Dubai Market Data
Registered sales and Ejari contracts, organized for clear comparisons and better property decisions.
Public records · Dubai Land Department
Quarterly report
Dubai property market — Q2 2021
Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside Q2 2021. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.
In a sentence
The Land Department registered 15,081 property sales in Q2 2021, worth AED 36.21B in total, across 129 communities. That is 200% more than the same quarter a year earlier.
The median sale was AED 1,344,477 at AED 945/sqft, 8.3% below the same quarter last year. 37% of sales were off-plan.
Marsa Dubai was the busiest community with 1,491 registered sales, while Palm Jumeirah took the most money at AED 4.23B.
Against the previous quarter, Dubai Investment Park First rose 266% to 271 sales, while Nad Al Shiba Third fell 41% to 147.
Sales by quarter
Price per square foot by quarter
Where the sales were
The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in Q2 2021, and how each moved against the quarter before.
| Community | Sales | vs prior | Total value | Median price | Price/sqft | Off-plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marsa Dubai | 1,491 | +29.7% | 3.91B | 2.04M | 1,680/sqft | 32% |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 1,200 | +70.5% | 1.29B | 680K | 979/sqft | 47% |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 1,104 | +57.5% | 4.16B | 2.16M | 1,060/sqft | 55% |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 917 | +17.9% | 755.52M | 563K | 753/sqft | 58% |
| Business Bay | 860 | -21.7% | 1.23B | 1.13M | 1,215/sqft | 31% |
| Al Merkadh | 851 | +137.0% | 1.50B | 1.10M | 1,582/sqft | 85% |
| Burj Khalifa | 626 | +42.0% | 2.40B | 2.13M | 1,850/sqft | 37% |
| Al Hebiah Fourth | 607 | +35.2% | 1.36B | 1.45M | 736/sqft | 11% |
| Wadi Al Safa 5 | 529 | +82.4% | 905.84M | 1.55M | 742/sqft | 72% |
| Palm Jumeirah | 523 | -2.8% | 4.23B | 2.40M | 1,681/sqft | 24% |
| Al Warsan First | 521 | +64.4% | 366.44M | 708K | 420/sqft | 6% |
| Al Hebiah Third | 508 | +80.1% | 1.08B | 1.95M | 1,028/sqft | 22% |
| Me'Aisem First | 387 | +71.2% | 914.24M | 955K | 1,014/sqft | 18% |
| Al Barshaa South Third | 359 | +165.9% | 292.49M | 545K | 809/sqft | 78% |
| Al Yelayiss 2 | 350 | -3.8% | 407.54M | 1.15M | 778/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 |
|---|---|---|
| Palm Jumeirah | 4.23B | 523 |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 4.16B | 1,104 |
| Marsa Dubai | 3.91B | 1,491 |
| Burj Khalifa | 2.40B | 626 |
| Al Merkadh | 1.50B | 851 |
| Al Hebiah Fourth | 1.36B | 607 |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 1.29B | 1,200 |
| Business Bay | 1.23B | 860 |
| Al Thanayah Fourth | 1.11B | 192 |
| Al Hebiah Third | 1.08B | 508 |
Biggest movers
Change in registered sales against the previous quarter. Limited to communities with at least 50 sales in both — below that a swing is noise.
| Community | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Dubai Investment Park First | 271 | +266.2% |
| Al Barshaa South Third | 359 | +165.9% |
| Al Merkadh | 851 | +137.0% |
| Al Hebiah First | 133 | +121.7% |
| Wadi Al Safa 5 | 529 | +82.4% |
| Al Hebiah Third | 508 | +80.1% |
| Wadi Al Safa 7 | 285 | +72.7% |
| Me'Aisem First | 387 | +71.2% |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 1,200 | +70.5% |
| Jumeirah First | 155 | +66.7% |
The largest sales of Q2 2021
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 May 2021 | Um Ramool | — | BuildingIndustrial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 2,079,261 sqft | AED 300/sqft | AED 623,778,316 |
| 9 Jun 2021 | Palm Jumeirah | EOMEPalm Jumeirah | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 671,326 sqft | AED 492/sqft | AED 330,000,000 |
| 26 May 2021 | Burj Khalifa | THE ADDRESS RESIDENCE - SKY VIEWDownTown Dubai | HotelHospitality · Existing Properties | Not specified | 598,162 sqft | AED 552/sqft | AED 330,000,000 |
| 20 May 2021 | Al Warsan Second | — | LandOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 5,575,554 sqft | AED 50/sqft | AED 278,777,695 |
| 24 May 2021 | Burj Khalifa | —DownTown Dubai | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 71,169 sqft | AED 2,810/sqft | AED 200,000,000 |
| 30 Jun 2021 | Marsa Dubai | —Dubai Marina | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 32,694 sqft | AED 3,823/sqft | AED 125,000,000 |
| 14 Jun 2021 | Palm Jumeirah | CLUB VILLASPalm Jumeirah | VillaResidential · Existing Properties | 7 B/R | 26,033 sqft | AED 4,590/sqft | AED 119,500,000 |
| 26 Apr 2021 | Palm Jumeirah | CLUB VILLASPalm Jumeirah | VillaResidential · Existing Properties | 6 B/R | 20,756 sqft | AED 5,059/sqft | AED 105,000,000 |
| 26 Apr 2021 | Palm Jumeirah | CLUB VILLASPalm Jumeirah | VillaResidential · Existing Properties | 7 B/R | 20,350 sqft | AED 4,382/sqft | AED 89,181,000 |
| 15 Jun 2021 | Island 2 | —Jumeira Bay | LandOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 17,024 sqft | AED 5,140/sqft | AED 87,500,000 |
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.