-20.4%70.45M1.65M885/sqft42%

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
Jumeirah First521.74M6
Nad Al Shiba First514.97M169
Business Bay337.16M236
Marsa Dubai302.19M157
Wadi Al Safa 5270.49M141
Al Thanayah Fourth235.63M26
Burj Khalifa183.94M80
Al Barsha South Fourth177.93M155
Palm Jumeirah173.17M46
Nadd Hessa160.28M213

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
Nadd Hessa213+255.0%
Wadi Al Safa 5141+176.5%
Al Warsan First274+156.1%
Business Bay236+82.9%
Marsa Dubai157+51.0%
Al Barsha South Fourth155+19.2%
Al Thanyah Fifth73+4.3%
Burj Khalifa80-2.4%

The largest sales of September 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
12 Sept 2018Jumeirah First—LA MERLandMulti-Use · Existing PropertiesNot specified334,392 sqftAED 1,110/sqftAED 371,225,681
12 Sept 2018Jumeirah First—LA MERLandMulti-Use · Existing PropertiesNot specified119,600 sqftAED 1,110/sqftAED 132,774,319
18 Sept 2018Al Thanayah FourthEmirates HillsEmirates LivingLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified33,570 sqftAED 2,681/sqftAED 90,000,000
24 Sept 2018Business Bay—Business BayLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified67,790 sqftAED 1,283/sqftAED 87,000,000
24 Sept 2018Al Thanayah FourthEmirates HillsEmirates LivingLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified37,641 sqftAED 1,680/sqftAED 63,236,880
24 Sept 2018World Islands—The WorldLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified502,079 sqftAED 107/sqftAED 53,510,005
27 Sept 2018Al Barsha First—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified17,257 sqftAED 2,897/sqftAED 50,000,000
18 Sept 2018Al Aweer First—BuildingAgricultural · Existing PropertiesNot specified978,568 sqftAED 41/sqftAED 40,000,000
10 Sept 2018Saih Shuaib 3—Dubai Industrial CityLandIndustrial · Existing PropertiesNot specified400,193 sqftAED 99/sqftAED 39,459,024
17 Sept 2018Al Barshaa South ThirdSKYZ By DanubeArjanLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified67,836 sqftAED 560/sqftAED 37,988,000

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.