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Dubai property market — July 1999

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

Sales69Registered in July 1999down48.5% vs a year earlier
Total valueAED 168.18MRegistered in July 1999Across 36 communities
Price per sqftAED 110/sqftMedian across July 1999down12% vs a year earlier
Sale priceAED 650KMedian across July 19990% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 69 property sales in July 1999, worth AED 168.18M in total, across 36 communities. That is 49% fewer than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 650,000 at AED 110/sqft, 12% below the same month last year. 0% of sales were off-plan.

Mirdif was the busiest community with 15 registered sales, while Rega Al Buteen took the most money at AED 52.82M.

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

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Mirdif15-46.4%AED 8.26MAED 420KAED 40/sqft0%
Um Suqaim6-40.0%AED 4.35MAED 650KAED 71/sqft0%
Hor Al Anz4+100.0%AED 3.63MAED 775KAED 259/sqft0%
Al Satwa3-57.1%AED 1.42MAED 585KAED 122/sqft0%
Jumeirah3-50.0%AED 9.08MAED 3.72MAED 113/sqft0%
Abu Hail2-60.0%AED 10.16MAED 5.08MAED 238/sqft0%
Al Raffa2+100.0%AED 1.23MAED 614KAED 598/sqft0%
Al-Riqqa East2-33.3%AED 18.61MAED 9.30MAED 1,397/sqft0%
Muhaisna2-33.3%AED 2.46MAED 1.23MAED 76/sqft0%
Nad Al Hamar2-33.3%AED 500KAED 250KAED 19/sqft0%
Port Saeed2+100.0%AED 1.78MAED 889KAED 633/sqft0%
Rega Al Buteen2—AED 52.82MAED 26.41MAED 1,450/sqft0%
Al Bada1—AED 155KAED 155KAED 62/sqft0%
Al Baraha10.0%AED 4.40MAED 4.40MAED 2,398/sqft0%
Al Barsha1-50.0%AED 50KAED 50KAED 3/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 ButeenAED 52.82M2
Al-Riqqa EastAED 18.61M2
Al-Mustashfa WestAED 13.00M1
Abu HailAED 10.16M2
JumeirahAED 9.08M3
MirdifAED 8.26M15
Al Qusais Industrial FirstAED 8.00M1
Tawaa Al SayeghAED 7.15M1
Al BarahaAED 4.40M1
Um SuqaimAED 4.35M6

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 July 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
19 Jul 1999Rega Al Buteen—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified21,208 sqftAED 1,300/sqftAED 27,570,400
7 Jul 1999Rega Al Buteen—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified15,780 sqftAED 1,600/sqftAED 25,248,000
19 Jul 1999Al-Mustashfa West—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified5,111 sqftAED 2,543/sqftAED 13,000,000
12 Jul 1999Al-Riqqa East—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified9,643 sqftAED 1,100/sqftAED 10,607,500
7 Jul 1999Abu Hail—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified32,413 sqftAED 300/sqftAED 9,723,900
19 Jul 1999Al-Riqqa East—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified4,724 sqftAED 1,694/sqftAED 8,000,000
12 Jul 1999Al Qusais Industrial First—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified40,000 sqftAED 200/sqftAED 8,000,000
21 Jul 1999Tawaa Al Sayegh—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified11,000 sqftAED 650/sqftAED 7,150,000
21 Jul 1999Al Baraha—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified1,835 sqftAED 2,398/sqftAED 4,400,000
12 Jul 1999Jumeirah—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified38,399 sqftAED 113/sqftAED 4,319,887

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.