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Dubai property market — August 2020

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside August 2020. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales2,237Registered in August 2020up2.6%
Total value4.44BRegistered in August 2020Across 78 communities
Price per sqft800/sqftMedian across August 2020down7.1%
Sale price1.10MMedian across August 202026% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 2,237 property sales in August 2020, worth AED 4.44B in total, across 78 communities. That is 3% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,100,000 at AED 800/sqft, 7.1% below the same month last year. 26% of sales were off-plan.

Al Yelayiss 2 was the busiest community with 189 registered sales, while Palm Jumeirah took the most money at AED 374.75M.

Against the previous month, Al Thanyah Fifth rose 55% to 121 sales, while Al Warsan First fell 42% to 84.

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 August 2020, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Al Yelayiss 2189-5.0%172.99M861K931/sqft12%
Marsa Dubai181+7.1%302.15M1.50M1,176/sqft25%
Al Barsha South Fourth133-26.5%92.59M590K747/sqft50%
Business Bay127-8.0%223.46M900K1,250/sqft43%
Al Thanyah Fifth121+55.1%161.38M900K640/sqft17%
Palm Jumeirah107+2.9%374.75M1.40M1,696/sqft44%
Burj Khalifa97-26.5%266.82M2.00M1,510/sqft16%
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid90+7.1%221.49M1.85M920/sqft42%
Wadi Al Safa 590+109.3%120.67M1.10M907/sqft27%
Al Warsan First84-42.5%41.55M280K432/sqft14%
Al Hebiah Fourth73-1.4%50.92M403K478/sqft10%
Nad Al Shiba Third73+4.3%178.31M2.40M475/sqft0%
Jabal Ali First66-17.5%105.57M1.65M586/sqft5%
Al Barshaa South Third65+75.7%41.08M584K995/sqft58%
Al Merkadh57-31.3%121.97M1.07M1,346/sqft81%

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
Palm Jumeirah374.75M107
Island 2317.12M25
Marsa Dubai302.15M181
Burj Khalifa266.82M97
Business Bay223.46M127
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid221.49M90
Al Thanayah Fourth187.55M41
Nad Al Shiba Third178.31M73
Al Yelayiss 2172.99M189
Al Thanyah Fifth161.38M121

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
Al Thanyah Fifth121+55.1%
Al Warsan First84-42.5%
Al Merkadh57-31.3%
Al Barsha South Fourth133-26.5%
Burj Khalifa97-26.5%
Nadd Hessa51-17.7%
Jabal Ali First66-17.5%
Business Bay127-8.0%
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid90+7.1%
Marsa Dubai181+7.1%

The largest sales of August 2020

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
5 Aug 2020Al Barsha First—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified18,591 sqftAED 3,980/sqftAED 74,000,000
20 Aug 2020Al Thanayah FourthADDRESS MONTGOMERIEEmirates LivingHotelHospitality · Existing PropertiesNot specified50,374 sqftAED 1,342/sqftAED 67,594,180
10 Aug 2020Business BayLuxury Family Residence IIIBusiness BayLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified33,920 sqftAED 1,818/sqftAED 61,650,000
17 Aug 2020Nad Al Hamar—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified261,811 sqftAED 195/sqftAED 51,000,000
5 Aug 2020Island 2—Jumeira BayLandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified24,115 sqftAED 1,514/sqftAED 36,500,000
5 Aug 2020Island 2—LandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified24,113 sqftAED 1,514/sqftAED 36,500,000
10 Aug 2020Al Warqa First—BuildingOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified41,942 sqftAED 805/sqftAED 33,760,000
4 Aug 2020Palm Jumeirah—Palm JumeirahVillaCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified20,506 sqftAED 1,609/sqftAED 33,000,000
27 Aug 2020Dubai Investment Park First—Dubai Investment Park FirstBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified511,852 sqftAED 55/sqftAED 28,050,000
6 Aug 2020Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin RashidDubai Hills - Hills View CommunityDUBAI HILLS - HILLS VIEWLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified34,316 sqftAED 696/sqftAED 23,873,500

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.