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 — March 2023
Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside March 2023. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.
In a sentence
The Land Department registered 11,919 property sales in March 2023, worth AED 33.99B in total, across 109 communities. That is 44% more than the same month a year earlier.
The median sale was AED 1,479,096 at AED 1,278/sqft, 8% above the same month last year. 52% of sales were off-plan.
Al Barsha South Fourth was the busiest community with 1,609 registered sales, while Al Khairan First took the most money at AED 4.95B.
Against the previous month, Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid rose 212% to 574 sales, while Al Barshaa South Second fell 88% to 51.
Sales by month
Price per square foot by month
Where the sales were
The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in March 2023, and how each moved against the month before.
| Community | Sales | vs prior | Total value | Median price | Price/sqft | Off-plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 1,609 | +59.5% | 1.48B | 670K | 1,053/sqft | 69% |
| Marsa Dubai | 956 | +32.6% | 3.43B | 2.65M | 2,865/sqft | 49% |
| Business Bay | 884 | +9.5% | 1.60B | 1.48M | 1,930/sqft | 49% |
| Al Khairan First | 789 | +108.7% | 4.95B | 2.13M | 2,045/sqft | 81% |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 574 | +212.0% | 1.77B | 2.01M | 1,922/sqft | 75% |
| Wadi Al Safa 5 | 561 | +10.9% | 997.48M | 2.05M | 989/sqft | 67% |
| Al Merkadh | 464 | +18.4% | 1.10B | 1.40M | 1,825/sqft | 73% |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 439 | +66.9% | 849.60M | 922K | 1,041/sqft | 42% |
| Al Hebiah Fifth | 437 | -3.7% | 1.24B | 2.27M | 1,226/sqft | 0% |
| Al Barshaa South Third | 411 | +61.2% | 371.55M | 486K | 1,035/sqft | 77% |
| Burj Khalifa | 370 | +17.5% | 1.67B | 2.65M | 2,532/sqft | 41% |
| Jabal Ali First | 346 | +51.1% | 548.71M | 853K | 893/sqft | 12% |
| Nadd Hessa | 262 | +114.8% | 120.94M | 300K | 467/sqft | 60% |
| Palm Jumeirah | 253 | +15.5% | 2.97B | 3.63M | 2,433/sqft | 19% |
| Al Warsan First | 251 | -6.7% | 199.92M | 335K | 497/sqft | 18% |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Al Khairan First | 4.95B | 789 |
| Marsa Dubai | 3.43B | 956 |
| Palm Jumeirah | 2.97B | 253 |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 1.77B | 574 |
| Burj Khalifa | 1.67B | 370 |
| Business Bay | 1.60B | 884 |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 1.48B | 1,609 |
| Al Hebiah Fifth | 1.24B | 437 |
| Wadi Al Safa 3 | 1.18B | 169 |
| Al Merkadh | 1.10B | 464 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 574 | +212.0% |
| Nad Al Shiba First | 142 | +129.0% |
| Nadd Hessa | 262 | +114.8% |
| Al Yufrah 1 | 248 | +112.0% |
| Madinat Al Mataar | 169 | +111.3% |
| Al Khairan First | 789 | +108.7% |
| Al Barshaa South Second | 51 | -87.9% |
| Madinat Dubai Almelaheyah | 174 | +85.1% |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 439 | +66.9% |
| Al Barshaa South Third | 411 | +61.2% |
The largest sales of March 2023
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Mar 2023 | Al Khairan First | CREEKSIDE 18Dubai Creek Harbour | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 7,303,768 sqft | AED 215/sqft | AED 1,570,838,790 |
| 27 Mar 2023 | Al Khairan First | —Dubai Creek Harbour | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 45,107,594 sqft | AED 35/sqft | AED 1,570,838,790 |
| 21 Mar 2023 | Palm Jumeirah | The Alba Residences by OmniyatPalm Jumeirah | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 571,280 sqft | AED 963/sqft | AED 550,000,000 |
| 15 Mar 2023 | Palm Jumeirah | —Palm Jumeirah | VillaCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 60,030 sqft | AED 2,499/sqft | AED 150,000,000 |
| 2 Mar 2023 | Burj Khalifa | Society House Downtown DubaiDownTown Dubai | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 76,844 sqft | AED 1,952/sqft | AED 150,000,000 |
| 6 Mar 2023 | Island 2 | Bulgari Lighthouse DubaiJumeira Bay | FlatResidential · Off-Plan Properties | 5 B/R | 11,657 sqft | AED 9,500/sqft | AED 110,740,000 |
| 6 Mar 2023 | Al Barsha South Fourth | —Jumeirah Village Circle | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 18,837 sqft | AED 5,043/sqft | AED 95,000,000 |
| 6 Mar 2023 | Al Thanyah First | —Barsha Heights | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 25,758 sqft | AED 3,300/sqft | AED 85,000,000 |
| 31 Mar 2023 | Palm Jumeirah | EMERALD PALACE KEMPINSKIPalm Jumeirah | VillaResidential · Existing Properties | 4 B/R | 11,810 sqft | AED 6,943/sqft | AED 82,000,000 |
| 16 Mar 2023 | Island 2 | Bulgari Lighthouse DubaiJumeira Bay | FlatResidential · Off-Plan Properties | 4 B/R | 6,439 sqft | AED 12,479/sqft | AED 80,350,000 |
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.