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Dubai property market — August 2021

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

Sales5,556Registered in August 2021up148.4%
Total value14.54BRegistered in August 2021Across 95 communities
Price per sqft1,017/sqftMedian across August 2021up27.1%
Sale price1.56MMedian across August 202144% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 5,556 property sales in August 2021, worth AED 14.54B in total, across 95 communities. That is 148% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,557,257 at AED 1,017/sqft, 27.1% above the same month last year. 44% of sales were off-plan.

Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 575 registered sales, and also took the most money at AED 1.70B.

Against the previous month, Jabal Ali First rose 321% to 286 sales, while Al Merkadh fell 32% to 230.

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 2021, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Marsa Dubai575-3.0%1.70B2.40M2,320/sqft57%
Business Bay456+19.1%678.13M1.16M1,496/sqft45%
Wadi Al Safa 5438+219.7%861.37M1.76M806/sqft84%
Al Barsha South Fourth418+45.1%300.60M631K889/sqft47%
Al Thanyah Fifth299-12.1%405.73M800K971/sqft46%
Jabal Ali First286+320.6%787.51M3.10M618/sqft4%
Al Hebiah Fourth276+71.4%405.58M661K931/sqft66%
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid261+34.5%1.52B2.79M1,288/sqft40%
Al Merkadh230-32.0%476.91M1.19M1,828/sqft87%
Burj Khalifa218+31.3%791.12M2.09M1,693/sqft29%
Palm Jumeirah187+40.6%1.07B2.00M2,599/sqft53%
Al Hebiah Third129+44.9%237.91M1.68M1,052/sqft16%
Al Hebiah First126+306.5%303.18M1.91M867/sqft0%
Um Suqaim Third114+1166.7%242.77M1.56M1,679/sqft97%
Al Warsan First113+0.9%48.42M308K475/sqft12%

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 Dubai1.70B575
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid1.52B261
Palm Jumeirah1.07B187
Wadi Al Safa 5861.37M438
Burj Khalifa791.12M218
Jabal Ali First787.51M286
Business Bay678.13M456
Al Merkadh476.91M230
Jumeirah First438.36M81
Al Thanyah Fifth405.73M299

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
Jabal Ali First286+320.6%
Wadi Al Safa 5438+219.7%
Al Hebiah Fourth276+71.4%
Al Barsha South Fourth418+45.1%
Al Hebiah Third129+44.9%
Palm Jumeirah187+40.6%
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid261+34.5%
Al Merkadh230-32.0%
Burj Khalifa218+31.3%
Me'Aisem First71-26.0%

The largest sales of August 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
31 Aug 2021Al Murqabat—LandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified44,030 sqftAED 7,381/sqftAED 325,000,000
24 Aug 2021Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin RashidDubai Hills - Hills Grove CommunityDUBAI HILLS - HILLS GROVELandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified36,985 sqftAED 2,785/sqftAED 103,000,000
9 Aug 2021Nadd HessaAXIS RESIDENCES 20Silicon OasisBuildingOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified43,095 sqftAED 2,320/sqftAED 100,000,000
30 Aug 2021Burj KhalifaOne ResidenceDownTown DubaiLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified55,483 sqftAED 1,757/sqftAED 97,500,000
31 Aug 2021Dubai Investment Park First—Dubai Investment Park FirstBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified152,161 sqftAED 493/sqftAED 75,000,000
9 Aug 2021Marsa DubaiMARINA STARDubai MarinaBuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified27,561 sqftAED 2,250/sqftAED 62,012,173
2 Aug 2021Me'Aisem First—Jumeirah Golf EstatesLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified89,021 sqftAED 696/sqftAED 62,000,000
25 Aug 2021Wadi Al Safa 2—Liwan1BuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified31,802 sqftAED 1,792/sqftAED 57,000,000
11 Aug 2021Al Satwa—Jumeirah Garden CityLandOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified15,020 sqftAED 3,795/sqftAED 57,000,000
16 Aug 2021Um Hurair Second—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified48,800 sqftAED 1,158/sqftAED 56,500,000

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.