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 — December 2020
Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside December 2020. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.
In a sentence
The Land Department registered 3,505 property sales in December 2020, worth AED 7.22B in total, across 92 communities. That is 15% fewer than the same month a year earlier.
The median sale was AED 1,124,750 at AED 890/sqft, 11.5% below the same month last year. 35% of sales were off-plan.
Business Bay was the busiest community with 347 registered sales, while Marsa Dubai took the most money at AED 725.11M.
Against the previous month, Al Barshaa South Third rose 211% to 165 sales, while Al Hebiah Fourth fell 67% to 118.
Sales by month
Price per square foot by month
Where the sales were
The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in December 2020, and how each moved against the month before.
| Community | Sales | vs prior | Total value | Median price | Price/sqft | Off-plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business Bay | 347 | +18.0% | 487.96M | 1.33M | 1,350/sqft | 48% |
| Marsa Dubai | 293 | -29.1% | 725.11M | 1.50M | 1,471/sqft | 26% |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 272 | +9.2% | 217.41M | 650K | 896/sqft | 59% |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 171 | -3.9% | 245.67M | 800K | 634/sqft | 18% |
| Al Yelayiss 2 | 169 | +5.6% | 144.25M | 664K | 926/sqft | 48% |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 167 | +12.1% | 307.95M | 1.33M | 1,048/sqft | 65% |
| Al Barshaa South Third | 165 | +211.3% | 126.26M | 675K | 710/sqft | 20% |
| Dubai Investment Park First | 135 | +114.3% | 447.68M | 3.05M | 928/sqft | 0% |
| Burj Khalifa | 120 | -40.3% | 302.85M | 2.21M | 1,653/sqft | 28% |
| Al Hebiah Fourth | 118 | -67.3% | 134.38M | 529K | 625/sqft | 32% |
| Palm Jumeirah | 118 | -25.8% | 469.53M | 1.64M | 1,472/sqft | 30% |
| Al Merkadh | 95 | -29.6% | 309.50M | 1.04M | 1,492/sqft | 75% |
| Al Jadaf | 81 | +62.0% | 76.54M | 638K | 787/sqft | 89% |
| Al Barshaa South Second | 75 | +341.2% | 57.99M | 695K | 1,146/sqft | 93% |
| Al Hebiah Third | 73 | +7.4% | 135.06M | 1.70M | 824/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 |
|---|---|---|
| Marsa Dubai | 725.11M | 293 |
| Al Barsha First | 536.00M | 4 |
| Business Bay | 487.96M | 347 |
| Palm Jumeirah | 469.53M | 118 |
| Dubai Investment Park First | 447.68M | 135 |
| Al Merkadh | 309.50M | 95 |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 307.95M | 167 |
| Burj Khalifa | 302.85M | 120 |
| Al Thanayah Fourth | 276.84M | 52 |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 245.67M | 171 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Al Barshaa South Third | 165 | +211.3% |
| Dubai Investment Park First | 135 | +114.3% |
| Al Hebiah Fourth | 118 | -67.3% |
| Al Jadaf | 81 | +62.0% |
| Al Thanyah First | 56 | -40.4% |
| Burj Khalifa | 120 | -40.3% |
| Al Merkadh | 95 | -29.6% |
| Marsa Dubai | 293 | -29.1% |
| Wadi Al Safa 5 | 71 | -26.0% |
| Palm Jumeirah | 118 | -25.8% |
The largest sales of December 2020
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Dec 2020 | Al Barsha First | — | VillaResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 38,917 sqft | AED 6,167/sqft | AED 240,000,000 |
| 10 Dec 2020 | Al Barsha First | — | VillaResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 38,917 sqft | AED 6,167/sqft | AED 240,000,000 |
| 10 Dec 2020 | Dubai Investment Park Second | —Dubai Investment Park Second | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 47,327 sqft | AED 1,855/sqft | AED 87,780,000 |
| 14 Dec 2020 | Marsa Dubai | Franck muller VanguardTECOM Site D | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 72,104 sqft | AED 1,040/sqft | AED 75,000,000 |
| 22 Dec 2020 | Palm Jumeirah | —Palm Jumeirah | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 31,500 sqft | AED 1,905/sqft | AED 60,000,000 |
| 22 Dec 2020 | Saih Shuaib 4 | —Dubai Industrial City | LandIndustrial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 643,384 sqft | AED 85/sqft | AED 54,848,093 |
| 10 Dec 2020 | Dubai Investment Park First | —Dubai Investment Park First | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 40,720 sqft | AED 1,316/sqft | AED 53,580,000 |
| 7 Dec 2020 | Palm Jumeirah | —Palm Jumeirah | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 27,819 sqft | AED 1,672/sqft | AED 46,500,000 |
| 24 Dec 2020 | Al Barsha First | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 11,373 sqft | AED 3,869/sqft | AED 44,000,000 |
| 8 Dec 2020 | Al Thanayah Fourth | Emirates HillsEmirates Living | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 41,244 sqft | AED 982/sqft | AED 40,500,000 |
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.