Dubai Market Data

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

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Monthly report

Dubai property market — October 1998

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

Sales87Registered in October 1998up8,600%
Total value192.05MRegistered in October 1998Across 25 communities
Price per sqft55/sqftMedian across October 1998down91.5%
Sale price690KMedian across October 19980% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 87 property sales in October 1998, worth AED 192.05M in total, across 25 communities. That is 8,600% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 690,000 at AED 55/sqft, 91.5% below the same month last year. 0% of sales were off-plan.

Mirdif was the busiest community with 36 registered sales, while Al Hamriya took the most money at AED 65.91M.

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

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Mirdif36-23.4%21.06M449K38/sqft0%
Um Suqaim7-50.0%10.52M1.09M116/sqft0%
Abu Hail5+25.0%4.18M700K267/sqft0%
Al Barsha5+25.0%4.88M690K46/sqft0%
Al Musalla (Dubai)4—25.60M4.15M1,020/sqft0%
Al Hamriya3+50.0%65.91M20.50M500/sqft0%
Al Satwa3—8.68M1.80M232/sqft0%
Al Baraha2-33.3%8.50M4.25M1,408/sqft0%
Al Karama20.0%2.70M1.35M593/sqft0%
Al Mizhar2-60.0%1.15M573K32/sqft0%
Al-Tawar2-33.3%3.95M1.98M113/sqft0%
Al Wasl20.0%2.70M1.35M91/sqft0%
Nad Rashid2+100.0%1.18M588K92/sqft0%
Al Bada1—1.37M1.37M137/sqft0%
Al-Murar Jadeed10.0%6.85M6.85M2,051/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 Hamriya65.91M3
Al Musalla (Dubai)25.60M4
Mirdif21.06M36
Port Saeed15.33M1
Um Suqaim10.52M7
Al Satwa8.68M3
Al Baraha8.50M2
Al-Murar Jadeed6.85M1
Al Barsha4.88M5
Abu Hail4.18M5

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 October 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
15 Oct 1998Al Hamriya—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified34,540 sqftAED 919/sqftAED 31,750,000
8 Oct 1998Al Hamriya—LandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified54,865 sqftAED 374/sqftAED 20,500,000
5 Oct 1998Port Saeed—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified18,034 sqftAED 850/sqftAED 15,328,900
26 Oct 1998Al Musalla (Dubai)—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified12,375 sqftAED 1,212/sqftAED 15,000,000
5 Oct 1998Al Hamriya—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified27,310 sqftAED 500/sqftAED 13,655,000
13 Oct 1998Al-Murar Jadeed—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified3,340 sqftAED 2,051/sqftAED 6,850,000
12 Oct 1998Al Satwa—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified8,652 sqftAED 728/sqftAED 6,300,000
19 Oct 1998Al Baraha—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified3,225 sqftAED 1,767/sqftAED 5,700,000
26 Oct 1998Al Musalla (Dubai)—LandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified7,885 sqftAED 634/sqftAED 5,000,000
19 Oct 1998Um Suqaim—LandResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified15,000 sqftAED 247/sqftAED 3,700,000

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.