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 — February 2019
Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside February 2019. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.
In a sentence
The Land Department registered 2,890 property sales in February 2019, worth AED 7.91B in total, across 94 communities. That is 3% more than the same month a year earlier.
The median sale was AED 1,350,000 at AED 966/sqft, 17.9% below the same month last year. 49% of sales were off-plan.
Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 272 registered sales, while Wadi Al Safa 5 took the most money at AED 1.59B.
Against the previous month, Palm Jumeirah rose 191% to 195 sales, while Wadi Al Safa 5 fell 26% to 61.
Sales by month
Price per square foot by month
Where the sales were
The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in February 2019, and how each moved against the month before.
| Community | Sales | vs prior | Total value | Median price | Price/sqft | Off-plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marsa Dubai | 272 | +81.3% | 624.14M | 1.70M | 1,507/sqft | 48% |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 270 | +25.0% | 555.05M | 1.08M | 1,373/sqft | 87% |
| Business Bay | 253 | +30.4% | 295.19M | 760K | 1,002/sqft | 32% |
| Palm Jumeirah | 195 | +191.0% | 582.84M | 1.59M | 900/sqft | 5% |
| Burj Khalifa | 178 | +117.1% | 558.80M | 2.46M | 2,119/sqft | 75% |
| Al Khairan First | 161 | +600.0% | 348.63M | 2.03M | 1,827/sqft | 100% |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 129 | +26.5% | 123.24M | 629K | 692/sqft | 25% |
| Wadi Al Safa 7 | 124 | +138.5% | 243.89M | 1.70M | 775/sqft | 85% |
| Madinat Al Mataar | 119 | +325.0% | 124.34M | 1.06M | 744/sqft | 97% |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 116 | +5.5% | 112.95M | 464K | 925/sqft | 48% |
| Al Merkadh | 109 | +2.8% | 175.09M | 999K | 1,492/sqft | 92% |
| Al Warsan First | 99 | -15.4% | 37.62M | 300K | 477/sqft | 8% |
| Jabal Ali First | 94 | +38.2% | 112.57M | 688K | 810/sqft | 3% |
| Zaabeel Second | 74 | +957.1% | 187.17M | 2.50M | 1,886/sqft | 100% |
| Al Hebiah Fourth | 63 | -18.2% | 53.33M | 536K | 735/sqft | 10% |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Wadi Al Safa 5 | 1.59B | 61 |
| Marsa Dubai | 624.14M | 272 |
| Palm Jumeirah | 582.84M | 195 |
| Burj Khalifa | 558.80M | 178 |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 555.05M | 270 |
| Al Khairan First | 348.63M | 161 |
| Al Thanayah Fourth | 326.20M | 38 |
| Business Bay | 295.19M | 253 |
| Wadi Al Safa 7 | 243.89M | 124 |
| Zaabeel Second | 187.17M | 74 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Palm Jumeirah | 195 | +191.0% |
| Wadi Al Safa 7 | 124 | +138.5% |
| Burj Khalifa | 178 | +117.1% |
| Marsa Dubai | 272 | +81.3% |
| Jabal Ali First | 94 | +38.2% |
| Business Bay | 253 | +30.4% |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 129 | +26.5% |
| Wadi Al Safa 5 | 61 | -25.6% |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 270 | +25.0% |
| Nadd Hessa | 59 | -19.2% |
The largest sales of February 2019
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Feb 2019 | Wadi Al Safa 5 | — | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 5,776,160 sqft | AED 56/sqft | AED 325,000,000 |
| 26 Feb 2019 | Wadi Al Safa 5 | — | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 5,776,150 sqft | AED 56/sqft | AED 325,000,000 |
| 26 Feb 2019 | Wadi Al Safa 5 | — | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 5,776,160 sqft | AED 56/sqft | AED 325,000,000 |
| 21 Feb 2019 | Wadi Al Safa 5 | — | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 4,576,360 sqft | AED 71/sqft | AED 325,000,000 |
| 7 Feb 2019 | Al Thanayah Fourth | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 340,109 sqft | AED 439/sqft | AED 149,446,492 |
| 18 Feb 2019 | Um Suqaim Third | — | LandOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 313,119 sqft | AED 441/sqft | AED 138,000,000 |
| 14 Feb 2019 | Um Suqaim Second | — | LandOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 320,670 sqft | AED 384/sqft | AED 123,000,000 |
| 8 Feb 2019 | Wadi Al Safa 5 | —Dubai Land Residence Complex | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 30,636 sqft | AED 3,878/sqft | AED 118,800,000 |
| 13 Feb 2019 | Al Goze Third | — | BuildingIndustrial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 123,216 sqft | AED 828/sqft | AED 102,005,000 |
| 6 Feb 2019 | Al Thanyah First | —Barsha Heights | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 29,338 sqft | AED 3,306/sqft | AED 97,000,000 |
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.