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Monthly report

Dubai property market — February 2021

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside February 2021. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales3,421Registered in February 2021down6.9%
Total value6.77BRegistered in February 2021Across 94 communities
Price per sqft870/sqftMedian across February 2021down8.5%
Sale price1.18MMedian across February 202131% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 3,421 property sales in February 2021, worth AED 6.77B in total, across 94 communities. That is 7% fewer than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,175,000 at AED 870/sqft, 8.5% below the same month last year. 31% of sales were off-plan.

Business Bay was the busiest community with 394 registered sales, while Marsa Dubai took the most money at AED 683.29M.

Against the previous month, Al Merkadh rose 52% to 117 sales, while Wadi Al Safa 5 fell 50% to 57.

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 February 2021, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Business Bay394+25.9%525.82M1.23M1,244/sqft47%
Marsa Dubai320+10.0%683.29M1.56M1,347/sqft26%
Al Barsha South Fourth214-13.0%203.77M670K853/sqft57%
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid196+43.1%487.01M1.86M1,014/sqft45%
Al Thanyah Fifth186+16.3%257.93M774K718/sqft17%
Palm Jumeirah166+37.2%575.59M1.66M1,497/sqft42%
Burj Khalifa142+26.8%362.17M2.16M1,690/sqft22%
Al Merkadh117+51.9%395.15M2.04M1,731/sqft86%
Al Warsan First115+18.6%62.64M295K437/sqft21%
Al Hebiah Fourth114+1.8%105.03M480K596/sqft20%
Al Yelayiss 2106-16.5%104.53M931K843/sqft8%
Warsan Fourth104+2500.0%50.69M243K391/sqft0%
Jabal Ali First87+26.1%82.63M457K550/sqft1%
Al Hebiah Third840.0%182.98M1.80M794/sqft13%
Al Jadaf82+34.4%94.51M617K810/sqft89%

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 Dubai683.29M320
Palm Jumeirah575.59M166
Business Bay525.82M394
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid487.01M196
Al Merkadh395.15M117
Burj Khalifa362.17M142
Al Thanayah Fourth273.73M48
Al Thanyah Fifth257.93M186
Al Barsha South Fourth203.77M214
Al Hebiah Third182.98M84

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 Merkadh117+51.9%
Wadi Al Safa 557-50.4%
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid196+43.1%
Palm Jumeirah166+37.2%
Al Jadaf82+34.4%
Nad Al Shiba Third68-26.9%
Burj Khalifa142+26.8%
Jabal Ali First87+26.1%
Business Bay394+25.9%
Al Warsan First115+18.6%

The largest sales of February 2021

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
8 Feb 2021Saih Shuaib 3—Dubai Industrial CityLandIndustrial · Existing PropertiesNot specified1,128,169 sqftAED 77/sqftAED 86,869,104
18 Feb 2021Jabal Ali Industrial SecondArian By AziziDown Town Jabal AliLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified37,301 sqftAED 2,083/sqftAED 77,700,000
1 Feb 2021Um Hurair Second—Dubai Health Care City Phase 1BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified28,494 sqftAED 1,755/sqftAED 50,000,000
1 Feb 2021Palm JumeirahPalme CouturePalm JumeirahFlatResidential · Existing Properties5 B/R10,087 sqftAED 4,312/sqftAED 43,500,000
23 Feb 2021Al Khawaneej First—LandMulti-Use · Existing PropertiesNot specified70,000 sqftAED 575/sqftAED 40,250,000
11 Feb 2021Island 2—Jumeira BayLandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified23,315 sqftAED 1,673/sqftAED 39,000,000
1 Feb 2021Al Thanayah FourthEmirates HillsEmirates LivingLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified28,887 sqftAED 1,298/sqftAED 37,500,000
11 Feb 2021Al Thanayah FourthEmirates HillsEmirates LivingLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified24,099 sqftAED 1,523/sqftAED 36,700,000
15 Feb 2021Island 2—Jumeira BayLandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified24,438 sqftAED 1,494/sqftAED 36,500,000
15 Feb 2021Island 2—Jumeira BayLandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified24,437 sqftAED 1,494/sqftAED 36,500,000

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.