Dubai Market Data

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Monthly report

Dubai property market — July 2019

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside July 2019. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales3,842Registered in July 2019up36.2%
Total value7.86BRegistered in July 2019Across 86 communities
Price per sqft971/sqftMedian across July 2019down4.8%
Sale price1.29MMedian across July 201959% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 3,842 property sales in July 2019, worth AED 7.86B in total, across 86 communities. That is 36% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,293,888 at AED 971/sqft, 4.8% below the same month last year. 59% of sales were off-plan.

Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 383 registered sales, and also took the most money at AED 892.54M.

Against the previous month, Marsa Dubai rose 164% to 383 sales.

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 July 2019, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Marsa Dubai383+164.1%892.54M1.77M1,694/sqft44%
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid364+112.9%545.49M995K1,352/sqft94%
Wadi Al Safa 5336+833.3%497.14M1.34M756/sqft93%
Al Khairan First266+30.4%461.43M1.45M1,503/sqft98%
Burj Khalifa258+17.3%720.71M1.72M2,027/sqft75%
Madinat Al Mataar241+84.0%250.83M1.07M706/sqft97%
Al Barsha South Fourth177+59.5%245.90M737K971/sqft45%
Jabal Ali First164+256.5%227.32M1.68M674/sqft12%
Al Warsan First141+116.9%159.20M320K471/sqft3%
Business Bay138+23.2%404.64M1.12M1,181/sqft51%
Al Thanyah Fifth127+24.5%139.55M690K846/sqft27%
Al Merkadh123+57.7%207.45M749K1,457/sqft87%
Palm Jumeirah78+90.2%389.75M2.39M1,292/sqft19%
Me'Aisem First77+266.7%256.03M745K703/sqft5%
Jumeirah First65+490.9%148.27M1.74M1,756/sqft92%

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 Dubai892.54M383
Burj Khalifa720.71M258
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid545.49M364
Wadi Al Safa 5497.14M336
Al Khairan First461.43M266
Business Bay404.64M138
Palm Jumeirah389.75M78
Me'Aisem First256.03M77
Madinat Al Mataar250.83M241
Al Barsha South Fourth245.90M177

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
Marsa Dubai383+164.1%
Al Warsan First141+116.9%
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid364+112.9%
Madinat Al Mataar241+84.0%
Al Barsha South Fourth177+59.5%
Al Merkadh123+57.7%
Al Khairan First266+30.4%
Al Thanyah Fifth127+24.5%
Business Bay138+23.2%
Burj Khalifa258+17.3%

The largest sales of July 2019

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
1 Jul 2019Business Bay—Business BayLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified59,387 sqftAED 1,896/sqftAED 112,576,000
11 Jul 2019Burj Khalifa—Business BayLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified54,031 sqftAED 1,906/sqftAED 103,000,000
22 Jul 2019Business BayBinghatti SkyhallBusiness BayLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified61,405 sqftAED 1,515/sqftAED 93,000,000
8 Jul 2019Dubai Investment Park SecondRITAJDubai Investment Park SecondBuildingOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified67,640 sqftAED 909/sqftAED 61,500,000
8 Jul 2019Al Garhoud—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified19,750 sqftAED 2,785/sqftAED 55,000,000
4 Jul 2019Al Nahda Second—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified17,835 sqftAED 3,028/sqftAED 54,000,000
9 Jul 2019Dubai Investment Park First—Dubai Investment Park FirstBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified48,676 sqftAED 1,027/sqftAED 50,000,000
24 Jul 2019Saih Shuaib 4—Dubai Industrial CityLandIndustrial · Existing PropertiesNot specified451,110 sqftAED 104/sqftAED 47,095,884
11 Jul 2019Al Bada—LandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified37,749 sqftAED 1,104/sqftAED 41,658,500
2 Jul 2019Al Barsha South Fourth—Jumeirah Village CircleBuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified24,817 sqftAED 1,642/sqftAED 40,750,000

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.