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Monthly report

Dubai property market — September 1999

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

Sales58Registered in September 1999down55% vs a year earlier
Total valueAED 134.20MRegistered in September 1999Across 28 communities
Price per sqftAED 109/sqftMedian across September 1999up81.9% vs a year earlier
Sale priceAED 1.13MMedian across September 19990% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 58 property sales in September 1999, worth AED 134.20M in total, across 28 communities. That is 55% fewer than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 1,127,500 at AED 109/sqft, 81.9% above the same month last year. 0% of sales were off-plan.

Mirdif was the busiest community with 14 registered sales, while Al Sabkha took the most money at AED 24.00M.

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

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Mirdif14-26.3%AED 15.67MAED 608KAED 44/sqft0%
Um Suqaim9+200.0%AED 19.62MAED 1.57MAED 95/sqft0%
Al-Murar Qadeem4—AED 18.80MAED 4.70MAED 2,151/sqft0%
Al Satwa3+50.0%AED 6.49MAED 590KAED 236/sqft0%
Al Baraha2—AED 5.10MAED 2.55MAED 1,206/sqft0%
Al Safaa20.0%AED 5.30MAED 2.65MAED 190/sqft0%
Al Waheda2—AED 1.11MAED 558KAED 132/sqft0%
Jumeirah20.0%AED 2.11MAED 1.05MAED 131/sqft0%
Abu Hail10.0%AED 370KAED 370KAED 148/sqft0%
Al Asbaq1—AED 1.70MAED 1.70MAED 518/sqft0%
Al Barsha1—AED 550KAED 550KAED 37/sqft0%
Al Barsha First1—AED 5.02MAED 5.02MAED 185/sqft0%
Al Garhoud1—AED 1.20MAED 1.20MAED 80/sqft0%
Al Khawaneej10.0%AED 600KAED 600KAED 30/sqft0%
Al Kifaf1—AED 15.20MAED 15.20MAED 1,382/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 SabkhaAED 24.00M1
Um SuqaimAED 19.62M9
Al-Murar QadeemAED 18.80M4
MirdifAED 15.67M14
Al KifafAED 15.20M1
Al SatwaAED 6.49M3
Al SafaaAED 5.30M2
Al BarahaAED 5.10M2
Al Barsha FirstAED 5.02M1
JumeirahAED 2.11M2

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 September 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
6 Sept 1999Al Sabkha—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified4,647 sqftAED 5,165/sqftAED 24,000,000
14 Sept 1999Al Kifaf—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified11,000 sqftAED 1,382/sqftAED 15,200,000
27 Sept 1999Um Suqaim—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified20,000 sqftAED 350/sqftAED 7,000,000
21 Sept 1999Al-Murar Qadeem—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified2,555 sqftAED 2,309/sqftAED 5,900,000
20 Sept 1999Al Satwa—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified2,500 sqftAED 2,160/sqftAED 5,400,000
27 Sept 1999Al Barsha First—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified27,131 sqftAED 185/sqftAED 5,019,235
13 Sept 1999Mirdif—VillaExisting PropertiesNot specified31,366 sqftAED 159/sqftAED 5,000,000
13 Sept 1999Al-Murar Qadeem—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified2,236 sqftAED 2,191/sqftAED 4,900,000
13 Sept 1999Al-Murar Qadeem—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified2,132 sqftAED 2,111/sqftAED 4,500,000
28 Sept 1999Um Suqaim—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified13,000 sqftAED 277/sqftAED 3,600,000

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.