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 — April 2019
Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside April 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 3,245 property sales in April 2019, worth AED 7.65B in total, across 84 communities. That is 15% more than the same month a year earlier.
The median sale was AED 1,036,888 at AED 925/sqft, 14.7% below the same month last year. 50% of sales were off-plan.
Business Bay was the busiest community with 264 registered sales, while Burj Khalifa took the most money at AED 1.87B.
Against the previous month, Me'Aisem First rose 256% to 185 sales, while Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid fell 61% to 110.
Sales by month
Price per square foot by month
Where the sales were
The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in April 2019, and how each moved against the month before.
| Community | Sales | vs prior | Total value | Median price | Price/sqft | Off-plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business Bay | 264 | +14.3% | 347.57M | 950K | 1,350/sqft | 55% |
| Marsa Dubai | 253 | +0.4% | 1.02B | 1.54M | 1,570/sqft | 44% |
| Burj Khalifa | 227 | +34.3% | 1.87B | 2.09M | 2,001/sqft | 64% |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 208 | +10.1% | 179.69M | 448K | 925/sqft | 53% |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 207 | +120.2% | 171.73M | 636K | 942/sqft | 58% |
| Me'Aisem First | 185 | +255.8% | 117.64M | 249K | 62/sqft | 7% |
| Al Merkadh | 167 | +173.8% | 298.80M | 660K | 1,391/sqft | 96% |
| Al Warsan First | 119 | +1.7% | 88.17M | 320K | 474/sqft | 5% |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 110 | -60.7% | 278.69M | 1.35M | 1,066/sqft | 85% |
| Wadi Al Safa 5 | 102 | +43.7% | 163.06M | 1.37M | 671/sqft | 75% |
| Al Yelayiss 2 | 100 | +132.6% | 104.69M | 990K | 482/sqft | 85% |
| Madinat Al Mataar | 99 | -2.0% | 90.98M | 1.06M | 714/sqft | 98% |
| Al Barshaa South Third | 77 | -4.9% | 39.07M | 406K | 987/sqft | 82% |
| Nadd Hessa | 75 | +17.2% | 39.80M | 410K | 743/sqft | 45% |
| Wadi Al Safa 7 | 75 | -24.2% | 170.26M | 1.78M | 699/sqft | 72% |
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 | 1.87B | 227 |
| Marsa Dubai | 1.02B | 253 |
| Business Bay | 347.57M | 264 |
| Al Merkadh | 298.80M | 167 |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 278.69M | 110 |
| Al Thanayah Fourth | 265.67M | 41 |
| Palm Jumeirah | 254.16M | 74 |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 179.69M | 208 |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 171.73M | 207 |
| Wadi Al Safa 7 | 170.26M | 75 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Me'Aisem First | 185 | +255.8% |
| Al Merkadh | 167 | +173.8% |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 207 | +120.2% |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 110 | -60.7% |
| Palm Jumeirah | 74 | +48.0% |
| Wadi Al Safa 5 | 102 | +43.7% |
| Burj Khalifa | 227 | +34.3% |
| Al Khairan First | 70 | +29.6% |
| Jabal Ali First | 66 | +24.5% |
| Wadi Al Safa 7 | 75 | -24.2% |
The largest sales of April 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 Apr 2019 | Burj Khalifa | THE DUBAI MALLDownTown Dubai | Sized PartitionOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 933,606 sqft | AED 616/sqft | AED 575,000,000 |
| 24 Apr 2019 | Marsa Dubai | DUBAI MARINA MALLDubai Marina | Sized PartitionOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 1,118,069 sqft | AED 411/sqft | AED 460,000,000 |
| 24 Apr 2019 | Burj Khalifa | THE ADDRESS - THE BLVDDownTown Dubai | HotelHospitality · Existing Properties | Not specified | 671,289 sqft | AED 611/sqft | AED 410,000,000 |
| 24 Apr 2019 | Burj Khalifa | AL MANZIL HOTELDownTown Dubai | HotelHospitality · Existing Properties | Not specified | 323,031 sqft | AED 502/sqft | AED 162,000,000 |
| 24 Apr 2019 | Burj Khalifa | VIDA DowntownDownTown Dubai | HotelHospitality · Existing Properties | Not specified | 287,567 sqft | AED 522/sqft | AED 150,000,000 |
| 29 Apr 2019 | Al Raffa | — | BuildingOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 46,072 sqft | AED 2,713/sqft | AED 125,000,000 |
| 2 Apr 2019 | Al Merkadh | THE HIGHBURYSOBHA HARTLAND | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 99,971 sqft | AED 1,100/sqft | AED 110,000,000 |
| 8 Apr 2019 | Madinat Dubai Almelaheyah | — | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 229,629 sqft | AED 436/sqft | AED 100,005,000 |
| 29 Apr 2019 | Saih Shuaib 2 | — | LandIndustrial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 582,355 sqft | AED 115/sqft | AED 67,181,988 |
| 9 Apr 2019 | Marsa Dubai | LIV MARINADubai Marina | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 35,033 sqft | AED 1,889/sqft | AED 66,162,063 |
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.