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 — Q4 2018
Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside Q4 2018. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.
In a sentence
The Land Department registered 8,262 property sales in Q4 2018, worth AED 18.51B in total, across 129 communities. That is 23% fewer than the same quarter a year earlier.
The median sale was AED 1,121,047 at AED 930/sqft, 9.5% below the same quarter last year. 48% of sales were off-plan.
Al Warsan First was the busiest community with 990 registered sales, while Burj Khalifa took the most money at AED 1.28B.
Against the previous quarter, Al Khairan First rose 150% to 265 sales, while Wadi Al Safa 3 fell 61% to 75.
Sales by quarter
Price per square foot by quarter
Where the sales were
The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in Q4 2018, and how each moved against the quarter before.
| Community | Sales | vs prior | Total value | Median price | Price/sqft | Off-plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Al Warsan First | 990 | +90.4% | 506.75M | 355K | 824/sqft | 64% |
| Business Bay | 647 | +8.2% | 823.34M | 1.07M | 1,635/sqft | 63% |
| Marsa Dubai | 560 | +6.9% | 1.06B | 1.51M | 1,420/sqft | 34% |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 480 | +10.3% | 485.49M | 722K | 874/sqft | 50% |
| Burj Khalifa | 467 | +68.0% | 1.28B | 2.10M | 1,964/sqft | 65% |
| Wadi Al Safa 5 | 423 | +67.9% | 932.74M | 1.47M | 705/sqft | 51% |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 384 | +105.3% | 949.63M | 1.05M | 1,380/sqft | 89% |
| Al Merkadh | 341 | +32.7% | 505.51M | 1.08M | 1,498/sqft | 94% |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 285 | +22.3% | 420.19M | 956K | 872/sqft | 10% |
| Palm Jumeirah | 280 | +89.2% | 929.33M | 1.98M | 2,360/sqft | 32% |
| Nadd Hessa | 271 | -24.5% | 461.48M | 550K | 727/sqft | 34% |
| Al Khairan First | 265 | +150.0% | 645.19M | 1.83M | 1,587/sqft | 99% |
| Al Hebiah Fourth | 220 | +36.6% | 165.91M | 536K | 719/sqft | 27% |
| Al Barshaa South Third | 191 | +15.1% | 118.41M | 513K | 1,014/sqft | 70% |
| Jabal Ali First | 171 | -17.4% | 285.72M | 770K | 761/sqft | 6% |
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 | 1.28B | 467 |
| Marsa Dubai | 1.06B | 560 |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 949.63M | 384 |
| Wadi Al Safa 5 | 932.74M | 423 |
| Palm Jumeirah | 929.33M | 280 |
| Business Bay | 823.34M | 647 |
| Al Khairan First | 645.19M | 265 |
| Al Warsan First | 506.75M | 990 |
| Al Merkadh | 505.51M | 341 |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 485.49M | 480 |
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 Khairan First | 265 | +150.0% |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 384 | +105.3% |
| Al Warsan First | 990 | +90.4% |
| Palm Jumeirah | 280 | +89.2% |
| Wadi Al Safa 7 | 95 | +79.2% |
| Burj Khalifa | 467 | +68.0% |
| Wadi Al Safa 5 | 423 | +67.9% |
| Wadi Al Safa 3 | 75 | -60.7% |
| Zaabeel Second | 83 | +56.6% |
| Al Thanyah First | 74 | -38.3% |
The largest sales of Q4 2018
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 Oct 2018 | Wadi Al Safa 4 | —City Of Arabia | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 1,551,249 sqft | AED 186/sqft | AED 288,750,000 |
| 10 Dec 2018 | Trade Center First | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 10,050 sqft | AED 18,905/sqft | AED 190,000,000 |
| 27 Dec 2018 | Um Suqaim Third | — | LandOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 351,350 sqft | AED 413/sqft | AED 145,000,000 |
| 28 Nov 2018 | Al Yufrah 3 | — | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 6,999,997 sqft | AED 20/sqft | AED 140,000,000 |
| 17 Dec 2018 | Al Thanyah First | —Barsha Heights | BuildingOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 49,989 sqft | AED 2,601/sqft | AED 130,000,000 |
| 21 Nov 2018 | Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | —Dubai Hills Estate | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 270,398 sqft | AED 463/sqft | AED 125,196,652 |
| 6 Dec 2018 | Saih Aldahal | — | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 118,283,169 sqft | AED 1/sqft | AED 118,283,283 |
| 12 Nov 2018 | Wadi Al Safa 2 | —Liwan1 | BuildingResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 46,487 sqft | AED 2,474/sqft | AED 115,000,000 |
| 10 Dec 2018 | Saih Aldahal | — | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 112,044,704 sqft | AED 1/sqft | AED 112,044,812 |
| 12 Nov 2018 | Wadi Al Safa 5 | —Dubai Land Residence Complex | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 31,048 sqft | AED 3,543/sqft | AED 110,000,000 |
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.