Dubai Market Data

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Monthly report

Dubai property market — April 1998

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside April 1998. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales65Registered in April 1998
Total value207.12MRegistered in April 1998Across 27 communities
Price per sqft107/sqftMedian across April 1998
Sale price850KMedian across April 19980% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 65 property sales in April 1998, worth AED 207.12M in total, across 27 communities.

The median sale was AED 850,000 at AED 107/sqft. 0% of sales were off-plan.

Um Suqaim was the busiest community with 13 registered sales, while Al-Riqqa East took the most money at AED 35.63M.

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 1998, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Um Suqaim13-7.1%14.83M1.05M75/sqft0%
Mirdif10-47.4%3.22M328K32/sqft0%
Hor Al Anz East5+400.0%2.33M500K200/sqft0%
Al Satwa4-55.6%3.88M940K246/sqft0%
Al Musalla (Dubai)3—5.06M2.20M788/sqft0%
Jumeirah3-25.0%4.25M1.15M125/sqft0%
Al Barsha20.0%1.05M525K35/sqft0%
Al Hamriya2+100.0%15.34M7.67M978/sqft0%
Al Qusais Old2—13.51M6.75M323/sqft0%
Al-Shumaal2—18.10M9.05M1,714/sqft0%
Al Wasl2+100.0%1.17M585K39/sqft0%
Port Saeed2—29.86M14.93M925/sqft0%
Abu Hail1—400K400K242/sqft0%
Al Bada1—3.30M3.30M100/sqft0%
Al Garhoud1—11.02M11.02M270/sqft0%

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
Al-Riqqa East35.63M1
Port Saeed29.86M2
Al-Shumaal18.10M2
Rega Al Buteen17.78M1
Al Hamriya15.34M2
Um Suqaim14.83M13
Al Qusais Old13.51M2
Al Kifaf12.91M1
Al Garhoud11.02M1
Al Khawaneej7.14M1

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

The largest sales of April 1998

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
27 Apr 1998Al-Riqqa East—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified34,769 sqftAED 1,025/sqftAED 35,630,100
23 Apr 1998Port Saeed—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified23,103 sqftAED 1,200/sqftAED 27,723,600
27 Apr 1998Rega Al Buteen—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified10,300 sqftAED 1,726/sqftAED 17,782,625
27 Apr 1998Al-Shumaal—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified4,798 sqftAED 2,814/sqftAED 13,500,000
29 Apr 1998Al Kifaf—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified19,858 sqftAED 650/sqftAED 12,907,700
30 Apr 1998Al Garhoud—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified40,800 sqftAED 270/sqftAED 11,016,000
14 Apr 1998Al Hamriya—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified11,412 sqftAED 950/sqftAED 10,841,400
27 Apr 1998Al Khawaneej—LandAgricultural · Existing PropertiesNot specified356,999 sqftAED 20/sqftAED 7,140,000
21 Apr 1998Al Qusais Old—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified22,000 sqftAED 317/sqftAED 6,974,000
13 Apr 1998Al Qusais Old—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified19,800 sqftAED 330/sqftAED 6,534,000

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.