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Dubai property market — January 1999

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

Sales41Registered in January 1999up70.8% vs a year earlier
Total valueAED 58.40MRegistered in January 1999Across 23 communities
Price per sqftAED 230/sqftMedian across January 1999up3.4% vs a year earlier
Sale priceAED 850KMedian across January 19990% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 41 property sales in January 1999, worth AED 58.40M in total, across 23 communities. That is 71% more than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 850,000 at AED 230/sqft, 3.4% above the same month last year. 0% of sales were off-plan.

Mirdif was the busiest community with 8 registered sales, while Burj Nahar took the most money at AED 6.48M.

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 January 1999, and how each moved against the month before.

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Mirdif8-75.0%AED 4.64MAED 539KAED 43/sqft0%
Abu Hail3+50.0%AED 1.93MAED 850KAED 102/sqft0%
Hor Al Anz East30.0%AED 2.08MAED 600KAED 240/sqft0%
Um Suqaim3-82.4%AED 6.20MAED 2.00MAED 177/sqft0%
Al Bada2—AED 1.75MAED 875KAED 251/sqft0%
Al Barsha2+100.0%AED 1.40MAED 698KAED 47/sqft0%
Al Muteena2+100.0%AED 2.70MAED 1.35MAED 328/sqft0%
Al Ras2+100.0%AED 4.90MAED 2.45MAED 2,792/sqft0%
Burj Nahar2—AED 6.48MAED 3.24MAED 764/sqft0%
Al Baraha1-50.0%AED 3.10MAED 3.10MAED 1,974/sqft0%
Al Barsha Second1—AED 675KAED 675KAED 45/sqft0%
Al Hamriya1-50.0%AED 2.57MAED 2.57MAED 600/sqft0%
Al-Muhaisnah North10.0%AED 420KAED 420KAED 28/sqft0%
Al-Murar Jadeed10.0%AED 2.68MAED 2.68MAED 1,380/sqft0%
Al-Murar Qadeem1—AED 5.00MAED 5.00MAED 3,642/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
Burj NaharAED 6.48M2
Um SuqaimAED 6.20M3
Al-Murar QadeemAED 5.00M1
Al RasAED 4.90M2
MirdifAED 4.64M8
Al BarahaAED 3.10M1
Al-TawarAED 3.00M1
Al SafaaAED 2.75M1
Al MuteenaAED 2.70M2
Al-Murar JadeedAED 2.68M1

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 January 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
11 Jan 1999Al-Murar Qadeem—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified1,373 sqftAED 3,642/sqftAED 5,000,000
12 Jan 1999Burj Nahar—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified4,334 sqftAED 1,096/sqftAED 4,750,000
25 Jan 1999Al Ras—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified3,358 sqftAED 1,310/sqftAED 4,400,000
25 Jan 1999Al Baraha—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified1,570 sqftAED 1,974/sqftAED 3,100,000
11 Jan 1999Um Suqaim—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified16,904 sqftAED 177/sqftAED 3,000,000
6 Jan 1999Al-Tawar—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified10,000 sqftAED 300/sqftAED 3,000,000
5 Jan 1999Al Safaa—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified14,800 sqftAED 186/sqftAED 2,750,000
5 Jan 1999Al-Murar Jadeed—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified1,945 sqftAED 1,380/sqftAED 2,684,100
26 Jan 1999Al Hamriya—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified4,285 sqftAED 600/sqftAED 2,571,000
11 Jan 1999Um Suqaim—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified16,904 sqftAED 118/sqftAED 2,000,000

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.