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 2023
Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside Q2 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 30,014 property sales in Q2 2023, worth AED 89.78B in total, across 135 communities. That is 37% more than the same quarter a year earlier.
The median sale was AED 1,510,000 at AED 1,344/sqft, 16.4% above the same quarter last year. 48% of sales were off-plan.
Al Barsha South Fourth was the busiest community with 3,263 registered sales, while Marsa Dubai took the most money at AED 12.44B.
Against the previous quarter, Zaabeel Second rose 175% to 264 sales, while Al Barshaa South Second fell 79% to 119.
Sales by quarter
Price per square foot by quarter
Where the sales were
The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in Q2 2023, and how each moved against the quarter before.
| Community | Sales | vs prior | Total value | Median price | Price/sqft | Off-plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 3,263 | -0.6% | 3.44B | 750K | 1,075/sqft | 69% |
| Marsa Dubai | 3,127 | +41.5% | 12.44B | 3.12M | 3,543/sqft | 58% |
| Business Bay | 1,808 | -33.3% | 3.63B | 1.29M | 1,699/sqft | 36% |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 1,601 | +50.5% | 2.80B | 1.20M | 1,262/sqft | 49% |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 1,558 | +39.7% | 4.68B | 1.73M | 1,947/sqft | 76% |
| Al Merkadh | 1,359 | -0.9% | 2.68B | 1.14M | 1,736/sqft | 68% |
| Burj Khalifa | 1,338 | +21.1% | 5.51B | 2.68M | 2,382/sqft | 32% |
| Al Khairan First | 1,278 | -27.1% | 2.92B | 2.04M | 2,058/sqft | 64% |
| Wadi Al Safa 5 | 1,115 | -17.2% | 2.13B | 2.08M | 957/sqft | 64% |
| Al Barshaa South Third | 1,066 | +37.5% | 1.14B | 642K | 1,276/sqft | 77% |
| Jabal Ali First | 1,046 | +20.5% | 1.84B | 1.03M | 976/sqft | 26% |
| Al Yelayiss 2 | 761 | -26.5% | 1.09B | 1.13M | 982/sqft | 77% |
| Al Hebiah Fifth | 750 | -48.0% | 1.90B | 2.22M | 1,278/sqft | 0% |
| Palm Jumeirah | 691 | -10.6% | 6.94B | 4.25M | 2,756/sqft | 29% |
| Al Hebiah Fourth | 666 | +12.9% | 2.10B | 840K | 836/sqft | 21% |
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 | 12.44B | 3,127 |
| Palm Jumeirah | 6.94B | 691 |
| Burj Khalifa | 5.51B | 1,338 |
| Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid | 4.68B | 1,558 |
| Wadi Al Safa 3 | 3.94B | 491 |
| Mugatrah | 3.87B | 1 |
| Business Bay | 3.63B | 1,808 |
| Al Barsha South Fourth | 3.44B | 3,263 |
| Al Khairan First | 2.92B | 1,278 |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 2.80B | 1,601 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zaabeel Second | 264 | +175.0% |
| Madinat Hind 4 | 426 | +146.2% |
| Al Hebiah Sixth | 189 | +133.3% |
| Al Thanyah First | 107 | +109.8% |
| Al Barshaa South Second | 119 | -79.0% |
| Al Kifaf | 86 | -74.5% |
| Al Yufrah 1 | 167 | -61.6% |
| Al Hebiah First | 220 | +59.4% |
| Mirdif | 74 | -52.3% |
| Al Thanyah Fifth | 1,601 | +50.5% |
The largest sales of Q2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Apr 2023 | Mugatrah | — | LandOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 203,080,082 sqft | AED 19/sqft | AED 3,869,204,024 |
| 23 May 2023 | Madinat Al Mataar | —Dubai World Central | LandOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 14,656,269 sqft | AED 45/sqft | AED 659,538,246 |
| 12 Apr 2023 | Al Layan1 | — | LandOther · Existing Properties | Not specified | 33,108,127 sqft | AED 19/sqft | AED 630,795,976 |
| 17 Apr 2023 | Marsa Dubai | DAMAC BAY 2Dubai Harbour | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 65,533 sqft | AED 6,790/sqft | AED 444,991,275 |
| 26 Jun 2023 | Oud Metha | — | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 241,378 sqft | AED 1,450/sqft | AED 350,000,000 |
| 10 May 2023 | Al Safouh Second | DAMAC CASASite A | LandCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 80,356 sqft | AED 3,733/sqft | AED 300,000,000 |
| 26 Jun 2023 | Al Goze First | — | BuildingCommercial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 192,462 sqft | AED 1,309/sqft | AED 252,000,000 |
| 28 Apr 2023 | Burj Khalifa | One ResidenceDownTown Dubai | LandResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 55,483 sqft | AED 3,334/sqft | AED 185,000,000 |
| 13 Apr 2023 | Wadi Al Safa 3 | —Majan | BuildingResidential · Existing Properties | Not specified | 60,373 sqft | AED 2,816/sqft | AED 170,000,000 |
| 25 May 2023 | Madinat Dubai Almelaheyah | Oceanz 2 By DanubeDubai Maritime City | LandIndustrial · Existing Properties | Not specified | 53,886 sqft | AED 3,143/sqft | AED 169,387,400 |
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.