Dubai Market Data

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Annual report

Dubai property market — 1999

Every figure below comes from sale transactions registered with the Dubai Land Department and dated inside 1999. Mortgages and gifts are excluded; the register's own record of a sale is the only source.

Sales894Registered in 1999down32%
Total value1.88BRegistered in 1999Across 93 communities
Price per sqft120/sqftMedian across 1999up2.4%
Sale price810KMedian across 19990% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 894 property sales in 1999, worth AED 1.88B in total, across 93 communities. That is 32% fewer than the year before.

The median sale was AED 809,853 at AED 120/sqft, 2.4% above the year before. 0% of sales were off-plan.

Mirdif was the busiest community with 229 registered sales, and also took the most money at AED 171.87M.

Against the previous year, Um Suqaim fell 55% to 85.

Sales by year

Price per square foot by year

Median price per sqft

Where the sales were

The fifteen communities with the most registered sales in 1999, and how each moved against the year before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Mirdif229-34.8%171.87M477K42/sqft0%
Um Suqaim85-55.3%158.21M1.17M100/sqft0%
Hor Al Anz37+76.2%29.26M550K321/sqft0%
Abu Hail36-20.0%36.65M700K202/sqft0%
Al Satwa34-39.3%29.46M620K214/sqft0%
Jumeirah25-43.2%57.20M1.35M150/sqft0%
Hor Al Anz East24-46.7%13.73M525K201/sqft0%
Al Barsha22-56.0%13.86M569K38/sqft0%
Nad Rashid15-25.0%9.91M600K96/sqft0%
Nad Al Hamar13-7.1%5.31M400K30/sqft0%
Al Khawaneej12-7.7%27.08M1.48M17/sqft0%
Al Karama11-15.4%30.53M1.45M637/sqft0%
Al Bada10+42.9%11.98M940K260/sqft0%
Al-Murar Qadeem10-52.4%47.80M4.70M2,083/sqft0%
Al Raffa10-9.1%47.86M1.20M381/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
Mirdif171.87M229
Um Suqaim158.21M85
Al Kifaf130.54M7
Al Khabeesi109.29M6
Oud Metha107.79M6
Rega Al Buteen78.76M9
Al-Riqqa East66.65M7
Jumeirah57.20M25
Burj Khalifa54.00M2
Al Raffa47.86M10

Biggest movers

Change in registered sales against the previous year. Limited to communities with at least 50 sales in both — below that a swing is noise.

CommunitySalesChange
Um Suqaim85-55.3%
Mirdif229-34.8%

The largest sales of 1999

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 Mar 1999Al Kifaf—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified123,885 sqftAED 600/sqftAED 74,331,000
15 Mar 1999Al Khabeesi—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified31,672 sqftAED 1,831/sqftAED 58,000,000
31 Mar 1999Zareeba Duviya—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified63,333 sqftAED 600/sqftAED 37,999,800
29 Nov 1999Burj Khalifa—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified10,000 sqftAED 3,300/sqftAED 33,000,000
19 Jul 1999Rega Al Buteen—BuildingResidential · Existing PropertiesNot specified21,208 sqftAED 1,300/sqftAED 27,570,400
25 Oct 1999Al Raffa—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified50,000 sqftAED 550/sqftAED 27,500,000
31 Mar 1999Oud Metha—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified48,800 sqftAED 550/sqftAED 26,840,000
7 Jul 1999Rega Al Buteen—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified15,780 sqftAED 1,600/sqftAED 25,248,000
7 Jun 1999Al-Riqqa East—LandCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified8,066 sqftAED 3,068/sqftAED 24,750,000
6 Sept 1999Al Sabkha—BuildingCommercial · Existing PropertiesNot specified4,647 sqftAED 5,165/sqftAED 24,000,000

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.