Dubai Market Data

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Dubai property market — April 2024

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside April 2024. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales11,558Registered in April 2024up45.1%
Total value32.25BRegistered in April 2024Across 113 communities
Price per sqft1,531/sqftMedian across April 2024up18.6%
Sale price1.47MMedian across April 202461% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 11,558 property sales in April 2024, worth AED 32.25B in total, across 113 communities. That is 45% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,470,397 at AED 1,531/sqft, 18.6% above the same month last year. 61% of sales were off-plan.

Al Barsha South Fourth was the busiest community with 1,580 registered sales, while Zaabeel First took the most money at AED 3.39B.

Against the previous month, Zaabeel First rose 128% to 1,091 sales, while Nad Al Shiba First fell 70% to 65.

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 April 2024, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Al Barsha South Fourth1,580+17.7%1.60B810K1,272/sqft80%
Zaabeel First1,091+127.8%3.39B2.99M2,596/sqft100%
Business Bay755-16.6%1.38B1.45M2,217/sqft51%
Marsa Dubai499-24.6%1.55B2.44M2,181/sqft34%
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid441+79.3%1.09B2.21M2,169/sqft82%
Al Hebiah Fourth424-19.5%886.68M979K1,450/sqft70%
Al Merkadh409-50.7%805.21M930K1,741/sqft56%
Al Hebiah Fifth389+0.3%865.82M1.36M1,636/sqft64%
Jabal Ali First389-25.9%690.09M1.16M1,161/sqft53%
Al Thanyah Fifth350-24.7%664.21M1.08M1,224/sqft46%
Wadi Al Safa 5337+15.0%779.49M2.15M1,132/sqft46%
Al Barshaa South Third308-16.8%336.83M956K1,304/sqft81%
Ras Al Khor Industrial First301+99.3%733.59M1.82M2,120/sqft100%
Al Yelayiss 2297+4.2%356.58M1.17M1,127/sqft79%
Burj Khalifa291-26.1%1.15B2.70M2,586/sqft34%

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
Zaabeel First3.39B1,091
Palm Jumeirah1.68B155
Al Barsha South Fourth1.60B1,580
Marsa Dubai1.55B499
Business Bay1.38B755
Palm Deira1.18B130
Burj Khalifa1.15B291
Hadaeq Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid1.09B441
Al Jadaf903.20M147
Al Hebiah Fourth886.68M424

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.

The largest sales of April 2024

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
16 Apr 2024Al Barsha First—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified102,318 sqftAED 3,866/sqftAED 395,600,000
22 Apr 2024Trade Center FirstTrump TowerBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified15,000 sqftAED 25,333/sqftAED 380,000,000
4 Apr 2024Nad Al Shiba Third—BuildingOther · Existing PropertiesNot specified1,358,419 sqftAED 184/sqftAED 250,000,000
16 Apr 2024Port Saeed—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified54,045 sqftAED 4,272/sqftAED 230,900,000
3 Apr 2024Mankhool—LandMulti-Use · Existing PropertiesNot specified79,031 sqftAED 2,300/sqftAED 181,771,300
16 Apr 2024Al Murqabat—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified41,454 sqftAED 3,667/sqftAED 152,000,000
3 Apr 2024Al Thanayah FourthEmirates HillsEmirates LivingLandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified79,274 sqftAED 1,867/sqftAED 148,000,000
4 Apr 2024World Islands—The WorldLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified657,937 sqftAED 198/sqftAED 130,482,345
18 Apr 2024Al Barshaa South Second—Dubai Science ParkLandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified387,167 sqftAED 258/sqftAED 100,000,000
22 Apr 2024Trade Center FirstTrump TowerBuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified1,587 sqftAED 62,721/sqftAED 99,539,503

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.