Dubai Market Data

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

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Quarterly report

Dubai property market — Q2 1998

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside Q2 1998. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales509Registered in Q2 1998up50,800%
Total value1.86BRegistered in Q2 1998Across 59 communities
Price per sqft120/sqftMedian across Q2 1998down29.4%
Sale price900KMedian across Q2 19980% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 509 property sales in Q2 1998, worth AED 1.86B in total, across 59 communities. That is 50,800% more than the same quarter a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 900,000 at AED 120/sqft, 29.4% below the same quarter last year. 0% of sales were off-plan.

Mirdif was the busiest community with 121 registered sales, while Rega Al Buteen took the most money at AED 214.02M.

Sales by quarter

Price per square foot by quarter

Median price per sqft

Where the sales were

The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in Q2 1998, and how each moved against the quarter before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Mirdif121+348.1%60.34M370K34/sqft0%
Um Suqaim72+157.1%141.86M1.16M85/sqft0%
Al Barsha26+420.0%31.46M577K38/sqft0%
Abu Hail20—29.77M680K181/sqft0%
Al Satwa20+53.8%33.93M771K259/sqft0%
Hor Al Anz East20+185.7%94.35M588K230/sqft0%
Al Qusais Old15+275.0%100.94M4.27M227/sqft0%
Jumeirah14+55.6%49.71M1.10M155/sqft0%
Al Hamriya11+450.0%85.05M6.57M755/sqft0%
Hor Al Anz11+1000.0%10.03M650K296/sqft0%
Port Saeed11+450.0%152.99M15.06M1,050/sqft0%
Al-Safiyyah10+233.3%10.99M1.20M527/sqft0%
Al Mizhar9+800.0%4.70M525K29/sqft0%
Al-Murar Qadeem9+800.0%25.16M1.98M1,158/sqft0%
Al Musalla (Dubai)8—20.66M2.20M729/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
Rega Al Buteen214.02M5
Port Saeed152.99M11
Al-Riqqa West150.00M2
Um Suqaim141.86M72
Al Qusais Old100.94M15
Hor Al Anz East94.35M20
Al Hamriya85.05M11
Burj Khalifa70.85M5
Mirdif60.34M121
Tawaa Al Sayegh58.42M4

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.

CommunitySalesChange

The largest sales of Q2 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
7 May 1998Al-Riqqa West—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified14,400 sqftAED 5,903/sqftAED 85,000,000
25 May 1998Al-Riqqa West—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified734 sqftAED 88,557/sqftAED 65,000,000
1 Jun 1998Al Sabkha—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified14,460 sqftAED 3,631/sqftAED 52,500,000
10 Jun 1998Rega Al Buteen—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified12,717 sqftAED 4,089/sqftAED 52,000,000
15 Jun 1998Rega Al Buteen—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified7,640 sqftAED 6,545/sqftAED 50,000,000
28 May 1998Hor Al Anz East—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified121,500 sqftAED 400/sqftAED 48,600,000
2 Jun 1998Rega Al Buteen—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified28,375 sqftAED 1,700/sqftAED 48,237,500
25 May 1998Rega Al Buteen—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified17,286 sqftAED 2,661/sqftAED 46,000,000
25 Jun 1998Al Bada—VillaCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified63,376 sqftAED 600/sqftAED 38,000,000
18 May 1998Burj Khalifa—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified10,000 sqftAED 3,800/sqftAED 38,000,000

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.