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Monthly report

Dubai property market — October 1999

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

Sales83Registered in October 1999down4.6% vs a year earlier
Total valueAED 150.46MRegistered in October 1999Across 32 communities
Price per sqftAED 100/sqftMedian across October 1999up81.8% vs a year earlier
Sale priceAED 700KMedian across October 19990% sold off-plan

In a sentence

The Land Department registered 83 property sales in October 1999, worth AED 150.46M in total, across 32 communities. That is 5% fewer than the same month a year earlier.

The median sale was AED 700,000 at AED 100/sqft, 81.8% above the same month last year. 0% of sales were off-plan.

Mirdif was the busiest community with 32 registered sales, while Al Raffa took the most money at AED 37.00M.

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

CommunitySalesvs priorTotal valueMedian pricePrice/sqftOff-plan
Mirdif32+128.6%AED 22.14MAED 579KAED 41/sqft0%
Um Suqaim90.0%AED 10.43MAED 1.05MAED 100/sqft0%
Hor Al Anz6—AED 5.52MAED 775KAED 336/sqft0%
Abu Hail2+100.0%AED 1.04MAED 520KAED 205/sqft0%
Al Barsha2+100.0%AED 551KAED 275KAED 26/sqft0%
Al-Murar Qadeem2-50.0%AED 14.25MAED 7.13MAED 2,220/sqft0%
Al Raffa2—AED 37.00MAED 18.50MAED 750/sqft0%
Al Saffa Second2—AED 2.44MAED 1.22MAED 68/sqft0%
Al Suq Al Kabeer2—AED 285KAED 143KAED 275/sqft0%
Jumeirah20.0%AED 7.92MAED 3.96MAED 252/sqft0%
Al Baraha1-50.0%AED 2.92MAED 2.92MAED 86/sqft0%
Al Barsha Second1—AED 200KAED 200KAED 5/sqft0%
Al Dhagaya1—AED 5.00MAED 5.00MAED 2,047/sqft0%
Al Karama1—AED 1.20MAED 1.20MAED 527/sqft0%
Al Kifaf10.0%AED 5.00MAED 5.00MAED 515/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 RaffaAED 37.00M2
MirdifAED 22.14M32
Al-Murar QadeemAED 14.25M2
Um SuqaimAED 10.43M9
Rega Al ButeenAED 9.00M1
JumeirahAED 7.92M2
Al-Riqqa EastAED 7.00M1
Hor Al AnzAED 5.52M6
Al DhagayaAED 5.00M1
Al KifafAED 5.00M1

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 October 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
25 Oct 1999Al Raffa—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified50,000 sqftAED 550/sqftAED 27,500,000
25 Oct 1999Al Raffa—BuildingExisting PropertiesNot specified10,000 sqftAED 950/sqftAED 9,500,000
11 Oct 1999Rega Al Buteen—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified9,255 sqftAED 972/sqftAED 9,000,000
13 Oct 1999Al-Murar Qadeem—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified4,142 sqftAED 1,992/sqftAED 8,250,000
20 Oct 1999Al-Riqqa East—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified2,415 sqftAED 2,899/sqftAED 7,000,000
19 Oct 1999Jumeirah—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified20,000 sqftAED 340/sqftAED 6,800,000
20 Oct 1999Al-Murar Qadeem—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified2,450 sqftAED 2,449/sqftAED 6,000,000
27 Oct 1999Al Kifaf—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified9,700 sqftAED 515/sqftAED 5,000,000
12 Oct 1999Al Dhagaya—LandExisting PropertiesNot specified2,442 sqftAED 2,048/sqftAED 5,000,000
18 Oct 1999Al Mamzer—VillaExisting PropertiesNot specified40,000 sqftAED 115/sqftAED 4,600,000

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.