Dubai Market Data

Registered sales and Ejari contracts, organized for clear comparisons and better property decisions.

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Dubai property market — August 1998

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

Sales89Registered in August 1998up8,800%
Total value239.12MRegistered in August 1998Across 32 communities
Price per sqft139/sqftMedian across August 1998down18.1%
Sale price1.10MMedian across August 19980% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 89 property sales in August 1998, worth AED 239.12M in total, across 32 communities. That is 8,800% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,100,000 at AED 139/sqft, 18.1% below the same month last year. 0% of sales were off-plan.

Um Suqaim was the busiest community with 20 registered sales, while Port Saeed took the most money at AED 61.97M.

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 August 1998, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Um Suqaim200.0%43.19M1.31M110/sqft0%
Mirdif17-41.4%8.97M523K35/sqft0%
Al Satwa6+20.0%11.42M875K352/sqft0%
Abu Hail3-70.0%2.38M630K265/sqft0%
Al Baraha3-25.0%16.16M5.30M1,509/sqft0%
Hor Al Anz3—4.84M750K415/sqft0%
Port Saeed3-25.0%61.97M22.55M1,060/sqft0%
Al Barsha2-66.7%1.35M676K38/sqft0%
Al-Murar Qadeem20.0%8.40M4.20M2,573/sqft0%
Al Qoaz20.0%2.70M1.35M54/sqft0%
Al-Tawar2+100.0%2.90M1.45M148/sqft0%
Al Wasl2+100.0%2.77M1.39M108/sqft0%
Burj Nahar2+100.0%4.60M2.30M1,024/sqft0%
Eyal Nasser2—7.15M3.58M889/sqft0%
Nad Al Hamar20.0%1.01M508K34/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
Port Saeed61.97M3
Um Suqaim43.19M20
Sikkat Al Khail North20.00M1
Al Baraha16.16M3
Al Khabeesi13.30M1
Al Satwa11.42M6
Al Karama9.70M1
Mirdif8.97M17
Al-Murar Qadeem8.40M2
Eyal Nasser7.15M2

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 August 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
31 Aug 1998Port Saeed—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified18,625 sqftAED 1,260/sqftAED 23,467,500
31 Aug 1998Port Saeed—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified21,270 sqftAED 1,060/sqftAED 22,546,200
17 Aug 1998Sikkat Al Khail North—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified5,343 sqftAED 3,743/sqftAED 20,000,000
31 Aug 1998Port Saeed—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified21,270 sqftAED 750/sqftAED 15,952,500
10 Aug 1998Al Khabeesi—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified9,722 sqftAED 1,368/sqftAED 13,300,000
20 Aug 1998Al Karama—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified9,100 sqftAED 1,066/sqftAED 9,700,000
26 Aug 1998Um Suqaim—LandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified64,000 sqftAED 120/sqftAED 7,680,000
26 Aug 1998Al Baraha—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified5,070 sqftAED 1,509/sqftAED 7,650,000
19 Aug 1998Um Suqaim—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified27,100 sqftAED 266/sqftAED 7,200,000
5 Aug 1998Eyal Nasser—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified7,122 sqftAED 983/sqftAED 7,000,000

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.